June 11 & 12, 2005
AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center
Silver Spring, MD

Presented in association with the American Film Institute

Floyd King, [highlight3]narrator[/highlight3]
Charles Fussell, [highlight3]composer[/highlight3]
George Stoney, [highlight3]filmmaker, panelist[/highlight3]
PostClassical Ensemble conducted by Angel Gil-Ordóñez

Program
Virgil Thomson: [highlight3]The Plow That Broke the Plains[/highlight3] (Film with Thomson’s score in live performance)
Virgil Thomson: [highlight3]The River[/highlight3] (Film with Thomson’s score in live performance)
[highlight3]Thomson as film composer:[/highlight3] a discussion with Joseph Horowitz and Charles Fussell
[highlight3]The River as New Deal Propaganda:[/highlight3] a discussion with Joseph Horowitz and George Stoney

Both scores recorded for a Naxos DVD and CD.

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