Häftad, Engelska, 2000
Prepare for Saints
Gertrude Stein, Virgil Thomson, and the Mainstreaming of American Modernism
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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.
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- Utgivningsdatum: 2000-07-16
- Mått: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
- Vikt: 590 g
- Format: Häftad
- Språk: Engelska
- Serie: University of California Press
- Antal sidor: 380
- Förlag: University of California Press
- ISBN: 9780520223530
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Steven Watson is a cultural historian of the American avant-garde. He is the author of Harlem Renaissance (1995), The Birth of the Beat Generation (1995), and Strange Bedfellows: The First American Avant-Garde (1991).
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"Mr. Watson does an engaging job of conjuring up the overlapping worlds his subjects inhabited: the feud-ridden expatriate community in Paris where Thomson and Stein met in the 1920's and the trend-setting bohemia of 1930's New York, where Thomson would find the patrons and promoters who would get Four Saints produced."
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