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.

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

* November 25 – Virgil Thomson, American composer and critic ( d. 1989 )

** Virgil Thomson, American composer ( b. 1896 )

Located at 222 West 23rd Street, between Seventh and Eighth Avenues, in the Manhattan neighborhood of Chelsea, the 250-unit hotel has been the home of numerous writers, musicians, artists, and actors, including Bob Dylan, Virgil Thomson, Charles Bukowski, Janis Joplin, Leonard Cohen, Patti Smith, Iggy Pop, Jobriath, and Larry Rivers.

Some of the most prominent names include The Grateful Dead, Tom Waits, Patti Smith, Iggy Pop, Bobby " Werner " Strete, Mod Fun, Virgil Thomson, Jeff Beck, Chick Corea, Dee Dee Ramone, Johnny Thunders, Phil Lynott, Henri Chopin, John Cale, Édith Piaf, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Alice Cooper, Alejandro Escovedo, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Peter Walker, Canned Heat, Sid Vicious, Vivian Stanshall, Richard Hell, Jobriath Boone, Little Annie, Rufus Wainwright, Lance Loud, Abdullah Ibrahim / Sathima Bea Benjamin / Jean Grae, Vasant Rai, Jacques Labouchere, and Leonard Cohen.

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.

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

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.

In 1949, Virgil Thomson won the Pulitzer Prize for Music for his score to the film ( which contains only one Cajun-styled piece ).

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.

Both films have notable scores by Virgil Thomson that are still heard as concert suites.

* 1949: Virgil Thomson, Louisiana Story, film score

Through Cage, he met sculptor Richard Lippold ( who had a studio next door ) and artists Sonia Sekula, Robert Rauschenberg, and others, and composers such as Henry Cowell, Virgil Thomson, and George Antheil.

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

Among her portrait clients were the surrealist artist Joseph Cornell, actresses Lilian Harvey and Gertrude Lawrence, and the African-American cast of the Virgil Thomson – Gertrude Stein opera Four Saints in Three Acts ( 1934 ).

Throughout his career, Toscanini was virtually idolized by the critics ( a notable exception being Virgil Thomson ), as well as by most fellow musicians and the public alike.

Some contemporary critics, particularly Virgil Thomson, also took Toscanini to task for not paying enough attention to the " modern repertoire " ( i. e., 20th-century composers, of which Thomson was one ).

Virgil Thomson ( November 25, 1896September 30, 1989 ) was an American composer and critic.

Virgil Thomson was born in Kansas City, Missouri.

Virgil Thomson's personal papers are in a repository at the Archival Papers in the Music Library of Yale University and also additional effects regarding Thomson are included in the Ian Hornak repository at the Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art in Washington D. C.

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 ):

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.

* Virgil Finlay, compiled and edited by Donald M. Grant ( 1971 )

Celebrated organist Virgil Fox gave his last solo concert in the building in 1980.

It was during the autumn of 1930 in Paris that Bowles began work on his own first musical composition, the " Sonata for Oboe and Clarinet ", which he finished the following year and which premiered in New York at the Aeolian Hall on Wigmore St, 16 December 1931, the whole concert ( which also included work by Copland and Virgil Thomson ) was " panned " by New York critics.

On October 1, 1974, Rodgers ’ five manual Carnegie Hall organ, designed by Virgil Fox, debuted in a sold-out Fox concert.

At a Toscanini concert, she spotted the critic Virgil Thomson dozing during the performance.

* Virgil Fox, organ, Bach Live At Fillmore East, Decca ( 1971 )-live recording from the Heavy Organ concert series

It is a mosaic from Virgil, Ovid, Lucan and Venantius Fortunatus, composed in the manner of Einhard's use of Suetonius, and exhibits a true poetic gift.

They read the Bible, Homer, Virgil, Shakespeare, Milton, Byron, Scott, and many others, they examined articles from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Fraser's Magazine, and The Edinburgh Review and read history, geography and biographies.

Similarly, in 1971, Alistair Campbell stated that the apologue technique used in Beowulf is so infrequent in the epic tradition aside from when Virgil uses it that the poet who composed Beowulf could not have written the poem in such a manner without first coming across Virgil's writings.

It was based on Donatus ' De pedibus and Servius ' De finalibus, and used examples from Christian poets as well as Virgil.

Bede was familiar with pagan authors such as Virgil, but it was not considered appropriate to teach biblical grammar from such texts, and in De schematibus ... Bede argues for the superiority of Christian texts in understanding Christian literature.

Journalist Bee Wilson states that the image of a community of honey bees " occurs from ancient to modern times, in Aristotle and Plato ; in Virgil and Seneca ; in Erasmus and Shakespeare ; Tolstoy, as well as by social theorists Bernard Mandeville and Karl Marx.

Virgil will occasionally deviate from the strict rules of the meter to produce a special effect.

One example from I. 105 describing a ship at sea during a storm has Virgil violating metrical standards to place a single-syllable word at the end of the line:

According to the Historia Augusta, he quoted from Virgil while doing so.

An intellectual autodidact, his tastes in literature were typical of an educated Victorian painter, including Spenser, Virgil, Ruskin and Tennyson, from whose works much of his iconography can be traced.

Virgil, probably working from an Alexandrian source, recognized three: Alecto (" unnameable " who appeared in Virgil's Aeneid ), Megaera (" grudging "), and Tisiphone (" vengeful destruction ").

Like the French epics, such as the Chanson de Roland, Homeric poetry is indigenous and, by the ease of movement and its resultant simplicity, distinguishable from the works of Dante, Milton and Virgil.

For example, Euler could repeat the Aeneid of Virgil from beginning to end without hesitation, and for every page in the edition he could indicate which line was the first and which the last.

More isolated references occur, however, in sources ranging from Plato to Virgil.

Petrarch revived the work and letters of the ancient Roman Senate | Roman Senator Cicero | Marcus Tullius CiceroPetrarch also published many volumes of his letters, including a few written to his long-dead friends from history such as Cicero and Virgil.

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

Virgil, in his Aeneid, states that Pisa was already a great center by the times described ; the settlers from the Alpheus coast have been credited with the founding of the city in the ' Etruscan lands '.

Episodes from the war provided material for Greek tragedy and other works of Greek literature, and for Roman poets including Virgil and Ovid.

Writing during the time of Augustus, Virgil has his hero give a first-person account of the fall of Troy in the second of the Aeneid's twelve books ; the Trojan Horse, which does not appear in " The Iliad ", became legendary from Virgil's account.

Tolkien, by science fiction writers like Philip K. Dick, by central figures of Western literature like Leo Tolstoy, Virgil and The Brontë sisters, and including feminist writers like Virginia Woolf, by children's literature like Alice in Wonderland, The Wind in the Willows and The Jungle Book, by Norse mythology, and by books from the Eastern tradition such as the Tao Te Ching.

Although the commentaries no doubt record much factual information about Virgil, some of their evidence can be shown to rely on inferences made from his poetry and allegorizing ; thus, Virgil's biographical tradition remains problematic.

Macrobius says that Virgil's father was of a humble background ; however, scholars generally believe that Virgil was from an equestrian landowning family which could afford to give him an education.

After his victory in the Battle of Philippi in 42 BC, fought against the army led by the assassins of Julius Caesar, Octavian tried to pay off his veterans with land expropriated from towns in northern Italy, supposedly including, according to the tradition, an estate near Mantua belonging to Virgil.

At Maecenas ' insistence ( according to the tradition ) Virgil spent the ensuing years ( perhaps 37 – 29 BC ) on the longer didactic hexameter poem called the Georgics ( from Greek, " On Working the Earth ") which he dedicated to Maecenas.