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Virgil Thomson
Virgil Thomson (November 25, 1896 – September 30, 1989) was an American composer and critic. He was instrumental in the development of the "American Sound" in classical music. He…
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Virgil Thomson (November 25, 1896 – September 30, 1989) was an American composer and critic. He was instrumental in the development of the "American Sound" in classical music. He has been described as a modernist, a neoromantic, a neoclassicist, and a composer of "an Olympian blend of humanity and detachment" whose "expressive voice was always carefully muted" until his late opera Lord Byron which, in contrast to all his previous work, exhibited an emotional content that rises to "moments of real passion".
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2000
Is Dead - Portrait incomplet de Gertrude Stein
Movie Original Music Composer
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1981
Chelsea Hotel
Movie Self
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1978
The Kennedy Center Honors
TV show Self
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1967
Poem Posters
Movie Self
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1959
Power Among Men
Movie Music
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1958
The Goddess
Movie Original Music Composer
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1953
King Lear
Movie Original Music Composer
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1948
Louisiana Story
Movie Original Music Composer
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1945
Tuesday in November
Movie Music
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1938
The River
Movie Original Music Composer
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1937
The Spanish Earth
Movie Music
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1936
The Plow That Broke the Plains
Movie Original Music Composer
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1936
145 W. 21
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