The State of Music A Library of America eBook Classic eBook Virgil Thomson
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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 American composer in a hide-bound world where performance and broadcast outlets are controlled by institutions shocked by the new and suspicious of homegrown talent. For Aaron Copland, The State of Music was not just “the most original book on music that America has produced,” but “the wittiest, the most provocative, the best written.”
The State of Music A Library of America eBook Classic eBook Virgil Thomson
I guess that I have become a big Virgil Thomson fan in my old age. The preternatural importance of his music in forming an "American Sound" (to wit, sine qua non), his conviction about the roles of musicians, painters and poets in society and his sardonic vision about everything that he heard appeals to me. This book is a classic and should be read by anyone who considers him- or herself an objective listener. Excellent book.Product details
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I guess that I have become a big Virgil Thomson fan in my old age. The preternatural importance of his music in forming an "American Sound" (to wit, sine qua non), his conviction about the roles of musicians, painters and poets in society and his sardonic vision about everything that he heard appeals to me. This book is a classic and should be read by anyone who considers him- or herself an objective listener. Excellent book.
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