Virgil - Music 1

«La musica di Puccini ha pietà dell'amore e della morte, e, insieme, ha dell'uno la nostalgia e dell'altra uno stupore accorato e rassegnato»: così scriveva Pietro Mascagni in occasione dell'inaugur……続きを見る

Composer Thomson, whose film score for Louisiana Story was awarded the Music Pulitzer Prize in 1949, writes about contemporary music and a musician's place in society before World War II.-Print ed. 続きを見る

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-ye……続きを見る

Virgil Thomson was a gifted composer and one of the nation’s foremost cultural critics. The best-selling autobiography Virgil Thomson (1966) is his gossipy telling of his own extraordinary progress ……続きを見る