基本説明
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 1998 by Random House.
Full Description
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.
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
