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Gertrude Stein 100th Anniversary Concert (February 3, 1974)

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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 text by Gertrude Stein. The live concert then concludes with an additional work by Thomson and one by Charles Shere.


This audio is part of the collection: Other Minds Archive

Date: 1974-02-03
Keywords: Music; 20th Century Classical; Poetry; Gertrude Stein; 1750 Arch St.

Creative Commons license: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs

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Reviewer: daddybobs - - May 19, 2008
Subject: Stein and music
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.