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From: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
Date: 20010101
Author:Kemp, Philip

THOMSON, Virgil

Composer. Nationality: American. Born: Virgil Garnett Thomson in Kansas City, Missouri, 25 November 1896. Education: Attended Central High School, Junior College, Kansas City, and Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Career: Childhood prodigy; music critic, Vanity Fair ; 1928 — moved to Paris, studied under Nadia Boulanger; 1933 — wrote opera with the writer Gertrude Stein, Four Saints in Three Acts ; 1936 — first music for film, The Plow That Broke the Plains ; 1940 — returned to US; music critic for New York Herald Tribune .

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