Photos and information on Virgil Thomson (1896-1989), a classical music composer raised in Kansas City. Born at 10th and Virginia Avenues and raised on Wabash Street before moving to Paris after World War I as a writer for "Vanity Fair" magazine and an opera and ballet composer with Gertrude Stein. Also later musical editor for the "New York Herald Tribune" and "pioneer composer of film music" in the 1920s-1930s.