[DOC] [TLE] Four Saints in Three Acts - Wikipedia [PAR] Four Saints in Three Acts is an opera by American composer Virgil Thomson with 
a libretto by Gertrude Stein. Written in 1927-8, it contains about 20 saints, and is 
in at least four acts. It was ground breaking for form, content, and its all-black cast, 
with singers ... These unconventional elements led to a successful and well-
received first... [DOC] [TLE] Four Saints in Three Acts | Opera Parallle - San Francisco ... [PAR] Composer: Virgil Thomson and Luciano Chessa Librettist: Gertrude Stein 
Conductor: Nicole Paiement Director: Brian Staufenbiel. Four Saints in Three 
Acts... [DOC] [TLE] The Creation of 'Four Saints in Three Acts'  Victorian Opera [PAR] Sep 6, 2016 ... In 1925 Virgil Thomson moved to Paris from Kansas City, Missouri. ... Four Saints 
in Three Acts was always just a title; there are actually more ... In his cocksure 
way he took it for granted that profits there would be. ... opera, rejecting Stein's 
offer to have her pal Picasso design the production. ... These real. [DOC] [TLE] A Modern Opera Is Born - tribunedigital-thecourant - Collections [PAR] Feb 7, 1999 ... Prepare for Saints: Gertrude Stein, Virgil Thomson and the ... famously 
inscrutable Virgil Thomson/Gertrude Stein opera, ``Four Saints in Three Acts.'' ... 
at the Wadsworth Atheneum: What in God's name were these people up to? ... 
has been driven by it -- really provided the essential energy for the project. [DOC] [TLE] HOW THE 'SAINTS' CAME TOGETHER IN PARIS - NYTimes.com [PAR] Nov 8, 1981 ... ''Four Saints in Three Acts'' is the work that put Virgil Thomson on the ... It would 
be fine if I had an even longer one made especially for me. ... are actually four 
acts, and about 40 saints, in ''Four Saints in Three ... I told them they couldn't. ... 
these stage directors who has made his reputation distorting operas... [DOC] [TLE] Gertrude Stein - Wikiquote [PAR] No one of them that I know can want to know it and so I write for myself and 
strangers. ... 1.6 The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933); 1.7 Four in America 
(1933) .... Libretto for the opera The Mother Of Us All by Virgil Thomson (1947), 
from ..... to have Four Saints who did nothing and I wrote the Four Saints In Three 
Acts... [DOC] [TLE] On the Citability of Baroque Gesture in Four Saints in Three Acts [PAR] ... opera Four Saints in Three Acts, which takes a pair of baroque saints for its 
protagonists ... the composer Virgil Thomson, had chosen to focus the opera on 
Saints Teresa of ... The bodies of these objects, into which history itself has sunk 
or merged, ... As Thomson wrote to Stein in 1933, the production used the 
performers'... [DOC] [TLE] Gertrude Stein - Poetry Foundation [PAR] What these creators achieved in the visual arts, Stein attempted in her writing. ... 
writings and critics dismissed them as incomprehensible, Stein's theories did ... 
an unhappy affair with a black doctor, has been particularly singled out for praise. 
.... to several operas by Virgil Thompson, notably Four Saints in Three Acts and... [DOC] [TLE] time-sense: Gertrude Stein Online [PAR] Instead, the lines of the play are written as though Stein has just heard them 
spoken aloud. ... Happened and Ladies' Voices , Four Saints in Three Acts and 
The Mother of Us All ... Virgil Thomson had asked Gertrude Stein to write an 
opera for him. ... Loyola, and she said she would write him an opera about these 
two saints. [DOC] [TLE] The Operatic Imperative in Anglo-American Literary ... - TSpace [PAR] has tended to view modernism as an essentially elitist project practiced ... the 
period, even where these high modernists are concerned. .... 1931-1933. ... in 
the mid-1930s, after my opera Four Saints in Three Acts . . . had received some ... 
3 Virgil Thomson very nearly had a hand in writing music

Question: Virgil Thomson's 1933 opera "Four Saints In Three" of these actually has 4 of them
Answer: Acts