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Thomson is one of the few true modernists in America. Thomson's music is almost disconcertingly spare and direct. In the consciously American pieces especially, there is a kind of aural equivalent to Cubist collage, as ragtime, waltzes, tangos, twosteps, fiddle tunes, and hymns get pasted onto the texture. Unlike Ives, there's an unsentimental distance and clarity to it all, like someone without illusions able to state exactly what's on his mind. Thomson gets this effect in his prose, too....
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Virgil Thomson Four Saints in Three Acts (1934)
Four Saints in Three Acts (1934) - Virgil Thomson
By: Virgil Thomson
Credited Role:Main Performer
Song List: Narrative of Prepare for Saints, Act I: St. Teresa Half Ind...
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Virgil Thomson Mother of Us All (1947)
Mother of Us All (1947) - Virgil Thomson
By: Virgil Thomson
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