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Article: Paul Bowles on Music
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- The Virginia Quarterly Review
- Article date:
- April 1, 2004
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Paul Bowles on Music, by Paul Bowles. Edited by Timothy Mangan and Irene Hermann. California, September 2003. $34.95
Before turning his attention to writing fiction, Paul Bowles, who was also a composer, worked as music critic for Modern Music and the New York Herald Tribune from 1939 to 1945. Bowles reviewed film soundtracks, jazz and folk records, and scores of concerts. This collection provides glimpses of Bowles as a burgeoning writer as well as firsthand accounts of some of the 2oth century's musical giants. The book contains reviews of world premieres of Aaron Copland and ...