Gertrude and Virginia (Fine, Vivian)

Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's	1
Composition Year	1981
Genre Categories	Songs; For 2 voices, clarinet, 2 percussion, double bass, piano; For voices with solo instruments; Scores featuring the voice; Scores featuring the soprano voice; Scores featuring the mezzo-soprano voice; Scores featuring the clarinet; Scores featuring percussion soloists; Scores featuring the double bass; Scores featuring the piano; Scores featuring the alto voice; English language
Related Works	The Women in the Garden

Sheet Music

Scores

Complete Score
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Clarinet (in B♭) and Double Bass Parts
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Publisher. Info.	Vivian Fine Estate
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General Information

Work Title	Gertrude and Virginia: a Dialogue between Gertrude Stein and Virginia Woolf, using their own words
Alternative. Title
Composer	Fine, Vivian
Internal Reference NumberInternal Ref. No.	IVF 28
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's	1
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp.	1981
First Performance.	1981-06-08, Carnegie Recital Hall, New York City. Rosalind Rees, soprano, Kimball Wheeler, mezzo-soprano, Virgil Blackwell, clarinet, Lewis Paer, double bass, Sarah Tenney and Daniel Levitan, percussion, and Vivian Fine, conductor.
Librettist	Gertrude Stein and Virginia Woolf
Language	English
Average DurationAvg. Duration	9 minutes
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period	Modern
Piece Style	Modern
Instrumentation	Soprano, mezzo-soprano or contralto, clarinet, percussion (2 players), piano, double bass
Related Works	The Women in the Garden

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Gertrude and Virginia is a rescoring with a reduced instrumental ensemble of Scene 6 of Fine’s chamber opera The Women in the Garden (pp 73 - 88 of the typeset score). Note that scene divisions do not appear in the original score; they were added by the composer for performance purposes.

Review

…a whimsical dialogue between the two writers, Gertrude Stein and Virginia Woolf. Miss Fine’s touch was unfailingly light.

—Bernard Holland, The New York Times, June 11, 1981