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Prepare for Saints: Gertrude Stein, Virgil Thomson, and the Mainstreaming of American Modernism
Prepare for Saints Gertrude Stein Virgil Thomson and the Mainstreaming of American Modernism
Author: Steven Watson
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 re...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780520223530
ISBN-10: 0520223535
Publication Date: 7/16/1995
Pages: 371
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Publisher: University of California Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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