- 08 Feb 2018
2018 Virgil Thomson Award Announced
The American Academy of Arts and Letters has announced its 2018 music award winners, including this year’s Virgil Thomson Award recipient, Anna Weesner.
DETAILS - 31 Oct 2016
Press Release: New Recording
Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP) has released a new recording of Thomson’s celebrated first opera Four Saints in Three Acts, with a libretto by Gertrude Stein, on their BMOP/Sound label. Artistic Director Gil Rose, …
DETAILS - 15 Sep 2016
Recordings of Thomson works to be released during 2018-19
Three two-disk albums of Virgil Thomson’s music are scheduled to be released during the 2018-2019 season on Everbest Music and Media, the Virgil Thomson Foundation’s record label. These exciting recordings feature …
DETAILS - 31 Aug 2016
Book Review
In this review of Library of America’s second volume of Virgil Thomson’s writings, The State of Music & Other Writings, chief classical music critic of the New York Times Anthony Tommasini reflects upon Thomson’s …
DETAILS - 30 Aug 2016
Thomson Library of America Volume Now Available
Following on the acclaimed 2014 edition of Virgil Thomson’s collected newspaper music reviews, Library of America and Pulitzer Prize–winning music critic Tim Page now present Thomson’s four classic full-length works in …
DETAILS - 08 Jul 2016
Recording Review
The Complete Songs of Virgil Thomson for Voice and Piano (Boston Globe). “Every so often a recording comes along that represents not only high artistic achievement but also a landmark contribution to musical culture,” …
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