| Virgil Thomson: Composer on the Aisle |  | Author: Anthony Tommasini
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Category: Book
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Seller: Hudson Street Books
Sales Rank: 1,915,184
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Pages: 605
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.5
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 5.7 x 2
ISBN: 0393040062
EAN: 9780393040067
ASIN: 0393040062
Publication Date: June 1997
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Product Description
This is a biography of Virgil Thomson (1896-1989) as a composer, a critic and a gay man. It chronicles his search for a place in the world and how he came to accept his sexuality. Anthony Tommasini was a close confidant of Thomson's during his last years and was allowed complete access to his private papers. He admires his musical and literary genius but he looks unflinchingly at the ego behind it. He portrays his often bitter rivalries with other composers such as Aaron Copland, his penchant for settling scores as America's most influential music critic, his lasting impact on younger composers such as Leonard Bernstein, John Cage and Philip Glass, and his continuous struggle to write and to win an audience for his music.
Amazon.com Review
Best known for an opera he set to Gertrude Stein's text, Four Saints in Three Acts (1934), and for the Pulitzer Prize-winning score of the documentary Louisiana Story (1948), composer Virgil Thomson (1896-1989) was also an unswerving champion of modern American classical music during his tenure as the powerful music critic of the New York Herald Tribune (1940-54). His works' tonality, stress on simplicity, and skillful use of traditional American tunes strongly influenced Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, and many others. Lively prose evokes the crusty character of an American original in this enjoyably opinionated biography.
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