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...long afterwards, Picasso gave up painting as a bad job. For two years he loafed, and did a little writing in a style that seemed to derive from Gertrude Stein and an old grad's 25th-anniversary recollections of Marcus Tullius Cicero. Sample: "Nothing to do but to watch the thread that destiny works which taints the theft of the glass from the mind that shakes the hour coiled up in remembrances toasted on grills of blue...
Sextet won him a "neat and charming" notice from Composer-Critic Virgil Thomson. Last week an After Dinner Opera Company audience in Manhattan heard 23-year-old Composer Kupferman teamed up with a late impressionist of the literary world-Gertrude Stein...
...result was a one-act opera as stylish, Steinish, charming and listenable as any summer audience could want to hear. Composer Kupferman had picked Author Stein's In a Garden (from The First Reader & Three Plays) for the libretto of his first opera. The story was sweet and simple-and so was the artfully naive music that went with it. A little girl (pertly played and sung by pretty 21-year-old Soprano Sylvia Stahlman) plays she is a queen...
...little boys, in pot & pan armor, duel with wooden spoons for the right to be her king. When both of them are finally stretched out on the floor dead, little Lucy Willow sighs and sings Author Stein's closing lines...
...Very Young Man" is more technique than drama. Gertrude Stein is examining "all the different points of view of a Frenchman's mind"; she is much less concerned with a story that must have a beginning and an end. Though moments of dramatic interest appear occasionally, "Yes Is For a Very Young Man" is really only a play on a series of well-repeated words and situations...