19 DECEMBER 1981, page 41

Encore

Bryan Robertson O ver the years, the composer and doughty critic Virgil Thomson has become an American institution, and for the past decade or so, it seems, there have been more......

From Bad . . .

Taki L ike everyone else's, I imagine, my memories of long ago Christmas holidays are vague. Unlike remembrances of love affairs past, of which one tends to remember only the......