Virgil Thomson |

Virgil Thomson

Ya yi karatu a Jami'ar Harvard, sannan a Paris tare da Nadia Boulanger. A lokacin rayuwar Parisian, ya kasance kusa da Gertrude Stein, daga baya ya rubuta wasan kwaikwayo guda biyu bisa ga libretto dinta, wanda ya haifar da amsa mai ban sha'awa: Waliyai huɗu a cikin Ayyukan Manzanni uku ( Eng. Waliyai huɗu a cikin Ayyukan Manzanni uku; 1927-1928, wanda aka yi a 1934 ; kuma babu ayyuka a cikin opera uku, kuma babu tsarkaka hudu da ke da hannu) da kuma "Uwarmu ta gama gari" (Eng. Uwar Mu Duka; 1947; bisa tarihin Susan Brownell Anthony, daya daga cikin wadanda suka kafa ta) kungiyar mata a Amurka). A 1939 ya buga The State of Music, wanda ya ba shi shahara sosai; The Musical Scene (1945), The Art of Judging Music (1948) da Musical Dama da Hagu (1951) ya biyo baya. ). A cikin 1940-1954. Thomson mawallafin waƙa ne na ɗaya daga cikin manyan jaridun Amurka da ake girmamawa, New York Herald Tribune.

Thomson ya rubuta kiɗa don hotuna masu motsi, gami da fim ɗin Pulitzer wanda ya lashe lambar yabo ta Louisiana Story (1948), da kuma shirye-shiryen wasan kwaikwayo, gami da samar da Orson Welles na Macbeth. William Christensen (1954) ne ya shirya ballet ɗin zuwa tashar Filling ɗin kiɗan sa. Wani nau'i mai ban sha'awa wanda Thomson yayi aiki shine "hotunan kiɗa" - ƙananan ƙananan da ke nuna abokan aiki da abokansa.

Da'irar da aka kafa a kusa da Thomson ta haɗa da ɗimbin fitattun mawakan na gaba, ciki har da Leonard Bernstein, Paul Bowles, da Ned Rorem.