Virgil Thomson

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Sat 26 May: The Hambleden Concerts 2012 - Music from around the World The Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin Hambleden Hambleden, RG9 6RT
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Sat 2 Jun: Music for a Royal Occasion Middleton Parish Church, New Lane, Middleton Manchester M24
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Sheet music for Thomson

[details ←] Praises and Prayers, vocal,
[details ←] The Mother of Us All, vocal,
[details ←] 5 Two Part Inventions, piano,
[details ←] Five Phrases from the Song of Solomon, piano, vocal,
[details ←] Sonata, flute,
[details ←] Synthetic Waltzes, piano,
[details ←] Synthetic Waltzes, piano,
[details ←] Two-Part Inventions, from ’Five Two-Part Inventions’ (1946), guitar,
[details ←] What Is It?, piano, vocal,
[details ←] What Is It?, vocal, guitar,
[details ←] My Shepherd Will Supply My Need, choral, vocal,
[details ←] My Shepherd Will Supply My Need, choral, vocal,
[details ←] Five Songs from William Blake
[details ←] Shakespeare Songs, piano, vocal,
[details ←] Pange Lingua, organ,
[details ←] 4 Portraits (Cello / Piano), piano, cello,
[details ←] Four Songs to the Poems of Thomas Campion
[details ←] Cantata on Poems of Edward Lear, choral, vocal,
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Born: 25 November 1896 — Kansas City — USA
Died: 30 September 1989
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Music

Compositions include: 3 operas: The Mother of Us All, Four Saints in Three Acts, Lord Byron. 3 symphonic pieces written for films: The River, The Plough That Broke the Plains, & Louisiana Story. Filling Station (A ballet) a symphonic piece called: Symphony on a Hymn Tune and many other musical pieces in all forms.

Life

Prolific American composer.and music critic. Contemporary of Aaron Copland. Studied in Paris in the twenties with Nadia Boulanger along with and at the same time as Aaron Copland. Part of the ex-patriate American cultural crowd of the 20s.

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