{"id":4773,"date":"2024-02-07T22:00:11","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T22:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/?post_type=books&#038;p=4773"},"modified":"2025-09-16T19:39:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T19:39:09","slug":"the-reminiscences-and-selected-music-criticism-of-herbert-thompson","status":"publish","type":"books","link":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/books\/the-reminiscences-and-selected-music-criticism-of-herbert-thompson\/","title":{"rendered":"The <em>Reminiscences<\/em> and Selected Music Criticism of Herbert Thompson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Herbert Thompson (1856-1945) was chief music critic at\u00a0<em>The Yorkshire Post<\/em>\u00a0from 1886 until 1936, as well as being the Yorkshire correspondent for the\u00a0<em>Musical Times<\/em>. This volume includes a critical edition of his\u00a0<em>Reminiscences<\/em>, and a substantial selection of his published music criticism.\u00a0Thompson offers a fascinating commentary on the nature of music criticism and the value of programme notes, along with his views on a plethora of composers (including J. S. Bach, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Meyerbeer, Stanford, Sullivan, and Wagner), performers (such as Leonard Borwick, Joachim, Clara Schumann,\u00a0and Sivori, plus a range of operatic and concert vocalists), and conductors (Buths, Costa, Nikisch, Richter, von B\u00fclow, amongst others). In addition to charting his concert-going in London (with reference to institutions such as the Philharmonic Society, the Bach Choir and the Crystal Palace concerts) and documenting a range of performance timings, Thompson also discusses programming at provincial festivals (including Bridlington, Gloucester and Hovingham,\u00a0but especially Leeds) and the variety of music-making in Yorkshire. Not only does Thompson highlight the rich detail of British musical life, but his description of his musical tour of Europe in 1889 represents a significant contribution to nineteenth-century travel writing and the nature of music-making abroad.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":4774,"template":"","subject":[38],"browse_by_series":[],"browse_by_imprints":[],"conference":[],"class_list":["post-4773","books","type-books","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","subject-music"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books\/4773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/books"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books\/4773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5579,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books\/4773\/revisions\/5579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=4773"},{"taxonomy":"browse_by_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/browse_by_series?post=4773"},{"taxonomy":"browse_by_imprints","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/browse_by_imprints?post=4773"},{"taxonomy":"conference","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/conference?post=4773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}