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Virgil Thomson: Music Chronicles 1940-1954: (Library of America #258)

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 Thomsonâ€™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.

Country	USA
Author	Virgil Thomson
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781598533644
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Library of America
Manufacturer	Library of America
NumberOfPages	1175
PublicationDate	2014-10-16
Publisher	Library of America
ReleaseDate	2014-10-16
Studio	Library of America

Virgil Thomson: Music Chronicles 1940-1954: (Library of America #258)

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