Virgil Thomson
Subtitle: music chronicles, 1940-1954
By: Tim Page, editor
Contributors: Page, Tim, 1954- editor
Series: The Library of America -- 258; Library of America -- 258.
Publisher: Library of America
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1177
ISBN-13: 9781598533095
Subjects: Reviews; Music appreciation; Music; Philosophy and aesthetics; History and criticism; Concerts
Other titles: Music chronicles, 1940-1954; New York herald tribune.
Description: When, in October 1940, the New York herald tribune named the composer Virgil Thomson its chief music critic, the management of the paper braced itself for an uproar. Music chronicles 1940-1954 presents the best of Thomson's newspaper criticism as the author collected it in four books long out of print: The musical scene (1945), The art of judging music (1948), Music right and left (1951), and Music reviewed (1967). The volume is rounded out by a generous selection of other writings from the Herald tribune years and, in an appendix, eight early essays.
Notes: "Chronology": pages 993-1018 ; "Notes on the musicians": pages 1025-1110.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The musical scene; title: The art of judging music; title: Music right and left; title: from Music reviewed, 1940-1954; title: Other writings; title: Appendix. Early articles and reviews, 1922-1938.