Anthony Tommasini, Author Times Books $18 (336p) ISBN 978-0-8050-7459-8
Opera lovers are notoriously argumentative, so anyone drawing up a list of the""most important"" works in the medium should expect to generate plenty of debate. Tommasini, chief music critic for the New York Times, recognizes that some of the...
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Anthony Tommasini, Author W. W. Norton & Company $30 (605p) ISBN 978-0-393-04006-7
Composer and critic Virgil Thomson (1896-1989) had an impact on American musical life quite out of proportion to the modest attention his own music received during his lifetime; such was the force of his personality and his skills as a...
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Anthony Tommasini. Penguin Press, $30 (492p) ISBN 978-1-59420-593-4
Seventeen classical composers are celebrated in these insightful critical essays. A concert pianist and New York Times classical music critic, Tommasini (Virgil Thompson: Composer in the Aisle) expands on a series of his newspaper articles to...
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