Lenore Von Stein

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Lenore Von Stein (born May 11, 1946 ) is an American composer, singer and actress.

Von Stein began her artistic career as an actress in improvised live performances and films. She brought Samuel Beckett's monologue The Expelled to the stage, and her own piece The Adventures of Mae Witt was produced in New York in 1987. From 1983 she completed a musical education, which she completed with a bachelor's and master's degree in composition.

In 1992 Love is Dead was released with Gerry Hemingway , Fred Hopkins and David Lopato , and in 1997 the CD Blind Love = PoRno? with Michael Jeffrey Stevens and Michael Rabinowitz and a CD that she produced with the Electro-Acoustic Ensemble at Brooklyn College . Her chamber opera The Faith of Whores premiered in 1997. Von Stein uses elements of bebop , free jazz , classical and electroacoustic music in her compositions .

In live performances, she combines her music with visual art and dance to create unique productions, which she describes as living paintings . With the group 1687 Inc. , of which she is the artistic director, she has been producing monthly living paintings as half-hour television programs for the Manhattan Neighborhood Network since 2009 .

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