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Virgil Thomson: Music Chronicles 1940-1954 (Loa #258): The Musical Scene / The Art of Judging Music / Music Right and Left / Music Reviewed / Other Wr

Virgil Thomson: Music Chronicles 1940-1954 (Loa #258): The Musical Scene / The Art of Judging Music / Music Right and Left / Music Reviewed / Other Wr

Thomson, Virgil
Page, Tim

Hardcover

Series: Library of America Virgil Thomson Edition, Book 1

Classical MusicOperaMusic Reference

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ISBN10: 1598533096
ISBN13: 9781598533095
Publisher: Library of America
Published: Oct 16 2014
Pages: 1200
Weight: 1.67
Height: 1.41 Width: 5.32 Depth: 8.13
Language: English
Revisit the Golden Age of classical music in America through the witty and adventurous reviews of our greatest critic-composer For fourteen memorable years Virgil Thomson surveyed the worlds of opera and classical music as the chief music critic for the New York Herald Tribune. An accomplished composer who knew music from the inside, Thomson communicated its pleasures and complexities to a wide readership in a hugely entertaining, authoritative style, and his daily reviews and Sunday articles set a high-water mark in American cultural journalism. Thomson collected his newspaper columns in four volumes: The Musical Scene, The Art of Judging Music, Music Right and Left, and Music Reviewed. All are gathered here, together with a generous selection of Thomson's uncollected writings. The result is a singular chronicle of a magical time when an unrivaled roster of great conductors (Koussevitzky, Toscanini, Beecham, Stokowski) and legendary performers (Horowitz, Rubinstein, Heifetz, Stern) presented new masters (Copland, Stravinsky, Britten, Bernstein) and re-introduced the classics to a rapt American audience.

LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

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