Following on the critically acclaimed 2014 edition of Virgil Thomson's collected newspaper music criticism, The Library of America andPulitzer 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.
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
|
Ask a Question About this Product More... |
|
