Charles Bernstein

Blind Witness: Three America Operas by Ben Yarmolinsky and Charles Bernstein

videos of orignal productions plus Yarmolinsky's preface

cover by Susan Bee

the libretto for these three operas was published by Factory School in 2008
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These three videos were made of the Blind Witness trilogy at the time of the original productions in the 1990s. They are available now for the first time, thanks to PennSound. PennSound's Ben Yarmolinsky page also has audio tracks for all the operas as well as video and audio of subsequent performances. Just below the videos is Yarmolinksy's introduction to the Facorty School book.

100 Ear Inn recordings from the early 1990s

New at PennSound

PennSound has just made available 104 recordings made at the Ear Inn in the early 1990s. These include recordings by Cabri, Child, K. Davies, A. Davies, Derksen, Dewdney, DiPalma, DuPlessis, Farrell, Fitterman, Fodaski, Foster, Fyman, Gander, Gizzi, Goldsmith, Frim, Heller, Hixon, Hoover, Inman, Kalendeck, Killian, A. Kim, Kocik, Kraut, Levy, Lewis, Lubeski, Lusk, Lyons, Mac Low, Matthews, Messerli, Myles, Neilson, O’Brien, Pearson, Price, Raworth, Regan, Rettallack, Richard, Roberson, Rosenfeld, Rower, Sala, Shaw, Sirowitz, Smith, Tillman, Toscano, Venuti, K. Waldrop, R. Waldrop, Wallace, Wheeler, C.D. Wright,  J. Williams, Ziolkowski, Zivancevic, Zurawski, and more.

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Jeff Preiss & Charles Bernstein

Filmed in Hollywood, November 14, 1998
conceived and directed by Jeff Preiss
PennSound has now made these video recordings avaiable in full screen version.
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outtakes


The Critic (0:31):
A discussion of the literary significance of Jon Lovitz's great contemporary epic, The Yellow Pages.