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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

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)

Subjects

Poetry
Concertos (Cello)
Vocal quartets with piano
20th century classical

Related places

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

Related Entities

1750 Arch Street
Janssen Symphony Orchestra of Los Angeles
Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946
Shere, Charles, 1935-2020
Amirkhanian, Charles
Silva, Luigi, 1903-1961
Janssen, Werner, 1899-1990