Four saints, three acts, one crazy libretto
Gil Rose and BMOP in action.Like almost everyone else (I'd bet), I went to the recent Boston Modern Orchestra Project production of Four Saints in Three Acts out of pure curiosity. Could Virgil Thomson and Gertrude Stein's freak success of the 30's really be the unique marriage of fetching music and confounding text that everyone claims it is?Well - the conventional wisdom turned out to be quite right; in fact you mi…