This composer of the quintet Sonata da chiesa studied under Nadia Boulanger and was strongly influenced by Erik Satie. From 1940 to 1954, he served as music critic for the New York Herald Tribune. He composed the opera Lord Byron, the ballets Filling Station and Parson Weems and the Cherry Tree, and the scores for Pare Lorentz documentaries The River and The Plow that Broke the Plains. He won a Pulizter in 1949 for his score to Robert Flaherty's Louisiana Story, but his best known works feature librettos by Gertrude Stein. For ten points, name this American composer of the operas The Mother of Us All and Four Saints i
This composer of the quintet Sonata da chiesa studied under Nadia Boulanger and was strongly influenced by Erik Satie. From 1940 to 1954, he served as music critic for the New York Herald Tribune. He composed the opera Lord Byron, the ballets Filling Station and Parson Weems and the Cherry Tree, and the scores for Pare Lorentz documentaries The River and The Plow that Broke the Plains. He won a Pulizter in 1949 for his score to Robert Flaherty's Louisiana Story, but his best known works feature librettos by Gertrude Stein. For ten points, name this American composer of the operas The Mother of Us All and Four Saints in Three Acts.
This composer of the quintet Sonata da chiesa studied under Nadia Boulanger and was strongly influenced by Erik Satie.
Virgil Garnett {Thomson}