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1. Virgil Thomson Reader by Virgil Thomson | |
Paperback: 588
Pages
(1984-04-16)
list price: US$11.95 -- used & new: US$5.95 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0525481028 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
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One of America's finest essayists. |
2. Virgil Thomson: A Reader: Selected Writings, 1924-1984 | |
Hardcover: 304
Pages
(2002-08-09)
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3. Virgil Thompson: Composer on the Aisle by Anthony Tommasini | |
Paperback: 624
Pages
(1998-12-01)
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Excellent work, the new standard on Thomson
An excellent overview of Thomson's life At the time when Thomson wrote his autobiography, American attitudes towards homosexuality were less than favourable.His colleague, Henry Cowell had done time at San Quentin Prison for his homosexual relationships with young men.Tommasini very frankly discusses Thomson's many relationships, particularly his long relationship with the painter Maurice Grosser. Tommasini obviously does hold his subject in high esteem.However, that does not preclude Tommasini's critical look at his subject.He presents us with a portrait of an often irascible composer/critic whose contributions to American musical life have not yet been fully realised.Bernstein's statement on the death of Thomson unfortunately rings true today: 'we loved his music but rarely played it.'Hopefully, those who read Tommasini's work will become more interested in the extraordinary oeuvre of Virgil Thomson.His is a unique voice.Hopefully, it will be recovered. ... Read more |
4. Prepare for Saints: Gertrude Stein, Virgil Thomson, and the Mainstreaming of American Modernism by Steven Watson | |
Paperback: 380
Pages
(1995-07-16)
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Fascinating cultural history
Opera is used as a hook for a less saleable topic But the result is that one does not get enough ofanything, and too much of what you didn't buy the book for. Chick Austin,Muriel Draper, and the others may have provided physical settings relevantto the gestation of FOUR SAINTS, but they did not CREATE the piece. Assuch, the lingering over their particular biographies is excessive in abook purportedly devoted to the birth of the opera. Too often we get listsof celebrities present at this gathering or another, complete with fawningdescriptions of what they were wearing and how they decorated their rooms-- but this stems from a fan's love of a period, not a chronicling of FOURSAINTS itself. Thus while we read through elegant page after page gushingabout Mrs. Harrison Williams and Lucius Beebe, by the end we have littleidea of what went on on stage in the opera, what more than a few of thelyrics were, or how the music sounded. If it is vital for us to know howJulien Levy founded his art gallery blow by blow, why so little info onblack theatre in New York before and after FOUR SAINTS? Why spend aparagraph following up on, say, Alfred Barr after SAINTS but only briefmention of what happened to any of the SAINTS cast members? This is a bookabout art museums mispackaged as one about the theatre. This book is abit of a cynical hoax. You can just feel the editor "shaping" abook about largely forgotten arts administrators and critics, the partiesthey went to, who they slept with, and how openly, via hanging it all on anopera which fascinates in legend because of combining a black cast withGertrude Stein's lyrics. In the end, this book is a collection ofwell-written personality sketches of pictorial artists and their patrons.The author clearly has but subsidiary interest in music or theatre -- fatalin a book purporting to be about an opera.
More gossip than information |
5. The Selected Letters of Virgil Thomson by Tim Page | |
Paperback: 413
Pages
(1989-09)
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6. Virgil Thomson: A Bio-Bibliography (Bio-Bibliographies in Music) by Michael Meckna | |
Hardcover: 217
Pages
(1986-08-13)
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7. Selected Letters of Virgil Thomson (AUTHOR SIGNED FIRST EDITION) by Virgil edited by Tom Page and Vanessa Weeks Page Thomson | |
Unknown Binding:
Pages
(1988)
Asin: B0045N20A6 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
8. The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson: Composition as Conversation | |
Hardcover: 352
Pages
(2010-02-04)
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Curious Canadians Compile Contract Correspondence Coherently - Nearly |
9. Virgil Thomson - An Autobiography by Virgil Thomson | |
Paperback: 424
Pages
(1985-04-24)
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Thoroughly enjoyable |
10. Virgil Thomson: His Life and Music by Kathleen O. Hoover, John Cage | |
Hardcover: 288
Pages
(1911-11)
list price: US$23.00 Isbn: 0836953762 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
11. FOUR SAINTS IN THREE ACTS - SOUVENIR PROGRAM - NOVEMBER 1986 by GERTRUDE & VIRGIL THOMSON STEIN | |
Paperback:
Pages
(1986)
Asin: B003YE6OY0 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
12. American Music Since 1910 by Virgil Thomson | |
Hardcover:
Pages
(1999-01)
list price: US$25.00 Isbn: 0306796600 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
13. Music with Words: A Composer`s View by Virgil Thomson | |
Hardcover: 112
Pages
(1989-09-10)
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Virgil makes me tear my hair out |
14. The musical scene by Virgil Thomson | |
Hardcover:
Pages
(1968)
Asin: B0006BWMMW Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
15. THE MOTHER OF US ALL - STAGEBILL - FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 12, 1987 by VIRGIL THOMSON | |
Paperback:
Pages
(1987)
Asin: B003YE063U Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
16. Grand Street Vol. 7, No. 2; Winter 1988 by James; Padgett Powell; Virgil Thomson Salter | |
Paperback:
Pages
(1988)
Asin: B0041IILT4 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
17. The Art of Judging Music by Virgil Thomson | |
Hardcover: 318
Pages
(1969-04-30)
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18. Music, Right and Left by Virgil Thomson | |
Hardcover: 214
Pages
(1969-04-30)
list price: US$61.95 Isbn: 0837106850 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
19. THE MOTHER OF US ALL - AN OPERA - 2 RECORD SET - vinyl lps. MIGNON DUNN - JAMES ATHERTON - PHILIP BOOTH - BATYAH GODFREY, AND OTHERS. by VIRGIL (MUSIC BY) GERTRUDE STEIN (TEXT BY) RAYMOOND LEPPARD (CONDUCTED BY) THOMSON | |
Unknown Binding:
Pages
(1977)
Asin: B0041CTU0Y Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
20. State of Music by Virgil Thomson | |
Hardcover: 250
Pages
(1974)
Isbn: 0837172586 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
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Old, but not dated |
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