I don't care what other critics say, I only hope to be played. hope
I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good. food
Let your mind alone, and see what happens. alone
Virgil Thomson Composer
- Gender: Male
- Citizenship: United States
- Born: Nov 25, 1896
- Died: Sep 30, 1989
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 neoclassicist, 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", and a neoromantic.