The opera Four Saints in Three Acts' astonishingly successful run on Broadway in 1934 was the most celebrated avant-garde theater triumph of its age. With a libretto by Gertrude Stein that told no coherent story, a polymorphous score by Virgil Thomson that channeled everything from glee club tunes and children's ditties to Gilbert and Sullivan, […] The full version of the article The 90-Minute MacGuffin: "Four Sain…
