Prepare for Saints

Gertrude Stein, Virgil Thomson, and the Mainstreaming of American Modernism

Häftad, Engelska, 2000

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2000-07-16
Mått:152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt:590 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:380
Förlag:University of California Press
ISBN:9780520223530

Utforska kategorier

Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Historia: särskilda händelser och ämnen inom Historia och arkeologi
Opera inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

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."

Innehållsförteckning

ACT I: CONCEPTPrologue: Introducing Four Saints in Three Acts1. The World of 27, Rue de Fleurus2. Virgil Thomson: Roots in Time and Place3. Virgil and Gertrude Write an Opera4. A Transatlantic Love Affair5. Virgil Thomson Visits AmericaACT II: TASTE6. Young Harvard Moderns7. A Personal Break, a Commercial Breakthrough8. Group Snapshot 1932: The Harvard Moderns9. The World of the Stettheimers10. High Bohemia and Modernism11. Modernism Goes UptownACT III: SHOW12. Negotiations and Exchanges13. Snapshots: Summer 193314. Collaborators: Not the Usual Suspects15. Rehearsals in Harlem16. Opening Night17. Four Saints Goes to BroadwayEPILOGUE18. AftermathNotesBibliographyAcknowledgmentsIndex