{"product_id":"virgil-thomson-music-chronicles-19401954","title":"Virgil Thomson: Music Chronicles  1940-1954","description":"\u003cp\u003eRevisit Americas Golden Age of classical music through the witty and wildly popular reviews of our greatest critic-composer  For fourteen memorable years Virgil Thomson surveyed the worlds of opera and classical music as the chief music critic for the New York Herald Tribune. An accomplished composer who knew music from the inside  Thomson communicated its pleasures and complexities to a wide readership in a hugely entertaining  authoritative style  and his daily reviews and Sunday articles set a high-water mark in American cultural journalism.  Thomson collected his newspaper columns in four volumes: The Musical Scene  The Art of Judging Music  Music Right and Left  and Music Reviewed. All are gathered here  together with a generous selection of Thomsons uncollected writings. The result is a singular chronicle of a magical time when an unrivaled roster of great conductors (Koussevitzky  Toscanini  Beecham  Stokowski) and legendary performers (Horowitz  Rubinstein  Heifetz  Stern) presented new masters (Copland  Stravinsky  Britten  Bernstein) and re-introduced the classics to a rapt American audience.  LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nations literary heritage by publishing  and keeping permanently in print  Americas best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date  authoritative editions that average 1 000 pages in length  feature cloth covers  sewn bindings  and ribbon markers  and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44964062232629,"sku":"ByrdShop_1598533096","price":35.06,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781598533095.jpg?v=1770447282","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/virgil-thomson-music-chronicles-19401954","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}