Gertrude Stein and Friends
Free event featuring works by Gertrude Stein and others
Join us for a free concert of Gertrude Stein and Friends, featuring Wendy Salkind, voice; Tom Goldstein, percussion; and Linda Dusman, composition.
Wendy Salkind performs readings of three short prose pieces by the American Modernist writer Gertrude Stein. Exploring Stein's writings as musical compositions, Salkind reads Matisse and Picassounaccompanied, while the rhythmic and witty story, Miss Furr and Miss Skeene is read in dialogue with eleven percussion instruments played by Tom Goldstein, in a score composed by Linda Dusman. Also on the program is Still to JSB by Anneliese Weibel and Dusman's magnificat 4: Ida, Ida.
7:30 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. The program will be repeated on Wednesday, April 27 at 7:30 at Loyola University's Fine Arts Recital Room.
Image: Portrait of Gertrude Stein (1906) by Pablo Picasso, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.