Anthony Gatto: The Making of Americans (Radio Opera Version)
8/7/2020, 14 Tracks, 59:37
Featuring
Anna Dagmar
Pamela Stein
Rachel Calloway
Elizabeth Munn
David Lee Echelard
Michael Mueller
Bradley Greenwald
Gertrude Stein
Christopher Otto
Ari Streisfeld
John Pickford Richards
Kevin McFarland
Heather Barringer
Patti Cudd
Patrick O'Keefe
Shannon Wettstein
David Pinkard
JACK Quartet
Zeitgeist ensemble
Antonio Gatto
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Album & Artwork
The album art for this recording is taken from Chris Larson's work titled "Crush Collision."
Composer's Artistic Vision
The opera begins with Gertrude Stein responding to an interviewer's question about her intelligibility for "normal Americans," to which she replies, "What is a normal American?"
Recording & Production
The recording includes excerpted readings of Gertrude Stein from her novel "The Making of Americans" and an interview from 1934.
Composition History
This radio opera is a compressed, excerpted, and transformed version of an original opera that premiered at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis in 2008.
Composer's Artistic Vision
The radio opera incorporates recorded readings from Gertrude Stein's novel, which serve as a guiding voice to set scenes and passages.
