Prepare for Saints - Watson, Steven
Gertrude Stein, Virgil Thomson, anf the mainstreaming of American Modernism
KORTE INHOUD
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.
Four Saints was proclaimed the birth of a new art form, a cellophane fantasy, "cubism on stage." It swept the public imagination, inspiring new art and new language, and defied every convention of what an opera should be. Everything about it was revolutionary: Stein's abstract text and Thomson's homespun music, the all-black cast, the costumes, and the combustible sets. Moving from the Wadsworth Atheneum to Broadway, Four Saints was the first popular modernist production. It brought modernism, with all its flamboyant outrage against con...
Four Saints was proclaimed the birth of a new art form, a cellophane fantasy, "cubism on stage." It swept the public imagination, inspiring new art and new language, and defied every convention of what an opera should be. Everything about it was revolutionary: Stein's abstract text and Thomson's homespun music, the all-black cast, the costumes, and the combustible sets. Moving from the Wadsworth Atheneum to Broadway, Four Saints was the first popular modernist production. It brought modernism, with all its flamboyant outrage against con...
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1998Uitgever: university of California press321 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0520223535ISBN-13: 9780520223530Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Paperback, 371p. Illustrated. Illustrated. ISBN 0520223535. good / goed. [Auteur: WATSON, Steven] [Uitgever: University of California Press] [Titel: Prepare for saints: gertrude stein, virgil thomson, and the mainstreaming of american modernism]
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