A Virgil Thomson Reader
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A Virgil Thomson Reader
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Author : Virgil Thomson
language : en
Publisher: Plume
Release Date : 1984
A Virgil Thomson Reader written by Virgil Thomson and has been published by Plume this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Fiction categories.
Virgil Thomson
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Author : Richard Kostelanetz
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-11
Virgil Thomson written by Richard Kostelanetz and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-11 with Music categories.
This essential reader includes Thomson's essays on making a living as a musician; his articles on classic composers; his relation to his contemporaries; his articles on newcomers in the music world, including John Cage and Pierre Boulez; his autobiographical writings and commentary on his own works.
Virgil Thomson
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Author : Koslelanetz
language : en
Publisher: Music Sales Corporation
Release Date : 1998-11-01
Virgil Thomson written by Koslelanetz and has been published by Music Sales Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-11-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Virgil Thomson The State Of Music Other Writings
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Author : Virgil Thomson
language : en
Publisher: Library of America
Release Date : 2016-10-04
Virgil Thomson The State Of Music Other Writings written by Virgil Thomson and has been published by Library of America this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-04 with Music categories.
An unprecedented collection of polemical and autobiographical writings by America’s greatest composer-critic. Following on the critically acclaimed 2014 edition of Virgil Thomson's collected newspaper music criticism, The Library of America and Pulitzer Prize–winning music critic Tim Page now present Thomson’s other 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 and won him his 14-year stint at the New York Herald Tribune. This no-holds-barred polemic, here presented in its revised edition of 1962, discusses the commissions, jobs, and other opportunities available to the American composer, a worker in a world of performance and broadcast institutions that, today as much as in Thomson’s time, are dominated by tin-eared, non-musical patrons of the arts who are shocked by the new and suspicious of native talent. Thomson’s autobiography, Virgil Thomson (1966), is more than just the story of the struggle of one such American composer, it is an intellectual, aesthetic, and personal chronicle of the twentieth century, from World War I–era Kansas City to Harvard in the age of straw boaters, from Paris in the Twenties and Thirties to Manhattan in the Forties and after. A classic American memoir, it is marked by a buoyant wit, a true gift for verbal portrait-making, and a cast of characters including Aaron Copland, Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, Paul Bowles, John Houseman, and Orson Welles. American Music Since 1910 (1971) is a series of incisive essays on the lives and works of Ives, Ruggles, Varèse, Copland, Cage, and others who helped define a national musical idiom. Music with Words (1989), Thomson’s final book, is a distillation of a subject he knew better than perhaps any other American composer: how to set English—especially American English—to music, in opera and art song. The volume is rounded out by a judicious selection of Thomson’s magazine journalism from 1957 to 1984—thirty-seven pieces, most of them previously uncollected, including many long-form review-essays written for The New York Review of Books. From the Hardcover edition.
Selected Letters Of Virgil Thomson
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Author : Virgil Thomson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
Selected Letters Of Virgil Thomson written by Virgil Thomson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Virgil Thomson
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Author : Virgil Thomson
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2002
Virgil Thomson written by Virgil Thomson and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Virgil Thomson Music Chronicles 1940 1954 Loa 258
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Author : Virgil Thomson
language : en
Publisher: Library of America
Release Date : 2014-10-16
Virgil Thomson Music Chronicles 1940 1954 Loa 258 written by Virgil Thomson and has been published by Library of America this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-16 with Music categories.
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 legendary performers (Horowitz, Rubinstein, Heifetz, Stern) presented new masters (Copland, Stravinsky, Britten, Bernstein) and re-introduced the classics to a rapt American audience. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
Four Saints In Three Acts
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Author : Virgil Thomson
language : en
Publisher: A-R Editions, Inc.
Release Date : 2008-01-01
Four Saints In Three Acts written by Virgil Thomson and has been published by A-R Editions, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-01 with Music categories.
Virgil Thomson and Gertrude SteinFour Saints in Three ActsEdited by H. Wiley Hitchcock MU18 / A 64 ISBN (2008) lv + 447 pp. $250.00 ISBN 978-0-89579-629-5 Rental parts available from Schirmer only. With music by Virgil Thomson and a libretto by Gertrude Stein, Four Saints in Three Acts was completed in 1928 but waited almost six years for its first performances. After a week¿s run in Hartford, Connecticut, in February 1934, it moved to New York where--with some sixty performances in six weeks--it became the longest-running opera that Broadway up to that time had experienced.This critical edition by H. Wiley Hitchcock and Charles Fussell features the scenario by Maurice Grosser and is based on the full score that Thomson commissioned from copyist Ben Weber for his 1947-48 revision; it includes the 32-measure orchestral prelude to the Act II "Dance of the Angels," and it makes comparisons primarily to the manuscript scores held at the Library of Congress and Yale University. The critical apparatus applies as much to the music as to the Stein text, the principal source for which is the 1929 first publication.
The Reader S Companion To American History
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Author : Eric Foner
language : en
Publisher: HMH
Release Date : 2014-01-14
The Reader S Companion To American History written by Eric Foner and has been published by HMH this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-14 with History categories.
An A-to-Z historical encyclopedia of US people, places, and events, with nearly 1,000 entries “all equally well written, crisp, and entertaining” (Library Journal). From the origins of its native peoples to its complex identity in modern times, this unique alphabetical reference covers the political, economic, cultural, and social history of America. A fact-filled treasure trove for history buffs, The Reader’s Companion is sponsored by the Society of American Historians, an organization dedicated to promoting literary excellence in the writing of biography and history. Under the editorship of the eminent historians John A. Garraty and Eric Foner, a large and distinguished group of scholars, biographers, and journalists—nearly four hundred contemporary authorities—illuminate the critical events, issues, and individuals that have shaped our past. Readers will find everything from a chronological account of immigration; individual entries on the Bull Moose Party and the Know-Nothings as well as an article on third parties in American politics; pieces on specific religious groups, leaders, and movements and a larger-scale overview of religion in America. Interweaving traditional political and economic topics with the spectrum of America’s social and cultural legacies—everything from marriage to medicine, crime to baseball, fashion to literature—the Companion is certain to engage the curiosity, interests, and passions of every reader, and also provides an excellent research tool for students and teachers.
Song
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Author : Carol Kimball
language : en
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Release Date : 2006-12-01
Song written by Carol Kimball and has been published by Hal Leonard Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-12-01 with Music categories.
Carol Kimball's comprehensive survey of art song literature has been the principal one-volume American source on the topic. Now back in print after an absence of several years this newly revised edition includes biographies and discussions of the work of