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Four Saints in Three Acts. By Virgil Thomson and Gertrude Stein. Edited by H. Wiley Hitchcock and Charles Fussell. Music of the United States of America, Vol. 18. Recent Researches in American Music, Vol. 64. Middleton, WI: A-R Editions, 2008.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Steve Swayne
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Journal of the Society for American Music , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , February 2014 , pp. 101 - 103
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References

1 Karren Alenier, “The Steiny Road to Operadom,” Scene4 Magazine, December 2008, http://www.scene4.com/archivesqv6/dec-2008/html/karrenalenier1208.html.

2 Barg, Lisa, “Black Voices/White Sounds: Race and Representation in Virgil Thomson's Four Saints in Three Acts,” American Music 18/2 (Summer 2000): 126, 131CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

3 Tommasini, Anthony, Virgil Thomson: Composer on the Aisle (New York: W. W. Norton, 1997), 6–7Google Scholar.

4 Alenier, “The Steiny Road to Operadom,” emphasis added.

5 A wonderful overview of the 1934 production is found in Harris, David, “The Original Four Saints in Three Acts,” The Drama Review 26/1 (Spring 1982): 101–30Google Scholar. Harris's article has some twenty images, most of them from the 1934 production, whereas the 1948 vocal score only has eight.