Virgil Thomson
Author
Series
Library of America volume 277
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"In this second volume in the Library of America's definitive Virgil Thomson edition, Pulitzer Prize-winning music critic Tim Page collects for the first time the great composer's four witty, incisive, and compulsively readable full-length works. Written with authority and élan, these classic books offer an engrossing tour of the tumultuous twentieth-century musical scene and Thomson's extraordinary career as one of the nation's foremost cultural...
Author
Series
Twentieth-century composers volume 1
Publisher
Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Pub. Date
[1971]
Language
English
Author
Series
Library of America volume 258
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
When, in October 1940, the New York Herald Tribune named the composer Virgil Thomson (1896-1989) its chief music critic, the management of the paper braced itself for an uproar. Perhaps best known for his collaboration with librettist Gertrude Stein on the whimsically nonsensical "anti-opera" Four Saints in Three Acts, Thomson was notorious among conservative concertgoers as a leader of America's musical avant-garde and a maverick writer who delighted...
