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unusual facts about The Mother of Us All


The Mother of Us All

It chronicles the life of Susan B. Anthony, one of the major figures in the fight for women's suffrage in the United States.



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Gold and Fizdale

This lunch ended with Auric and Tailleferre taking the score of Thomson's "The Mother of Us All", which Thomson had given as a gift, turning it upside down on the piano and having Poulenc singing all of the roles (including Susan B. Anthony) in nonsense English syllables which were supposedly an imitation of Gertrude Stein's Libretto while Tailleferre and Auric improvised a four-hands version of Thomson's score.