Virgil Thomson, Gertrude Stein - Orchestra Of Our Time, Joel Thome, Betty Allen, Gwendolyn Bradley, William Brown , Clamma Dale, Benjamin Matthews, Florence Quivar, Arthur Thompson - Four Saints In Three Acts FLAC

Virgil Thomson Gertrude Stein Nonesuch Modern Opera 1982

Genre:	Classical
Performer:	Virgil Thomson, Gertrude Stein - Orchestra Of Our Time, Joel Thome, Betty Allen, Gwendolyn Bradley, William Brown , Clamma Dale, Benjamin Matthews, Florence Quivar, Arthur Thompson
Title:	Four Saints In Three Acts
Style:	Modern, Opera
Date of release:	1982
Label:	Nonesuch
Catalog Number:	9 79035-1
Country:	US
FLAC album size:	1509 mb
MP3 album size:	1841 mb

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Tracklist

1	Four Saints In Three Acts
2	Prologue To Act IV	1:53
3	Act III (Barcelona. St. Ignatius And One Of Two Literally.)	4:01
4	Intermezzo	1:35
5	Act IV (The Sisters And Saints Reassembled And Reenacting Why They Went Away To Stay.)	3:47
6	Act II (Love Scene)	11:14
7	Act I (Tableau III: St. Teresa II Seated. St. Ignatius, Kneeling, Plays Guitar.)	2:41
8	Act II (Dance Of The Angels)	4:26
9	Act II (Might It Be Mountains If It Were Not Barcelona)	4:55
10	Prologue (A Narrative Of Prepare For Saints.)	10:42
11	Act I (Tableau V: St. Ignatius Showing To St. Teresa II The Model Of A Heavenly Mansion.)	3:25
12	Act III (Vision Of Holy Ghost)	12:21
13	Act III (St. Ignatius Predicts The Last Judgement)	2:09
14	Act I (Tableau II: St. Teresa II With Dove, Being Photographed By St. Settlement.)	1:56
15	Act III (Storm In Miniature, Without Rain)	1:12
16	Act I (Tableau VI: St. Teresa II In Ecstasy, Seated, With Angel Hovering.)	3:01
17	Act III (Saint's Procession)	6:56
18	Act I (Avila. St. Teresa Half Indoors And Half Out Of Doors. / Tableau I: A Garden At Avila In Early Spring. St. Teresa Is Seated Under The Tree Painting Flowers On Very Large Eggs.)	5:46
19	Act I (Tableau IV: St. Ignatius Presents Flowers To St. Teresa II.)	3:26
20	Act I (Tableau VII: St. Teresa II, With Halo, Pretending To Hold A Baby In Her Arms.)	4:21

Versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
9 79035-2	Virgil Thomson, Gertrude Stein - Orchestra Of Our Time, Joel Thome	Virgil Thomson, Gertrude Stein - Orchestra Of Our Time, Joel Thome - Four Saints In Three Acts ‎(2xCD, Album)	Nonesuch	9 79035-2	US	Unknown

Credits

Accordion – Guy Klucevsek
Alto Vocals – Cheryl Kirk, Deborah Young, Gloria Turner, Linda Childs, Lisa Polite, Patricia McDermott
Baritone Vocals, Bass Vocals – Clifford Townsend, Earl Grandison, Kevin Elliot , Lloyd Thompkins, Theodore Hodges, William Penn
Bass – Lewis J. Paer
Bassoon – Ralph Schwartz
Cello – Gary Fitzgerald, Loretta O'Sullivan
Chorus Master – Lawrence Weller
Clarinet – William Blount
Composed By – Virgil Thomson
Conductor – Joel Thome
Coordinator [Production Coordinator] – Elise Keen
Design – Denise Minobe
Executive-Producer [Director] – Keith Holzman
Flute – Susan Palma
Harmonium – Romulus Franceschini
Libretto By – Gertrude Stein
Liner Notes – Maurice Grosser
Mastered By – Michele Stone
Oboe – Charles Kuskin
Orchestra – Orchestra Of Our Time
Other [JVC Digital Equipment Provided By] – Frank Dickinson
Painting [Cover Painting] – Florine Stettheimer
Percussion – Glen Velez, Jeffrey Kraus
Producer [Production], Recording Supervisor [Musical Supervision] – Joanna Nickrenz, Marc J. Aubort
Soprano Vocals – Denise Lock, Diane Wilson, Ella Eure-Eaton, Iris Harris, Judith Otten, Maeretha Stewart, Marilyn Andry
Tenor Vocals – Clifford Terry, Harold Beasley, Joseph de Vaughn, Leon Wheeler, Louis Tucker, Richard Jasper
Trombone – Richard Clard
Viola – Louise Schulman, Ronald E. Carbone, Valerie Heywood
Violin – Andrew Schaw, Diane Bruce, Fumiko Wellington, Jean Ingraham, Katsuko Esaki, Lisa Lyons, Richard Henrickson, Robert Chausow, Suzanne Ornstein
Vocals [Commère] – Betty Allen
Vocals [Compère] – Benjamin Matthews
Vocals [St. Absalon] – Leon Wheeler
Vocals [St. Anne] – Cheryl Kirk
Vocals [St. Answers] – Louis Tucker
Vocals [St. Cecilia] – Denise Lock
Vocals [St. Celestine] – Maeretha Stewart
Vocals [St. Chavez] – William Brown
Vocals [St. Eustace] – Kevin Elliot
Vocals [St. Genevieve] – Linda Childs
Vocals [St. Ignatius] – Arthur Thompson
Vocals [St. Jan & St. Placide] – Clifford Townsend
Vocals [St. Lawrence] – Lloyd Thompkins
Vocals [St. Plan] – William Penn
Vocals [St. Sara] – Ella Eure-Eaton
Vocals [St. Settlement] – Gwendolyn Bradley
Vocals [St. Stephen] – Joseph de Vaughn
Vocals [St. Teresa I] – Clamma Dale
Vocals [St. Teresa Ii] – Florence Quivar

Notes

"Four Saints in Three Acts" is an opera with words by Gertrude Stein and music by Virgil Thomson. It was written in 1927 and 1928 in France and first performed at the Hartford Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut, by an organization with the resounding name of The Friends and Enemies of Modern Music From there it went to Broadway where it played some sixty nights — not much for a hit musical, but a lot for an opera — and became a legend.
It has been performed since, notably Friday the 13th, November, 1981 in Carnegie Hall, New York, a performance which honored the composer's eighty-fifth birthday and became the basis for this recording."
— Excerpted from an enclosed essay by Eric Salzman.

Recorded November 1981 at Rutgers Church, New York, using the JVC Digital Audio System (DAS-90).

Includes 48-page booklet with complete libretto and notes.

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