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Virgil Thomson (1896-1989)

Virgil Thomson, composerComposer Virgil Thomson began his musical training at age five, and by his twelfth year he was performing professionally on both piano and organ. In the mid-1920s he settled in Paris, where he began to compose original works. There he also became part of a cosmopolitan group of avant-garde musicians, writers, and painters then dominating the cultural life of the city. A close friend was the expatriate American writer Gertrude Stein, who wrote the librettos for his operas Four Saints in Three Acts and The Mother of Us All, the latter based on the life of suffragist Susan B. Anthony. By the late 1930s, Thomson was writing music for movies, and in 1948 his score for the film Louisiana Story won a Pulitzer Prize. Thomson was also a major spokesman for the new directions of twentieth-century music as critic for the New York Herald-Tribune from 1940 to 1954.
-  The National Portait Gallery

COMPOSITIONS                                                      Thomson Links     ~ ~ ~     Works by Genre    ~ ~ ~    Thomson on Thomson
De Profundis, chorus (1920; rev. 1951)
The Sunflower, voice and piano (1920; manuscript/unpublished)
Vernal Equinox, voice and piano (1920; manuscript/unpublished)
Prelude, piano (1921)
O My Deir Hert, chorus (1921; rev. 1978)
Sanctus, male chorus (1921, manuscript)
Tribulationes civitatum, chorus, or male chorus (1922)
Fanfare, organ (1922)
Passacaglia, organ (1922; rev. 1974)
Pastorale on a Christmas Plainsong, organ (1922)
Prelude, piano (1922; arr. 1979 for organ by Calvin Hampton)
Prelude, organ (1922)
Agnus Dei, canon for 3 equal vioces (1924)
Fête polonais, male chorus and piano (1924, manuscript)
Missa brevis, male chorus (1924, manuscript)
Three Sentences from The Song of Solomon, voice & pf (1924; mnscrpt/unpub) [see also: "5 Phrases from the Song of Solomon"]
Two Sentimental Tangos, piano (1923; also arr. for orchestra)
Three Antiphonal Psalms, 2-part chorus (1922-24)
Five Chorale Preludes, organ (1924)
Agnus Dei, male chorus (1925)
Synthetic Waltzes, 2 pianos; or 1 piano, 4-hands (1925)
Five Phrases from The Song of Solomon, soprano and percusion (1 player) (1924-26)
Benedictus, male chorus (1926)
Sanctus, male chorus, w/children’s chorus (1926, manuscript)
Sonata da chiesa, viola, Eb clarinet, trumpet, horn and trombone (1926; rev. 1973)
Five Two-Part Inventions, piano (1926; arr. for 2 pianos by Arthur Gold and Robert Fizdale)
Ten Easy Pieces and a Coda, piano (1926) [to be played as a single work]
Susie Asado, voice and piano  (1926)
The Tiger!, voice and piano (1926)
Variations on Sunday School Tunes (4 pieces), organ (1926-27)
Capital Capitals, 4 male voices and piano (1927; rev. 1968)
Preciosilla, voice and piano (1927)
La Valse Gregorienne (4 songs), voice and piano (1927; rev. 1971)
Four Saints in Three Acts, opera (1928)
    - Four Saints, an Olio (1928; arr. 1984 for chamber orchestra)
    - Saint’s Procession, mezzo-soprano, bass, chorus, and piano (1928) [from "Four Saints in Three Acts"]
    - Pigeons on the Grass Alas, baritone and orchestra/ or piano (1928; arr. 1934) [from "Four Saints in Three Acts"]
Symphony on a Hymn Tune, orchestra (1928)
Señorita Juanita de Medina Accompanied by her Mother, violin (1928) [from "Portraits for Violin Alone", 1928-40]
Madame Marthe-Marthine, violin (1928) [from "Portraits for Violin Alone", 1928-40]
Georges Hugnet, Poet and Man of Letters, violin (1928) [from "Portraits for Violin Alone", 1928-40]
Cliquet-Pleyel in F, violin (1928) [from "Portraits for Violin Alone", 1928-40]
Miss Gertrude Stein as a Young Girl, violin (1928) [from "Portraits for Violin Alone", 1928-40]
Mrs. C[hester] W[hitin] L[asell], violin (1928) [from "Portraits for Violin Alone", 1928-40]
Sauguet, from Life (1928) [Henri Sauguet], violin [from "Portraits for Violin Alone", 1928-40]
Le Berceau (Cradle) de Gertrude Stein, ou Le Mystère de la rue de Fleurus, voice and piano (1928)
Commentaire sur Saint Jerome, voice and piano (1928; manuscript/unpublished)
Jour de Chaleur aux bains de mer ( Hot Day at the Seashore), voice and piano (1928)
La Seine, voice and piano (1928)
Les Soirees bagnolaises, voice and piano (1928; manuscript/unpublished)
A son Altesse la Princesse Antoinette Murat, voice and piano (1928; manuscript/unpublished)
Le Bains-bar: Waltz, vln & pf; or 2 vln,vc,db&pf (1929, mnscrpt; arr. 1949:"At the Beach") [?from "Jour de chaleur, voice & pf, 1928]
At the Beach: Concert Waltz for Trumpet & Pf/or Band (1929; arr. 1949 from vln & pf work; also? "Jour de chaleur, voice & pf, 1928)
Portrait of Ladies: A Conversation [Mrs. Dwight Braman; Fanny Dudley; Laura Dudley; Julia Winterhoff], 4 clarinets
    [from "Five Portraits for Four Clarinets", 1929]
Christian Bérard: Prisoner, 4 clarinets [from "Five Portraits for Four Clarinets", 1929]
Portrait of a Young Man in Good Health: Maurice Grosser with a Cold, 4 clarinets [from "Five Portraits for Four Clarinets", 1929]
Christian Bérard as a Soldier, 4 clarinets [from "Five Portraits for Four Clarinets", 1929]
Christian Bérard in Person, 4 clarinets [from "Five Portraits for Four Clarinets", 1929]
Portrait of F[rances] B[lood], voice and piano (1929)
Travelling in Spain: Alice Branlière, piano (1929) [from "Thirteen Portraits for Piano", 1929-81]
Alternations (Maurice Grosser), piano (1929) [from "Portraits for Piano Solo, Album 1"]
Catalan Waltz (Ramon Senabre), piano (1929) [from "Portraits for Piano Solo, Album 2"]
Piano Sonata No. 1 (1929)
Piano Sonata No. 2 (1929)
Sonata for Violin and Piano (1930) [B&H]
Clair Leonard’s Profile, piano (1930) [from "Thirteen Portraits for Piano", 1929-81]
Madame Dubost chez elle, piano (1930) [from "Nine Portraits for Piano", 1930-69]
Pastoral (Jean Ozenne), piano (1930) [from "Portraits for Piano Solo, Album 3"]
Alice Toklas, violin and piano (1930) [from "Five Ladies", violin and piano, 1930-83]
Mary Reynolds, violin and piano (1930) [from "Five Ladies", violin and piano, 1930-83]
Anne Miracle, violin and piano (1930) [from "Five Ladies", violin and piano, 1930-83]
Russell Hitchcock, Reading, piano (1930) [from "Nine Portraits for Piano", 1930-69]
Piano Sonata No. 3, "on white keys for Gertrude Stein" (1930)
Air de Phedre (Phaedra’s Farewell), soprano and piano  (1930)
Film: Deux soeurs qui ne sont pas soeurs (Two Sisters Who Are Not Sisters), voice and piano  (1930)
Oraison funebre de Henriette-Marie de France, Reine de la  Grande-Bretagne, voice & pf (1930; rev. 1934; manuscript/unpub)
Le Singe et le léopard ( The Monkey and the Leopard), voice and piano (1930)
Le Droit de Varech, incidental music (1930; manuscript/unpublished; never produced)
Symphony No. 2, C Major, orchestra (1931; rev. and fp. 1941)
String Quartet No. 1 (1931; rev. 1957) [B&H]
Serenade for Flute and Violin (1931) [SOU]
La Belle en dormant (4 songs), voice and piano (1931)
Chamber Music, voice and piano (1931; manuscript/unpublished)
Stabat Mater, soprano and string quartet/or str orch/ or piano (1931-60; rev. 1981) [B&H]
String Quartet No. 2 (1932; rev. 1957) [B&H]
Mass, 2-part chorus and percussion (1934)
Seven Choruses from the Medea of Euripides, female chorus and percussion ad lib (1934) [arr. 1967 by Pinkham for chorus]
A Bride for the Unicorn, incidental music (1934; manuscript/unpublished)
Sea Coast (Constance Askew) (1935) [from "Portraits for Piano Solo, Album 2"]
A Portrait of R. Kirk Askew [Jr.] (1935) [from "Portraits for Piano Solo, Album 2"]
Souvenir (Paul Bowles) (1935) [from "Portraits for Piano Solo, Album 3"]
An Old Song (Carrie Stettheimer) (1935) [from "Portraits for Piano Solo, Album 1]
Ettie Stettheimer (1935) [from "Nine Portraits for Piano", 1930-69]
Tennis (Henry McBride) (1935) [from "Portraits for Piano Solo, Album 4"]
The Hunt (A. Everett Austin, Jr.) (1935) [from "Portraits for Piano Solo, Album 4"]
Hymn (Josiah Marvel) (1935) [from "Portraits for Piano Solo, Album 4"]
The John Mosher Waltzes, piano (1935; arr. for orchestra, 1937)
Prelude and Fugue (Agnes Rindge) (1935) [from "Portraits for Piano Solo, Album 3"]
Helen Austin at Home and Abroad (1935) [from "Nine Portraits for Piano", 1930-69]
Meditation (Jere Abbott) (1935) [from "Portraits for Piano Solo, Album 2"] [arr. for orchestra, 1944]
Connecticut Waltz: Harold Lewis Cook (1935) [from "Thirteen Portraits for Piano", 1929-81]
A Day Dream: Portrait of Herbert Whiting, piano (1935)
Go to Sleep, unaccompanied voice (1935; manuscript/unpublished) [text: Alexander Smallens, Jr.]
The Plow that Broke the Plains, documentary film score (1936) [also Suite for orchestra]
Macbeth, incidental music (1936; manuscript/unpublished)
Injunction Granted, A Living Newspaper, incidental music (1936; manuscript/unpublished)
Horse Eats Hat (Un Chapeau de paille d’Italie), incid music (1936; mnscrpt/unpub) [music by Paul Bowles; orch. by V. Thomson]
Hamlet, incidental music (1936; manuscript/unpublished)
Filling Station, ballet (1937) [also Suite for orchestra]
My Shepherd Will Supply My Need, chorus, or male chorus, or female chorus (1937) [also arr. for voice and piano]
Scenes from the Holy Infancy according to Saint Matthew, tenor, baritone, bass and chorus (1937)
Go to Sleep, unaccompanied voice (1937; manuscript/unpublished) [text: Pare Lorentz]
Go to Sleep, unaccompanied voice (1937; manuscript/unpublished) [text: Gabriel Liebowitz]
My Shepherd Will Supply My Need, voice and piano (1937, arr. 1959) [originally for chorus]
The River, documentary film score (1937) [also Suite for orchestra]
The Spanish Earth, film score (1937; manuscript/unpub) [in collab. w/Marc Blitzstein; montage of recorded Spanish folk music]
Antony and Cleopatra, incidental music (1937; manuscript/unpublished)
Portrait of Claude Biais, piano (1938; manuscript/unpublished)
French Boy of Ten: Louis Lange (1938) [from "Nine Portraits for Piano", 1930-69]
Maurice Bavoux: Young and Alone (1938) [from "Thirteen Portraits for Piano", 1929-81]
Androcles and the Lion, incidental music (1938; manuscript/unpublished) [not orchestrated by Thomson]
Dirge, voice and piano (1939)
The Bard (Sherry Mangan) (1940) [from "Portraits for Piano Solo, Album 3"]
In a Bird Cage (Lise Deharme) (1940) [from "Portraits for Piano Solo, Album 2"] [arr. 1942 cello & pf; also solo cello; or solo vln]
With Trumpet and Horn (Portrait of Louise Ardant) (1940) [from "Nine Etudes for Piano", 1940-51]
Poltergeist (Hans Arp) (1940) [from "Portraits for Piano Solo, Album 4"]
Fanfare for France (Max Kahn) (1940) [from "Portraits for Piano Solo, Album 2"] [arr. 1944 brass & perc; arr. 1942 cello & pf]
Barcarolle (Georges Hugnet) (1940) [from "Portraits for Piano Solo, Album 1] [also arr. 1944 for wind ensmbl] [arr. 1946 vln & pf]
    - Barcarolle for Woodwinds (Georges Hugnet), fl, ob/cor anglais, cl/bass cl, and bsn (1940; arr. 1944 from piano work)
Yvonne de Casa Fuerte (1940) [from "Five Ladies", violin and piano, 1930-83]
Swiss Waltz (Sophie Taüber-Arp) (1940) [from "Portraits for Piano Solo, Album 4"]
Eccentric Dance: Portrait of Madame Kristians Tonny, piano (1940)
Tango Lullaby (Mlle. [Flavie] Alvarez de Toledo) (1940) [from "Portraits for Pf Solo, Album 1] [arr. 1944 orch] [also arr. vln/vc & pf]
Invention: Theodate Johnson Busy and Resting (1940) [from "Thirteen Portraits for Piano", 1929-81]
Bugles and Birds (Pablo Picasso) (1940) [from "Portraits for Piano Solo, Album 1] [also arr. 1944 for orchestra]
Piano Sonata No. 4: Guggenheim Jeune (Portrait of Peggy Guggenheim) (1940)
Lullaby which is also a Spinning Song (Howard Putzel) (1940) [from "Portraits for Piano Solo, Album 4"]
Five-Finger Exercise (Léon Kochnitzky) (1940) [from "Portraits for Piano Solo, Album 2"]
The Dream World of Peter Rose-Pulham (1940) [from "Portraits for Piano Solo, Album 3"]
Dora Maar, or the Presence of Pablo Picasso (1940) [from "Thirteen Portraits for Piano", 1929-81]
Pastoral: A Portrait of Tristan Tzara (1940) [from "Nine Portraits for Piano", 1930-69]
Aria (Germaine Hugnet) (1940) [from "Portraits for Piano Solo, Album 2"]
Toccata (Mary Widney) (1940) [from "Portraits for Piano Solo, Album 3"]
Awake or Asleep: Pierre Mabille (1940) [from "Nine Portraits for Piano", 1930-69]
Cantabile (Nicolas de Chatelain) (1940) [from "Portraits for Piano Solo, Album 3"] [also arr. 1944 for string orchestra]
Duet: Clarita, Comtesse de Forceville (1940) [from "Thirteen Portraits for Piano", 1929-81]
Jamie Campbell: Stretching (1940) [from "Thirteen Portraits for Piano", 1929-81]
Canons with Cadenza (André Ostier) (1940) [from "Portraits for Piano Solo, Album 3"]
Fugue (Alexander Smallens) (1940) [from "Portraits for Piano Solo, Album 1] [also arr. 1944 for orchestra]
Ruth Smallens (1940) [from "Portraits for Violin Alone", 1928-40]
Church Organ Wedding Music, organ (1940; rev. 1978)
The Trojan Women, incidental music (1940; manuscript/unpublished)
The Bugle Song, unison children’s chorus and piano; or 2-part children’s chorus (1941)
Surrey Apple-Howler’s Song, a round for children’s chorus (1941)
Welcome to the New Year, 2-part children’s chorus (or mixed chorus) and piano (1941)
With Fife and Drums (Mina Curtiss) (1941) [from "Portraits for Piano Solo, Album 1]
Insistences (Louise Crane) (1941) [from "Portraits for Piano Solo, Album 4"] [arr. 1969, band "Study Piece: Portrait of a Lady"]
Percussion Piece: A Portrait of Jessie K. Lasell, piano (1941; manuscript/unpublished) [also arr. 1944 for orchestra]
Florine Stettheimer: Parades (1941) [from "Thirteen Portraits for Piano", 1929-81]
The Life of a Careful Man, incidental music (1941; manuscript/unpublished) [soundtrack for the CBS Workshop]
Oidipous tyrannos, incidental music (1941; manuscript/unpublished)
The Mayor La Guardia Waltzes, orchestra (1942)
Canons for Dorothy Thompson, orchestra (1942)
James Patrick Cannon: Professional Revolutionary (1942) [from "Thirteen Portraits for Piano", 1929-81]
Peter Monro Jack: Scottish Memories (1942) [from "Thirteen Portraits for Piano", 1929-81]
Prisoner of the Mind: Schuyler Watts (1942) [from "Nine Portraits for Piano", 1930-69]
Wedding Music (Jean Watts) (1942) [from "Portraits for Piano Solo, Album 4"]
Persistently Pastorale: Aaron Copland (1942) [from "Thirteen Portraits for Piano", 1929-81] [also arr. 1944 for orchestra]
Jane Bowles Early and As Remembered, piano (1942-85; manuscript/unpublished)
Sonata for Flute Alone (1943) [PR]
Ten Etudes, piano (1943-44)
Five-Finger Exercise (Portrait of Briggs Buchanan) [from "Ten Etudes", piano, 1943-44]
Solitude (Lou Harrison) (1945) [from "Portraits for Piano Solo, Album 1]
A Tuesday in November, documentary film score (1945) [excerpts arr. for orchestra, band, and piano]
    - Fugue and Chorale on Yankee Doodle (arr. for orchestra, 1945; arr. for band, 1970)
    - Walking Song (arr. for piano, 1951; arr. 2 pianos by Gold and Fizdale)
The Mother of Us All, opera (1947) [also Suite for orchestra]
The Seine at Night, orchestra (1947) [also in "Three Pieces for Orchestra"]
Wheat Field at Noon, orchestra (1948) [also in "Three Pieces for Orchestra"]
Louisiana Story, documentary film score (1948) [also Suite for orchestra]
    - Acadian Songs and Dances from “Louisiana Story”, orchestra (1948)
A Solemn Music, band (1949) [incorporated into orch work "A Solemn Music and a Joyful Fugue", 1962]
Death, ’tis a Melancholy Day, chorus (1949)
Hymns from the Old South (4 pieces), chorus (1949)
The Morning Star, chorus or female chorus (1949) [from "Hymns from the Old South", 1949]
Sonorous and Exquisite Corpses, any melody or keyboard instruments (1949-50) [20 short pieces composed collaboratively
    by John Cage, Henry Cowell, Lou Harrison, and Virgil Thomson; arr. 1982 for fl, cl, bsn/hn/pf by Robert Hughes]
Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (1950) [arr. 1986 for viola and orchestra by Wayne Crouse)
Nine Etudes for Piano (1940-51)
Chromatic Double Harmonies (Portrait of Sylvia Marlowe) (1951) [from "Nine Etudes for Piano", 1940-51]
For a Happy Occasion, piano (1951)
Five Songs from William Blake, baritone and orchestra/or piano (1951)
Four Songs to the Poems of Thomas Campion, mezzo-soprano & pf/or cl, va & harp; or chorus and piano (1951; arr. 1961)
Sea Piece with Birds, orchestra (1952) [also in "Three Pieces for Orchestra"]
Three Pictures for Orchestra (1947-52) [The Seine at Night, 1947; Wheat Field at Noon, 1948; Sea Piece with Birds, 1952]
King Lear, incidental music (1952; manuscript/unpublished)
Kyrie eleison, chorus (1953, manuscript)
The Grass Harp, incidental music, flute, violin, viola, cello, harp and celeste (1953)
Concerto for Flute, Strings, Harp, and Percussion, "A Portrait of  Roger Baker" (1954)
Ondine, incidental music, flute/picc, percussion, harp, celeste and string quartet (1954)
Never Another, chorus (1955)
Song for the Stable, chorus (1955)
At the Spring, voice and piano (1955)
The Bell doth Toll, voice and piano (1955)
Consider, Lord, voice and piano (1955)
The Holly and the Ivy, a carol of Nativity and Lent, voice and piano (1955, lost?)
John Peel, baritone and piano (1955)
Look, How the Floor of Heav’n, voice and piano (1955)
Remember Adam’s Fall, voice and piano (1955)
Homage to Marya Freund and to the Harp (1956) [from "Thirteen Portraits for Piano", 1929-81]
King John, incidental music (1956; manuscript/unpublished)
Measure for Measure, incidental music (1956; manuscript/unpublished) [see also "Shakespeare Songs", 1956-57]
The Lively Arts Fugue, orchestra (1957; manuscript/unpublished)
Tres estampas de niñez (Three Sketches from Childhood), voice and piano (1957)
The Goddess, film score (1957)
Much Ado About Nothing, incidental music (1957; manuscript/unpublished) [see also "Shakespeare Songs", 1956-57]
Shakespeare Songs (5 songs), voice and piano (1956-57)
Othello, incidental music (1957; manuscript/unpublished)
    Johannes Brahms: Eleven Chorale Preludes for Organ, op. 122 (arr. for orchestra, 1957-58)
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, chorus and piano/or orchestra (1958; arr. 1961 with orchestra) [text: Walt Whitman]
Power Among Men, documentary film score (1958)
    - Fugues and Cantilenas (1958; arr. for orchestra from film score "Power Among Men")
For Eugene Ormandy’s Birthday, 18 November 1969; A Study in Stacked-Up Thirds (1958; rev. 1969) [from "Nine Portraits for Piano", 1930-69]
The Merchant of Venice, incidental music (1958; manuscript/unpublished)
If Thou a Reason Dost Desire to Know, voice and piano (1955-58)
Collected Poems, soprano, baritone and orchestra (1959) [text: Kenneth Koch]
Lamentations: Etude for Accordion (1959) [SAN-PD]
Collected Poems, soprano, baritone and piano (1959) [also for soprano, baritone and orchestra]
Mostly About Love (3 songs), voice and piano (1959)
Bertha, incidental music (1959; manuscript/unpublished)
Mass, solo voice and piano (1960; arr. 1962 for solo voice or unison choir and orchestra)
Missa pro defunctis, male chorus, female chorus and orchestra (1960)
Variations for Koto (1961, manuscript)
A Solemn Music and a Joyful Fugue, orchestra (1961-62) [contains band work "A Solemn Music", 1949]
Dance in Praise, chorus and orchestra/or piano (1962)
Five Auvergnat Folk Songs, chorus and orchestra (1962)
Pange lingua, organ (1962)
My Master Hath a Garden, chorus (or female chorus) and piano (1963) [also for voice and piano]
Praises and Prayers (5 songs), voice and piano (1963) [also for chorus and piano]
Two by Marianne Moore, voice and piano (1963)
Autumn: Concertino for Harp, Strings, and Percussion (1964)
When I Survey the Bright Celestial Sphere, unison chorus and organ/or piano (1964) [or w/brass arr. by Scott Wheeler, 1981]
The Feast of Love, baritone and orchestra/or piano (1964)
Journey to America/Voyage to America, documentary film score (1964) [for the U.S. Pavilion @ 1964 World’s Fair in New York]
    - Pilgrims and Pioneers (1964; arr. for orchestra from film score "Journey to America/Voyage to America")
Ode to the Wonders of Nature, brass and percussion (1965)
Fantasy in Homage to an Earlier England, orchestra (1966)
Etude for Cello and Piano: A Portrait of Frederic James (1966, manuscript)
Edges: A Portrait of Robert Indiana, piano (1966) [also arr. 1969 for band]
The Nativity as Sung by the Shepherds, alto, tenor, bass, chorus and orchestra/or piano (or 2 pianos) (1966-67)
From Byron' s "Don Juan" (1967)
    - Shipwreck, orchestra
    - Juan and Haidee, tenor and orchestra
Lord Byron, opera (1966-68)
    - Lord Byron on the Continent (1966-68; arr. for piano; manuscript/unpublished) [arr. from ballet "Lord Byron"]
    - Five Tenor Solos from “Lord Byron”, tenor and orchestra (1966-68)
How Will Ye Have Your Partridge Today?, round for 4 voices (1968, manuscript)
A Hymn for Pratt Institute, chorus (1968, manuscript)
Metropolitan Museum Fanfare: Portrait of an American Artist, brass and percussion (1969)
    The Baby Maker, TV film score (1970) [musical supervision by Virgil Thomson]
Symphony No. 3, orchestra (1972)
A Fanfare: Robin Smith (1972) [from "Family Portrait", horn, 2 trumpets and 2 trombones, 1974]
Digging: A Portrait of Howard Rea (1972) [from "Family Portrait", horn, 2 trumpets and 2 trombones, 1974]
At Fourteen: Annie Barnard (1972) [from "Family Portrait", horn, 2 trumpets and 2 trombones, 1974]
A Scherzo: Priscilla Rea (1972) [from "Family Portrait", horn, 2 trumpets and 2 trombones, 1974]
Man of Iron: Willy Eisenhart, piano (1972) [arr. in "Family Portrait", horn, 2 trumpets and 2 trombones, 1974]
From “Sneden’s Landing Variations”, voice and piano (1972)
Cantata on Poems of Edward Lear, soprano, baritone, chorus and piano (or orchestra) (1973-74)
    - The Owl and the Pussycat,  soprano, baritone and piano
    - The Jumblies,  soprano, chorus, percussion, piano, violin, cello and doublebass
    - The Pelican Chorus, soprano, baritone, chorus and chamber ensemble
    - Half an Alphabet, chorus and orchestra
    - The Akond of Swat,  baritone, chorus and piano
The Courtship of the Yongly Bongly Bo, voice and piano (1973-74)
Parson Weems and the Cherry Tree, ballet (1975)
    Suddenly an Eagle, TV film score (1976) [musical supervision by Virgil Thomson]
Fanfare for Peace, chorus and piano/or brass ensemble and percussion (1979; rev. 1983)
What is It?, voice and piano (1979) [also arr. for voice & gtr by David Leisner; voice, cl, va & harp by Charles Fussell]
The Cat, soprano, baritone and piano (1980)
Thoughts for Strings, string orchestra (1981)
A Prayer to Venus, chorus and piano (1981)
A Short Fanfare, 2 or 3 trumpets; or 3 trumpets and 2 drums (1981, manuscript)
For Lou Harrison & his Jolly Games 16 Measures (count ‘em) (1981) ["theme w/o instrumentation"; see also "Gending Chelsea"]
Gending Chelsea (arr. 1981 for gamelan and speaker by Lou Harrison and Jody Diamond) [see also "For Lou Harrison ..."]
Bill Katz: Wide Awake (1981) [from "Nineteen Portraits for Piano", 1981-83]
Norma Flender: Waltzing (1981) [from "Nineteen Portraits for Piano", 1981-83]
Richard Flender: Solid, Not Stolid (1981) [from "Nineteen Portraits for Piano", 1981-83]
Scott Wheeler: Free-Wheeling (1981) [from "Nineteen Portraits for Piano", 1981-83]
Gerald Busby: Giving Full Attention (1981) [from "Nineteen Portraits for Piano", 1981-83]
Noah Creshevsky: Loyal, Steady, Persistent (1981) [from "Nineteen Portraits for Piano", 1981-83]
Sam Byers: With Joy (1981) [from "Nineteen Portraits for Piano", 1981-83]
Morris Golde: Showing Delight (1981) [from "Nineteen Portraits for Piano", 1981-83]
Christopher Cox: Singing a Song (1981) [from "Nineteen Portraits for Piano", 1981-83]
Barbara Epstein: Untiring (1981) [from "Nineteen Portraits for Piano", 1981-83]
Dead Pan: Mrs. Betty Freeman (1981) [from "Nineteen Portraits for Piano", 1981-83] [also arr. for orch as "A Love Scene (Anonymous)" in "Eleven Portraits", 1982]
John Wright, Drawing (1981) [from "Nineteen Portraits for Piano", 1981-83]
Franco Assetto, Drawing V.T. (1981) [from "Nineteen Portraits for Piano", 1981-83]
Round and Round: Dominique Nabokov (1981) [from "Nineteen Portraits for Piano", 1981-83]
Karen Brown Waltuck: Intensely Two (1981) [from "Nineteen Portraits for Piano", 1981-83]
Anne-Marie Soullière: Something of a Beauty (1981) [from "Nineteen Portraits for Piano", 1981-83]
Buffie Johnson: Drawing V.T. in Charcoal (1981) [from "Nineteen Portraits for Piano", 1981-83]
Craig Rutenberg: Swinging (1981) [from "Nineteen Portraits for Piano", 1981-83]
Theme for Improvisation, organ (1981; manuscript/unpublished)
Cantantes eamus, male chorus and brass ensemble or piano (1982)
Paul Sanfançon: On the Ice (1982) [from "Nineteen Portraits for Piano", 1981-83] [also in "Organ Voluntaries", 1985]
Molly Davies: Terminations (1982) [from "Seventeen Portraits for Piano", 1982-84]
Dennis Russell Davies: In a Hammock (1982) [from "Seventeen Portraits for Piano", 1982-84]
Rodney Lister: Music for a Merry-Go-Round (1982) [from "Seventeen Portraits for Piano", 1982-84]
Doña Flor: Receiving (1982) [from "Seventeen Portraits for Piano", 1982-84]
Dr. Marcel Roche: Making a Decision (1982) [from "Seventeen Portraits for Piano", 1982-84]
David Dubal in Flight (1982) [from "Seventeen Portraits for Piano", 1982-84]
Bell Piece (1983, manuscript) [for the Yale carillon, 2 or 4 players]
Cynthia Kemper: A Fanfare (1983) [from "Five Ladies", violin and piano, 1930-83]
Peter McWilliams: Firmly Spontaneous (1983) [from "Seventeen Portraits for Piano", 1982-84]
Vassilis Voglis: On the March (1983) [from "Seventeen Portraits for Piano", 1982-84]
Power Boothe: With Pencil (1983) [from "Seventeen Portraits for Piano", 1982-84]
Mark Beard: Never Alone (1983) [from "Seventeen Portraits for Piano", 1982-84]
Louis Rispoli: In a Boat (1983) [from "Seventeen Portraits for Piano", 1982-84]
Malitte Matta: In the Executive Style (1983) [from "Seventeen Portraits for Piano", 1982-84]
Glynn Boyd Harte: Reaching (1983) [from "Seventeen Portraits for Piano", 1982-84]
Bennett Lerner: Senza Espressione (1983) [from "Seventeen Portraits for Piano", 1982-84]
Phillip Ramey: Thinking Hard (1983) [from "Seventeen Portraits for Piano", 1982-84]
Lili Hastings, violin and piano (1983, manuscript)
Charles Fussell: In Meditation (1983) [from "Seventeen Portraits for Piano", 1982-84]
The Day After, TV film score (1983)
Southern Hymns (4 pieces), chorus and piano (1984)
A Portrait of Two (Joell Amar & Dr. Benjamin Zifkin), oboe, bassoon and piano (1984)
Jay Rozen: Portrait and Fugue, tuba and piano (1983-85)
Brendan Lemon: A Study Piece for Piano (1984) [from "Seventeen Portraits for Piano", 1982-84]
John Houseman: A Double Take, piano (1984, rev. 1985; mnscrpt/unpub) [also in "A Pair of Portraits", orch, 1984-85; mnscrpt]
John Houseman: No Changes, piano (1984; manuscript/unpublished)
Lines: For and about Ron Henggeler, piano (1984; manuscript/unpublished)
Boris Baranovic: Whirling, piano (1984; manuscript/unpublished)
Anthony Tommasini: Major Chords [from "A Pair of Portraits", orchestra, 1984-85; manuscript]
Stockton Fanfare, 3 trumpets, snare drum and field drum (1985)
Christopher Beach Alone, piano (1985; manuscript/unpublished)
Danyal Lawson: Playing, piano (1985; manuscript/unpublished)
Fred Tulan: An Organ Piece [from "Organ Voluntaries", 1985]
Philip Claflin: Dans le temps très noceur, piano (1935-85; manuscript/unpublished)
Robin Holloway, piano (1985; manuscript/unpublished)
Portrait of Christopher Wanklyn [from "Organ Voluntaries", 1985]
Wiley Hitchcock: Two Birds, piano (1988; manuscript/unpublished)


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Portraits  -  Alphabetical by Name
Portraits  -  Chronologically

Dramatic/Theater

Four Saints in Three Acts, opera (1928)
Filling Station, ballet (1937) [also Suite for orchestra]
The Mother of Us All, opera (1947) [also Suite for orchestra]
Lord Byron, opera (1966-68)
Parson Weems and the Cherry Tree, ballet (1975)

Orchestra
Two Sentimental Tangos (1923; arr. for orchestra from piano work; manuscript/unpublished)
Four Saints, an Olio (1928; arr. 1984 for chamber orchestra)
Symphony on a Hymn Tune, orchestra (1928)
Symphony No. 2, C Major, orchestra (1931; rev. and fp. 1941)
Meditation (Jere Abbott) (1935; arr. 1944 for orchestra)
The John Mosher Waltzes (1935; arr. 1937 for orchestra from piano work)
The Plow that Broke the Plains Suite (1936; arr. for orchestra from film score)
The River Suite (1937; arr. for orchestra from film score) [also called "Suite from The River"]
Filling Station Suite (1937; arr. for orchestra from ballet score)
Bugles and Birds (Pablo Picasso) (1940; arr. 1944 for orchestra from piano work)
Cantabile for Strings (Nicolas de Chatelain) (1940; arr. 1944 for string orchestra from piano work)
Fugue (Alexander Smallens) (1940; arr. 1944 for orchestra from piano work)
Tango Lullaby (Mlle. Flavie Alvarez de Toledo) (1940; arr. 1944 for orchestra from piano work)
Percussion Piece (Jessie K. Lasell) (1941; arr. 1944 for orchestra)
Canons for Dorothy Thompson, orchestra (1942)
The Mayor La Guardia Waltzes, orchestra (1942)
Persistently Pastorale (Aaron Copland) (1942; arr. 1944 for orchestra)
Fugue and Chorale on Yankee Doodle (arr. 1945 for orchestra from film score "Tuesday in November", 1945)
The Mother of Us All Suite (1947; arr. 1949 for orchestra from opera)
The Seine at Night, orchestra (1947) [also in "Three Pieces for Orchestra"]
Wheat Field at Noon, orchestra (1948) [also in "Three Pieces for Orchestra"]
Louisiana Story Suite (1948; arr. for orchestra from film score)
Acadian Songs and Dances from “Louisiana Story”, orchestra (1948)
Sea Piece with Birds, orchestra (1952) [also in "Three Pieces for Orchestra"]
Three Pictures for Orchestra (1947-52) [The Seine at Night, 1947; Wheat Field at Noon, 1948; Sea Piece with Birds, 1952]
The Lively Arts Fugue, orchestra (1957; manuscript/unpublished)
Johannes Brahms: Eleven Chorale Preludes for Organ, op. 122 (arr. for orchestra, 1957-58)
Fugues and Cantilenas (1958; arr. for orchestra from film score "Power Among Men")
A Solemn Music and a Joyful Fugue, orchestra (1961-62) [contains band work "A Solemn Music", 1949]
Pilgrims and Pioneers (1964; arr. for orchestra from film score "Journey to America/Voyage to America")
Fantasy in Homage to an Earlier England, orchestra (1966)
From Byron' s "Don Juan" (1967)
    - Shipwreck, orchestra
    - Juan and Haidee, tenor and orchestra
Symphony No. 3, orchestra (1972)
Thoughts for Strings, string orchestra (1981)
Eleven Portraits for Orchestra (arr. 1981-82 from original piano works)
    - A Love Scene (Anonymous) [from piano work "Deadpan: Mrs. Betty Freeman", 1981]
    - Karen Brown Waltuck: Intensely Two (1981) [from piano work]
    - Noah Creshevsky: Loyal, Steady, Persistent (1981) [from piano work]
    - Anne-Marie Soullière: Something of a Beauty (1981) [from piano work]
    - David Dubal in Flight (1982) [from piano work]
    - Scott Wheeler: FreeWheeling (1981) [from piano work; orch by Scott Wheeler]
    - Dennis Russell Davies: In a Hammock (1982) [from piano work; orch by Scott Wheeler]
    - Richard Flender: Solid, Not Stolid (1981) [from piano work; orch by Scott Wheeler]
    - Bill Katz: Wide Awake (1981) [from piano work; orch by Rodney Lister]
    - Sam Byers: With Joy (1981) [from piano work; orch by Rodney Lister]
    - Christopher Cox: Singing a Song (1981) [from piano work; orch by Rodney Lister]
A Pair of Portraits, orchestra (1984-85; manuscript)
    - John Houseman: A Double Take [also for piano, 1984]
    - Anthony Tommasini: Major Chords

Band
At the Beach: Concert Waltz for Trumpet & Band/or Pf (1929; arr. 1949 from vln & pf work; also? "Jour de chaleur, voice & pf, 1928)
Fanfare for France (Max Kahn) (1940; arr. 1944 for brass and percussion from piano work)
Study Piece: Portrait of a Lady (1941; freely arr. 1969 for band from piano work "Insistences: A Portrait of Louise Crane")
Fugue and Chorale on Yankee Doodle, band (arr. 1945 from film score "Tuesday in November"; arr. 1970 for band by  Erickson)
Chorale from "Louisiana Story" (1948; arr. 1967 for band by Frank Erickson)
A Solemn Music, band (1949) [incorporated into orch work "A Solemn Music and a Joyful Fugue", 1962]
A Joyful Fugue (1962; arr. 1982 for band by Charles Fussell) [from orch work "A Solemn Music and a Joyful Fugue", 1962]
Ode to the Wonders of Nature, brass and percussion (1965)
Edges: A Portrait of Robert Indiana, band (1966; arr. 1969 for band from piano work)
Metropolitan Museum Fanfare: Portrait of an American Artist, brass and percussion (1969)

Soloist(s) w/Orchestra
Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (1950) [arr. 1986 for viola and orchestra by Wayne Crouse)
Concerto for Flute, Strings, Harp, and Percussion, "A Portrait of  Roger Baker" (1954)
Autumn: Concertino for Harp, Strings, and Percussion (1964)

Chorus w/Orchestra  -  see also Choral Works  -  Alphabetical by Title
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, chorus and piano/or orchestra (1958; arr. 1961 with orchestra) [text: Walt Whitman]
Collected Poems, soprano, baritone and orchestra (1959) [text: Kenneth Koch]
Mass, solo voice or unison choir and orchestra (1960; arr. 1962)
Missa pro defunctis, male chorus, female chorus and orchestra (1960)
Dance in Praise, chorus and orchestra/or piano (1962)
Five Auvergnat Folk Songs, chorus and orchestra (1962)
The Nativity as Sung by the Shepherds, alto, tenor, bass, chorus and orchestra/or piano (or 2 pianos) (1966-67)
Cantata on Poems of Edward Lear, soprano, baritone, chorus and piano (or orchestra) (1973-74)
    - The Owl and the Pussycat,  soprano, baritone and piano
    - The Jumblies,  soprano, chorus, percussion, piano, violin, cello and doublebass
    - The Pelican Chorus, soprano, baritone, chorus and chamber ensemble
    - Half an Alphabet, chorus and orchestra
    - The Akond of Swat,  baritone, chorus and piano

Choral  -  see also Choral Works  -  Alphabetical by Title
De Profundis, chorus (1920; rev. 1951)
O My Deir Hert, chorus (1921; rev. 1978)
Sanctus, male chorus (1921, manuscript)
Tribulationes civitatum, chorus, or male chorus (1922)
Three Antiphonal Psalms, 2-part chorus (1922-24)
    - Psalm 123: Unto Thee Lift I Up Mine Eyes
    - Psalm 133: Behold How Good and Pleasant It is, Brethren
    - Psalm 136: O, Give Thanks to the Lord, For He is Gracious
Agnus Dei, canon for 3 equal vioces (1924)
Fête polonais, male chorus and piano (1924, manuscript)
Missa brevis, male chorus (1924, manuscript)
Agnus Dei, male chorus (1925)
Benedictus, male chorus (1926)
Sanctus, male chorus, w/children’s chorus (1926, manuscript)
Capital Capitals, 4 male voices and piano (1927; rev. 1968)
Saint’s Procession, mezzo-soprano, bass, chorus, and piano (1928) [from "Four Saints in Three Acts"]
Mass, 2-part chorus and percussion (1934)
Seven Choruses from the Medea of Euripides, female chorus and percussion ad lib (1934) [arr. 1967 by Pinkham for chorus]
My Shepherd Will Supply My Need, chorus, or male chorus, or female chorus (1937) [also arr. for voice and piano]
Scenes from the Holy Infancy according to Saint Matthew, tenor, baritone, bass and chorus (1937)
The Bugle Song, unison children’s chorus and piano; or 2-part children’s chorus (1941)
Surrey Apple-Howler’s Song, a round for children’s chorus (1941)
Welcome to the New Year, 2-part children’s chorus (or mixed chorus) and piano (1941)
Death, ’tis a Melancholy Day, chorus (1949)
Hymns from the Old South (4 pieces), chorus (1949)
    - My shepherd will supply my need
    - Morning star
    - Green fields
    - Death, 'tis a melancholy day
The Morning Star, chorus or female chorus (1949) [from "Hymns from the Old South", 1949]
Kyrie eleison, chorus (1953, manuscript)
Four Songs to the Poems of Thomas Campion (1951) [arr. 1955 for chorus and piano; arr. 1967 by Pinkham for chorus]
    - Follow Your Saint
    - There is a Garden in Her Face
    - Rose Cheek’d Laura, Come
    - Follow Thy Fair Sun
Tiger! Tiger!, chorus (or male chorus) and piano (1951, arr. 1955 from "Five Songs from William Blake, baritone and orch)
The Holly and the Ivy, a carol of Nativity and Lent, chorus and piano (1955; arr. 1963) [originally for voice and piano)
Never Another, chorus (1955)
Song for the Stable, chorus (1955)
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, chorus and piano/or orchestra (1958; arr. 1961 with orchestra) [text: Walt Whitman]
Dance in Praise, chorus and orchestra/or piano (1962)
My Master Hath a Garden, chorus (or female chorus) and piano (1963) [also for voice and piano]
When I Survey the Bright Celestial Sphere, unison chorus and organ/or piano (1964) [or w/brass arr. by Scott Wheeler, 1981]
The Nativity as Sung by the Shepherds, alto, tenor, bass, chorus and orchestra/or piano (or 2 pianos) (1966-67)
How Will Ye Have Your Partridge Today?, round for 4 voices (1968, manuscript)
A Hymn for Pratt Institute, chorus (1968, manuscript)
Cantata on Poems of Edward Lear, soprano, baritone, chorus and piano (or orchestra) (1973-74)
    - The Owl and the Pussycat,  soprano, baritone and piano
    - The Jumblies,  soprano, chorus, percussion, piano, violin, cello and doublebass
    - The Pelican Chorus, soprano, baritone, chorus and chamber ensemble
    - Half an Alphabet, chorus and orchestra
    - The Akond of Swat,  baritone, chorus and piano
Fanfare for Peace, chorus and piano/or brass ensemble and percussion (1979; rev. 1983)
A Prayer to Venus, chorus and piano (1981)
Cantantes eamus, male chorus and brass ensemble or piano (1982)
Southern Hymns (4 pieces), chorus and piano (1984)
    -  How Bright is the Day!
    - Mississippi (When Gabriel’s Awful Trump Shall Sound)
    - Death of General Washington
    - Convention (How Firm a Foundation)

Chamber
Sonata da chiesa, viola, Eb clarinet, trumpet, horn and trombone (1926; rev. 1973)
Le Bains-bar: Waltz, vln & pf; or 2 vln,vc,db&pf (1929, mnscrpt; arr. 1949:"At the Beach") [?from "Jour de chaleur, voice & pf, 1928]
At the Beach: Concert Waltz for Trumpet & Pf/or Band (1929; arr. 1949 from vln & pf work; also? "Jour de chaleur, voice & pf, 1928)
Five Portraits for Four Clarinets, 2 clarinets, alto clarinet and bass clarinet (1929)
    - Portrait of Ladies: A Conversation [Mrs. Dwight Braman; Fanny Dudley; Laura Dudley; Julia Winterhoff]
    - Portrait of a Young Man in Good Health: Maurice Grosser with a Cold [Maurice Grosser]
    - Christian Bérard: Prisoner
    - Christian Bérard as a Soldier
    - Christian Bérard in Person
String Quartet No. 1 (1931; rev. 1957) [B&H]
Serenade for Flute and Violin (1931) [SOU]
String Quartet No. 2 (1932; rev. 1957) [B&H]
Three Portraits for Trombone, Viola and Cello (1930-35; arr. 1979-80 by Yvar Mikhashoff)
    - Madame Dubost chez elle (1930)
    - Russell Hitchcock, Reading (1930)
    - Ettie Stettheimer (1935)
The Plow that Broke the Plains, Suite for Brass Quintet (1936; arr. from film score by Jay Rozen, 1993)
Barcarolle for Woodwinds (Georges Hugnet), fl, ob/cor anglais, cl/bass cl, and bsn (1940; arr. 1944 from piano work)
Sonorous and Exquisite Corpses, any melody or keyboard instruments (1949-50) [20 short pieces composed collaboratively
    by John Cage, Henry Cowell, Lou Harrison, and Virgil Thomson; arr. 1982 for fl, cl, bsn/hn/pf by Robert Hughes]
Family Portrait, horn, 2 trumpets and 2 trombones (1972/1974)
    - A Fanfare: Robin Smith
    - At Fourteen: Annie Barnard
    - Digging: A Portrait of Howard Rea
    - A Scherzo: Priscilla Rea
    - Man of Iron: Willy Eisenhart (1972; arr. 1974 from piano work)
A Short Fanfare, 2 or 3 trumpets; or 3 trumpets and 2 drums (1981, manuscript)
For Lou Harrison & his Jolly Games 16 Measures (count ‘em) (1981) ["theme w/o instrumentation"; see also "Gending Chelsea"]
Gending Chelsea (arr. 1981 for gamelan and speaker by Lou Harrison and Jody Diamond) [see also "For Lou Harrison ..."]
Four Portraits (1981-83; arr. 1984-85 for fl, pic, cl, bcl, perc, pf, vn, va, vc from piano works by Scott Wheeler)
    - Dennis Russell Davies: In a Hammock (1982) [also arr. for orchestra in "Eleven Portraits", 1982]
    - Scott Wheeler: Free-Wheeling (1981) [also arr. for orchestra in "Eleven Portraits", 1982]
    - Louis Rispoli: In a Boat  (1983)
    - Rodney Lister: Music for a Merry-Go-Round (1982)
Bell Piece (1983, manuscript) [for the Yale carillon, 2 or 4 players]
A Portrait of Two (Joell Amar & Dr. Benjamin Zifkin), oboe, bassoon and piano (1984)
Stockton Fanfare, 3 trumpets, snare drum and field drum (1985)

Solo Instrument
Two Part Inventions (1926; arr. 1980-81 for guitar from piano work by David Leisner)
Portraits for Violin Alone (1928-40) [B&H]
    - Señorita Juanita de Medina Accompanied by her Mother (1928)
    - Madame Marthe-Marthine (1928)
    - Georges Hugnet, Poet and Man of Letters (1928)
    - Miss Gertrude Stein as a Young Girl (1928)
    - Cliquet-Pleyel in F (1928)
    - Mrs. C[hester] W[hitin] L[asell] (1928)
    - Sauguet, from Life (1928) [Henri Sauguet]
    - Ruth Smallens (1940)
Five Ladies, violin and piano (1930-83)
    - Cynthia Kemper: A Fanfare (1983)
    - Anne Miracle (1930)
    - Alice Toklas (1930)
    - Yvonne de Casa Fuerte (1940)
    - Mary Reynolds (1930)
Sonata for Violin and Piano (1930) [B&H]
Four Portraits (1940; arr. 1942 for cello and piano by Luigi Silva, from piano works)
    - Bugles and Birds (Pablo Picasso) (1940) [also arr. 1944 for orchestra]
    - Tango Lullaby (Flavie Alvarez de Toledo) (1940) [also arr. 1944 for orchestra]
    - In a Bird Cage (Lise Deharme) (1940) [also arr. 1982 for solo cello by Frances-Marie Uitti]
    - Fanfare for France (Max Kahn)  (1940) [also arr. 1944 for brass and percussion]
Three Portraits for Violin and Piano (1940; arr. 1946 from piano works by Samuel Dushkin)
    - Barcarolle (Georges Hugnet)
    - In a Bird Cage (Lise Deharme), violin alone
    - Tango Lullaby (Flavie Alvarez de Toledo) [also arr. 1944 for orchestra]
Sonata for Flute Alone (1943) [PR]
Lamentations: Etude for Accordion (1959) [SAN-PD]
Variations for Koto (1961, manuscript)
Etude for Cello and Piano: A Portrait of Frederic James (1966, manuscript)
Lili Hastings, violin and piano (1983, manuscript)
Jay Rozen: Portrait and Fugue, tuba and piano (1983-85)

Piano/Organ
Prelude, piano (1921)
Fanfare, organ (1922)
Passacaglia, organ (1922; rev. 1974)
Pastorale on a Christmas Plainsong, organ (1922)
Prelude, piano (1922; arr. 1979 for organ by Calvin Hampton)
Prelude, organ (1922)
Two Sentimental Tangos, piano (1923; also arr. for orchestra)
Five Chorale Preludes, organ (1924)
    - O, Sacred Head Now Wounded! (O, Haupt von Blut und Wunden!)
    - The New-Born Babe (first version) (Das neugeborne Kindelein)
    - The New-Born Babe (second version)
    - The New-Born Babe (third version)
    - Praise God, Ye Christians Ev’rywhere (Lobt Gott ihr Christen allzugleich)
Synthetic Waltzes, 2 pianos; or 1 piano, 4-hands (1925)
Five Two-Part Inventions, piano (1926; arr. for 2 pianos by Arthur Gold and Robert Fizdale)
Ten Easy Pieces and a Coda, piano (1926) [to be played as a single work]
    - A Plain Song
    - Light Fingers
    - Pathos
    - Counting
    - Marching
    - Two-Part Invention
    - Two People
    - Improvising
    - The Night before Christmas
    - Assembly
    - Coda
Variations on Sunday School Tunes (4 pieces), organ (1926-27)
    - Come, Ye Disconsolate
    - There’s Not a Friend Like the Lowly Jesus
    - Will There Be Any Stars in My Crown?
    - Shall We Gather At the River?
Symphony on a Hymn Tune (1928; arr. for piano 4-hands by John Kirkpatrick)
Piano Sonata No. 1 (1929)
Piano Sonata No. 2 (1929)
Piano Sonata No. 3, "on white keys for Gertrude Stein" (1930)
Symphony No. 2 in C Major (1932; arr. for piano 4-hands from orchestral work)
A Day Dream: Portrait of Herbert Whiting, piano (1935)
The John Mosher Waltzes, piano (1935; arr. for orchestra, 1937)
Philip Claflin: Dans le temps très noceur, piano (1935-85; manuscript/unpublished)
Filling Station, piano (1937) [arr. from original ballet score]
Portrait of Claude Biais, piano (1938; manuscript/unpublished)
Church Organ Wedding Music, organ (1940; rev. 1978)
Eccentric Dance: Portrait of Madame Kristians Tonny, piano (1940)
Piano Sonata No. 4: Guggenheim Jeune (Portrait of Peggy Guggenheim) (1940)
The Plow that Broke the Plains Suite, piano (1940) [arr. from original film score]
Portraits for Piano Solo, Album 1 (8 pieces) [1929-41]
    - Bugles and Birds (Pablo Picasso) (1940) [also arr. 1944 for orchestra]
    - With Fife and Drums (Mina Curtiss) (1941)
    - An Old Song (Carrie Stettheimer) (1935)
    - Tango Lullaby (Mlle. [Flavie] Alvarez de Toledo) (1940) [also arr. 1944 for orchestra]
    - Solitude (Lou Harrison) (1945)
    - Barcarolle (Georges Hugnet) (1940) [also arr. 1944 for wind ensemble]
    - Fugue (Alexander Smallens) (1940) [also arr. 1944 for orchestra]
    - Alternations (Maurice Grosser) (1929)
Portraits for Piano Solo, Album 2 (8 pieces) [1929-40]
    - Aria (Germaine Hugnet) (1940)
    - A Portrait of R. Kirk Askew [Jr.] (1935)
    - In a Bird Cage (Lise Deharme) (1940) [arr. 1942 cello and piano; also solo cello; also solo vln]
    - Catalan Waltz (Ramon Senabre) (1929)
    - Five-Finger Exercise (Léon Kochnitzky) (1940)
    - Sea Coast (Constance Askew) (1935)
    - Meditation (Jere Abbott) (1935; arr. for orchestra, 1944)
    - Fanfare for France (Max Kahn) (1940) [arr. 1944 brass & perc; arr. 1942 cello & pf]
Portraits for Piano Solo, Album 3 (8 pieces) [1930-40]
    - Cantabile (Nicolas de Chatelain) (1940) [also arr. 1944 for string orchestra]
    - Toccata (Mary Widney) (1940)
    - Pastoral (Jean Ozenne) (1930)
    - Prelude and Fugue (Agnes Rindge) (1935)
    - The Dream World of Peter Rose-Pulham (1940)
    - The Bard (Sherry Mangan) (1940)
    - Souvenir (Paul Bowles) (1935)
    - Canons with Cadenza (André Ostier) (1940)
Portraits for Piano Solo, Album 4 (8 pieces) [1935-41]
    - Tennis (Henry McBride) (1935)
    - Hymn (Josiah Marvel) (1935)
    - Lullaby which is also a Spinning Song (Howard Putzel) (1940)
    - Swiss Waltz (Sophie Taüber-Arp) (1940)
    - Poltergeist (Hans Arp) (1940)
    - Insistences (Louise Crane) (1941) [arr. 1969, band "Study Piece: Portrait of a Lady"]
    - The Hunt (A. Everett Austin, Jr.) (1935)
    - Wedding Music (Jean Watts) (1942)
Percussion Piece: A Portrait of Jessie K. Lasell, piano (1941; manuscript/unpublished) [also arr. 1944 for orchestra]
Jane Bowles Early and As Remembered, piano (1942-85; manuscript/unpublished)
Ten Etudes, piano (1943-44)
    - Repeating Tremolo (Fanfare)
    - Tenor Lead (Madrigal)
    - Fingered Fifths (Canon)
    - Fingered Glissando (Waltz)
    - Double Glissando (Aeolian Harp)
    - For the Weaker Fingers (Music Box Lullaby)
    - Oscillating Arm (Spinning Song)
    - Five-Finger Exercise (Portrait of Briggs Buchanan)
    - Parallel Chords (Tango)
    - Ragtime Bass
Louisiana Story Suite (1948; arr. for piano by Andor Foldes) [from the film score]
Acadian Songs and Dances from “Louisiana Story” (1948; arr. 1987 for piano)
Walking Song (1945-50; arr. for piano solo, 1951; arr. 2 pianos by Gold and Fizdale) [from film score "Tuesday in November"]
Nine Etudes for Piano (1940-51)
    - With Trumpet and Horn (Portrait of Louise Ardant) (1940)
    - Pivoting on the Thumb (1951)
    - Alternating Octaves (1951)
    - Double Sevenths (1951)
    - The Harp (1951)
    - Chromatic Major Sevenths (The Wind) (1951)
    - Chromatic Double Harmonies (Portrait of Sylvia Marlowe) (1951)
    - Broken Arpeggios (The Waltzing Waters) (1951)
    - Guitar and Mandolin (1951)
For a Happy Occasion, piano (1951)
A Study in Stacked-Up Thirds, piano (1958) [see also "Eugene Ormandy’s Birthday" in "Nine Portraits", piano]
Pange lingua, organ (1962)
Edges: A Portrait of Robert Indiana, piano (1966) [also arr. 1969 for band]
Lord Byron on the Continent (1966-68; arr. for piano; manuscript/unpublished) [arr. from ballet "Lord Byron"]
Nine Portraits for Piano (1930-69)
    - Madame Dubost chez elle (1930)
    - Russell Hitchcock, Reading (1930)
    - Ettie Stettheimer (1935)
    - Helen Austin at Home and Abroad (1935)
    - French Boy of Ten: Louis Lange (1938)
    - Pastoral: A Portrait of Tristan Tzara (1940)
    - Awake or Asleep: Pierre Mabille (1940)
    - Prisoner of the Mind: Schuyler Watts (1942)
    - For Eugene Ormandy’s Birthday, 18 November 1969; A Study in Stacked-Up Thirds (1958; rev. 1969)
Man of Iron: A Portrait of Willy Eisenhart, piano (1972)
Parson Weems and the Cherry Tree, piano  (1975) [arr. from the ballet score]
Theme for Improvisation, organ (1981; manuscript/unpublished)
Thirteen Portraits for Piano (1929-81)
    - Travelling in Spain: Alice Branlière (1929)
    - Clair Leonard’s Profile (1930)
    - Connecticut Waltz: Harold Lewis Cook (1935)
    - Invention: Theodate Johnson Busy and Resting (1940)
    - Maurice Bavoux: Young and Alone (1938)
    -  Dora Maar, or the Presence of Pablo Picasso (1940)
    - Duet: Clarita, Comtesse de Forceville (1940)
    - Florine Stettheimer: Parades (1941)
    - Jamie Campbell: Stretching (1940)
    - James Patrick Cannon: Professional Revolutionary (1942)
    - Homage to Marya Freund and to the Harp (1956)   
    -  Peter Monro Jack: Scottish Memories (1942)
    - Persistently Pastorale: Aaron Copland (1942) [also arr. 1944 for orchestra]
Nineteen Portraits for Piano (1981-83)
    - Bill Katz: Wide Awake (1981)
    - Norma Flender: Waltzing (1981)
    - Richard Flender: Solid, Not Stolid (1981)
    - Scott Wheeler: Free-Wheeling (1981)
    - Gerald Busby: Giving Full Attention (1981)
    - Noah Creshevsky: Loyal, Steady, Persistent (1981)
    - Sam Byers: With Joy (1981)
    - Morris Golde: Showing Delight (1981)
    - Christopher Cox: Singing a Song (1981)
    - Barbara Epstein: Untiring (1981)
    - Dead Pan: Mrs. Betty Freeman (1981) [also arr. for orch as "A Love Scene (Anonymous)" in "Eleven Portraits", 1982]
    - Franco Assetto, Drawing V.T. (1981)
    - John Wright, Drawing (1981)
    - Karen Brown Waltuck: Intensely Two (1981)
    - Round and Round: Dominique Nabokov (1981)
    - Anne-Marie Soullière: Something of a Beauty (1981)
    - Buffie Johnson: Drawing V.T. in Charcoal (1981)
    - Craig Rutenberg: Swinging (1981)
    - Paul Sanfançon: On the Ice (1982) [also in "Organ Voluntaries", 1985]
Seventeen Portraits for Piano (1982-84)
    - Molly Davies: Terminations (1982)
    - Dennis Russell Davies: In a Hammock (1982)
    - Rodney Lister: Music for a Merry-Go-Round (1982)
    - Doña Flor: Receiving (1982)
    - Dr. Marcel Roche: Making a Decision (1982)
    - David Dubal in Flight (1982)
    - Peter McWilliams: Firmly Spontaneous (1983)
    - Vassilis Voglis: On the March (1983)
    - Power Boothe: With Pencil (1983)
    - Mark Beard: Never Alone (1983)
    - Louis Rispoli: In a Boat (1983)
    - Malitte Matta: In the Executive Style (1983)
    - Glynn Boyd Harte: Reaching (1983)
    - Bennett Lerner: Senza Espressione (1983)
    - Phillip Ramey: Thinking Hard (1983)
    - Charles Fussell: In Meditation (1983)   
    -  Brendan Lemon: A Study Piece for Piano (1984)
Boris Baranovic: Whirling, piano (1984; manuscript/unpublished)
Christopher Beach Alone, piano (1985; manuscript/unpublished)
John Houseman: A Double Take, piano (1984, rev. 1985; manuscript/unpub [also in "A Pair of Portraits", orch, 1984-85]
John Houseman: No Changes, piano (1984; manuscript/unpublished)
Lines: For and about Ron Henggeler, piano (1984; manuscript/unpublished)
Tony Tommasini: A Study in Chords. piano (1984; manuscript/unpublished)
Danyal Lawson: Playing, piano (1985; manuscript/unpublished)
Organ Voluntaries 1, 2, and 3, A Suite, organ (1985)
    - Fred Tulan: An Organ Piece
    - Portrait of Paul Sanfançon [see "Paul Sanfançon: On the Ice, 1982, in " Nineteen Portraits", 1981-83]
    - Portrait of Christopher Wanklyn
Robin Holloway, piano (1985; manuscript/unpublished)
Wiley Hitchcock: Two Birds, piano (1988; manuscript/unpublished)

Vocal  -  see also Vocal Works  -  Alphabetical by Title
The Sunflower, voice and piano (1920; manuscript/unpublished)
Vernal Equinox, voice and piano (1920; manuscript/unpublished)
Three Sentences from The Song of Solomon, voice & pf (1924; mnscrpt/unpub) [see also: "5 Phrases from the Song of Solomon"]
    - Thou That Dwellest in the Gardens
    - Return, O Shulamite
    - I Am My Beloved’s
Five Phrases from The Song of Solomon, soprano and percusion (1 player) (1924-26)
    [see also "Three Sentences from Song of Solomon"]
    - Thou that Dwellest in the Gardens
    - Return, O Shulamite
    - O, My Dove
    - I Am My Beloved’s
    - By Night
Susie Asado, voice and piano  (1926)
The Tiger!, voice and piano (1926)
Preciosilla, voice and piano (1927)
La Valse Gregorienne (4 songs), voice and piano (1927; rev. 1971)
    - Les Ecrevisses (Crayfish)
    - Grenadine (Pomegranate)
    - La Rosee (Dew)
    - Le Wagon immobile (The Motionless Box-Car)
A son Altesse la Princesse Antoinette Murat, voice and piano (1928; manuscript/unpublished)
Le Berceau (Cradle) de Gertrude Stein, ou Le Mystère de la rue de Fleurus, voice and piano (1928)
Commentaire sur Saint Jerome, voice and piano (1928; manuscript/unpublished)
Jour de Chaleur aux bains de mer ( Hot Day at the Seashore), voice and piano (1928)
    [see also "Le Bains-bar: Waltz", vln & pf, 1929; "At the Beach", tpt & pf, arr. 1949]
Pigeons on the Grass Alas, baritone and orchestra/ or piano (1928; arr. 1934) [from "Four Saints in Three Acts"]
La Seine, voice and piano (1928)
Les Soirees bagnolaises, voice and piano (1928; manuscript/unpublished)
Portrait of F[rances] B[lood], voice and piano (1929)
Air de Phedre (Phaedra’s Farewell), soprano and piano  (1930)
Film: Deux soeurs qui ne sont pas soeurs (Two Sisters Who Are Not Sisters), voice and piano  (1930)
Oraison funebre de Henriette-Marie de France, Reine de la  Grande-Bretagne, voice & pf (1930; rev. 1934; manuscript/unpub)
Le Singe et le léopard ( The Monkey and the Leopard), voice and piano (1930)
La Belle en dormant (4 songs), voice and piano (1931)
    - Pour chercher sur la carte des mer (Scanning booklets from ocean resorts)   
    - La Premiere de toutes (My true love sang me no song)   
    - Mon Amour est bon a dire (Yes, my love is good to tell of)   
    - Partis les vaisseaux (All gone are the ships)
Chamber Music, voice and piano (1931; manuscript/unpublished)
Stabat Mater, soprano and string quartet/or str orch/ or piano (1931-60; rev. 1981) [B&H]
Go to Sleep, unaccompanied voice (1935; manuscript/unpublished) [text: Alexander Smallens, Jr.]
Go to Sleep, unaccompanied voice (1937; manuscript/unpublished) [text: Pare Lorentz]
Go to Sleep, unaccompanied voice (1937; manuscript/unpublished) [text: Gabriel Liebowitz]
My Shepherd Will Supply My Need, voice and piano (1937, arr. 1959) [originally for chorus]
Dirge, voice and piano (1939)
Four Songs to the Poems of Thomas Campion, mezzo-soprano & pf/or cl, va & harp; or chorus and piano (1951; arr. 1961)
    - Follow Your Saint
    - There is a Garden in Her Face
    - Rose Cheek’d Laura, Come
    - Follow Thy Fair Sun
Five Songs from William Blake, baritone and orchestra/or piano (1951)
    - The Divine Image
    - Tiger! Tiger! [also for chorus and ???
    - The Land of Dreams
    - The Little Black Boy
    - And Did Those Feet
At the Spring, voice and piano (1955)
The Bell doth Toll, voice and piano (1955)
Consider, Lord, voice and piano (1955)
The Holly and the Ivy, a carol of Nativity and Lent, voice and piano (1955, lost?)
John Peel, baritone and piano (1955)
Look, How the Floor of Heav’n, voice and piano (1955)
Remember Adam’s Fall, voice and piano (1955)
Shakespeare Songs (5 songs), voice and piano (1956-57)
    - Was this Fair Face the Cause? [from "All’s Well that Ends Well"]
    - Take, O Take Those Lips Away [from "Measure for Measure"]
    -  Tell Me Where is Fancy Bred [from "The Merchant of Venice"]
    - Pardon, Goddess of the Night [from "Much Ado about Nothing"]
    -  Sigh No More, Ladies [from "Much Ado about Nothing"]
Tres estampas de niñez (Three Sketches from Childhood), voice and piano (1957)
    - Todas las horas (All Through the Long Day)
    - Son amigos de todos (They are Ev’ryone’s Friends)
    - Nadie lo oye como ellos (No One Can Hear Him the Way They Can)
If Thou a Reason Dost Desire to Know, voice and piano (1955-58)
Collected Poems, soprano, baritone and piano (1959) [also for soprano, baritone and orchestra]
Mostly About Love (4 songs), voice and piano (1959)
    - Love Song
    - Down at the Docks
    - Let’s Take a Walk
    - A Prayer to St. Catherine
Mass, solo voice and piano (1960; arr. 1962 for solo voice or unison choir and orchestra) ??????????????
Before Sleeping, voice and piano (1963) [from "Praises and Prayers"]
Praises and Prayers (5 songs), voice and piano (1963) [also for chorus and piano]
    - From The Canticle of the Sun
    - My Master Hath a Garden
    - Sung by the Shepherds
    - Before Sleeping
    - Jerusalem, My Happy Home
Two by Marianne Moore, voice and piano (1963)
    - English Usage
    - My Crow Pluto
The Feast of Love, baritone and orchestra/or piano (1964)
Love Scene: Juan and Haidee, tenor and piano (arr. 1967 by Paul Turok) [see also work for orch "From Byron’s Don Juan"]
Five Tenor Solos from “Lord Byron”, tenor and orchestra (1966-68)
From “Sneden’s Landing Variations”, voice and piano (1972)
The Courtship of the Yongly Bongly Bo, voice and piano (1973-74)
What is It?, voice and piano (1979) [also arr. for voice & gtr by David Leisner; voice, cl, va & harp by Charles Fussell]
The Cat, soprano, baritone and piano (1980)

Film
The Plow that Broke the Plains, documentary film score (1936) [also Suite for orchestra]
The River, documentary film score (1937) [also Suite for orchestra]
The Spanish Earth, film score (1937; manuscript/unpub) [in collab. w/Marc Blitzstein; montage of recorded Spanish folk music]
A Tuesday in November, documentary film score (1945) [excerpts arr. for orchestra, band, and piano]
    - Fugue and Chorale on Yankee Doodle (arr. for orchestra, 1945; arr. for band, 1970)
    - Walking Song (arr. for piano, 1945)
Louisiana Story, documentary film score (1948) [also Suite for orchestra]
The Goddess, film score (1957)
Power Among Men, documentary film score (1958) [arr. for orchestra as "Fugues and Cantilenas", 1958]
Journey to America/Voyage to America, documentary film score (1964) [for the U.S. Pavilion @ 1964 World’s Fair in New York]
        [arr. for orchestra as "Pilgrims and Pioneers", 1964]
The Baby Maker, TV film score (1970) [musical supervision by Virgil Thomson]
Suddenly an Eagle, TV film score (1976) [musical supervision by Virgil Thomson]
The Day After, TV film score (1983)

Incidental
Le Droit de Varech, incidental music (1930; manuscript/unpublished; never produced)
A Bride for the Unicorn, incidental music (1934; manuscript/unpublished)
Macbeth, incidental music (1936; manuscript/unpublished)
Injunction Granted, A Living Newspaper, incidental music (1936; manuscript/unpublished)
Horse Eats Hat (Un Chapeau de paille d’Italie), incid. music (1936; mnscipt/unpub) [music by Paul Bowles; orch. by V. Thomson]
Hamlet, incidental music (1936; manuscript/unpublished)
Antony and Cleopatra, incidental music (1937; manuscript/unpublished)
Androcles and the Lion, incidental music (1938; manuscript/unpublished) [not orchestrated by Thomson]
The Trojan Women, incidental music (1940; manuscript/unpublished)
The Life of a Careful Man, incidental music (1941; manuscript/unpublished) [soundtrack for the CBS Workshop]
Oidipous tyrannos, incidental music (1941; manuscript/unpublished)
King Lear, incidental music (1952; manuscript/unpublished)
The Grass Harp, incidental music, flute, violin, viola, cello, harp and celeste (1953)
Ondine, incidental music, flute/picc, percussion, harp, celeste and string quartet (1954)
King John, incidental music (1956; manuscript/unpublished)
Measure for Measure, incidental music (1956; manuscript/unpublished) [see also "Shakespeare Songs", 1956-57]
Much Ado About Nothing, incidental music (1957; manuscript/unpublished) [see also "Shakespeare Songs", 1956-57]
Othello, incidental music (1957; manuscript/unpublished)
The Merchant of Venice, incidental music (1958; manuscript/unpublished)
Bertha, incidental music (1959; manuscript/unpublished)


THOMSON  LINKS                                                            Works by Genre    ~ ~ ~    Thomson on Thomson      ~ top of page ~
A Man of Dissonance (Nicholas Fox Weber, The New York Times)
The Mother of Us All - Virgil Thomson/Gertrude Stein (Karren L. Alenier, culturevulture.net)
A Performer's Guide to Virgil Thomson's Five Songs from William Blake (Andrew Whitfield, Wichita St Univ)
Prepare for Saints: Gertrude Stein, Virgil Thomson & the Mainstreaming of American Modernism (Michael Duncan, ArtForum)
Virgil Thomson: Blessed Saints (Lloyd Schwartz, The Boston Phoenix)
Virgil Thomson, Composer, Critic and Collaborator With Stein, Dies at 92 (John Rockwell, The New York Times)
Virgil  Thomson - The Composer in Conversation with Bruce Duffie (bruceduffie.com)
Virgil Thomson in His Own Precise Words and Notes (Kyle Gann, PostClassic)
The Virgil Thomson Papers in the Irving S. Gilmore Music Library of Yale University
Virgil Thomson's Herald Tribune Writings: Fulfilling the "Cultural Obligation" Selectively (Karen L. Carter-Schwendler, IAWM)
Virgil Thomson's Symphony on a Hymn Tune (Alex Hoffman, Suite101.com)

Books
Music with Words: A Composer's View (Virgil Thomson, Yale Univ Pr, books.google.com)
Virgil Thomson - A Reader: Selected Writings, 1924-1984 (Virgil Thomson, Richard Kostelanetz, Routledge, books.google.com)
Virgil Thomson: Composer on the Aisle (Anthony Tommasini, W.W. Norton, books.google.com)

Composer website (Virgil Thomson Foundation)

Thomson @ Wikipedia
Thomson @ Albany Records
Thomson @ American Ballet Theater
Thomson @ Answers.com
Thomson @ Art of the States
Thomson @ Band of Thebes
Thomson @ Boosey & Hawkes
Thomson @ Circa-Club
Thomson @ CITWF / Complete Index to World Film
Thomson @ Classical Archives
Thomson @ Classical Composers Database
Thomson @ Classical Music Review    also     here
Thomson @ Classical Net
Thomson @ ClassicsToday
Thomson @ composition:today
Thomson @ Dilettante Music
Thomson @ Dr. Estrella's Incredibly Abridged Dictionary of Composers
Thomson @ Everything2
Thomson @ Filmbug (via google)
Thomson @ Film Reference
Thomson @ Find a Grave
Thomson @ glbtq.com
Thomson @ Humanities Web
Thomson @ IBDB (Internet Broadway Database)
Thomson @ IMDb (Internet Movie Database)
Thomson @ Infography
Thomson @ Infoplease
Thomson @ Karadar Classical Music
Thomson @ The Kennedy Center
Thomson @ MSO Kids (Memphis Symphony Orchestra)
Thomson @ Music Academy Online
Thomson @ MusicWeb International
Thomson @ The National Portrait Gallery
Thomson @ Naxos
Thomson @ New World Records     also     here
Thomson @ New York Review of Books    also    here
Thomson @ The New York Times
Thomson @ NNDB
Thomson @ NPRmusic
Thomson @ PBS/I Hear America Sing
Thomson @ REC Music Foundation /The Lied and Art Song Texts Page
Thomson @ G. Schirmer
Thomson @ SoundtrackCollector
Thomson @ Starpulse.com
Thomson @ Talk Classical/American Composers Corner
Thomson @ Turner Classic Movies (via google)
Thomson @ US Opera
Thomson @ The Virgil Thomson Project at the Norfolk Festival

Publisher
Thomson @ Composer website/publisher listings
Thomson @ Boosey & Hawkes
Thomson @ Carl Fischer
Thomson @ Peermusic
Thomson @ C.F. Peters
Thomson @ Theodore Presser (via google)
Thomson @ G. Schirmer

Streaming Audio
Thomson @ Art of the States
Thomson @ Classical Archives
Thomson @ Internet Archive/RadiOM - An Interview with Virgil Thomson (w/Charles Amirkhanian)
Thomson @ last.fm
Thomson @ NPRmusic
Thomson @ PRX (Public Radio Exchange)
Thomson @ Rhapsody
Thomson @ Yale School of Music/The Composer’s Voice: Virgil Thomson

Recordings
Thomson @ Albany Records
Thomson @ ArkivMusic
Thomson @ ClassicsOnline
Thomson @ Discogs
Thomson @ New Albion Records
Thomson @ New World Records

Video
Thomson @ YouTube

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Thomson on Thomson: About Kansas City Ragtime







Thomson on Thomson: An Interview with Charles Amirkhanian/RadiOM (streaming audio)
Virgil Thomson, composerComposers Speak on the Web at Pytheas
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Thomson on Thomson: The Composer’s Voice/Yale School of Music (streaming audio)
Virgil Thomson, composerComposers Speak on the Web at Pytheas
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