Clearance: The State of Music and Other Writings

Virgil Thomson

An unprecedented collection of polemical and autobiographical writings by America’s greatest composer-critic. Accompanying the critically acclaimed 2014 edition of Virgil Thomson's collected newspaper music criticism, this volume presents Thomson’s other literary and critical works, a body of writing that constitutes America’s musical declaration of independence from the European past.,An unprecedented collection of polemical and autobiographical writings by America’s greatest composer-critic. Accompanying the critically acclaimed 2014 edition of Virgil Thomson's collected newspaper music criticism, this volume presents Thomson’s other literary and critical works, a body of writing that constitutes America’s musical declaration of independence from the European past.