Reminiscences of Virgil Thomson, 1977.

Biographical Note

Composer, music critic

Scope and Contents

Family background; childhood in Kansas City; study with Nadia Boulanger; comparison of university and conservatory-oriented musical education systems; the process of writing music, working methods; musical theater in the United States; limitations of electronic music

Subjects

• Composers--Interviews.
• Composition (Music)
• Electronic music.
• Interviews.
• Music--Instruction and study.
• Music critics--Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Perlis, Vivian, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989--Interviews.

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