Virgil Thomson |

Virgil Thomson

Ọ gụrụ akwụkwọ na Mahadum Harvard, wee mụọ Nadia Boulanger na Paris. N'ime oge ndị Parisi nke ndụ ya, ya na Gertrude Stein na-akpachi anya, emesịa dee operas abụọ dabere na libretto ya, nke kpatara mmeghachi omume na-ekpo ọkụ: Ndị nsọ anọ n'ime Ọrụ Atọ (Eng. Ndị Nsọ anọ n'Ọrụ Atọ; 1927-1928, nke e mere 1934). ; na e nweghị omume na opera atọ, na e nweghị ndị nsọ anọ metụtara) na "Anyị nkịtị Nne" (Eng. The Mother of Us All; 1947; dabeere na biography nke Susan Brownell Anthony, otu n'ime ndị malitere nke ụlọ ọrụ ahụ. òtù ụmụ nwanyị na United States). Na 1939 o bipụtara The State of Music, nke mere ka ọ bụrụ nnukwu aha; sochiri ya The Musical Scene (1945), The Art of Judging Music (1948) na Musical Right and Left (1951). ). N'afọ 1940-1954. Thomson bụ onye na-ede akwụkwọ akụkọ maka otu akwụkwọ akụkọ America kacha asọpụrụ, New York Herald Tribune.

Thomson dere egwu maka eserese eserese, gụnyere ihe nkiri Pulitzer na-emeri ihe nkiri Louisiana Story (1948), yana maka ihe nkiri, gụnyere mmepụta Orson Welles nke Macbeth. Ọ bụ William Christensen (1954) haziri ballet na ọdụ egwu egwu ya. Ụdị na-adọrọ mmasị nke Thomson na-arụ ọrụ bụ "esere egwu egwu" - obere iberibe nke e ji mara ndị ọrụ ibe ya na ndị enyi ya.

Gburugburu nke hiwere gburugburu Thomson gụnyere ọtụtụ ndị egwu ama ama nke ọgbọ na-abịa, gụnyere Leonard Bernstein, Paul Bowles, na Ned Rorem.