Prepare for Saints: Gertrude Stein, Virgil Thomson, and the Mainstreaming of American Modernism
- Author: Watson, Steven
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... — More…
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Contents
- ACT I: CONCEPT
- Prologue: Introducing Four Saints in Three Acts
- 1. The World of 27, Rue de Fleurus
- 2. Virgil Thomson: Roots in Time and Place
- 3. Virgil and Gertrude Write an Opera
- 4. A Transatlantic Love Affair
- 5. Virgil Thomson Visits America
- ACT II: TASTE
- 6. Young Harvard Moderns
- 7. A Personal Break, a Commercial Breakthrough
- 8. Group Snapshot 1932: The Harvard Moderns
- 9. The World of the Stettheimers
- 10. High Bohemia and Modernism
- 11. Modernism Goes Uptown
- ACT III: SHOW
- 12. Negotiations and Exchanges
- 13. Snapshots: Summer 1933
- 14. Collaborators: Not the Usual Suspects
- 15. Rehearsals in Harlem
- 16. Opening Night
- 17. Four Saints Goes to Broadway
- EPILOGUE
- 18. Aftermath
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index