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Virgil Thomson
Composer, Additional Credits
Born November 25, 1896Died September 30, 1989 (92 years)
Virgil Thomson was an American composer and critic. He was instrumental in the development of the "American Sound" in classical music. He has been described as a modernist, a neoromantic, a neoclassicist, and a composer of "an Olympian blend of humanity and detachment" whose "expressive voice was always carefully muted" until his late opera Lord Byron which, in contrast to all his previous work, exhibited an emotional content that rises to "moments of real passion".
Filmography
| 1985 | American Masters (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1983 | The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts · as Self - Honoree |
| 1978 | The Kennedy Center Honors (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1975 | Arena (1975) (TV Series) · as Self - Composer |
| 1952 | Omnibus (TV Series) · as Self - Composer (segment "preview Of King Lear") |