Virgil O. Stamps and Jesse R. Baxter studied Vaughan ’ s business model and by the late 1920s were running a heavy competition for Vaughan.

* Virgil Oliver Stamps ( 1892 – 1940 )

Virgil Oliver Stamps ( 1892 – 1940 ) was a shape note promoter, singer, composer, and singing school teacher.

Virgil Oliver Stamps founded the company in 1924 and J. R. Baxter Jr. joined him to form the Stamps-Baxter Music Company, which was based in Dallas, Texas, with offices in Chattanooga, Tennessee and Pangburn, Arkansas.

Later Republican writers, such as Lucretius, Catullus and even Cicero, wrote their own compositions in the meter and it was at this time that many of the principles of Latin hexameter were firmly established, ones that would govern later writers such as Virgil, Ovid, Lucan, and Juvenal.

He supported Virgil who wrote the Georgics in his honour.

He wrote in a colloquial style far from the codified form of Latin that is found in Ovid or Virgil.

Composer David Raksin wrote original music and adapted music from The River ( a documentary film score by concert composer Virgil Thomson ).

Virgil wrote of human beings transforming into wolves.

Despite the polished and complex nature of the Aeneid ( legend stating that Virgil wrote only three lines of the poem each day ), the number of half-complete lines and the abrupt ending are generally seen as evidence that Virgil died before he could finish the work.

He also wrote books of literary criticism, in particular Wordsworth ( 1881 ) and Essays, Classical and Modern ( in two volumes, 1883 ), which included a highly-regarded essay on Virgil.

A skilled writer and orator, Coluccio drew heavily upon the classical tradition and developed a powerful prose style based on the Latin of Virgil and Cicero: " I have always believed ," Salutati wrote " I must imitate antiquity not simply to reproduce it, but in order to produce something new " In this sense his own view of humanism was broader-based than the antiquarianism of the generation of humanists he fostered.

He soon became famous for his rhetoric, satire and translations and was held in high esteem by the printer William Caxton, who wrote, in the preface to The Boke of Eneydos compyled by Vargyle ( Modern English: The Book of the Aeneid, compiled by Virgil ) ( 1490 ):

Virgil, the Roman epic poet, wrote, in book three of The Aeneid, of how Aeneas and his crew landed on the island of the cyclops after escaping from Troy at the end of the Trojan War.

Virgil wrote that she " had her feet on the ground, and her head in the clouds, making the small seem great and the great seem greater.

Greene's source for an Apollonian oracle on this island likely was the Aeneid, in which Virgil wrote that Priam consulted the Oracle of Delos before the outbreak of the Trojan War and that Aeneas after escaping from Troy consulted the same Delian oracle regarding his future.

" Weston LaBarre made the observation that Frazer was " the last of the scholastics ", and wrote The Golden Bough " as an extended footnote to a line in Virgil he felt he did not understand.

He and the composer Virgil Thomson, continually wrote disparagingly about Barbirolli, comparing him unfavourably with Toscanini.

Inspired in part by classical authors who wrote in the pastoral mode — in addition to Virgil and Theocritus including comparatively obscure recently rediscovered Latin poets Calpurnius and Nemesianus — and by Boccaccio's Ameto, Sannazaro depicts a lovelorn first-person narrator (" Sincero ") wandering the countryside ( Arcadia ) and listening to the amorous or mournful songs of the shepherds he meets.

Barraqué also wrote ... au dela du hasard ( 1959 ) for three female voices and ensemble, and a concerto for clarinet, vibraphone and ensemble in 1968, which are related to The Death of Virgil, but not actually part of that cycle.

A young man named Virgil Stewart, in 1835, wrote an account of a Murrell sponsored slave rebellion plot sponsored by highwaymen and Northern Abolitionists.

Although predominantly known for his music, Paul Williams is also an actor, appearing in films and many television guest appearances, notably as the Faustian record producer Swan in the cult film Phantom of the Paradise ( for which he also wrote the songs ), a rock and roll remake of Phantom of the Opera, and as Virgil, the genius orangutan in Battle for the Planet of the Apes ( on Feb. 9, 1973, Williams mixed his two fields for a joke appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson in which he sang a song in full make-up as Virgil ).

From an ethnic point of view, Roman authors associated blond and reddish hair with the Gauls and the Germans: e. g., Virgil describes the hair of the Gauls as " golden " ( aurea caesaries ), Tacitus wrote that " the Germans have fierce blue eyes, red hair, huge frames "; in accordance with Ammianus, almost all the Gauls were " of tall stature, fair and ruddy ".

Virgil Thomson wrote that, " It seems to have been written for the slow-witted, the not very musical and the distracted ," adding that if Shostakovich continued writing in this manner, it might " eventually disqualify him for consideration as a serious composer.

Bede, paraphrasing Virgil, wrote that following Ecgfrith's death, " the hopes and strengths of the English realm began ' to waver and slip backward ever lower '".

The epics of Homer inspired the Aeneid of Virgil, and authors such as Seneca the younger wrote using Greek styles, while famous Romans such as Scipio Africanus, Julius Caesar and Marcus Aurelius compiled works in the Greek language.

Its most distinguished representative was Jean de Vales, of Montech, who made excellent translations from Virgil and Persius, and wrote a brilliant burlesque of the former in the manner of Scarron ( Virgile deguisat, 1648 ; only four books published ).

Ivens was, however, known for his anti-fascist and other propaganda films, including The Spanish Earth, for the Spanish loyalists, co-written with Ernest Hemingway and music by Marc Blitzstein and Virgil Thomson.

* 1896 – Virgil Thomson, American composer and music critic ( d. 1989 )

Virgil Thomson composed the music for the film.

Ravel maintained his influential participation with the SMI which continued its active role of promoting new music, particularly of British and American composers such as Arnold Bax, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Aaron Copland, and Virgil Thomson.

Several of Stein's writings have been set to music by composers, including Virgil Thomson's operas Four Saints in Three Acts and The Mother of Us All, and James Tenney's setting of Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose as a canon dedicated to Philip Corner, beginning with " a " on an upbeat and continuing so that each repetition shuffles the words, e. g. " a / rose is a rose / is a rose is / a rose is a / rose.

* Four Saints in Three Acts ( libretto, 1929: music by Virgil Thomson, 1934 )

* The Mother of Us All ( libretto, 1946c: music by Virgil Thompson 1947 )

Composer and music critic Virgil Thomson praised Fantasound which he thought offered " good transmission of music ", but disliked the " musical taste " of Stokowski, with exception to The Sorcerer's Apprentice and The Rite of Spring.

Lorentz worked on the film with composer Virgil Thomson, who shared Lorentz's enthusiasm for folk music and incorporated many folk melodies, along with other popular and religious music, into the soundtrack.

After a brief sojourn in France they were prominent among the literary figures of New York throughout the 1940s, with Paul working under Virgil Thomson as a music critic at the New York Herald Tribune.

North Bethesda's Strathmore opened in 1976, and is now a home for numerous programs, including the largest of its music venues, the Music Center at Strathmore ; the Strathmore has hosted well-known musicians and composers like the cellist Steven Honigberg, pianist Christopher Taylor, jazz singers Nnenna Freelon and Luciana Souza and composers Virgil Thomson and Gunther Schuller, as well as DC-area cult acts like the founder of Go-go, Chuck Brown, and the reunited punk band The Slickee Boys.

The incidental music was composed by Virgil Thomson.

The poem has appealed to twentieth century composers and has been set to music by Frederic Austin for chorus and orchestra ( first performance, Leeds Festival, 1931 ); by Timothy Mather Spelman, for soprano and baritone solo, chorus and orchestra ( 1931 ); by Virgil Thompson as " The Feast of Love ", for baritone and chamber orchestra, text translated by himself ( 1964 ); and by George Lloyd for soprano, tenor, chorus, and orchestra ( 1980 ).

Among those who admired Weber's music were Ned Rorem, Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson, John Cage, Elliott Carter, Milton Babbitt, and David Diamond.

Directed by Friz Freleng ; written by Michael Maltese ; animated by Manuel Perez, Virgil Ross, Gerry Chiniquy and Ken Champin ; music by Carl Stalling, and voices by Mel Blanc and, uncredited, Dick Nelson ( as " Robinson ").

We shall not go far wrong if we include in the list Hyacinthe Morel ( 1756 – 1829 ), of Avignon, whose collection of poems, Lou Saboulet, has been republished by Frédéric Mistral ; Louis Aubanel ( 178 ~- 1842 ), of Nîmes, the successful translator of Anacreon's Odes ; Auguste Tandon, the troubadour of Montpellier, who wrote Fables, contes et autres pièces en vers ( 1800 ); Fabre d ' Olivet, the versatile littérateur who in 1803 published Le Troubadour: Poésies occitaniques, which, in order to secure their success, he gave out as the work of some medieval poet Diou-loufet ( 1771 – 1840 ), who wrote a didactic poem, in the manner of Virgil, relating to silkworm-breeding ( Leis magnans ); Jacques Azais ( 1778 – 1856 ), author of satires, fables, & c .; d ' Astros ( 1780 – 1863 ), a writer of fables in La Fontaine's manner ; Castil-Blaze, who found time, amidst his musical pursuits, to compose Provençal poems, intended to be set to music ; the Marquis de Fare-Alais ( 1791 – 1846 ), author of some light satirical tales ( Las Castagnados ).

Virgil Thomson ( Erickson 1957, p. vii ) lists the " raw materials " of music in order of their discovery: rhythm, melody, and harmony ; with the construction of these materials using two major techniques: counterpoint ( the simultaneity and organization of different melodies ) and orchestration.

* Virgil Thomson-composer, music critic

According to Virgil Thomson, who wrote music to libretti authored by Stein, the " book is in every way except actual authorship Alice Toklas's book ; it reflects her mind, her language, her private view of Gertrude, also her unique narrative powers.