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Aaron Copland, Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, will participate along with composer Marc Blitzstein in the Brandeis University Festival of Creative Arts, to be held on the University's Waltham campus June 12 through...
Yellin said after the performance that he has begun a full-length opera based on an incident in the life of Andrew Jackson. If he can avoid all the errors he made in his first effort, he may yet produce a good opera in the Thompson-Blitzstein tradition...
...eleven operas from current repertory, it promised productions of i) Alban Berg's tragic opera, Wozzeck, which no U.S. audience has seen in 21 years, 2) a stage version of Gian-Carlo Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors, and 3) a new adaptation, by Marc Blitzstein, of Kurt Weill's The Three-Penny Opera. Possible hitch: Halasz, who is still fighting his year-end dismissal (TIME, Dec. 31), contends that, under his last contract, none of last year's repertory may be produced this year without Halasz on deck...
...season whose musicomedies were resolutely undistinguished, musical drama -the one new form to establish itself on Broadway-strengthened its hold. Gian-Carlo Menotti's smash hit The Consul (along with The Cocktail Party] had every cocktail party in Manhattan buzzing. Marc Blitzstein's Regina died at the boxoffice, but it was very much alive on the stage...
...works commissioned by Koussevitzky since 1942. Among them: Benjamin Britten's opera, Peter Grimes, Bela Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra, Darius Milhaud's Symphony No. 2, Aaron Copland's Symphony No. 3, Arnold Schoenberg's Survivor from Warsaw, Ode, by Igor Stravinsky, Marc Blitzstein's opera, Regina, which last week closed a Broadway run of 56 performances...