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Virgil Thomson (1896-1989) - Works Index Page

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.
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Portraits  -  Chronologically
Vocal Works  -  Alphabetical by Title
Choral Works  -  Alphabetical by Title

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Vigil Thomson - The Portraits (Alphabetical by Name)
Jere Abbott [see Orchestra: Meditation, 1935, arr. 1944; see Keyboard: Portraits for Piano Solo, Album 2]
Joell Amar [see Chamber:  A Portrait of Two, 1984]
Louise Ardant [see Keyboard: Nine Etudes for Piano, 1940-51]
Hans Arp [see Keyboard: Portraits for Piano Solo, Album 4]
Constance Askew [see Keyboard: Portraits for Piano Solo, Album 2]
R. Kirk Askew, Jr. [see Keyboard: Portraits for Piano Solo, Album 2]
Franco Assetto [see Keyboard: Nineteen Portraits for Piano, 1981-83]
A. Everett Austin, Jr. [see Keyboard: Portraits for Piano Solo, Album 4]
Helen Austin [see Keyboard: Nine Portraits for Piano, 1930-69]
Roger Baker [see Orchestra: Concerto for Flute, Strings, Harp, Percussion, 1954]
Boris Baranovic [see Keyboard: Boris Baranovic: Whirling, 1984]
Annie Barnard [see Chamber: Family Portrait, 1972/1974]
Maurice Bavoux [see Keyboard: Thirteen Portraits for Piano, 1929-81]
Christopher Beach [see Keyboard: Christopher Beach Alone, 1985]
Mark Beard [see Keyboard: Seventeen Portraits for Piano, 1982-84]
Christian Bérard [see Chamber: Five Portraits for Four Clarinets, 1929]
Claude Biais [see Keyboard: Portrait of Claude Biais, 1938]
Frances Blood [see Vocal: Portrait of F[rances] B[lood], 1929]
Power Boothe [see Keyboard: Seventeen Portraits for Piano, 1982-84]
Jane Bowles [see Keyboard: Jane Bowles Early and As Remembered, 1942-85]
Paul Bowles [see Keyboard: Portraits for Piano Solo, Album 3, 1935]
Mrs. Dwight Braman [see Chamber: Five Portraits for Four Clarinets (Portrait of Ladies: A Conversation), 1929]
Alice Woodfin Branlière [see Keyboard: Thirteen Portraits for Piano, 1929-81]
Briggs Buchanan [see Keyboard: Ten Etudes, 1943-44]
Gerald Busby [see Keyboard: Nineteen Portraits for Piano, 1981-83]
Samuel Byers [see Orchestra: Eleven Portraits for Orchestra, 1981-82]
Jamie Campbell [see Keyboard: Thirteen Portraits for Piano, 1929-81]
James Patrick Cannon [see Keyboard: Thirteen Portraits for Piano, 1929-81]
Yvonne de Casa Fuerte [see Chamber: Five Ladies, 1930-83]
Nicolas de Chatelain [see Keyboard: Portraits for Piano Solo, Album 3, 1940; see Orchestra: Cantabile for Strings, arr. 1944]
Philip Claflin [see Keyboard: Philip Claflin: Dans le temps très noceur, 1935-85]
Henri Cliquet-Pleyel [see Chamber: Portraits for Violin Alone, 1928-40]
Harold Lewis Cook [see Keyboard: Thirteen Portraits for Piano, 1929-81]
Aaron Copland [see Keyboard: Thirteen Portraits for Piano, 1942/1929-81; see Orchestra: Pastorale, arr. 1944]
Christopher Cox [see Keyboard: Nineteen Portraits for Piano, 1981-83; see Orchestra: Eleven Portraits for Orchestra, 1981-82]
Louise Crane [see Keyboard: Portraits for Piano Solo, Album 4, (1941; see Band: Study Piece: Portrait of a Lady, arr. 1969]
Noah Creshevsky [see Keyboard: Nineteen Portraits for Piano, 1981-83; see Orchestra: Eleven Portraits for Orchestra, 1981-82]
Mina Curtiss [see Keyboard: Portraits for Piano Solo, Album 1, 1941]
Dennis Russell Davies [see Keyboard: Seventeen Portraits for Piano, 1982-84; see Orchestra: Eleven Portraits for Orchestra,
    1981-82; see Chamber: Four Portraits, arr. 1984-85]
Molly Davies [see Keyboard: Seventeen Portraits for Piano, 1982-84]
Lise Deharme [see Keyboard: Portraits for Piano Solo, Album 2, 1940; see Chamber: Four Portraits, cello and piano, arr. 1942;
    see Chamber: Three Portraits for Vln and Pf, arr. 1946; see Chamber: In a Bird Cage: A Portrait of Lise Deharme, arr. 1982]
David Dubal [see Keyboard: Seventeen Portraits for Piano, 1982-84; see Orchestra: Eleven Portraits for Orchestra, 1981-82]
Madame Dubost [see Keyboard: Nine Portraits for Pf, 1930-69; see Chamber: Three Portraits for Trom, Va & Vc, arr. 1979-80]
Fanny Dudley [see Chamber: Five Portraits for Four Clarinets (Portrait of Ladies: A Conversation, 1929]
Laura Dudley [see Chamber: Five Portraits for Four Clarinets (Portrait of Ladies: A Conversation, 1929]
Willy Eisenhart [see Keyboard: Man of Iron: A Portrait of Willy Eisenhart, 1972; see Chamber: Family Portrait, 1974]
Barbara Epstein [see Keyboard: Nineteen Portraits for Piano, 1981-83]
Norma Flender [see Keyboard: Nineteen Portraits for Piano, 1981-83]
Richard Flender [see Keyboard: Nineteen Portraits for Piano, 1981-83; see Orchestra: Eleven Portraits for Orchestra, 1981-82]
Doña Flor [see Keyboard: Seventeen Portraits for Piano, 1982-84]
Clarita Comtesse de Forceville [see Keyboard: Thirteen Portraits for Piano, 1929-81]
Betty Freeman [see Keyboard: Nineteen Portraits for Piano, 1981-83; see Orchestra: Eleven Portraits for Orchestra, 1981-82]
Marya Freund [see Keyboard: Thirteen Portraits for Piano, 1929-81]
Charles Fussell [see Keyboard: Seventeen Portraits for Piano, 1982-84]
Morris Golde [see Keyboard: Nineteen Portraits for Piano, 1981-83]
Maurice Grosser [see Chamber: Five Portraits for Four Clarinets, 1929; see Keyboard: Portraits for Piano Solo, Album 1, 1929]
Peggy Guggenheim [see Keyboard: Piano Sonata No. 4: Guggenheim Jeune, 1940]
Lou Harrison [see Keyboard: Portraits for Piano Solo, Album 1, 1945]
Glynn Boyd Harte [see Keyboard: Seventeen Portraits for Piano, 1982-84]
Lili Hastings [see Chamber: Lili Hastings, 1983]
Ron Henggeler [see Keyboard: Lines: For and about Ron Henggeler, 1984]
Henry-Russell Hitchcock [see Chamber: Three Portraits (arr. 1979-80); see Keyboard: Nine Portraits for Piano (1930-69)]
Wiley Hitchcock [see Keyboard: Wiley Hitchcock: Two Birds (1988)]
Robin Holloway [see Keyboard: Robin Holloway (1985)]
John Houseman [see Orchestra: A Pair of Portraits  (1984-85); see Keyboard: John Houseman: A Double Take  (1984, rev. 1985);
    see Keyboard: John Houseman: No Changes  (1984)
Georges Hugnet [see Band or Chamber: Barcarolle (1940, arr. 1944); see Chamber: Portraits for Violin Alone  (1928-40);
see Chamber: Three Portraits for Violin and Piano  (1940, arr. 1946); see Keyboard: Portraits for Piano Solo (Album 1)  (1940)
Germaine Hugnet [see Keyboard: Portraits for Piano Solo (Album 2)  (1940)]
Robert Indiana [see Band: Edges: A Portrait of Robert Indiana (arr. 1969); see Keyboard: Edges: A Portrait (1966)]
Peter Monro Jack [see Keyboard: Thirteen Portraits for Piano  (1929-81)]
Frederic James [see Chamber: Etude for Cello; see Piano: A Portrait of Frederic James  (1966)]
Buffie Johnson [see Keyboard: Nineteen Portraits for Piano  (1981-83)]
Theodate Johnson [see Keyboard: Thirteen Portraits for Piano  (1929-81)]
Max Kahn [see Band: Fanfare for France  (1940, arr. 1944); see Chamber: Four Portraits  (for cello and piano, arr. 1942);
    see Keyboard: Portraits for Piano Solo (Album 2)  (1940)
Bill Katz [see Orchestra: Eleven Portraits for Orchestra  (1981-82); see Keyboard: Nineteen Portraits for Piano  (1981-83)]
Cynthia Kemper [see Chamber: Five Ladies  (1930-83)]
Léon Kochnitzky [see Keyboard: Portraits for Piano Solo (Album 2)  (1940)]
Ladies, Portrait of  (Mrs. Dwight Braman, Fanny Dudley, Laura Dudley, and Julia Winterhoff)[see Chbr: Five Portraits(1929)]
Fiorello La Guardia [see Orchestra: The Mayor La Guardia Waltzes  (1942)]
Louis Lange [see Keyboard: Nine Portraits for Piano  (1930-69)]
Jessie K. Lasell [see Orchestra: Percussion Piece  (arr. 1944); see Chamber: Portraits for Violin Alone (1928-40)];
    see Keyboard: Percussion Piece: A Portrait of Jessie K. Lasell  (1941);
Danyal Lawson [see Keyboard: Danyal Lawson: Playing  (1985)]
Brendan Lemon [see Keyboard: Seventeen Portraits for Piano  (1982-84)]
Clair Leonard [see Keyboard: Thirteen Portraits for Piano  (1929-81)]
Bennett Lerner [see Keyboard: Seventeen Portraits for Piano  (1982-84)]
Rodney Lister [see Chamber: Four Portraits  (arr. 1984-85); see Keyboard: Seventeen Portraits for Piano (1982-84)]
Dora Maar [see Keyboard: Thirteen Portraits for Piano  (1929-81)]
Pierre Mabille [see Keyboard: Nine Portraits for Piano  (1930-69)]
Sherry Mangan [see Keyboard: Portraits for Piano Solo (Album 3)  (1940)]
Sylvia Marlowe [see Keyboard: Nine Etudes for Piano  (1940-51)]
Madame Marthe-Marthine [see Chamber: Portraits for Violin Alone  (1928-40)]
Josiah Marvel [see Keyboard: Portraits for Piano Solo (Album 4)  (1935)]
Malitte Matta [see Keyboard: Seventeen Portraits for Piano  (1982-84)]
Henry McBride [see Keyboard: Portraits for Piano Solo (Album 4)  (1935)]
Peter McWilliams [see Keyboard: Seventeen Portraits for Piano  (1982-84)]
Señorita Juanita de Medina [see Chamber: Portraits for Violin Alone  (1928-40)]
Anne Miracle [see Chamber: Five Ladies  (1930-83)]
John Mosher [see Orchestra: The John Mosher Waltzes  (1937); see Keyboard: The John Mosher Waltzes  (1935)]
Dominique Nabokov [see Keyboard: Nineteen Portraits for Piano  (1981-83)]
Eugene Ormandy [see Keyboard: Nine Portraits for Piano  (1930-69)]
André Ostier [see Keyboard: Portraits for Piano Solo (Album 3)  (1940)]
Jean Ozenne [see Keyboard: Portraits for Piano Solo (Album 3)  (1930)]
Pablo Picasso [see Orchestra: Bugles and Birds  (1940, arr. 1944); see Chamber: Four Portraits  (for cello and piano, arr. 1942);
    see Keyboard: Portraits for Piano Solo (Album 1)  (1940)]
Howard Putzel [see Keyboard: Portraits for Piano Solo (Album 4)  (1940)]
Phillip Ramey [see Keyboard: Seventeen Portraits for Piano  (1982-84)]
Howard Rea [see Chamber: Family Portrait  (1972/74)]
Priscilla Rea [see Chamber: Family Portrait  (1972/74)]
Mary Reynolds [see Chamber: Five Ladies  (1930-83)]
Agnes Rindge [see Keyboard: Portraits for Piano Solo (Album 3)  (1935)]
Louis Rispoli [see Chamber: Four Portraits  (arr. 1984-85); see Keyboard: Seventeen Portraits for Piano  (1982-84)]
Dr. Marcel Roche [see Keyboard: Seventeen Portraits for Piano  (1982-84)]
Peter Rose-Pulham [see Keyboard: Portraits for Piano Solo (Album 3)  (1940)]
Jay Rozen [see Chamber: Jay Rozen: Portrait and Fugue  (1983-85)]
Craig Rutenberg [see Keyboard: Nineteen Portraits for Piano  (1981-83)]
Paul Sanfançon [see Keyboard: Nineteen Portraits for Piano  (1981-83); see Keyboard: Organ Voluntaries 1, 2, & 3, a Suite  (1985)]
Henri Sauguet [see Chamber: Portraits for Violin Alone  (1928-40)]
Ramon Senabre [see Keyboard: Portraits for Piano Solo (Album 2)  (1929)]
Alexander Smallens [see Orchestra: Fugue  (1940, arr. 1944); see Keyboard: Portraits for Piano Solo (Album 1)  (1940)]
Ruth Smallens [see Chamber: Portraits for Violin Alone  (1928-40)]
Robin Smith [see Chamber: Family Portrait  (1972/74)]
Anne-Marie Soullière [see Orchestra: Eleven Portraits for Orchestra  (1981-82); see Keyboard: Nineteen Portraits (1981-83)]
Gertrude Stein [see Chamber: Portraits for Violin Alone  (1928-40)]
Carrie Stettheimer [see Keyboard: Portraits for Piano Solo (Album 1)  (1935)]
Ettie Stettheimer [see Chamber: Three Portraits for Trom, Va, and Cello (arr. 1979-80); see Keyboard: Nine Portraits (1930-69)]
Florine Stettheimer [see Keyboard: Thirteen Portraits for Piano  (1929-1981)]
Sophie Taüber-Arp [see Keyboard: Portraits for Piano Solo (Album 4)  (1940)]
Dorothy Thompson [see Orchestra: Canons for Dorothy Thompson  (1942)]
Alice Toklas [see Chamber: Five Ladies  (1930-83)]
Mlle. [Flavie] Alvarez de Toledo [see Orchestra: Tango Lullaby  (1940, arr. 1944); see Chamber: Four Portraits (for cello and piano,
    arr. 1942); see Chamber: Three Portraits, Vln and Pf (1940, arr. 1946); see Keyboard: Portraits for Piano Solo (Album 1)  (1940)]
Anthony Tommasini [see Orchestra: A Pair of Portraits  (1984-85); see Keyboard: Tony Tommasini: A Study in Chords  (1984)]
Madame Kristians Tonny [see Keyboard: Eccentric Dance: Portrait of Madame Kristians Tonny  (1940)]
Dr. Fred Tulan [see Keyboard: Organ Voluntaries 1, 2, & 3, a Suite  (1985)]
Tristan Tzara [see Keyboard: Nine Portraits for Piano (1930-69)]
Vassilis Voglis [see Keyboard: Seventeen Portraits for Piano (1982-84)]
Karen Brown Waltuck [see Orchestra: Eleven Portraits for Orchestra  (1981-82); see Keyboard: Nineteen Portraits (1981-83)]
Christopher Wanklyn [see Keyboard: Organ Voluntaries 1, 2, & 3, a Suite  (1985)]
Jean (Jackson) Watts [see Keyboard: Portraits for Piano Solo (Album 4)  (1942)]
Schuyler Watts [see Keyboard: Nine Portraits for Piano  (1930-69)]
Scott Wheeler [see Orchestra: Eleven Portraits for Orchestra  (1981-82); see Chamber: Four Portraits  (arr. 1984-85);
    see Keyboard: Nineteen Portraits for Piano  (1981-83)]
Herbert Whiting [see Keyboard: A Day Dream: Portrait of Herbert Whiting  (1935)]
Mary Widney [see Keyboard: Portraits for Piano Solo (Album 3)  (1940)]
Julia Winterhoff [see Chamber: Five Portraits for Four Clarinets (Portrait of Ladies: A Conversation)  (1929)]
John Wright [see Keyboard: Nineteen Portraits for Piano  (1981-83)]
Dr. Benjamin Zifkin [see Chamber: A Portrait of Two  (1984)]

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Virgil Thomson - The Portraits (Chronologically)
21 July 1928 (Ascain) - Señorita Juanita de Medina, accompanied by her mother (solo violin)
31 August 1928 (Bagnoles-de-l’Orne) - Madame Marthe-Marthine (solo violin)
October 1928 (Paris) - Georges Hugnet: Poet and Man of Letters (solo violin)
14 October 1928 (Paris) - Cliquet-Pleyel in F (Henri Cliquet-Pleyel) (solo violin)
14 October 1928 (Paris) - Miss Gertrude Stein As A Young Girl (solo violin)
18 October 1928 (Paris) - Mrs. Chester Whitin Lasell (solo violin)
5 November 1928 (Paris) - Sauguet: From Life (Henri Sauguet) (solo violin)
16 January 1929 (Kansas City) - Portrait of Ladies: A Conversation/Mrs. Dwight Braman, Fanny Dudley, Laura Dudley,
    and Julia Winterhoff (2 clarinets, alto clarinet and bass clarinet)
4 & 8 May 1929 (Paris) - Christian Bérard: Prisoner (2 clarinets, alto clarinet and bass clarinet)
7 July 1929 (Villefranche-sur-mer) - Portrait of a Young Man in Good Health (Maurice Grosser) (2 cl, alto cl and bass cl)
9 July 1929 (Villefranche-sur-mer) -Christian Bérard as a Soldier (2 clarinets, alto clarinet and bass clarinet)
11 July 1929 (Villefranche-sur-mer) - Christian Bérard in Person (2 clarinets, alto clarinet and bass clarinet)
September 1929    Portrait of F[rances] B[lood]
24 October 1929 (Paris)    Travelling in Spain: Alice Woodfin Branlière
28 October 1929 (Paris)    Alternations: A Portrait of Maurice Grosser
2 November 1929 (La Grange-Bleneau)    Catalan Waltz: A Portrait of Ramon Senabre
22 January 1930 (Paris)    Clair Leonard’s Profile
1 February 1930 (Paris) - Madame Dubost chez elle (piano; arr. 1979-80 for trombone, viola and cello by Yvar Mikhashoff)
20 February 1930 (Paris)    Pastorale: A Portrait of Jean Ozenne
24 March 1930 (Paris) - Alice Toklas (violin and piano)
15 April 1930 (Villefranche-sur-mer) - Mary Reynolds (violin and piano)
21 April 1930 (Villefranche-sur-mer) - Anne Miracle (violin and piano)
29 May 1930 (Paris) - Russell Hitchcock, Reading (piano; arr. 1979-80 for trombone, viola and cello by Yvar Mikhashoff)
30 April 1935 (New York)    Sea Coast: A Portrait of Constance Askew
1 May 1935 (New York)    A Portrait of R. Kirk Askew, Jr.
2 May 1935 (New York)    Souvenir: A Portrait of Paul Bowles
5 May 1935 (New York)    An Old Song: A Portrait of Carrie Stettheimer
5 May 1935 (New York) - Ettie Stettheimer (piano; arr. 1979-80 for trombone, viola and cello by Yvar Mikhashoff)
9 May 1935 (New York)    Tennis: A Portrait of Henry McBride
21 May 1935 (New York)    The Hunt: A Portrait of A.E. Austin, Jr.
22 May 1935 (New York)    Hymn: A Portrait of Josiah Marvel
May 1935 (New York)    The John Mosher Waltzes (piano; arr. for orchestra, 1937)
2 September 1935 (Castine, ME)    Prelude and Fugue: A Portrait of Miss Agnes Rindge
3 September 1935 (Bangor, ME)    Helen Austin at Home and Abroad
6 September 1935 (Castine)    Meditation: A Portrait of Jere Abbott (piano; arr. for orchestra, 1944)
16 September 1935 (Avon Farms, CT)    Connecticut Waltz: Harold Lewis Cook
17 September 1935 (Avon Farms)    A Day Dream: Portrait of Herbert Whiting
15 August 1938 (Lamoura, France)    Portrait of Claude Biais
16 August 1938 (Lamoura)    A French Boy of Ten: Louis Lange
17-18 August 1938 (Lamoura)    Maurice Bavoux: Young and Alone
1 April 1940 (Paris)    The Bard: Portrait of Sherry Mangan
8 April 1940 (Paris) - In a Bird Cage: A Portrait of Lise Deharme (piano; arr. 1942 cello and piano; also solo cello; also solo vln)
11 April 1940 (Paris)    With Trumpet and Horn: A Portrait of Louise Ardant
12 April 1940 (Paris)    Poltergeist: A Portrait of Hans Arp
15 April 1940 (Paris) - Fanfare for France: A Portrait of Max Kahn (piano; arr. 1944 brass & perc; arr. 1942 cello & pf)
17 April 1940 (Paris) - Barcarolle: A Portrait of Georges Hugnet (piano; arr. 1944 for woodwinds; arr. 1946 for violin & pf)
17 April 1940 (Paris) - Yvonne de Casa Fuerte (violin and piano)
18 April 1940 (Paris)    Swiss Waltz: A Portrait of Sophie Taüber-Arp
20 April 1940 (Paris)    Eccentric Dance: Portrait of Madame Kristians Tonny
24 April 1940 (Paris) - Tango Lullaby: A Portrait of Mlle. [Flavie] Alvarez de Toledo (pf; arr. 1944 for orch) [also arr. vln/vc & pf]
29 April 1940 (Paris)    Invention: Theodate Johnson Busy and Resting
30 April 1940 (Paris) - Bugles and Birds: A Portrait of Pablo Picasso (piano; arr. 1944 for orch; arr. 1942, cello & pf by Luigi Silva)
2 May 1940 (Paris)    Piano Sonata No. 4: Guggenheim Jeune (Portrait of Peggy Guggenheim)
3 May 1940 (Paris)    Lullaby which is also a Spinning Song: A Portrait of Howard Putzel
4 May 1940 (Paris)    Five-Finger Exercise: A Portrait of Léon Kochnitzky
7 May 1940 (Paris)    The Dream World of Peter Rose-Pulham
8 May 1940 (Paris)    Dora Maar or The Presence of Pablo Picasso
9 May 1940 (Paris)    Pastorale: A Portrait of Tristan Tzara
12 May 1940 (Paris)    Aria: A Portrait of Germaine Hugnet
13 May 1940 (Paris)    Toccata: A Portrait of Mary Widney
15 May 1940 (Paris)    Awake or Asleep: Pierre Mabille
29 May 1940 (Paris)    Cantabile: A Portrait of Nicolas de Chatelain (piano; arr. 1944 for string orchestra)
2 July 1940 (Moumour, Pyrenees)    Duet: A Portrait of Clarita, Comtesse de Forceville
3 July 1940 (Moumour)    Stretching: A Portrait of Jamie Campbell
9 July 1940 (Moumour)    Canons with Cadenza: A Portrait of André Ostier
6 September 1940 (Stamford, CT)    Fugue: A Portrait of Alexander Smallens (piano; arr. for orchestra, 1944)
15 September 1940 (Stamford) - Ruth Smallens (solo violin)
15 June 1941 (Ashfield, MA)    With Fife and Drums: A Portrait of Mina Curtiss
6 July 1941 (Woods Hole, MA) - Insistences: A Portrait of Louise Crane (pf; arr. 1969, band "Study Piece: Portrait of a Lady")
27 September 1941 (Kennebago, ME) - Percussion Piece: A Portrait of Jessie K. Lasell
5 October 1941 (New York)    Parades: A Portrait of Florine Stettheimer
2 February 1942 (New York)    The Mayor La Guardia Waltzes (orchestra)
13 March 1942 (New York)    Canons for Dorothy Thompson (orchestra)
21 July 1942 (New York)    James Patrick Cannon: Professional Revolutionary
29 July 1942 (New York)    Scottish Memories: Peter Monro Jack
30 September 1942 (New York)    Prisoner of the Mind: Schuyler Watts
1 October 1942 (New York)    Wedding Music: A Portrait of Jean [Mrs. Schuyler] Watts
16 October 1942 (New York) - Persistently Pastorale: Aaron Copland (piano; arr. for orchestra, 1944)
17 October 1942 (New York)    Jane Bowles Early and As Remembered
15 August 1943 (Denville, NJ)    Five-Finger Exercise: Portrait of Briggs Buchanan
5 December 1945 (New York)    Solitude: A Portrait of Lou Harrison
17 June 1951 (Newport, RI)    Chromatic Double Harmonies: Portrait of Sylvia Marlowe
June-September 1954 (Acapulco)    Concerto for Flute, Strings, Harp, and Percussion: A Portrait of  Roger Baker
25 July 1956 (New York)    Homage to Marya Freund and to the Harp
18 August 1958 (Tangier)    For Eugene Ormandy’s Birthday, 18 November 1969: A Study in Stacked-Up Thirds
18 December 1966 (Pittsburgh) - Etude for Cello and Piano: A Portrait of Frederic James (cello and piano)
24-25 December 1966 (New York) - Edges: A Portrait of Robert Indiana (piano; arr. for band, 1969)
12 August 1972 (Aspen) - A Fanfare: Robin Smith (horn, 2 trumpets and 2 trombones)
13 August 1972 (Aspen) - Digging: A Portrait of Howard Rea (horn, 2 trumpets and 2 trombones)
14 August 1972 (Aspen) - At Fourteen: Annie Barnard (horn, 2 trumpets and 2 trombones)
18 August 1972 (Aspen) - A Scherzo: Priscilla Rea (horn, 2 trumpets and 2 trombones)
23 August 1972 (New York) - Man of Iron: A Portrait of Willy Eisenhart (piano; arr. for (horn, 2 trpts and 2 trom, 1974)
15 June 1981 (New York) - Bill Katz: Wide Awake
20 June 1981 (Easthampton, NY) - Norma Flender: Waltzing
21 June 1981 (Easthampton) - Richard Flender: Solid, Not Stolid
23 June 1981 (New York) - Scott Wheeler: Free-Wheeling (piano; arr. 1985 for chamber ensemble by Scott Wheeler)
25 June 1981 (New York) - Gerald Busby: Giving Full Attention
26 June 1981 (New York) - Noah Creshevsky: Loyal, Steady, and Persistent
28 June 1981 (New York) - Sam Byers: With Joy
29 June 1981 (New York) - Morris Golde: Showing Delight
1 July 1981 (New York) - Christopher Cox: Singing a Song
2 July 1981 (New York) - Barbara Epstein: Untiring
11 August 1981 (Corfu) - Dead Pan: Mrs. Betty Freeman (pf; arr. for orch as "A Love Scene (Anon.)" in "Eleven Portraits", 1982)
15 August 1981 (Corfu) - John Wright, Drawing
23 August 1981 (Corfu) - Franco Assetto: Drawing V. T.
17 October 1981 (New York) - Round and Round: Dominique Nabokov
19 October 1981 (New York) - Karen Brown Waltuck: Intensely Two
14 November 1981 (New York) - Anne-Marie Soullière: Something of a Beauty
30 December 1981 (New York) - Buffie Johnson: Drawing V. T. in Charcoal
31 December 1981 (New York) - Craig Rutenberg: Swinging
2 January 1982 (New York) - Paul Sanfançon: On the Ice
8 January 1982 (Chicago) - Molly Davies: Terminations
9 January 1982 (Chicago) - Dennis Russell Davies: In a Hammock (piano; arr. 1985 for chamber ensemble by Scott Wheeler)
27 January 1982 (New York) - Rodney Lister: Music for a Merry-Go-Round (pf; arr. 1985 for chbr ensemble by Scott Wheeler)
2 February 1982 (Caracas, Venezuela) - Doña Flor: Receiving
6 February 1982 (Caracas) - Dr. Marcel Roche: Making a Decision
3 March 1982 (New York) - David Dubal in Flight
8 May 1983 (New York) - Cynthia Kemper: A Fanfare (violin and piano)
11 May 1983 (New York) - Peter McWilliams: Firmly Spontaneous
4 July 1983 (Easthampton, NY) - Vassilis Voglis: On the March
12 July 1983 (New York) - Power Boothe: With Pencil
23 July 1983 (New York) - Mark Beard: Never Alone
5 August 1983 (New York) - Louis Rispoli: In a Boat (piano; arr. 1985 for chamber ensemble by Scott Wheeler)
20 August 1983 (Paris) - Malitte Matta: In the Executive Style
27 September 1983 (New York) - Glynn Boyd Harte: Reaching
29 September 1983 (New York) - Bennett Lerner: Senza Espressione
2 October 1983 (New York) - Phillip Ramey: Thinking Hard
6 October 1983 (New York) - Lili Hastings (violin and piano)
19 November 1983 (Boston) - Charles Fussell: In Meditation
8-19 April 1984 (New York) - A Portrait of Two, for Joell Amar (Second Subject: Dr. Benjamin Zifkin) (oboe, bassoon and piano)
24 April 1984 (New York) - Jay Rozen: Portrait and Fugue (tuba and piano)
4 May 1984 (New York) - Brendan Lemon: A Study Piece for Piano
25 June 1984 (Los Angeles) - John Houseman: No Changes; and A Double Take (piano)
25 June 1984 (San Francisco) - Lines: For and about Ron Henggeler
21 July 1984 (Camale) - Boris Baranovic: Whirling
28 August 1984 (New York) - Anthony Tommasini: A Study in Chords (orchestra)
1 January 1985 (New York) - Christopher Beach Alone
10 January 1985 (New York) - Danyal Lawson: Playing
24 January 1985 (San Francisco) - Fred Tulan: An Organ Piece
14 March 1985 - Philip Claflin: Dans le temps très noceur (begun May 1935)
9 June 1985 (New York) - Robin Holloway
16 August 1985 (New York) - Portrait of Christopher Wanklyn
28 May 1988 (New York) - Wiley Hitchcock: Two Birds

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Vocal and Choral Works by Title
A Hymn for Pratt Institute, chorus (1968, manuscript)
A Prayer to St. Catherine [from "Mostly About Love" (4 songs), 1959]
A Prayer to Venus, chorus and piano (1981)
A son Altesse la Princesse Antoinette Murat, voice and piano (1928; manuscript/unpublished)
Agnus Dei, canon for 3 equal vioces (1924)
Agnus Dei, male chorus (1925)
Air de Phedre (Phaedra’s Farewell), soprano and piano  (1930)
The Akond of Swat,  baritone, chorus and piano [from "Cantata on Poems of Edward Lear", 1973-74]
And Did Those Feet [from "Five Songs from William Blake", 1951]
At the Spring, voice and piano (1955)
Beauty Sleeping see "La Belle en dormant"
Before Sleeping, voice and piano (1963) [from "Praises and Prayers (5 songs), 1963]
The Bell doth Toll, voice and piano (1955)
La Belle en dormant (4 songs), voice and piano (1931)
Benedictus, male chorus (1926)
Le Berceau (Cradle) de Gertrude Stein, ou Le Mystère de la rue de Fleurus, voice and piano (1928)
The Bugle Song, unison children’s chorus and piano; or 2-part children’s chorus (1941)
By Night [from "Five Phrases from The Song of Solomon", 1924-26]
Cantantes eamus, male chorus and brass ensemble or piano (1982)
Cantata on Poems of Edward Lear, soprano, baritone, chorus and piano (or orchestra) (1973-74)
Capital Capitals, 4 male voices and piano (1927; rev. 1968)
The Cat, soprano, baritone and piano (1980)
Chamber Music, voice and piano (1931; manuscript/unpublished)
Collected Poems, soprano, baritone and piano (1959) [also for soprano, baritone and orchestra] [text: Kenneth Koch]
Commentaire sur Saint Jerome, voice and piano (1928; manuscript/unpublished)
Consider, Lord, voice and piano (1955)
Convention (How Firm a Foundation) [from "Southern Hymns" (4 pieces), 1984]
The Courtship of the Yongly Bongly Bo, voice and piano (1973-74)
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)
De Profundis, chorus (1920; rev. 1951)
Death of General Washington [from "Southern Hymns" (4 pieces), 1984]
Death, ’tis a Melancholy Day, chorus (1949) [also in "Hymns from the Old South" (4 pieces), 1949]
Dirge, voice and piano (1939)
The Divine Image [from "Five Songs from William Blake", 1951]
Down at the Docks [from "Mostly About Love" (4 songs), 1959]
Les Ecrevisses (Crayfish) [from "La Valse Gregorienne" (4 songs), 1927; rev. 1971]
English Usage [from "Two by Marianne Moore", 1963]
Fanfare for Peace, chorus and piano/or brass ensemble and percussion (1979; rev. 1983)
The Feast of Love, baritone and orchestra/or piano (1964)
Fête polonais, male chorus and piano (1924, manuscript)
Film: Deux soeurs qui ne sont pas soeurs (Two Sisters Who Are Not Sisters), voice and piano  (1930)
Five Auvergnat Folk Songs, chorus and orchestra (1962)
Five Phrases from The Song of Solomon, soprano and percusion (1 player) (1924-26)
Five Songs from William Blake, baritone and orchestra/or piano (1951)
Five Tenor Solos from “Lord Byron”, tenor and orchestra (1966-68)
Follow Thy Fair Sun [from "Four Songs to the Poems of Thomas Campion", 1951]
Follow Your Saint [from "Four Songs to the Poems of Thomas Campion", 1951]
Four Songs to the Poems of Thomas Campion, mezzo-soprano & pf/or cl, va & harp; or chorus and piano (1951; arr. 1961)
From “Sneden’s Landing Variations”, voice and piano (1972)
From The Canticle of the Sun [from "Praises and Prayers (5 songs), 1963]
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]
Green fields [from "Hymns from the Old South" (4 pieces), 1949]
Grenadine (Pomegranate) [from "La Valse Gregorienne" (4 songs), 1927; rev. 1971]
Half an Alphabet, chorus and orchestra [from "Cantata on Poems of Edward Lear", 1973-74]
The Holly and the Ivy, a carol of Nativity and Lent, voice and piano (1955, lost?) [also for chorus and piano, arr. 1963]
How Bright is the Day! [from "Southern Hymns" (4 pieces), 1984]
How Will Ye Have Your Partridge Today?, round for 4 voices (1968, manuscript)
A Hymn for Pratt Institute, chorus (1968, manuscript)
Hymns from the Old South (4 pieces), chorus (1949)
I Am My Beloved’s [from "Five Phrases from The Song of Solomon", 1924-26]
I Am My Beloved’s [from "Three Sentences from The Song of Solomon", 1924]
If Thou a Reason Dost Desire to Know, voice and piano (1955-58)
Jerusalem, My Happy Home [from "Praises and Prayers (5 songs), 1963]
John Peel, baritone and piano (1955)
Jour de Chaleur aux bains de mer ( Hot Day at the Seashore), voice&pf (1928)
        [see also"Le Bains-bar:Waltz, XX 1929; "At the Beach", XX  1949]
The Jumblies,  soprano, chorus, perc, piano, violin, cello & doublebass [from "Cantata on Poems of Edward Lear", 1973-74]
Kyrie eleison, chorus (1953, manuscript)
La Belle en dormant (4 songs), voice and piano (1931)
La Premiere de toutes (My true love sang me no song) [from "La Belle en dormant" (4 songs), 1931]
La Rosee (Dew) [from "La Valse Gregorienne" (4 songs), 1927; rev. 1971]
La Seine, voice and piano (1928)
La Valse Gregorienne (4 songs), voice and piano (1927; rev. 1971)
The Land of Dreams [from "Five Songs from William Blake", 1951]
Le Berceau (Cradle) de Gertrude Stein, ou Le Mystère de la rue de Fleurus, voice and piano (1928)
Le Singe et le léopard ( The Monkey and the Leopard), voice and piano (1930)
Le Wagon immobile (The Motionless Box-Car) [from "La Valse Gregorienne" (4 songs), 1927; rev. 1971]
Les Ecrevisses (Crayfish) [from "La Valse Gregorienne" (4 songs), 1927; rev. 1971]
Les Soirees bagnolaises, voice and piano (1928; manuscript/unpublished)
Let’s Take a Walk [from "Mostly About Love" (4 songs), 1959]
The Little Black Boy [from "Five Songs from William Blake", 1951]
Look, How the Floor of Heav’n, voice and piano (1955)
Love Scene: Juan and Haidee, tenor and piano (arr. 1967 by Paul Turok) [see also work for orch "From Byron’s Don Juan"]
Love Song [from "Mostly About Love" (4 songs), 1959]
Mass, 2-part chorus and percussion (1934)
Mass, solo voice and piano (1960; arr. 1962 for solo voice or unison choir and orchestra)
Missa brevis, male chorus (1924, manuscript)
Missa pro defunctis, male chorus, female chorus and orchestra (1960)
Mississippi (When Gabriel’s Awful Trump Shall Sound) [from "Southern Hymns" (4 pieces), 1984]
Mon Amour est bon a dire (Yes, my love is good to tell of) [from "La Belle en dormant" (4 songs), 1931]
The Morning Star, chorus or female chorus (1949) [from "Hymns from the Old South" (4 pieces), 1949]
Mostly About Love (4 songs), voice and piano (1959)
My Crow Pluto [from "Two by Marianne Moore", 1963]
My Master Hath a Garden
My Master Hath a Garden, chorus (or female chorus) & pf (1963) [also for voice & pf] [from "Praises and Prayers (5 songs)]
My Shepherd Will Supply My Need, mixed or male or female chorus (1937)[arr. voice & pf] [see"Hymns from the Old South"]
Nadie lo oye como ellos (No One Can Hear Him the Way They Can) [from "Tres estampas de niñez", 1957]
The Nativity as Sung by the Shepherds, alto, tenor, bass, chorus and orchestra/or piano (or 2 pianos) (1966-67)
Never Another, chorus (1955)
O My Deir Hert, chorus (1921; rev. 1978)
O, My Dove [from "Five Phrases from The Song of Solomon", 1924-26]
Oraison funebre de Henriette-Marie de France, Reine de la  Grande-Bretagne, voice & pf (1930; rev. 1934; manuscript/unpub)
The Owl and the Pussycat,  soprano, baritone and piano [from "Cantata on Poems of Edward Lear", 1973-74]
Pardon, Goddess of the Night [from "Much Ado about Nothing"] [from "Shakespeare Songs" (5 songs), 1956-57]
Partis les vaisseaux (All gone are the ships) [from "La Belle en dormant" (4 songs), 1931]
The Pelican Chorus, soprano, baritone, chorus and chamber ensemble [from "Cantata on Poems of Edward Lear", 1973-74]
Pigeons on the Grass Alas, baritone and orchestra/ or piano (1928; arr. 1934) [from "Four Saints in Three Acts"]
Portrait of F[rances] B[lood], voice and piano (1929)
Pour chercher sur la carte des mer (Scanning booklets from ocean resorts) [from "La Belle en dormant" (4 songs), 1931]
Praises and Prayers (5 songs), voice and piano (1963) [also for chorus and piano]
A Prayer to St. Catherine [from "Mostly About Love" (4 songs), 1959]
A Prayer to Venus, chorus and piano (1981)
Preciosilla, voice and piano (1927)
La Premiere de toutes (My true love sang me no song) [from "La Belle en dormant" (4 songs), 1931]
Psalm 123: Unto Thee Lift I Up Mine Eyes [from "Three Antiphonal Psalms", 1922-24]
Psalm 133: Behold How Good and Pleasant It is, Brethren [from "Three Antiphonal Psalms", 1922-24]
Psalm 136: O, Give Thanks to the Lord, For He is Gracious [from "Three Antiphonal Psalms", 1922-24]
Remember Adam’s Fall, voice and piano (1955)
Return, O Shulamite [from "5 Phrases from The Song of Solomon", 1926; and "3 Sentences from The Song of Solomon", 1924]
Rose Cheek’d Laura, Come [from "Four Songs to the Poems of Thomas Campion", 1951]
La Rosee (Dew) [from "La Valse Gregorienne" (4 songs), 1927; rev. 1971]
Saint’s Procession, mezzo-soprano, bass, chorus, and piano (1928) [from "Four Saints in Three Acts"]
Sanctus, male chorus (1921, manuscript)
Sanctus, male chorus, w/children’s chorus (1926, manuscript)
Scenes from the Holy Infancy according to Saint Matthew, tenor, baritone, bass and chorus (1937)
La Seine, voice and piano (1928)
Seven Choruses from the Medea of Euripides, female chorus and percussion ad lib (1934) [arr. 1967 by Pinkham for chorus]
Shakespeare Songs (5 songs), voice and piano (1956-57)
Le Singe et le léopard ( The Monkey and the Leopard), voice and piano (1930)
Sigh No More, Ladies [from "Much Ado about Nothing"] [from "Shakespeare Songs" (5 songs), 1956-57]
Les Soirees bagnolaises, voice and piano (1928; manuscript/unpublished)
A son Altesse la Princesse Antoinette Murat, voice and piano (1928; manuscript/unpublished)
Son amigos de todos (They are Ev’ryone’s Friends) [from "Tres estampas de niñez (Three Sketches from Childhood)", 1957]
Song for the Stable, chorus (1955)
Southern Hymns (4 pieces), chorus and piano (1984)
Stabat Mater, soprano and string quartet/or str orch/ or piano (1931-60; rev. 1981) [B&H]
The Sunflower, voice and piano (1920; manuscript/unpublished)
Sung by the Shepherds [from "Praises and Prayers (5 songs), 1963]
Surrey Apple-Howler’s Song, a round for children’s chorus (1941)
Susie Asado, voice and piano  (1926)
Take, O Take Those Lips Away [from "Measure for Measure"] [from "Shakespeare Songs" (5 songs), 1956-57]
Tell Me Where is Fancy Bred [from "The Merchant of Venice"] [from "Shakespeare Songs" (5 songs), 1956-57]
The Akond of Swat,  baritone, chorus and piano [from "Cantata on Poems of Edward Lear", 1973-74]
The Bell doth Toll, voice and piano (1955)
The Bugle Song, unison children’s chorus and piano; or 2-part children’s chorus (1941)
The Cat, soprano, baritone and piano (1980)
The Courtship of the Yongly Bongly Bo, voice and piano (1973-74)
The Divine Image [from "Five Songs from William Blake", 1951]
The Feast of Love, baritone and orchestra/or piano (1964)
The Holly and the Ivy, a carol of Nativity and Lent, chorus and piano (1955; arr. 1963) [originally for voice and piano)
The Jumblies,  soprano, chorus, perc, piano, violin, cello & doublebass [from "Cantata on Poems of Edward Lear", 1973-74]
The Land of Dreams [from "Five Songs from William Blake", 1951]
The Little Black Boy [from "Five Songs from William Blake", 1951]
The Morning Star, chorus or female chorus (1949) [from "Hymns from the Old South", 1949]
The Nativity as Sung by the Shepherds, alto, tenor, bass, chorus and orchestra/or piano (or 2 pianos) (1966-67)
The Owl and the Pussycat,  soprano, baritone and piano [from "Cantata on Poems of Edward Lear", 1973-74]
The Pelican Chorus, soprano, baritone, chorus and chamber ensemble [from "Cantata on Poems of Edward Lear", 1973-74]
The Sunflower, voice and piano (1920; manuscript/unpublished)
The Tiger!, voice and piano (1926)
There is a Garden in Her Face [from "Four Songs to the Poems of Thomas Campion", 1951]
Thou that Dwellest in the Gardens [from "5 Phrases from The Song of Solomon", 1926; and "3 Sentences... Song of Solomon"]
Three Antiphonal Psalms, 2-part chorus (1922-24)
Three Sentences from The Song of Solomon, voice & pf (1924; mnscrpt/unpub) [see also: "5 Phrases from the Song of Solomon"]
The Tiger!, voice and piano (1926)
Tiger! Tiger!, chorus (or male chorus) and piano (1951, arr. 1955 from "Five Songs from William Blake, baritone and orch)
Todas las horas (All Through the Long Day) [from "Tres estampas de niñez (Three Sketches from Childhood)", 1957]
Tres estampas de niñez (Three Sketches from Childhood), voice and piano (1957)
Tribulationes civitatum, chorus, or male chorus (1922)
Two by Marianne Moore, voice and piano (1963)
La Valse Gregorienne (4 songs), voice and piano (1927; rev. 1971)
Vernal Equinox, voice and piano (1920; manuscript/unpublished)
Le Wagon immobile (The Motionless Box-Car) [from "La Valse Gregorienne" (4 songs), 1927; rev. 1971]
Was this Fair Face the Cause? [from "All’s Well that Ends Well"] [from "Shakespeare Songs" (5 songs), 1956-57]
Welcome to the New Year, 2-part children’s chorus (or mixed chorus) and piano (1941)
What is It?, voice and piano (1979) [also arr. for voice & gtr by David Leisner; voice, cl, va & harp by Charles Fussell]
When I Survey the Bright Celestial Sphere, unison chorus and organ/or piano (1964) [or w/brass arr. by Scott Wheeler, 1981]

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