Virgil Thomson: The State of Music & Other Writings: Library of America #277 (The Library of America)
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| Rating | : | 4.13 (783 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B010ZZYKW8 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 110 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Every practicing and aspiring critic today should read Thomson's exhilarating writings."--Anthony Tommasini, The New York Times
Sebastian Winston said Thoroughly enjoyable. I found this autobiography by Virgil Thomson thoroughly enjoyable. I was led to read it after seeing his name consistently referenced by some leading historiographers of the "Thoroughly enjoyable" according to Sebastian Winston. I found this autobiography by Virgil Thomson thoroughly enjoyable. I was led to read it after seeing his name consistently referenced by some leading historiographers of the 20th century such as Joseph Horowitz and Harvey Sachs. Reading this work has encouraged me to do a little more research into his life since he is extremely shy about sharing his private life, especially any events that demonstrated his homosexuality. If he was so concerned about hiding this rather important part of his personality, I could not . 0th century such as Joseph Horowitz and Harvey Sachs. Reading this work has encouraged me to do a little more research into his life since he is extremely shy about sharing his private life, especially any events that demonstrated his homosexuality. If he was so concerned about hiding this rather important part of his personality, I could not . The autobiography is one of the best ever written by an American The autobiography is one of the best ever written by an American. The editing of this edition " American Music Since 1900" unfortunately deletes the original brief biographies that so enrich the back matter of the book---they are delightful, trenchant and enormous fun---why did the editor decide to omit them? But still, Thomson at his best, and in one volume!
. TIM PAGE, editor of the two-volume Library of America Virgil Thomson edition, won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism for his writings in the Washington Post, for which he was a music critic from 1995 to 2008. A professor of music and journalism at the University of Southern California, he is also co-editor of&
The volume is rounded out by a judicious selection of Thomson’s magazine journalism from 1957 to 1984—thirty-seven pieces, most of them previously uncollected, including many long-form review-essays written for The New York Review of Books.From the Hardcover edition.. American Music Since 1910 (1971) is a series of incisive essays on the lives and works of Ives, Ruggles, Varèse, Copland, Cage, and others who helped define a national musical idiom. Music with Words (1989), Thomson’s final book, is a distillation of a subject he knew better than perhaps any other American composer: how to set English—especially American English—to music, in opera and art song. Thomson’s autobiography, Virgil Thomson (1966), is more than just the story of the struggle of one such American composer, it is an intellectual, aesthetic, and personal chronicle of the twentieth century, from World War I–era Kansas City to Harvard in the age of straw boaters, from Paris in the Twenties and