Virgil Thomson
Author
Language
English
Description
Sir William Pell Barton KCIE CSI (29 May 1871—28 November 1956) had a distinguished career in the Indian Political Service. He was British Resident in Baroda (1919), Mysore (1920—25) and Hyderabad (1925—30) and was well known as an authority on the North West Frontier and the Princely states during the days of British rule in India. On leaving the service he worked as an historian of the Princely states and was a frequent contributor to periodicals...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 277
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"In this second volume in the Library of America's definitive Virgil Thomson edition, Pulitzer Prize-winning music critic Tim Page collects for the first time the great composer's four witty, incisive, and compulsively readable full-length works. Written with authority and élan, these classic books offer an engrossing tour of the tumultuous twentieth-century musical scene and Thomson's extraordinary career as one of the nation's foremost cultural...
Author
Series
Twentieth-century composers volume 1
Publisher
Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Pub. Date
[1971]
Language
English
Author
Series
Library of America volume 258
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
When, in October 1940, the New York Herald Tribune named the composer Virgil Thomson (1896-1989) its chief music critic, the management of the paper braced itself for an uproar. Perhaps best known for his collaboration with librettist Gertrude Stein on the whimsically nonsensical "anti-opera" Four Saints in Three Acts, Thomson was notorious among conservative concertgoers as a leader of America's musical avant-garde and a maverick writer who delighted...
