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

by Virgil Thomson

Book Overview

For fourteen crucial years in the middle of the twentieth century, Virgil Thompson surveyed the worlds of opera and classical music from his vantage as the nationally syndicated music critic for the New York Herald Tribune. An accomplished composer who knew music from the inside, Thompson communicated its joys and complexities to a wide readership in a clear and winning style, and his daily reviews and Sunday columns set a high water-mark in American...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1598533096
• ISBN13: 9781598533095
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Library of America
• Length: 1200 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.3" x 8.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher