Collaboration of Virgil Thomson & Gertrude Stein + Portrait of Virgil by Alice Neel

  • Virgil T
    and Gertrude Stein (Photo via )

    Four Saints in Three Acts Music by Virgil Thomson, original libretto by Gertrude Stein.

    (Mark Morris – here and here )

  • Alice Neel
    1971 Virgil Thomson
    Oil on Canvas
    48 x 37 inches / 121.9 x 94 cm
    National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.

    Virgil Thomson (November 25, 1896 – September 30, 1989)

    Virgil Thomson like many other great composers studied under Nadia Boulanger (scroll down)

  • More music by V.T.

    Portraits (youtube)

    Louisiana Story.. (Youtube)
    Robert Flaherty – 1948