The first definitive biography of the acclaimed American composer and music critic describes Thomson's youth in turn-of-the-century Kansas City, his long struggle to accept his homosexuality, his musical studies, his rivalry with colleagues ...
Virgil Thomson
Virgil Thomson had already established himself as one of the nation's leading composers when he published The State of Music (1939), the book that made his name as a writer and won him a fourteen-year stint as chief music reviewer at the ...
American Music Since 1910
Virgil Thomson: His Life and Music
This volume opens with The State of Music (1939), the book that made Thomson’s name as a critic and won him his 14-year stint at the New York Herald Tribune.
Selected Letters of Virgil Thomson
Acknowledging that he was “not wholly untouched by the tabloid,”31 Hitchcock wrote in The Hound & Horn about Proust, Ruskin, and movie fan magazines. “Would that I had more of your equable temper and were less easily excited by ...
A Virgil Thomson Reader
From 1928 until his death in 1989, Virgil Thomson, Dean of American Composers, distinguished critic and author, composed musical portraits of people. Though he was not the first composer to...