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...Charleston's clean and narrow streets, cloistered gardens and the pastel colors of its colonial houses readily ratify Menotti's sense of what makes a good set. As the twelve-day festival began last week, the question was whether the exquisitely languid dowager city would prove a worthy audience...
...Crab Soup. There was something for everyone and every age, from jazz sets to film screenings. To the delight of children, giant puppets strolled the streets. Free sculpture and art shows blossomed at scenic and historic sites around the city. Charleston's restaurants were ready with that minor art form known as low-country cooking: she-crab soup, sauteed shrimp, fried oysters, Limehouse sausage...
...into Spoleto 20 years ago. The site search for the U.S. half of the enterprise did not begin until 1973, however; New Orleans and San Antonio were among the places considered. Says Conductor Christopher Keene, Spoleto's music director and the first member of the staff to advocate Charleston: "It had a combination of positive and negative values-a highly developed aesthetic and architectural sense combined with a relatively undernourished cultural life...
...Charleston also had good performing and tourist facilities. Almost as important, Spoleto U.S.A. received local pledges of $200,000 toward the $850,000 cost of the first season. Many proper Charlestonians. however, had doubts at the beginning, and a few still do. They are fond of their city as it is and well aware that an annual cultural bazaar like Spoleto can overwhelm a small city -the jazz festival engulfed Newport, R.I., for years. Nor were Charlestonians reassured by reports that some money raised in the U.S. was to be set aside for the Italian festival. That was initially...
...Charleston's hotels and inns were less than full on opening day, and the streets were hardly crammed with festival goers. Less than 2,000 paying customers showed up at the 2,700-seat Gaillard Municipal Auditorium for the first big evening event-the four-hour uncut production of Tchaikovsky's opera The Queen of Spades, first introduced last year at Spoleto, Italy. But if the variety and excellence of the first week's offerings were fair guides, Spoleto U.S.A. should become a success...