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Gertrude Stein 100th Anniversary Concert |
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| Item Type: Sound Recording |
Duration: 121 min |
| Event Type: Music |
Program Origin: KPFA |
This four part program is of a live broadcast from a concert given at 1750 Arch Street on February 3, 1974, in honor of Gertrude Stein on the 100th anniversary of her birth. During the intermission and while the audience viewed the film "The Last Still Life" by Ann Sandifer, Charles Amirkhanian plays a recording of a Suite from Virgil Thomson's opera, "The Mother of Us All", based on a text by Gertrude Stein. The live concert then concludes with an additional work by Thomson and one by Charles Shere. |
| Part 1 of 4: |
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| Musical Selections: |
Miss Gertrude Stein as a Young Girl (1928) / Virgil Thomson -- A Valentine to Sherwood Anderson (1922) / Gertrude Stein -- Preciosilla / Gertrude Stein -- Preciosilla [text by Gertrude Stein] (1926) / Virgil Thomson -- She She and She (1974) / Charles Amirkhanian -- Sonata No.3 (1930) / Virgil Thomson |
| Performers: |
Ron Erickson, violin (Stein as a young girl)
Charles Amirkhanian, voice (She She and She)
Han Reiziger, voice (She She and She)
Piet Koremans, voice (She She and She)
Peg Ahrens, soprano (Preciosilla)
Beth Anderson, piano (Preciosilla) |
| Genres: |
20th Century Classical; Poetry |
| Subject: |
Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946; Violin music; Sound poetry; Songs (High voice) with piano; Sonatas (Piano); 20th century classical ; Poetry |
| People: |
Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989; Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946; Erickson, Ronald; Shere, Charles, 1935-; Amirkhanian, Charles; Koremans, Piet ; Reiziger, Han ; Ahrens, Peg; Anderson, Beth, 1950- |
| Recording Date: |
2/3/1974 |
| First Broadcast Date: |
2/3/1974 |
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| Part 2 of 4: |
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| Musical Selections: |
She Wrote [text by Kathy Acker] / Beth Anderson -- The Mother of Us All Suite (1949) / Virgil Thomson |
| Performers: |
Bonnie Mara Barnett, vocals (She Wrote)
Nathan Rubin, violin (She Wrote)
Ronald Erickson, violin (She Wrote)
Janssen Symphony Orchestra of Los Angeles (Mother of Us All)
Werner Janssen, conductor (Mother of Us All) |
| Genres: |
20th Century Classical; Poetry |
| Subject: |
Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946; Violin music; Homosexuality; 20th century classical; Orchestral music |
| People: |
Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946; Shere, Charles, 1935-; Amirkhanian, Charles; Anderson, Beth, 1950-; Acker, Kathy, 1948-1997; Barnett, Bonnie, 1947- ; Rubin, Nathan, 1929-; Erickson, Ronald; Janssen, Werner, 1899-1990 |
| Recording Date: |
2/3/1974 |
| First Broadcast Date: |
2/3/1974 |
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| Part 3 of 4: |
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| Musical Selections: |
The making of Americans / Gertrude Stein -- Cello Concerto [1st movement] (1945-46) / Virgil Thomson -- Capital Capitals [text by Gertrude Stein] (1927, rev. 1968) / Virgil Thomson |
| Performers: |
Luigi Silva, cello (Concerto)
Janssen Symphony Orchestra of Los Angeles (Concerto)
Werner Janssen, conductor (Concerto)
Barbara Shere, piano (Capital) |
| Genres: |
20th Century Classical; Poetry |
| Subject: |
Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946; Poetry; Concertos (Violoncello); Vocal quartets with piano; 20th century classical |
| People: |
Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946; Shere, Charles, 1935-; Amirkhanian, Charles; Silva, Luigi, 1903-1961; Janssen, Werner, 1899-1990 |
| Recording Date: |
2/3/1974 |
| First Broadcast Date: |
2/3/1974 |
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| Part 4 of 4: |
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| Musical Selections: |
Dates (1914) / Gertrude Stein -- Dates [text by Gertrude Stein] (1972) / Charles Shere |
| Performers: |
Judith Nelson, soprano (Dates)
Tom Rose, clarinet (Dates)
Nathan Rubin, violin (Dates)
Jack van der Wyk, percussion (Dates) |
| Genres: |
20th Century Classical; Poetry |
| Subject: |
Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946; Poetry; Songs (High voice) with instrumental ensemble |
| People: |
Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946; Shere, Charles, 1935-; Amirkhanian, Charles; Nelson, Judith; Rose, Tom, clarinetist; Rubin, Nathan, 1929-; Van der Wyk, Jack |
| Recording Date: |
2/3/1974 |
| First Broadcast Date: |
2/3/1974 |
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