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.
Virgil Thomson: Selected Letters
Revisit America’s Golden Age of classical music through the witty and wildly popular reviews of our greatest critic-composer For fourteen memorable years Virgil Thomson surveyed the worlds of opera and classical music as the chief music ...
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: His Life and Music
This essential reader includes Thomson's essays on making a living as a musician; his articles on classic composers; his relation to his contemporaries; his articles on newcomers in the music world, including John Cage and Pierre Boulez; ...
GG Virgil Thomson is universally recognized as one of the twentieth century's grearest wrirers on music— how it is made, performed, and markered to the public. Working for New York's Herald Tribune from the '40s thtough the papers ...
Virgil Thomson was a gifted composer and one of the nation’s foremost cultural critics.
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