Virgil Thomson |

Virgil Thomson

Ua aʻo ʻo ia ma ke Kulanui ʻo Harvard, a laila ma Paris me Nadia Boulanger. I loko o ka wā Parisian o kona ola ʻana, ua pili ʻo ia me Gertrude Stein, ma hope ua kākau ʻo ia i ʻelua mau keaka ma muli o kāna libretto, kahi i hoʻoulu ai i kahi ʻano ola: ʻEhā Saints in Three Acts (eng. Four Saints in Three Acts; 1927-1928, staged 1934. a ʻaʻohe hana ma ka opera ʻekolu, a ʻaʻohe ʻehā haipule i komo) a me "Our Common Mother" (Eng. The Mother of Us All; 1947; ma muli o ka moʻolelo o Susan Brownell Anthony, kekahi o nā mea nāna i hoʻokumu. ka neʻe ʻana o nā wahine ma ʻAmelika Hui Pū ʻIa). I ka makahiki 1939, ua paʻi ʻo ia i ka The State of Music, kahi i kaulana nui ai iā ia; ua ukali ʻia e The Musical Scene (1945), The Art of Judging Music (1948) a me Musical Right and Left (1951). ). I ka makahiki 1940-1954. He kolamu mele ʻo Thomson no kekahi o nā nūpepa ʻAmelika kaulana loa, ʻo ka New York Herald Tribune.

Ua kākau ʻo Thomson i nā mele no nā kiʻi ʻoniʻoni, me ke kiʻi ʻoniʻoni lanakila ʻo Pulitzer Prize ʻo Louisiana Story (1948), a no nā hana keaka, me ka hana ʻana o Orson Welles ʻo Macbeth. Na William Christensen (1954) i hoʻokani pila i kāna mele Filling Station. ʻO kahi ʻano hoihoi a Thomson i hana ai, ʻo ia nā "kiʻi mele" - nā ʻāpana liʻiliʻi e hōʻike ana i kāna mau hoa hana a me kāna mau hoaaloha.

ʻO ka pōʻai i hoʻokumu ʻia a puni ʻo Thomson, aia kekahi mau mea mele kaulana o ka hanauna e hiki mai ana, ʻo Leonard Bernstein, Paul Bowles, a me Ned Rorem.