Word: steinishly
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...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...
...perplexed Parisian newshawks Gertrude Stein explained a libretto she has just completed for her second opera,* a Steinish version of Faust: Faust "sells his soul over and over again hoping to go to hell. He kills his boy and dog to really sin and go to hell and is turned into a young man. But Marguerite denies he is Faust and because he cannot prove it he finally just fades away. Yes, it is rather amusing." From one of the Stein songs: "The devil what the devil do I care if the devil is there. . . . And you wanted my soul...
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