GERTRUDE STEIN, AGE 60, DELIVERS A LECTURE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, NOVEMBER, 1934. GERTRUDE Jam going to read what I have written to read because in a general way it is easier even if it is not better and in a general way itis better even if itis not easier to read what has been written than to say what has not been written. Any way that is one way to feel about it. To begin with, I seem always to be doing the talking when I am any where but in spite of that I do listen, I always listen. I always have listened. I always have listened to the way everybody has to tell what they have to say. In other words I always have listened in my way of listening until they have told me and told me until I really know it, that is know what they are. Tcannot remember not talking all the time and all the same feeling that while I was talking while I was seeing that I was not only hearing but seeing while I was talking and that at the same time the relation between myself knowing I was talking and those to whom I was talking and incidentally to whom I was listening were coming to tell me and tell me in their way every thing that made them. (MUSIC CUE #1.)No. 1 "4. 4 ALONG GAY BOOK Introduction: Sonatina (1921) (Instrumental) (REV. 4/24/03) Text by Gertrude Stein ‘Music by Stephen Flaherty Cue GERTRUDE: "Then I went to college..." + 132 + Moderato, with Excitement 2a Pr GERTRUDE mt "an aig ve we emetny xe in a [on sf at [a tf "what was inside myself to make me what I was. [ think that does happen * = io ug Sa boNo.1 INTRODUCTION: SONATINA (REV. 4/24/03) - pg. 2 ALONG GAY BOOK "to one at that time, Tt had been happening before going to college but going..." —, “be nA *..to college made it more lively.” 0 * And being so occupied with what made me myself inside me, made me perhaps...” » 2» aNo.1 INTRODUCTION: SONATINA (REV. 4/24V03) - pg 3 ALONG GAY BOOK “not stop talking but for awhile it made me stop listening." "At any rate thats the way it seems to me now looking back at iL" poco rit. 2 poco pines Jere toe vB: | tf mel 1 | whe ptt ef Ex» (GERTRUDE TURNS FROM THE LECTERN AND SEES HERSELF AS A COLLEGE STUDENT) VS.No. 1A ALONG GAY BOOK Sonatina (1921) (Part 1) (Young Gertrude) (REV. 4/24/03) Text by Gertrude Stein Music by Stephen Flaherty Lilstesso YOUNG GERTRUDE: > 2 4 ‘You are suckle, ho - ney a my ho - ney 1 mist PieNo.1A ‘SONATINA (Part 1) (REV. 4/24/03) - pg. 2 ALONG GAY BOOK ° 0 " 2 7 You are my ho-ney —ho- ney suck-le.___SONATINA (Part 1) (REV. 4/24/03) - pg. 3 ALONG GAY BOOK n No. 1A 2» so-na-ti-na song is just this long. A so-na-ti-na Jong is just this 4 2No. 1A SONATINA (Part 1) (REV. 4/24/03) - pg. 4 ALONG GAY BOOK ‘YOUNG GERTRUDE: 7 3s » “0 Come a-long_”. and sit. by me Sit by me oe ) = bh (pogo piu mos) T//1 File —_ 2No. 1A SONATINA (Part 1) (REV. 4/24/03) - pg. 5 ALONG GAY BOOK © Care - = ly med-dle with me. ows ocd MEMO Wnossy.No. 1A SONATINA (Part 1) (REV. 4/24/03) - pg. 6 ALONG GAY BOOK = 2 e a Come a-long_—and sit___ with me__Sit_ by me sit for me, sit (roll down)No. 1B ALONG GAY BOOK Sonatina (1921) (Part 2) (Young Gertride, 2 Young Women) (REV. 4712003) Text by Gertrude Stein Music by Stephen Flaherty GERTRUDE: "While I was at college and doing philosophy and psychology I became more and more." , Eilstesso 2 2 “ ea me sim.No.1B SONATINA (Part 2) (REV. 4/12/08) ~ pg. 2 ALONG GAY BOOK * le what se came ey Jing and listening." 2 YOUNG WOMEN: -what made people what they, We tome by experience and not by talking and listening"? WC I Ga (YOUNG GERTRUDE AND TWO OTHER YOUNG LADIES DANCE) 2 YOUNG WOMEN: 3 A ‘ t p= P > °No. 1B SONATINA (Part 2) (REV. 4/1203) - pg. 3 ALONG GAY BOOK GERTRUDE: "Then as I say T became more interested...in psychology, and one of the things I did was testing reactions.” 2» 2s 2% id *_.of the average college student in a state of normal activity and in the tate of fatigue induced by their examinations." (tea)No. 1B SONATINA (Part 2) (REV. 4/12/03) - pg. 4 ALONG GAY BOOK YOUNG GERTRUDE: (to Gerrrudel was supposed tobe interested in their reactions but soon I found that Iwas not.” 2 = . » a — tharacters." GERTRUDE: "That is what 1." *. but instead that Iwas enormously interested in the types of Relax Tempo as 36 1s ss "even then thought of as the bottom nature of them, and when in may 1898 1 wrote my half of the report." ae bi 2 —__ 4 _ (GERTRUDE STEPS ASIDE AND YOUNG GERTRUDE (COMES TO THE LECTERN.) YOUNG GERTRUDE: "In these descriptions it will be readily observed that habits of attention are reflexes of the ‘complete character of the individual." GERTRUDE: "Then that was over..." —S “ a *.of these experiments [expressed these results as follows:" vs.No. 1C ALONG GAY BOOK Sonatina (1921) (Part 3) Text by Gertrude Stein Music by Stephen Flaherty (YOUNG GERTRUDE LEAVES THE LECTERN AND JOINS THE OTHER YOUNG LADIES AND THREE YOUNG MEN. THEY DANCE.) L'Istesso YOUNG GERTRUDE+ 2 YOUNG WOMEN+2 YOUNG MEN: YG, 2W, 2M: ‘ 7 wns. 1W: ‘Come a long___ and sit. by me sit by me andNo. 1C SONATINA (Part 3) (REV. 4/24/03) - pg. 2 ALONG GAY BOOK GERTRUDE: *... and I went to the medical school where 1 was bored and where once more." oa "myself and my experiences were more actively imeresting me than the life inside of others.” " 2 YOUNG GERTRUDE: "But then after that once more I began to listen, GERTRUDE: "I had left the medical school...” 3 4 » Teemendors 1nd Thad for the moment nothing to do" YOUNG GERTRUDE: "nothing to do but tlk and look and listen,” 1s a vNo.1¢ 'SONATINA (Part 3) (REV. 4/2403) - pg. 3 ALONG GAY BOOK GERTRUDE: "and this I did tremendously." YOUNG GERTRUDE: "I then began again to think about the..." 8 » 2 bo 2 2 *...bottom nature in people," GERTRUDE: "I began to get enormously interested in hearing how..." yy >sWOMAN 1: PP an. sty 4a iT "everybody said the same thing over and over again” YOUNG GERTRUDE: “over and over again with.” 2 ~»No.1C 'SONATINA (Part 3) (REV. 4/2403) - pg. 4 ALONG GAY BOOK * infinite variations but over and over again until finally if you listened with great intensity you could..." WOMAN 1+MAN 1: fs fF, Ah. x ay oT ads * hear it rise and fall and tll all that that there was inside them,” GERTRUDE: “not so much by the actual.”No. 2 ALONG GAY BOOK Loving Repeating (Company) (REV. 4/13/03 Text by Gertrude Stein ‘Music by Stephen Flaherty GERTRUDE: “and words endlessly the same and endlessly different.” 5 6 > a! 3 MEN+3 WOMEN: ° 10 ” 2No.2 Loving Repeating (REV. 4/24/03) - pz. 2 ALONG GAY BOOK 3 1“ 1s 16 pea = ~—ting in. them comes out’ of_—them, x LTy ry a 21 3 WOMEN: ndiv, unis, 7 div. 142: ™ | ma - king = clear to a-any-one that looks close. - lyNo.2 Loving Repeating (REV. 4/24/03) - pg. 3 ALONG GAY BOOK a 2No.2 Loving Repeating (REV. 4/2403) - pg. 4 ALONG GAY BOOKNo.2 Loving Repeating (REV. 4/24/03) - pg. 5 ALONG GAY BOOK a 2 * “wor | 49 142: then the Loving Repeating (REV. 4/24/03) - pe. 6 a ma - tre of ev = ty one ALONG GAY BOOK lis - te-ningNo.2 Loving Repeating (REV. 4/24/03) - pg. 7 ALONG GAY BOOK o edn, = “No.2 Loving Repeating (REV. 4/24/03) - pg. 8 ALONG GAY BOOK @ ” ™No.2 Loving Repeating (REV. 4/24/03) - pg. 9 yy molto rall. Lo - ving ALONG GAY BOOKNo.3 ALONG GAY BOOK There Are Many That I Know (Young Gertrude) (REV. 4/24/03 Text by Gertrude Stein Music by Stephen Flaherty (YOUNG GERTRUDE STEPS AWAY FROM THE OTHER TWO YOUNG WOMEN AND APPROACHES ¢7 144 GERTRUDE.) Moderately Bright "4" /OUNG GERTRUDE: of them re-pea-ting and 1 hear itNo.3 ‘Three Are Many That I Know (REY. 4/24/03) - pe. 2 ALONG GAY BOOK love it and al - =~ ways 1 will Lo - ving re-pea- ting. Loving re-pea - ting is oneNo.3 ‘Three Are Many That I Know (REV. 4/24/03) - pg. 3 ALONG GAY BOOK YOUNG GERTRUDE: live it and 1 see it and 1 eee peat it and I hear it and 1 see it, uun-der - stand it Sometimes then al - ways there is a com-ple-ted his a bNo.3 ‘Three Are Many That I Know (REY. 4/24/03) - pg. 4 ALONG GAY BOOK then will tell — the — com-ple~tedNo.3 ‘Three Are Many That | Know (REV. 4/24/03) - pg. 5 ALONG GAY BOOK (YOUNG GERTRUDE: a ent = : = * ° oS as by re-pea-No.3 ‘Throe Are Many That I Know (REV. 4/24/03) - pg. 6 ALONG GAY BOOK ving te-pea- ting, —-Lo-ving re-pea - ting is one way of be ving re-pea - ting. Lo-ving re-pea ting is one > OTHERS: div, GERTRUDE: “Loving repeating.” Ving fe-pea- ting isNo.3 ‘Three Are Many That I Know (REV. 4/24/03) - pg. 7 ALONG GAY BOOK GERTRUDE (con't): "is one way of being. Repeating is..." ao SS Lo - ving re-pea - ting! pertng is al -~ways ral ving Ferpea -—ting fs one_| MEN: ~ peng sal ways tr all__——of them. GERTRUDE (con't): "always in all of them. Loving repeating... Re - pea-ting is al - ways in all__ T way Of be-ing-Re | peavUnp Te al- -ways tial ving Fe-pea-Umgis one way Sth Re per tng sal ways in allNo.3 ‘Thee Are Many That I Know (REV. 4/24/03) - pg. 8 ‘ALONG GAY BOOK GERTRUDE (con't):"..is one way of being. Repeating is always in. ving repeating te one_|” way Of be -ing Re { peamung sal -—ways in all__| ~" ving fe-pea-tingts one way #2 SINGERS: GERTRUDE (con't): "all of them." o Lo-ving re-pea - ting is one way of be - ing, Re~ Ving Ter pea Ung sone, ways all_ of them. ~” ving fe-pea - tingsNo.3 ‘Three Are Many That I Know (REV. 4/24/03) - pg. 9 ALONG GAY BOOK 42 SINGERS: Re ~ pea-ting is al ways perung Teal - ways peeing Teal ways, Re live it and I see it and 1 it and 1 hear it.No.3 ‘Three Are Many That I Know (REV. 4/2403) - pg. 10 ALONG GAY BOOK (YOUNG GERTRUDE:) peat it and I hear it and 1 see it, OTHERS: see it and I hear it, Shoop! yeu " Sometimes then al - ways there is @ com-ple-ted his -No.3 ‘Three Are Many That I Know (REV. 4/24/03) - pg. 11 ALONG GAY BOOK the com-ple-ted his. = to-ry of each, b his -No.3 ‘Three Are Many That I Know (REV. 4/24/03) - pg. 12 ALONG GAY BOOK ving re-pea- ting. _Lo-ving re-pea - ting isNo.3 ‘Three Are Many That I Know (REV. 4/24/03) - pg. 13 ALONG GAY BOOK YOUNG GERTRUDE: More BroadlyNo. 4 ALONG GAY BOOK AHistory Of One (Company) (REV. 424103) Text by Gertrude Stein Music by Stephen Flaherty Jens (YOUNG GERTRUDE JOINS THE CHORUS AND THEY SING IN UNISON.) Flowing, Hushed (Repeat Intro. If Necessary) YOUNG GERTRUDE+OTHERS: Ev-'ry one always is re~pea-ting the whole of them____Ev-'ty 2 —_Nod A History Of One (REV. 4/2403) - pg. 2 ALONG GAY BOOK one is re-pea-ting the whole of them___ Such re - pea-ting is then al-ways in 2 TD some one who sees__them will have ‘a com-plete un-der - stan-ding of the whole of each one— ¢No. 6B (Come Fire Fly (REV. 4/14/03) - pg. 2 ALONG GAY BOOK 1), YOUNG GERTRUDE: ,, is 6 CS Come fire fly and light up ba - by’s. nose, __ GEORGINE+HELEN: YOUNG GERTRUDE: "7 6 » »