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Mark's family shuttled between a sprawling 18th century farmhouse on 150 acres in Cornwall, Conn, and a house on Greenwich Village's Bleecker Street, where an evening's conversation struck sparks from a roomful of such guests as Carl, Mortimer Adler, Clifton Fadiman, Critic Joseph Wood Krutch, Columnist Franklin P. Adams, Lawyer Morris L. Ernst, Novelist Sinclair Lewis. "We'd be talking along," recalls Fadiman, "and then we'd look up and there would be two little kids in pajamas, hanging over the banister, eavesdropping." Charles's mother would pack...
First of the series of evening stage presentations was Gian-Carlo Menotti's "The Saint of Bleecker Street." This is not Menotti's best work. It has numerous faults, one being that its length cannot support its dramatic content. But its subject matter and conservative musical style make it a very wise choice for a show aimed at the Boston public at large...
...Wagnerian Tenor Hans Beirer is not ordinarily temperamental, but at one rehearsal he went into a pet and refused to sing until somebody brought a couch on stage for him to lie on. Hungarian Sandor Konya, rehearsing for the German premiere of Menotti's Saint of Bleecker Street, was scheduled to pick up a knife to stab. When it turned up missing, he flew into a rage and took a walk. It was replaced, but another singer, all unawares, took the replacement knife to peel an orange. This time Kenya's curse-punctuated rage was uncontainable...
Ahead for Composer Barber: a new opera, with a libretto written by his composer-friend, Gian-Carlo (Saint of Bleecker Street) Menotti...
...opera itself was tuneful as a merry-go-round. Lanky (6 ft. 2 in.) Conductor Thomas Schippers. making his Met debut at 25, kept a wary eye roving over the orchestra. With the same vigor he had shown in the pit of Menotti's Saint of Bleecker Street (TIME, Jan. 10), he put a spin on every phrase. The music chuckled, twittered and bounced from one carefree music-hall polka into another...