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Other noteworthy new records: Bach's Double Concerto, played by Yehudi Menuhin and Gioconda De Vito (Victor); Debussy Piano Music, played by Robert Casadesus, sometimes assisted by his wife Gaby (Columbia, 3 LPs); 50 Years of Great Operatic Singing (Victor, 5 LPs) ; The Saint of Bleecker Street, with the original cast, including David Poleri and Gloria Lane, conducted by Thomas Schippers (Victor, 2 LPs); 60 Harpsichord Sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti, played by Ralph Kirkpatrick; Columbia...
...composer who has come closest to being America's Verdi or Puccini. Gian-Carlo Menotti. last week took his Saint of Bleecker Street (TIME. Jan. 10) to Milan's great La Scala. Italian-born Composer Menotti, who has lived in the U.S. for 27 years, got a real gala-Scala panning from Italian critics. Wrote Rome's Giornale d'Italia: "There is not an idea, not a melody, not a note which is not either closely or distantly attributable to someone else ... If this is what it means to write opera, let's not talk...
Best Musical: Gian-Carlo Menotti's The Saint of Bleecker Street...
...sailed over his shoulder into the audience. Since then, Conductor Schippers (pronounced shippers) has kept a firm grip on his baton, earned resounding kudos for his performances at the New York City Opera, guest stints with symphony orchestras, and this season, for another Menotti opera, The Saint of Bleecker Street (TIME, Jan. 10). Last week Kalamazoo-born Conductor Schippers, 24, won his golden operatic spurs: the Metropolitan Opera signed him to be the third U.S.-born regular conductor in its 71-year history.* He will bow in a new production of Donizetti's Don Pasquale next season, will...
Toast of the Town (Sun. 8 p.m., CBS). Excerpts from Menotti's new opera, The Saint of Bleecker Street...