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  • The State of Music

    A Library of America eBook Classic

    by Virgil Thomson ...
    Virgil Thomson had already established himself as one of the nation's leading composers when he published The State of Music (1939), the book that made his name as a writer and won him a fourteen-year stint as chief music reviewer at the New York Herald Tribune. This feisty, often hilarious polemic, presented here in the extensively revised edition of 1962, surveys the challenges confronting the ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD

  • Virgil Thomson

    A Library of America eBook Classic

    by Virgil Thomson ...
    Virgil Thomson was a gifted composer and one of the nation’s foremost cultural critics. The best-selling autobiography Virgil Thomson (1966) is his gossipy telling of his own extraordinary progress from unteachable smart aleck to revered elder statesman. It recounts his artistically precocious Kansas City boyhood, demanding Harvard education, apprenticeship in Paris between the wars, and hard-won ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD

  • The State of Music

    1938 First Edition

    by Virgil Thomson ...
    Composer Thomson, whose film score for Louisiana Story was awarded the Music Pulitzer Prize in 1949, writes about contemporary music and a musician's place in society before World War II.-Print ed. ... Read more

    $1.38 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Virgil Thomson: Music Chronicles 1940-1954 (LOA #258)

    by Virgil Thomson ...
    Series Book 1 - Library of America Virgil Thomson Edition
    Revisit America’s Golden Age of classical music through the witty and wildly popular reviews of our greatest critic-composerFor 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 ... Read more

    $52.79 CAD

  • Virgil Thomson: The State of Music & Other Writings (LOA #277)

    by Virgil Thomson ...
    Series Book 2 - Library of America Virgil Thomson Edition
    A Pulitzer Prize–winning music critic presents an unprecedented collection of the writings of the great composer-critic and father of American classical music, Virgil ThomsonFollowing on the critically acclaimed edition of Virgil Thomson’s collected newspaper music criticism, The Library of America and Pulitzer Prize–winning music critic Tim Page now present Thomson’s other literary and critical ... Read more

    $52.79 CAD

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  • Verdi

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