Virgil Thomson: The State of Music & Other Writings
Library of America #277
$130.48
- Hardcover
1182 pages
- Release Date
1 May 2016
Summary
An unprecedented collection of polemical and autobiographical writings by America’s greatest composer-critic.
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 Thomson.
Following on the critically acclaimed edition of Virgil Thomson’s collected newspaper music criticism, this volume presents Thomson’s other literary and critical works, a body of writing that con…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781598534672 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 159853467X |
| Author: | Tim Page, Virgil Thompson |
| Publisher: | The Library of America |
| Imprint: | The Library of America |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 1182 |
| Release Date: | 1 May 2016 |
| Weight: | 567g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 132mm |
| Series: | Library of America (Hardcover) |
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“Every practicing and aspiring critic today should read Thomson’s exhilarating writings.” –Anthony Tommasini, The New York Times
“Every practicing and aspiring critic today should read Thomson’s exhilarating writings.”–Anthony Tommasini, The New York Times
About The Author
Tim Page
Tim Page, editor of the two-volume Library of America Virgil Thomson edition, won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism for his writings in the Washington Post, for which he was a music critic from 1995 to 2008. A professor of music and journalism at the University of Southern California, he is also co-editor of Virgil Thomson’s Selected Letters.
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