The American composer and music critic recounts events and acquaintances from his Missouri childhood, his sojourns in Paris between the wars and his eventual rise to world fame
A Pulitzer Prize–winning music critic presents an unprecedented collection of the writings of the great composer-critic and father of American classical music, Virgil ThomsonFollowing on the...
Book XI of the Aeneid covers four crucial days in Aeneas' struggle against the Latins. In it, Virgil gives us the funeral of Pallas, the great Latin war-council, Turnus' plan to ambush Aeneas, and...