Virgil Thomson: The State Of Music & Other Writings: Library of America #277

Description

Virgil Thomson is America's greatest composer and critic who changed the face of music by developing the 'American Sound'. Following on the critically acclaimed 2014 edition of Thomson's collected newspaper music criticism, The Library of America and Pulitzer Prize-winning music critic Tim Page now presents Thomson's major literary and critical works, a body of writing that constitutes America's musical declaration of independence from the European past. This volume opens with The State of Music (1939), the book that made Thomson's name as a critic.

TIM PAGE, editor of the two-volume Library of America Virgil Thomson edition,won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism for his writings in theWashington 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 ofVirgil Thomson's Selected Letters.

"Every practicing and aspiring critic today should read Thomson's exhilarating writings." --Anthony Tommasini, The New York Times