This is a very interesting concert, if a bit pretentious. Stein was always straightforward and rhythmic, as can be heard on her own reading of her works. She was serious, but also filled with humor, a sort of female Noel Coward. So, fooling with her works is uncalled for. That said, this concert offers much that is seldon, if ever, heard, such as Capitals Capitals and the suite from Virgil Thomson's The Mother of Us All, probably his finest composition, and a heart-felt tribute to his great friend. Stein is eminently suited for mucical setting, so rhythmic is her prose and poetry. She is undoubtedly the finest writer in English of the first part of the 20th Century (I think of the entire Century), and this concert is a fitting remembrance of her genius. Bob Finley, Palm Springs, CA.