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 download

Tracklist

Four Saints In Three Acts
A1	Prologue (A Narrative Of Prepare For Saints.)	10:42
A2	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
A3	Act I (Tableau II: St. Teresa II With Dove, Being Photographed By St. Settlement.)	1:56
A4	Act I (Tableau III: St. Teresa II Seated. St. Ignatius, Kneeling, Plays Guitar.)	2:41
B1	Act I (Tableau IV: St. Ignatius Presents Flowers To St. Teresa II.)	3:26
B2	Act I (Tableau V: St. Ignatius Showing To St. Teresa II The Model Of A Heavenly Mansion.)	3:25
B3	Act I (Tableau VI: St. Teresa II In Ecstasy, Seated, With Angel Hovering.)	3:01
B4	Act I (Tableau VII: St. Teresa II, With Halo, Pretending To Hold A Baby In Her Arms.)	4:21
B5	Act II (Might It Be Mountains If It Were Not Barcelona)	4:55
C1	Act II (Dance Of The Angels)	4:26
C2	Act II (Love Scene)	11:14
C3	Act III (Barcelona. St. Ignatius And One Of Two Literally.)	4:01
C4	Act III (Vision Of Holy Ghost)	12:21
D1	Act III (Storm In Miniature, Without Rain)	1:12
D2	Act III (St. Ignatius Predicts The Last Judgement)	2:09
D3	Act III (Saint's Procession)	6:56
D4	Intermezzo	1:35
D5	Prologue To Act IV	1:53
D6	Act IV (The Sisters And Saints Reassembled And Reenacting Why They Went Away To Stay.)	3:47

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.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Barcode: 0 7599-79035-1

Other 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