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The Making of Americans

Libretto: Antonio Gatto, Text: Gertrude Stein
David Pinkard, JACK Quartet, Zeitgeist ensemble, Anna Dagmar (Voice), Pamela Stein (Voice), Rachel Calloway (Voice), Elizabeth Munn (Voice), David Lee Echelard (Voice), Michael Mueller (Voice), Bradley Greenwald (Voice), Gertrude Stein (Voice), Christopher Otto (Violin), Ari Streisfeld (Violin), John Pickford Richards (Viola), Kevin McFarland (Violoncello), Heather Barringer (Percussion), Patti Cudd (Percussion), Patrick O'Keefe (Bass Clarinet), Shannon Wettstein (Piano)
℗ 2020
14 Tracks, 59:37

  • Part I: Progress of American Families

    • 1. What is a normal American?
      04:11
    • 2. Family living can be existing
      02:40
    • 3. Every one who ever was or is or will be living
      03:48

  • Part II: The Marriage and Divorce of Julia Dehning & Alfred Hersland & Episodes of Martha Hersland

    • 1. David Hersland’s Song for Julia
      03:42
    • 2. Once an angry man dragged his father
      03:15
    • 3. I like loving, sometimes.
      07:54

  • Part III: The Funeral of David Hersland

    • 1. If any one is sad enough
      06:08
    • 2. Sharp knives and sharp scissors
      02:39
    • 3. Some were very pleased
      02:05
    • 4. Changing is existing.
      04:38
    • 5. He was not one who had been one fighting.
      04:00

  • Part IV: History of a Family’s Progress

    • 1. Family living can go on existing.
      01:57
    • 2. Any one has come to be a dead one. Any one.
      06:17
    • 3. Some are not believing
      06:23