Mr. Thomson has good
qualifications for writing these books about music of the present. He has
covered a wide field of musical interests, having taught, lectured, performed,
conducted, criticized. composed; and is now music critic for the New York Herald Tribune. His
compositions include operas, symphonies, string-quartets, film and theatrical
music, ballets. songs, Protestant anthems, and Catholic Masses — he is best
known perhaps for his score to Four
Saints in Three Acts.
This special edition of THE STATE
OF MUSIC by Virgil Thomson has been made available to the Armed Forces of the
United States through an arrangement with the original publisher, William
Morrow and Company. Inc., New York.
Editions for the Armed Services,
Inc., a non-profit organization established by the Council on Books in Wartime