Praeterea, Thomson innotuit redintegratione modi rari imaginum musicarum hominumvivorum componendarum,[18] saepe horas in conclavi cum eis degens antequam avolabat ut res conficeret solus. Multi quidem clientes dixerunt imagines re vera aliquid unicum de eorum personalitatibus vel identitatibus cepisse, quamquam paene omnes imagines ullis indiciis carebant quae realitatem manifeste repraesentare poterent.[19]
Thomson senex factus est adiutor patrius novae compositorum tonalium Americanorum aetatis, sicut Ned Rorem, Paulus Bowles, et Leonardus Bernstein, coetus tam per sexualitatem communem quam per sententias compositionales consociatus.[20] Compositores mulieres illi coetui non aderant, nonnullaeque dicere solebant eum criticum earum opera de industria neglegere, vel habitum superbum erga eas ostendere.[21]
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