[The June issue of Esquire arrives on newsstands Sunday, and there’s something unique about its cover photo. Not the presence of an attractive young starlet — that’s de rigueur in the magazine ...
In his music and his prose, Virgil Thomson perfected a whimsically deadpan sensibility. Virgil Thomson with the cast of The Mother of Us All, in 1972 The first line of Gertrude Stein’s “Susie Asado” ...