Virgil Thomson · 1947 Spin it Again - Gertrude Stein died eight days after finishing the libretto, and Virgil Thomson wrote music that sounds like a Sunday school picnic hosted by Gertrude Stein's ghost. That combination is still unlike anything else.

Virgil Thomson · 1934 Spin it Again - Virgil Thomson set Gertrude Stein's word-mush to American hymns and called it an opera. It works because they refused to explain it.