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Prepare for saints : Gertrude Stein, Virgil Thomson, and the mainstreaming of American modernism / Steven Watson.
LIBRA - Special ML410.T452 W37 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Watson, Steven.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989. Four saints in three acts.
- Thomson, Virgil.
- Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946.
- Stein, Gertrude.
- Modernism (Aesthetics)--United States.
- Modernism (Aesthetics).
- Four saints in three acts (Thomson, Virgil).
- United States.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- ix, 371 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, 2000.
- Summary:
- Perhaps the oddest and most influential collaboration in the history of American modernism was hatched in 1926, when a young Virgil Thomson knocked on Gertrude Stein's door in Paris. Eight years later, their opera Four Saints in Three Acts became a sensation -- the longest-running opera in Broadway history to date and the most widely reported cultural event of its time. Prepare for Saints is Steven Watson's brilliant and absorbing account of how that revolutionary opera was born.
- Contents:
- Prologue: Introducing Four Saints in Three Acts 3
- 1. The World of 27, Rue de Fleurus 9
- 2. Virgil Thomson: Roots in Time and Place 23
- 3. Virgil and Gertrude Write an Opera 37
- 4. A Transatlantic Love Affair 55
- 5. Virgil Thomson Visits America 63
- 6. Young Harvard Moderns 79
- 7. A Personal Break, a Commercial Breakthrough 115
- 8. Group Snapshot 1923: The Harvard Moderns 133
- 9. The World of the Stettheimers 163
- 10. High Bohemia and Modernism 173
- 11. Modernism Goes Uptown 197
- 12. Negotiations and Exchanges 211
- 13. Snapshots: Summer 1933 217
- 14. Collaborators: Not the Usual Suspects 231
- 15. Rehearsals in Harlem 241
- 16. Opening Night 265
- 17. Four Saints Goes to Broadway 281
- 18. Aftermath 297.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-353) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0520223535
- 9780520223530
- OCLC:
- 43115097
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