first edition
1871 · New York
by Wilson, Robert
New York: Byrd Hoffman Foundation, 1871. Very good.. Original program for the second and third performances of Wilson's "silent opera," based in part on the visual ideas of Raymond Andrews, performed by the Byrd Hoffman School of Byrds at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 1971. In 1967, Wilson took the "highly unusual" step of adopting Andrews, a Deaf African American teenager with no legal guardian, with the goal of preventing his institutionalization and abuse by police. According to Wilson: "In the following months and years, I began to collect images that Raymond drew, and I made notes and observations on things he saw. He would see things that I did not notice, because I was preoccupied with what I was hearing. At one point, I took my notes and decided to make a theatrical work with him. And, during the course of two to three years, I put together a work that I called Deafman Glance." 11'' x 8.5''. Original side-stapled black and white pictorial wrappers. Unpaginated. Light edgewear, rippling to wrappers and pages.
(Inventory #: 53481)
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