Title: Virgil Thomson.
Authors: Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989
Publisher: A.A. Knopf,
Year: 1966
Subjects: Thomson, Virgil,; Musicians Biography; Musicians Correspondence, reminiscences, etc.; Musicians Correspondence
Contents: Chapter 1-Missouri Landscape with Figures -- Chapter 2-A Kansas City Childhood -- Chapter 3-A Musician's Adolescence -- Chapter 4-My World War I -- Chapter 5-Harvard, Jumping Off Place for Europe -- Chapter 6-The first time I Saw Paris -- Chapter 7-An End to Education -- Chapter 8-Antheil, Joyce, and Pound -- Chapter 9-Langlois, Butts and Stein -- Chapter 10-17 quai Voltaire -- Chapter 11-Euorpe After 1925 -- Chapter 12-Americna Interlude -- Chapter 13-An Epoch Ends -- Chapter 15-The New Romanticism -- Chapter 25-A Portrait of Gertrude Stein -- Chapter 16-Gertrude and the Young French Poet -- Chapter 17-Neighborhoods and Portraits -- Chapter 18-Adopted by the Modern Art Distributors -- Chapter 19-Orchaestrations and Contracts -- Chapter 20-Four Saints in Three Cities -- Chapter 21-communists All Around and High Life Too -- Chapter 22-Show Business for Uncle Sam -- chapter 23-Theatrical Thirties -- Chapter 24-Pastoral -- Chapter 25-The Quiet War -- Chapter 26-Mozart, One Musicians 's Best Friend -- Chapter 27-The Paper -- Chapter 28-Europe in America -- Chapter 29-All Roads Lead to Paris -- Chapter 30-France in 1945 -- chapter 31-Europe in 1946 -- Chapter 32-The Year I was Fifty -- Chapter 33-Five Years go By -- Chapter 34-Traipsing and Trouping -- Chapter 25- A Distaste for Music -- Index of Names -- Index of Compositions: Virgil