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Music
Haggin, B. H. | May 19, 1956 issue

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This article focuses on the opera "The Mother of Us All." The words of "The Mother of Us All," have less poetic imagery and verbal music than those of "Four Saints in Three Acts" and more rational meaning — the meaning of extended trains of thought like actor Jo Loiterer's explanation of how to be funny, or actor Susan B. Anthony's discourse on the nature of man, with its wonderful insights. But Thomson's method in setting them is the same — the music separates and differentiates the Stein repetitions and articulates them in a progression with structure and climax.

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OPERA; DRAMATIC music; OPERAS -- Characters; MUSIC; ANTHONY, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906; OPERA -- Production & direction
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