Virgil Thompson

This year the Workshop presents a two-week exploration into the music, writings and legacy of one of America’s musical giants, Virgil Thomson. The Workshop partners outstanding young composers, poets, singers and instrumentalists with an extraordinary Faculty including Martin Bresnick, J.D. McClatchy, Lisa Moore, Susan Narucki, J.J. Penna, Anthony Tommasini and Scott Wheeler. The results of this Workshop will be a variety of songs performed in the Music Shed in two concerts. There will be lectures, seminars and other presentations focused on Thomson, an outsized personality who, in addition to being a great song composer, was a writer and one of the most important music critics of the 20th-Century.