FTP name this composer, whose work on Robert Flaherty's 1949 documentary Louisiana Story earned him the only Pulitzer given for a film score.
Inspired by a Paderewski concert at age 12, he was a substitute organist at Calvary Baptist Church in Kansas City before serving with Harry Truman in the 129th Field Artillery in World War I. His first known composition, "Vernal Equinox," was based on a poem by Amy Lowell. But its was his association with Gertrude Stein that got him attention, although Maurice Grosser had to supply scenarios after the fact to explain her obtuse libretti for The Mother of Us All and Four Saints in Three Acts. FTP name this composer, whose work on Robert Flaherty's 1949 documentary Louisiana Story earned him the only Pulitzer given for a film score.
Inspired by a Paderewski concert at age 12, he was a substitute organist at Calvary Baptist Church in Kansas City before serving with Harry Truman in the 129th Field Artillery in World War I.
Virgil {Thomson}