Virgil Thomson: Music Chronicles 1940-1954 (LOA #258)
By Virgil Thomson
Edited by Tim Page
By Virgil Thomson
Edited by Tim Page
By Virgil Thomson
Edited by Tim Page
By Virgil Thomson
Edited by Tim Page
Part of Library of America Virgil Thomson Edition
Part of Library of America Virgil Thomson Edition
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$50.00
Oct 16, 2014 | ISBN 9781598533095
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Oct 16, 2014 | ISBN 9781598533644
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Praise
“One of the best regular critics of any subject whatsoever who ever walked into any newspaper’s city room. . . . It is more fun reading Virgil Thomson today on subjects of scant general interest than it is to read the vast majority of designated dullards and snark-slinging trivialists currently employed. . . . Thomson, like much of Mencken, remains riotously readable.” — Jeff Simon, The Buffalo News
“The present volume is valuable, of course, as a chronicle of a particularly rich period of musical life in this country. All the big composers and performers are here at their height. It was a Golden Age. But I think the book is even more valuable as a record of one deeply musical man’s listening experiences put into beautiful prose. It is a book that can teach us all how to be better listeners.” — Timothy Mangan, Orange County Register
“Anyone with a passing interest in music and good writing needs to have this book. There’s an enormous amount to learn in these 1,000 pages—and your education will be painless, thorough and entertaining.” — Christopher Purdy, WOSU Classical Music 101
“[Thomson’s] bracing attitude about the job of the music critic has never been more urgent than it is now, an era of unprecedented choice, a chaotic cultural marketplace, and scant curatorial guidance.” — Peter Dobrin, The Philadelphia Inquirer
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