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...Other Pulitzer winners: Gian-Carlo Menotti, best music, in The Consul (TIME, May 1); South Pacific, best play; A. B. Guthrie, best novel, The Way West; Samuel Flagg Bemis, best biography, John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy; O. W. Larkin, best history, Art and Life in America; Gwendolyn Brooks, best poetry, Annie Allen; Seattle Times Reporter Edwin O. Guthman, best national reporting, in clearing a professor of Communist charges (TIME, Nov. 7); Christian Science Monitor Correspondent Edmund Stevens, best international reporting, on Russia; Chicago Daily News and St. Louis Post-Dispatch, for public service in exposing...
With this preoccupation, he has brought a new kind of singing actress to the fore. Menotti singers such as Marie Powers and his latest discovery, tall, dark-eyed, Brooklyn-born Patricia Neway, 27, the star of The Consul, may be vocally a step below the Met; dramatically they are well above...
...which provided that not one word, nor one note of his music, if he chose to write any, was to be changed. To nobody's surprise, no movie ever came of it. He has been embarrassingly direct with potential backers, too. At money-raising auditions for The Consul last winter, Menotti, who believes "opera should be an art, not an investment," almost queered the deal by declaring in solemn, admonitory speeches that "My opera is vaaary glooomy." His frantic producers later sent him a hand-painted tie with his warning...
...Soul. With the Shuberts, who own the Ethel Barrymore, planning to keep The Consul running on Broadway for two years, Menotti thought it was high time to "watch out for success." He was not overly concerned with where he stood in the great operatic tradition. He had not discovered anything brand-new, and he knew it. Paul Hindemith, Ernst Krenek and the late Kurt Weill had broken the ground for him in Germany in the '20s. Austrian Atonalist Alban Berg's gloomy Wozzeck had moved opera musically miles from the Verdis and Monteverdis...
...plenty of work cut out for himself. Later this month he will sail for Italy to catch up on his share of hometown fame. He will make a movie of The Medium, later supervise productions of The Consul in London and Paris, as well as at La Scala. In his dedication to opera, he regrets that he has not had greater chance for orchestral composition. He has written a piano concerto and a ballet suite, Sebastian, is currently working on a violin concerto...