Virgil Thomson |

Virgil Thomson

O ile a ithuta Univesithing ea Harvard, eaba o ea Paris le Nadia Boulanger. Nakong ea bophelo ba Parisian, o ile a ba le kamano e haufi le Gertrude Stein, hamorao a ngola lipina tse peli tsa opera tse thehiloeng ho libretto ea hae, tse ileng tsa baka karabelo e monate: Four Saints in Three Acts (eng. Four Saints in Three Acts; 1927-1928, e ileng ea etsoa ka 1934) ; ’me ha ho liketso ho opera ea boraro, ’me ha ho bahalaleli ba bane ba amehang) le “Our Common Mother” (Eng. The Mother of Us All; 1947; e thehiloeng tlalehong ea bophelo ba Susan Brownell Anthony, e mong oa bathehi ba mokhatlo oa basali United States). Ka 1939 o ile a hatisa The State of Music, e ileng ea mo tlisetsa botumo bo bongata; e ile ea lateloa ke The Musical Scene (1945), The Art of Judging Music (1948) le Musical Right and Left (1951). ). Ka 1940-1954. Thomson e ne e le sengoli sa 'mino oa e 'ngoe ea likoranta tse hlomphuoang haholo tsa Amerika, New York Herald Tribune.

Thomson o ngotse 'mino bakeng sa litšoantšo tse tsamaeang, ho kenyeletsoa filimi e hapileng Moputso oa Pulitzer Louisiana Story (1948), le bakeng sa lihlahisoa tsa lipapali, ho kenyeletsoa tlhahiso ea Orson Welles ea Macbeth. Ballet ea Seteishene sa ho Tlatsa 'mino oa hae e ile ea etsoa ke William Christensen (1954). Mofuta o thahasellisang oo Thomson a neng a sebetsa ho oona e ne e le "litšoantšo tsa 'mino" - likotoana tse nyenyane tse khethollang basebetsi-'moho le eena le bao a ba tloaetseng.

Sedikadikwe se neng se pota-potile Thomson se ne se kenyelletsa palo ya dibini tse hlahelletseng tsa moloko o latelang, ho kenyeletswa Leonard Bernstein, Paul Bowles, le Ned Rorem.