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    • News
      • Other Minds: New Release
      • Press Release: New Recording
      • Recordings of Thomson works to be released during 2018-19
      • Book Review
      • Thomson Library of America Volume Now Available
      • Recording Review
      • Florestan Recital Project Releases The Complete Songs of Virgil Thomson for Voice and Piano
      • Florestan Recital Project
      • The Mother of Us All Digital Premiere
      • Art of the Stage: Picasso to Hockney Now on View
      • 2019 ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Awards Announced
      • The Mother of Us All performances in New York City
      • 2018 ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Awards Announced
      • The Washington Ballet Comes to Harman Center for the Arts
      • New Virgil Thomson Documentary to Debut Next Season
      • 2020 Virgil Thomson Award Announced
      • 2018 Virgil Thomson Award Announced
      • 2016 Virgil Thomson Award Announced
      • New Release - Thomson: Portraits, Self-Portraits And Songs
      • Women, Their Voices, and Nothing Less
      • Thomson: Portraits, Self-Portraits and Songs
      • 2021 ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Awards Announced
      • PRESS RELEASE: New Album from Everbest Music
      • New Thomson Shape-Note Album Release
    • Events
      • Cabrera Conducts Appalachian Spring
      • Films on Friday: Louisiana Story (1948)
      • Chautauqua Opera: The Mother of Us All
      • The Voice of Gertrude Stein
      • VOICEBOX: Opera in Concert - The Mother of Us All
      • David Portillo in Recital
      • Nadia Boulanger and Her World: Boulanger’s Credo
      • Jubilate! A Concert of Sacred Music
      • Women, Their Voices, and Nothing Less
      • CANCELLED - Aspen Music Festival: The Mother Of Us All
      • CANCELLED - Chautauqua Opera: The Mother of Us All
      • POSTPONED - Wright State University Opera Theatre presents The Mother of Us All
      • This is Us: Sights & Sounds Of Acadiana
      • Vermont Philharmonic Winter Concert
      • Vermont Philharmonic Winter Concert
      • NYPhil: The Mother of Us All
      • The Orchestra Now “De Profundis: Out of the Depths”
      • The Orchestra Now "De Profundis: Out of the Depths"
      • Detroit Symphony Orchestra “American Panorama”
      • The Washington Ballet: Contemporary Masters
      • Mademoiselle: An American Inspiration
      • Other Minds Festival
    • About
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    • Discography
      • Thomson: Portraits, Self-Portraits and Songs
      • Eight Portraits for Violin Alone
      • The Mother of Us All
      • Heaven is Music
      • Virgil Thomson: Three Pictures
      • Plow that Broke the Plains (The) / The River
      • Rider on the Plains
      • American Piano Music
      • Virgil Thomson: Chamber Works
      • Virgil Thomson: Symphonies Nos. 2 and 3 / Symphony on a Hymn Tune
      • The Mask
      • Mostly About Love: Songs and Vocal Works
      • Virgil Thomson
      • American String Quartets 1900-1950
      • Virgil Thomson: Portraits
      • From The Steeples and the Mountains: American Music For Brass
      • Louisiana Story / The Plow That Broke The Plains
      • Early and As Remembered
      • Paul Sperry Sings Romantic American Songs
      • Portraits and Self Portraits
      • Virgil Thomson: The Complete Film Scores
      • Virgil Thomson: 3 Portraits for Orchestra, 3 Pictures for Orchestra, 4 Blake Songs; Ernest Bloch: 3 Jewish Poems
      • Virgil Thomson: Symphony on a Hymn Tune; Symphony No. 2; A Solemn Music and a Joyful Fugue
      • Piano Music By Virgil Thomson
      • Four Saints in Three Acts
      • The Plow That Broke The Plains / Suite From 'The River'
      • American Clarinet Treasures
      • Thomson: Complete Chamber Works
      • Virgil Thomson: The Shape-Note Hymn Arrangements
      • Virgil Thomson: Chamber & Vocal Works
    • Resources
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    • Works
      • Acadian Songs and Dances from "Louisiana Story"
      • Acadian Songs and Dances from "Louisiana Story" (piano)
      • Agnus Dei (1924)
      • Agnus Dei (1925)
      • Air de Phèdre
      • Alice Toklas
      • Alternations: A Portrait of Maurice Grosser
      • Androcles and the Lion
      • Anne Miracle
      • Anne-Marie Soullière: Something of a Beauty
      • Anne-Marie Soullière: Something of a Beauty (orchestra)
      • Anthony Tommasini: A Study in Chords
      • Antony and Cleopatra
      • Aria: A Portrait of Germaine Hugnet
      • At Fourteen: Annie Barnard
      • At the Beach: Concert Waltz for Trumpet and Band
      • At the Beach: Concert Waltz for Trumpet and Piano
      • At the Spring
      • Autumn: Concertino for Harp, Strings, and Percussion
      • Awake or Asleep: Pierre Mabille
      • The Baby Maker
      • Le Bains-bar: Waltz
      • Ballet Music from Act III, Scene 2 of "Lord Byron"
      • Barbara Epstein: Untiring
      • Barcarolle for Woodwinds
      • Barcarolle: A Portrait of Georges Hugnet
      • Barcarolle: A Portrait of Georges Hugnet (violin and piano)
      • The Bard: Portrait of Sherry Mangan
      • Bayou
      • "Bébé" Soldat
      • Before Sleeping
      • The Bell doth Toll
      • Bell Piece
      • La Belle en dormant
      • Benedictus
      • Bennett Lerner: Senza Espressione
      • Le Berceau de Gertrude Stein, ou Le Mystère de la rue de Fleurus
      • Bertha
      • Bill Katz: Wide Awake
      • Bill Katz: Wide Awake (orchestra)
      • Boris Baranovic: Whirling
      • Brendan Lemon: A Study Piece for Piano
      • A Bride for the Unicorn
      • Buffie Johnson: Drawing Virgil Thomson in Charcoal
      • The Bugle Song (children's chorus)
      • The Bugle Song
      • Bugles and Birds (orchestra)
      • Bugles and Birds: A Portrait of Pablo Picasso
      • Bugles and Birds: A Portrait of Pablo Picasso (cello and piano)
      • Canons for Dorothy Thompson
      • Canons With Cadenza: A Portrait of André Ostier
      • Cantabile for Strings
      • Cantabile: A Portrait of Nicolas de Chatelain
      • Cantantes Eamus
      • Cantantes Eamus (men's chorus and brass)
      • Cantata on Poems of Edward Lear
      • Capital Capitals
      • The Cat
      • Catalan Waltz: A Portrait of Ramon Senabre
      • Chamber Music
      • Charles Fussell: In Meditation
      • Chorale from "Louisiana Story" (wind ensemble)
      • Christian Bérard in Person
      • Christian Bérard: Prisonnier
      • Christopher Beach Alone
      • Christopher Cox: Singing a Song
      • Christopher Cox: Singing a Song (orchestra)
      • Chromatic Double Harmonies (Portrait of Sylvia Marlowe)
      • Church Organ Wedding Music
      • Clair Leonard's Profile
      • Cliquet-Pleyel in F
      • Collected Poems
      • Collected Poems (orchestra)
      • Collected Songs for High Voice
      • Collected Songs for Low Voice
      • Commentaire sur Saint Jérome
      • Concerto for Flute, Strings, Harp, and Percussion
      • Concerto for Flute, Strings, Harp, and Percussion
      • Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra
      • Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra
      • Connecticut Waltz: Harold Lewis Cook
      • Consider, Lord
      • The Courtship of Yongly Bongly Bo
      • Craig Rutenberg: Swinging
      • Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
      • Crossing Brooklyn Ferry (mixed chorus and orchestra)
      • Cynthia Kemper: A Fanfare
      • Dance in Praise
      • Danyal Lawson: Playing
      • David Dubal: In Flight
      • David Dubal: In Flight (orchestra)
      • A Day Dream: A Portrait of Herbert Whiting
      • De Profundis
      • Dead Pan: Mrs. Betty Freeman
      • Dennis Russell Davies: In A Hammock
      • Dennis Russell Davies: In A Hammock (orchestra)
      • Digging: A Portrait of Howard Rea
      • Dirge
      • Dominique Nabokov: Round and Round
      • Doña Flor: Receiving
      • Dora Maar, or The Presence of Pablo Picasso
      • Down at the Docks
      • Dr. Marcel Roche: Making A Decision
      • The Dream World of Peter Rose-Pulham
      • Duet: Clarita, Comtesse de Forceville
      • Eccentric Dance: Portrait of Madame Kristians Tonny
      • Edges: A Portrait of Robert Indiana
      • Edges: A Portrait of Robert Indiana (band)
      • Eight Portraits for Violin Alone
      • Eleven Chorale Preludes for Organ (Op. 122, by Johannes Brahms, arr. orchestra)
      • Eleven Portraits for Orchestra
      • English Usage
      • Ettie Stettheimer
      • Ettie Stettheimer (trombone, viola, and cello)
      • Etude for Cello and Piano: A Portrait of Frederic James
      • Family Portrait
      • Fanfare
      • Fanfare for France (brass ensemble)
      • Fanfare for France (Max Kenna) [i.e. Kahn]
      • Fanfare for France: A Portrait of Max Kahn
      • Fanfare for Peace
      • A Fanfare: Robin Smith
      • Fantasy in Homage to an Earlier England
      • The Feast of Love
      • The Feast of Love (orchestra)
      • Fête Polonaise
      • Filling Station
      • Filling Station (piano)
      • Film: Deux soeurs qui ne sont pas soeurs
      • Five Auvergnat Folk Songs
      • Five Chorale Preludes
      • Five Ladies
      • Five Phrases from "The Song of Solomon"
      • Five Portraits for Four Clarinets
      • Five Songs from William Blake
      • Five Songs from William Blake (baritone and piano)
      • Five Tenor Solos from "Lord Byron"
      • Five Two-Part Inventions
      • Five Two-Part Inventions (two pianos)
      • Five-Finger Exercise (Portrait of Briggs Buchanan)
      • Five-Finger Exercise: A Portrait of Léon Kochnitzky
      • Florine Stettheimer: Parades
      • For Eugene Ormandy's Birthday, 18 November 1969: A Study in Stacked-Up Thirds
      • For a Happy Occasion
      • For Lou Harrison and His Jolly Games 16 Measures (count'em)
      • Four Portraits for Cello and Piano
      • Four Saints in Three Acts
      • Four Saints in Three Acts (abridged)
      • Four Saints, an Olio
      • Four Songs to the Poems of Thomas Campion
      • Four Songs to the Poems of Thomas Campion (chamber)
      • Four Songs to the Poems of Thomas Campion (SATB and piano)
      • Franco Assetto: Drawing Virgil Thomson
      • Fred Tulan: an Organ Piece
      • A French Boy of Ten: Louis Lange
      • From Byron's "Don Juan"
      • From "The Canticle of the Sun"
      • From "Sneden's Landing Variations"
      • Fugue (orchestra)
      • Fugue and Chorale on "Yankee Doodle"
      • Fugue and Chorale on "Yankee Doodle" (wind ensemble)
      • Fugue: A Portrait of Alexander Smallens
      • Fugues and Cantilenas
      • Gending Chelsea
      • Georges Hugnet: Poet and Man of Letters
      • Gerald Busby: Giving Full Attention
      • Glynn Boyd Harte: Reading
      • Go to Sleep, Alexander Smallens, Jr.
      • Go to Sleep, Gabriel Liebowitz
      • Go to Sleep, Pare McTaggett Lorentz
      • The Goddess
      • The Grass Harp
      • Hamlet
      • The Harvest According
      • Helen Austin at Home and Abroad
      • The Holly and the Ivy, a Carol of Nativity and Lent (SATB)
      • The Holly and the Ivy, a Carol of Nativity and Lent
      • Homage to Marya Freund and to the Harp
      • Horse Eats Hat (Un Chapeau de paille d'Italie)
      • How Will We Have Your Partridge Today?
      • The Hunt: A Portrait of A.E. Austin, Jr.
      • Hurray!
      • A Hymn for Pratt Institute
      • Hymn: A Portrait of Josiah Marvel
      • Hymns from the Old South
      • If Thou a Reason Dost Desire to Know
      • In a Bird Cage (Lise Deharme) (cello and piano)
      • In a Bird Cage, A Portrait of Lise Deharme (violin and piano)
      • In a Bird Cage: A Portrait of Lise Deharme
      • In a Bird Cage: A Portrait of Lise Deharme (solo cello)
      • Injunction Granted, A Living Newspaper
      • Insistences: A Portrait of Louise Crane
      • Invention: Theodate Johnson Busy and Resting
      • James Patrick Cannon: Professional Revolutionary
      • Jamie Campbell: Stretching
      • Jane Bowles Early and As Remembered
      • Jay Rozen: Portrait and Fugue
      • Jerusalem, My Happy Home
      • John Houseman: No Changes
      • The John Mosher Waltzes
      • The John Mosher Waltzes (orchestra)
      • John Peel
      • John Wright: Drawing
      • Journey to America
      • A Joyful Fugue
      • Karen Brown Waltuck: Intensely Two
      • Karen Brown Waltuck: Intensely Two (orchestra)
      • King John
      • King Lear
      • Kyrie Eleison
      • La Valse Gregoriénne
      • Lamentations: Etude for Accordion
      • Le Droit de Varech
      • Let's Take a Walk
      • The Life of a Careful Man
      • Lili Hastings
      • Lines: for and about Ron Henggeler
      • The Lively Arts Fugue
      • Look, How the Floor of Heaven
      • Lord Byron
      • Louis Rispoli: In a Boat
      • Louis Rispoli: In a Boat
      • Louisiana Story
      • A Love Scene (Originally titled Dead Pan: Mrs. Betty Freeman)
      • Love Scene: Juan and Haidee
      • Love Song
      • A Lullaby for Margaret Wheeler
      • Lullaby Which is also a Spinning Song: A Portrait of Howard Putzel
      • Macbeth
      • Madame Dubost chez elle
      • Madame Dubost chez elle (trombone, viola, and cello)
      • Madame Marthe-Marthine
      • Malitte Matta: In the Executive Style
      • Man of Iron: Portrait of Willy Eisenhart
      • Man of Iron: Willy Eisenhart
      • Mark Beard: Never Alone
      • Mary Reynolds
      • Mass for Solo Voice
      • Mass for Solo Voice (orchestra)
      • Mass for Solo Voice (unison choir)
      • Mass for Two-Part Chorus and Percussion
      • Maurice Bavoux: Young and Alone
      • The Mayor La Guardia Waltzes
      • Measure for Measure
      • Meditation (orchestra)
      • Meditation: A Portrait of Jere Abbott
      • The Merchant of Venice
      • Metropolitan Museum Fanfare: Portrait of an American Artist
      • Miss Gertrude Stein As A Young Girl
      • Missa Brevis
      • Missa pro defunctis
      • Molly Davies: Termination
      • Morris Golde: Showing Delight
      • Mostly About Love
      • The Mother of Us All
      • Mrs. Chester Whitin Lasell
      • Much Ado About Nothing
      • My Crow Pluto
      • My Master Hath a Garden
      • My Master Hath a Garden (chorus)
      • My Shepherd Will Supply My Need
      • My Shepherd Will Supply My Need (voice and piano)
      • The Nativity as Sung by the Shepherds
      • Never Another
      • Nine Etudes for Piano
      • Nine Portraits for Piano
      • Nineteen Portraits for Piano
      • Noah Creshevsky: Loyal, Steady, and Persistent
      • Noah Creshevsky: Loyal, Steady, and Persistent (orchestra)
      • Norma Flender: Thoughts about Waltzing
      • O My Deir Hert
      • Ode to the Wonders of Nature
      • Oidipous tyrannos
      • An Old Song: A Portrait of Carrie Stettheimer
      • Ondine
      • Oraison funèbre de Henriette-Marie de France, Reine de la Grande-Bretagne
      • Organ Voluntaries 1, 2, & 3, a Suite
      • Othello
      • A Pair of Portraits
      • Pange Lingua
      • Pardon, Goddess of the Night
      • Parson Weems and the Cherry Tree
      • Parson Weems and the Cherry Tree
      • Passacaglia
      • Pastorale (orchestra)
      • Pastorale on a Christmas Plainsong
      • Pastorale: A Portrait of Jean Ozenne
      • Pastorale: A Portrait of Tristan Tzara
      • Paul Sanfaçon: On the Ice
      • The Peace Place
      • Percussion Piece (orchestra)
      • Percussion Piece: A Portrait of Jessie K. Lasell
      • Persistently Pastorale: Aaron Copland
      • Peter McWilliams: Firmly Spontaneous
      • Peter Monro Jack: Scottish Memories
      • Philip Claflin: dans le temps très noceur
      • Phillip Ramey: Thinking Hard
      • Piano Sonata No. 1
      • Piano Sonata No. 2
      • Piano Sonata No. 3, "on white keys" for Gertrude Stein
      • Piano Sonata No. 4: Guggenheim Jeune
      • Pigeons on the Grass Alas
      • Pigeons on the Grass Alas (piano)
      • Pilgrims and Pioneers
      • The Plow that Broke the Plains
      • Poltergeist: A Portrait of Hans Arp
      • Portrait of A Young Man in Good Health: Maurice Grosser with a Cold
      • Portrait of Christopher Wanklyn
      • Portrait of Claude Biais
      • Portrait of F. B.
      • A Portrait of Jay Rozen
      • Portrait of Ladies: A Conversation
      • Portrait of Paul Sanfaçon
      • A Portrait of R. Kirk Askew, Jr.
      • A Portrait of Two, for Joell Amar
      • Portraits for Piano Solo: Album Four
      • Portraits for Piano Solo: Album One
      • Portraits for Piano Solo: Album Three
      • Portraits for Piano Solo: Album Two
      • Power Among Men
      • Power Boothe: With Pencil
      • Praises and Prayers
      • A Prayer to Saint Catherine
      • A Prayer to Venus
      • Preciosilla
      • Prelude (organ)
      • Prelude (organ, arr. by C. Hampton)
      • Prelude (piano)
      • Prelude and Fugue: A Portrait of Miss Agnes Rindge
      • Prisoner of the Mind: Schuyler Watts
      • Remember Adam's Fall
      • Richard Flender: Solid, Not Stolid
      • Richard Flender: Solid, Not Stolid (orchestra)
      • The River
      • Robin Holloway
      • Rodney Lister: Music for a Merry-Go-Round
      • Rodney Lister: Music for a Merry-Go-Round (chamber ensemble)
      • Russell Hitchcock, Reading
      • Russell Hitchcock, Reading (trombone, viola, and cello)
      • Ruth Smallens
      • Saints' Procession
      • Sam Byers: With Joy
      • Sam Byers: With Joy (orchestra)
      • Sanctus (1921)
      • Sanctus (1926)
      • Sauguet: From Life
      • Scenes from the Holy Infancy According to Saint Matthew
      • A Scherzo: Priscilla Rea
      • Scott Wheeler: Free-Wheeling
      • Scott Wheeler: Free-Wheeling (orchestra)
      • Sea Coast: A Portrait of Constance Askew
      • Sea Piece with Birds
      • The Seine at Night
      • Señorita Juanita de Medina Accompanied by Her Mother
      • Serenade for Flute and Violin
      • Seven Choruses from the "Medea" of Euripides
      • Seventeen Portraits for Piano
      • Shakespeare Songs
      • A Short Fanfare
      • A Short Fugue: to follow Jay Rozen's Portrait
      • Sigh No More, Ladies
      • Le Singe et le Léopard
      • Les Soirées bagnolaises
      • A Solemn Music and A Joyful Fugue
      • A Solemn Music
      • Solitude: A Portrait of Lou Harrison
      • Sonata da Chiesa
      • Sonata for Flute Alone
      • Sonata for Violin and Piano
      • Song for the Stable
      • Sonorous and Exquisite Corpses
      • Southern Hymns
      • Souvenir: A Portrait of Paul Bowles
      • The Spanish Earth
      • Stabat Mater
      • Stabat Mater (piano)
      • Stabat Mater (string orchestra)
      • Stockton Fanfare
      • String Quartet No. 1
      • String Quartet No. 2
      • A Study in Stacked-Up Thirds
      • Study Piece: Portrait of a Lady
      • Suddenly An Eagle
      • Suite from "Filling Station"
      • Suite from "Louisiana Story"
      • Suite from "Louisiana Story" (piano)
      • Suite from "The Mother of Us All"
      • Suite from "The Plow That Broke the Plains"
      • Suite from "The Plow that Broke the Plains" (brass quintet)
      • Suite from "The Plow that Broke the Plains" (piano)
      • Suite from "The River"
      • The Sunflower
      • Sung by the Shepherds
      • Surrey Apple-Howler's Song: A Round
      • Susie Asado
      • Swiss Waltz: A Portrait of Sophie Taüber-Arp
      • Symphony No. 2 in C Major
      • Symphony No. 2 in C Major
      • Symphony No. 3
      • Symphony on a Hymn Tune
      • Symphony on a Hymn Tune
      • Synthetic Waltzes
      • Take, O Take Those Lips Away
      • Tango Lullaby (orchestra)
      • Tango Lullaby: A Portrait of Mlle. (Flavie) Alvarez de Toledo
      • Tango Lullaby: A Portrait of Mlle. (Flavie) Alvarez de Toledo (cello and piano)
      • Tango Lullaby: A Portrait of Mlle. (Flavie) Alvarez de Toledo (violin and piano)
      • Tell Me Where is Fancy Bred
      • Ten Easy Pieces and a Coda
      • Ten Etudes for Piano
      • Tennis: A Portrait of Henry McBride
      • Theme for Improvisation
      • Thirteen Portraits for Piano
      • Thoughts for Strings
      • Three Antiphonal Psalms
      • Three Pictures for Orchestra
      • Three Portraits for Trombone, Viola, and Cello
      • Three Portraits for Violin and Piano
      • Three Sentences from "The Song of Solomon"
      • The Tiger
      • Tiger! Tiger! (chorus and piano)
      • Toccata: A Portrait of Mary Widney
      • Travelling in Spain: Alice Woodfin Branlière
      • Tres Estampas de Niñez
      • Tribulationes Civitatum
      • Trois Poèmes de la Duchesse de Rohan
      • The Trojan Women
      • Tuesday in November
      • Two by Marianne Moore
      • Two Sentimental Tangos
      • Two Sentimental Tangos
      • Two-Part Inventions (guitar)
      • Variations for Koto
      • Variations on Sunday School Tunes
      • Vassilis Voglis: On The March
      • Vernal Equinox
      • Walking Song
      • Walking Song (two pianos)
      • Was This Fair Face the Cause?
      • Wedding Music: A Portrait of Jean Watts
      • Welcome to the New Year
      • What is it?
      • What is It? (chamber)
      • What is it? (guitar)
      • Wheat Field at Noon
      • When I Survey the Bright Celestial Sphere
      • When I Survey the Bright Celestial Sphere (brass)
      • Wiley Hitchcock: Two Birds
      • With Fife and Drums: A Portrait of Mina Curtiss
      • With Trumpet and Horn: A Portrait of Louise Ardant
      • Yvonne de Casa Fuerte
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