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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 Thomson'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...

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Author

Virgil Thomson; Tim Page

Publisher

The Library of America Distributed to the trade in the United States by Penguin Random House Inc. and [Distributed] in Canada by Penguin Random House Canada Ltd

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781598533095

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Music, History