Virgil Thomson |

Virgil Thomson

Na ia aʻoga i le Iunivesite o Harvard, sosoo ai ma Pale ma Nadia Boulanger. I le vaitaimi o Parisia o lona olaga, na ia vavalalata ai ma Gertrude Stein, mulimuli ane na tusia ni tala faamusika e lua e faavae i luga o lana libretto, lea na mafua ai se tali fiafia: Four Saints in Three Acts (eng. Four Saints in Three Acts; 1927-1928, staged 1934). ; ma e leai ni gaioiga i le opera tolu, ma e le o aofia ai le toafa o le au paia) ma le "Our Common Mother" (Eng. The Mother of Us All; 1947; e faavae i luga o le talaaga o Susan Brownell Anthony, o se tasi na faavaeina le le fa'agaioiga a fafine i le Iunaite Setete). I le 1939 na ia lomia ai le State of Music, lea na taʻutaʻua tele ai o ia; na sosoo ai ma The Musical Scene (1945), The Art of Judging Music (1948) ma Musical Right and Left (1951). ). I le 1940-1954. O Thomson o se tusitala musika mo se tasi o nusipepa a Amerika e sili ona faaaloalogia, le New York Herald Tribune.

Na tusia e Thomson musika mo ata lafo, e aofia ai le ata tifaga na manumalo i le Pulitzer Prize Louisiana Story (1948), ma mo tala faatino, e aofia ai ma le gaosiga a Orson Welles o Macbeth. O le paleti i lana musika Filling Station na faia e William Christensen (1954). O se ituaiga manaia na galue ai Thomson o "ata musika" - o ni vaega laiti e iloga ai ana uo ma ana uo.

O le li'o na fausia faataamilo ia Thomson na aofia ai le tele o musika iloga o le isi augatupulaga, e aofia ai Leonard Bernstein, Paul Bowles, ma Ned Rorem.