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Your story about the Santa Fe Opera Association [July 15] contained yet another instance of man's inhumanity to librettists. One might assume that The Tower is an opéra sans paroles. Could there be no mention of no-longer-so-young (32) U.S. Comic Poet Townsend T. Brewster, who wrote the text...
...Mexico's state legislature waded through routine business in the closing hours of its 1957 session last March, a tough-talking, cigar-worrying statehouse reporter for the Santa Fe New Mexican (circ.11,710) scented a far-from-routine story. What awoke the newsman's curiosity in Reporter Neil Addington, during a discussion of a $221,000 appropriation bill for the National Guard of New Mexico (4,000 officers and men), was the evasiveness with which officials who had drawn up the budget answered lawmakers' questions about such standout items as a $14,000-a-year telephone bill...
Self-Contained. The Santa Fe Opera is the inspiration of wealthy young (31) Conductor John Crosby, who last year gave up his job as assistant director of Columbia University's Opera Workshop and settled in New Mexico. Arguing that there was no reason why "Americans should have to travel to Europe in the summer to get good music," he talked friends into putting up $150,000, and selected the "rainless, mosquitoless and airplaneless" 76-acre San Juan ranch in the piñon-studded hills north of the city as the location for an amphitheater. Crosby and associates constructed...
...Seville, Pergolesi's La Serva Padrona, plus Stravinsky's Rake's Progress (conducted by Stravinsky Protégé Robert Craft) and the premiere of The Tower, a one-act opera by young (24) U.S. Composer Marvin Levy. Crosby is also proud that his Santa Fe group, recruited from such companies as the NBC Opera and the Lyric Opera of Chicago, is "completely self-contained," i.e., it can operate independently of guest artists...
...Good Thing. Santa Fe has shelled out for opera as though it were investing in big-league baseball. The opening week was a sellout, and Crosby is counting on 90% attendance for the rest of the season (which will leave the company with an easily manageable $5,000-to-$10,000 deficit). Direct contributions have poured in from service-station owners, haberdashers, statehouse employees and wealthy, retired businessmen. If some are not all-out lovers of opera, all have been touched on their civic pride, or calculate the potential profits to be had if Santa Fe becomes the Salzburg...