Virgil Thomson

Standard Name: Thomson, Virgil

Connections

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Occupation Natalie Clifford Barney
Gertrude Stein was the featured writer at a gathering of the Académie des Femmes at NCB 's salon. The programme included an introduction by Mina Loy , Barney's French translations of The Making of Americans...
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Butts
Other lovers with whom MB was linked after Maitland included composer Virgil Thomson and Russian emigré Sergei Maslenikoff .
“Mary Butts Papers”. Beinecke Rare Book Room and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Friends, Associates Laura Riding
Graves and Riding were touchy as friends, between their sense of literary mission (they saw Graves's biography of T. E. Lawrence as a somewhat demeaning potboiler, not part of his real work at all) and...
Performance of text Gertrude Stein
Random House published GS 's operaFour Saints in Three Acts. The same day it opened magnificently on Broadway, performed by an all black cast, to music by Virgil Thomson .
Wilson, Robert Alfred. Gertrude Stein: A Bibliography. Phoenix Bookshop.
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Hobhouse, Janet. Everybody Who was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein. Doubleday.
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Brinnin, John Malcolm, and John Ashbery. The Third Rose: Gertrude Stein and her World. Addison-Wesley.
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Textual Production Gertrude Stein
GS 's The Mother of Us All, an opera about Susan B. Anthony , appeared in print the year after her death. This opera was her second collaboration with Virgil Thomson . The music...

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Texts

Stein, Gertrude et al. Four Saints in Three Acts. Random House, 1934.
Stein, Gertrude et al. The Mother of Us All. Music Press, 1947.