Virgil Thomson (1896–1989) was a composer and critic. He collaborated extensively with Gertrude Stein, who wrote the libretti for his operas Four Saints in Three Actsand The Mother of Us All. In 1988 he was awarded the National Medal of Arts.
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It Was Vincenzio
June 15, 1989
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Words and Music
April 13, 1989
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Music Does Not Flow
December 17, 1981
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A Good Writer
January 24, 1980
Janet Flanner’s World: Uncollected Writings 1932-1975
edited by Irving Drutman, introduction by William Shawn
The Cubical City by Janet Flanner
An American in Paris by Janet Flanner
Pétain: The Old Man of France by Janet Flanner
Men and Monuments by Janet Flanner
Paris Journal: Vol. I, 1944-1965 by Janet Flanner, edited by William Shawn
Paris Journal: Vol. II, 1965-1971 by Janet Flanner, edited by William Shawn
Paris Was Yesterday, 1925-1939 by Janet Flanner, edited by Irving Drutman
London Was Yesterday, 1934-1939 by Janet Flanner, edited by Irving Drutman
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A Private Press
April 29, 1976
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Looking for the Lost Generation
February 19, 1976
Published in Paris: American and British Writers, Printers, and Publishers in Paris, 1920-1939 by Hugh Ford, with a foreword by Janet Flanner
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That Sax
May 1, 1975
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Bird Watching
January 23, 1975
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Making Black Music
October 17, 1974
Bird Lives! The High Life and Hard Times of Charlie (Yardbird) Parker by Ross Russell
Black Music: Four Lives 1966) by A.B. Spellman
Black Music by LeRoi Jones
Black Nationalism and the Revolution in Music by Frank Kofsky
Reflections on Afro-American Music by Dominique-René de Lerma
Black Talk by Ben Sidran
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Wickedly Wonderful Widow
March 7, 1974
Staying on Alone: Letters of Alice B. Toklas edited by Edward Burns, with an introduction by Gilbert A. Harrison
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Varèse, Xenakis, Carter
August 31, 1972
Edgard Varèse by Fernand Ouellette, translated by Derek Coltman
Varèse: A Looking-Glass Diary Volume I: 1883-1928 by Louise Varèse
Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition
by Iannis Xenakis
Flawed Words and Stubborn Sounds: A Conversation with Elliott Carter by Allen Edwards
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Untold Tales
May 18, 1972
Without Stopping: An Autobiography by Paul Bowles
The Thicket of Spring: Poems 1926-1969 by Paul Bowles
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Scenes from Show Biz
May 4, 1972
Run-Through: A Memoir by John Houseman
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Lesbianism Never?
October 7, 1971
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Tender Buttons
July 1, 1971
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It Was Sweeney
June 3, 1971
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A Very Difficult Author
April 8, 1971
Gertrude Stein in Pieces by Richard Bridgman
Four Americans in Paris: The Collections of Gertrude Stein and Her Family a catalog with seven essays and two word-portraits
Gertrude Stein on Picasso edited by Edward Burns
Gertrude Stein and the Present by Allegra Stewart
Gertrude Stein Talking: A Trans-Atlantic Interview by Robert Bartlett Haas
The Third Rose: Gertrude Stein and Her World by John Malcolm Brinnin
Gertrude Stein: Her Life and Work by Elizabeth Sprigge
Gertrude Stein: A Biography of Her Work by Donald Sutherland
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Ivesiana
September 3, 1970
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The Ives Case
May 21, 1970
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Cage and the Collage of Noises
April 23, 1970
Notations by John Cage
A Year from Monday: New Lectures and Writings by John Cage
Silence: Lectures and Writings by John Cage
Virgil Thomson: His Life and Music by Kathleen Hoover, by John Cage
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Champions
March 12, 1970
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Berlioz, Boulez, and Piaf
January 29, 1970
The Memoirs of Hector Berlioz translated by David Cairns
Baudelaire-Berlioz Adam International Review
Berlioz and the Romantic Century by Jacques Barzun
Berlioz and the Romantic Imagination catalog of an exhibition organized by the Arts Council and the Victoria and Albert Museum on behalf of the Berlioz Centenary Committee in co-operation with the French Government
Pelléas et Mélisande drame lyrique en 5 actes de Maurice Maeterlinck et Claude Debussy, partition d'orchestre, Durand (Paris, 1904), first performance by the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Dec. 1, 1969, Pierre Boulez, conductor
Piaf by Simone Berteaut
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Artists Anonymous
September 11, 1969
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What Is Quality in Music?
June 19, 1969
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The Genius Type
September 26, 1968
Notes of an Apprenticeship by Pierre Boulez, translated by Herbert Weinstock
Penser la musique aujourdhui by Pierre Boulez
Sémantique Musicale by Alain Daniélou
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“Craft-Igor” and the Whole Stravinsky
December 15, 1966
Stravinsky: The Composer and His Works by Eric Walter White
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Vorticism and the Day of Atonement
August 18, 1966
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A Portrait of Gertrude Stein
July 7, 1966
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The Tradition of Sensibility
December 9, 1965
Debussy: His Life and Mind (Volume II) by Edward Lockspeiser
Georges Bizet: His Life and Work by Winton Dean
Alban Berg by Willi Reich, translated by Cornelius Cardew
The Path to the New Music
by Anton Webern, edited by Willi Reich, translated by Leo Black
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On Being Discovered
June 3, 1965
Music in a New Found Land: Themes and Developments in the History of American Music by Wilfrid Mellers
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How Dead is Arnold Schoenberg?
April 22, 1965
Arnold Schoenberg Letters selected and edited by Irwin Stein
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Wanda Landowska
January 28, 1965
Landowska on Music collected, edited, and translated by Denise Restout, assisted by Robert Hawkins