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

Genres

20th century classical
Poetry

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)

Subjects

Violin music
Sound poetry
Songs (High voice) with piano
Sonatas (Piano)
20th century classical
Poetry

Related places

Berkeley (Calif.) (was recorded at)
Berkeley (Calif.) (was broadcast at)

Related Entities

1750 Arch Street
Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989
Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946
Erickson, Ronald
Shere, Charles, 1935-2020
Amirkhanian, Charles
Koremans, Piet
Reiziger, Han
Ahrens, Peg
Anderson, Beth, 1950-