For flute/piccolo, clarinet/bass clarinet, piano, percussion, violin, and cello. All instrumentalists double as speakers and vocalists and perform some actions. Program and performance notes in English. This theatrical work features extensive text by Gertrude Stein taken from her lecture given in 1924 entitled Composition as explanation. Commissioned for Eighth Blackbird by The Arts Club of Chicago. Duration: approximately 60 min.
Contents:
there is singularly nothing -- those who are creating -- of course it is beautiful -- beginning again and again -- it is understood by this time (percussion solo) -- and now to begin as if to begin -- and after that what changes -- intertext (instrumental) -- the problem from this time on -- this ten -- the time in the composition.
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1288161175
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.