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Everbest Ever
Thomson, Virgil; Shere, Charles; Tede, Margery
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Description for Everbest Ever
Paperback. Series: Fallen Leaf Monographs in Contemporary Composers. Num Pages: 105 pages, facsims. BIC Classification: AVGC6. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
Spanning two decades, from 1968 to 1989, the letters—written as jeux d'espirit and presented in the same spirit—touch on Thomson's life, compositions, and writings; Gertrude Stein and Marcel Duchamp; music criticism; travel, food and wine; the local musical scene; and plans (sometimes fulfilled, sometimes not) for concerts and recordings. The record Thomson's correspondence with composer and writer Charles Shere, soprano Margery Tede, and other San Francisco friends. Editorial annotations place the letters in context.
Spanning two decades, from 1968 to 1989, the letters—written as jeux d'espirit and presented in the same spirit—touch on Thomson's life, compositions, and writings; Gertrude Stein and Marcel Duchamp; music criticism; travel, food and wine; the local musical scene; and plans (sometimes fulfilled, sometimes not) for concerts and recordings. The record Thomson's correspondence with composer and writer Charles Shere, soprano Margery Tede, and other San Francisco friends. Editorial annotations place the letters in context.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
105
Condition
New
Series
Fallen Leaf Monographs in Contemporary Composers
Number of Pages
105
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780914913399
SKU
V9780914913399
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Ref
99-15
Reviews for Everbest Ever
...brings out a playfully snooty side of the....composer right from the start... Anecdotes emerge in this correspondence with intruiging regularity as we see how comfotable Thomson regarded the everyday cosmopolitanism, cultural or culinary, of Northern California.
San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco Chronicle