Overview

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.

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...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

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