Prepare for Saints
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16th century spanish saints
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american composer
american modernism
american sound
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broadway
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collaboration
cultural studies
early 20th century american art
early 20th century american literature
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four saints in three acts
gertrude stein
heavenly mansion
ignatius of loyola
libretto
literary studies
modernist
modernist literature
modernist opera
modernity
monastery
opera
opera music
paris salon
performing arts
revolution
saints
st chavez
st plan
st plot
st settlement
teresa of avila
virgil thomson
Product details
- ISBN 9780520223530
- Weight: 590g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 16 Jul 2000
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
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).
