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010 a| 98017496;

020 a| 0679441395;

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050 00 a| ML410.T452b| W37 1998;

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100 1 a| Watson, Steven.=| ^A273202;

245 10 a| Prepare for saints :b| Gertrude Stein, Virgil Thomson, and the mainstreaming of American modernism /c| Steven Watson.;

250 a| First edition.;

300 a| ix, 371 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 25 cm;

336 a| text2| rdacontent;

337 a| unmediated2| rdamedia;

338 a| volume2| rdacarrier;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-353) and index.;

520 a| Perhaps the oddest and most influential collaboration in the history of American modernism was hatched in 1926, when 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. Saints was proclaimed the birth of a new art form, a cellophane fantasy, "cubism on stage." It swept the public imagination and defied every convention of what an opera should be. Moving to Broadway, Four Saints was the first popular modernist production. It brought modernism, with all its flamboyant outrage against convention, into the mainstream. This is the story of how that opera came to be. The elaborately intertwined lives of the collaborators provide a window onto the pioneering generation that defined modern taste in America in the 1920s and 1930s.;

600 10 a| Thomson, Virgil,d| 1896-1989.t| Four saints in three acts.=| ^A506037;

600 10 a| Stein, Gertrude,d| 1874-1946.=| ^A24392;

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Prepare for saints : Gertrude Stein, Virgil Thomson, and the mainstreaming of American modernism / Steven Watson.

Author/creator	Watson, Steven
Format	Book
Edition	First edition.
Publication Info	New York : Random House, ©1998.
Description	ix, 371 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subjects	Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989. Four saints in three acts. Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946. Modernism (Aesthetics)--United States. --History. --20th century.

Contents	Prologue: Introducing Four Saints in Three Acts -- The World of 27, Rue de Fleurus -- Virgil Thomson: roots in time and place -- Virgil and Gertrude write an opera -- A transatlantic love affair -- Virgil Thomson visits America -- Young Harvard moderns -- A personal break, a commercial breakthrough -- Group snapshot 1923: the Harvard moderns -- The world of the Stettheimers -- High Bohemia and modernism -- Modernism goes uptown -- Negotiations and exchanges -- Snapshots: Summer 1933 -- Collaborators: not the usual suspects -- Rehearsals in Harlem -- Opening night -- Four Saints Goes to Broadway -- Aftermath.
Abstract	Perhaps the oddest and most influential collaboration in the history of American modernism was hatched in 1926, when 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. Saints was proclaimed the birth of a new art form, a cellophane fantasy, "cubism on stage." It swept the public imagination and defied every convention of what an opera should be. Moving to Broadway, Four Saints was the first popular modernist production. It brought modernism, with all its flamboyant outrage against convention, into the mainstream. This is the story of how that opera came to be. The elaborately intertwined lives of the collaborators provide a window onto the pioneering generation that defined modern taste in America in the 1920s and 1930s.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-353) and index.
LCCN	98017496
ISBN	0679441395

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