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.

Mary Lou Williams · 1945 Spin it Again - She mapped the zodiac onto jazz piano and made modernism sound inevitable, not pretentious.