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The State of Music: A Library of America eBook Classic

By Virgil Thomson

Book information

Publisher
Library of America
Year
2016
ISBN
9781598534757, 2015935696
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
405 kB (415159 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2023-01-10 08:38:01
Biography & Autobiography; History; Music; Nonfict

Description

Virgil Thomson had already established himself as one of the nation's leading composers when he published The State of Music (1939), the book that made his name as a writer and won him a fourteen-year stint as chief music reviewer at the New York Herald Tribune. This feisty, often hilarious polemic, presented here in the extensively revised edition of 1962, surveys the challenges confronting the American composer in a hide-bound world where performance and broadcast outlets are controlled by institutions shocked by the new and suspicious of homegrown talent. For Aaron Copland, The State of Music was not just “the most original book on music that America has produced,” but “the wittiest, the most provocative, the best written.”

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