{"product_id":"9781598533644","title":"Virgil Thomson: Music Chronicles 1940-1954 (LOA #258)","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eRevisit the Golden Age of classical music in America through the witty and adventurous reviews of our greatest critic-composer\u003c\/b\u003e: \u003c\/b\u003eFor fourteen memorable years Virgil Thomson surveyed the worlds of opera and classical music as the chief music critic for the \u003ci\u003eNew York Herald Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e. 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: \u003ci\u003eThe Musical Scene\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Art of Judging Music\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMusic Right and Left\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMusic Reviewed\u003c\/i\u003e. All are gathered here, together with a generous selection of Thomson’s 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.","brand":"Library of America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47165364928752,"sku":"9781598533644","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781598533644_p0.jpg?v=1763813839","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781598533644","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}