Prepare for Saints: Gertrude Stein, Virgil Thomson and the Mainstreaming of American Modernism

by StevenWatson (Author)

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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. This is an account of how that revolutionary opera was born.