In 1940, he began to make electric guitars, innovating like none other before him. In the 1940s, Paul also played many gigs and began recording music.

THE summer seasons of music in America have generally been a long dry spell when those who thirsted for the living waters had to be their own rain-makers. That drouth is now ending, thanks to an ...

Between 1940 and 1954, Thomson's columns in the New York Herald-Tribune made him one of the most powerful classical music critics in North America.