Virgil Thomson : music chronicles, 1940-1954 /

When, in October 1940, the New York Herald Tribune named the composer Virgil Thomson (1896-1989) its chief music critic, the management of the paper braced itself for an uproar. Perhaps best known for his collaboration with librettist Gertrude Stein on the whimsically nonsensical "anti-opera&qu...

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Main Author:	Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989 (Author)
Other Authors:	Page, Tim, 1954- (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York, N.Y. : The Library of America, [2014]
Series:	Library of America ; 258.
Subjects:	Thomson, Virgil, > 1896-1989. Music > History and criticism. Music > Philosophy and aesthetics. Concerts > Reviews.