Thomas Larson is a 20-year staff writer for the San Diego Reader, the author of four books (one on music: The Saddest Music Ever Written: The Story of Samuel Barber’s “Adagio for Strings”), former music critic for The Santa Fe New Mexican, and the author of hundreds of essays, articles, and commentaries on literature, art, and music. His website is www.thomaslarson.com.
Thomas Larson
Articles
I’m Going to Build a Heaven of My Own: The Harry Smith B-Sides
This new package is every bit as aurally transcendent and esoterically inscrutable as Smith’s A Sides.
A Plurality of Traditions: Anthony Davis and the Social Justice Opera
The socially driven dream-telling of Anthony Davis’s political operas.
Leo Tolstoy and the Origins of Spiritual Memoir
Thomas Larson evaluates the spiritual and artistic innovation of “Confession” by Leo Tolstoy.
Let Us Now Praise Free Men
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