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AMAHL AND THE NIGHT VISITORS (89 pp.)-Gian-Carlo Menotti-McGraw-Hill ($2.75). A fine book version of the story Composer Menotti wrote for his TV Christmas opera last year (TIME, Dec. 31), in which a crippled shepherd boy adds his crutch to the gifts of the Three Wise...
...Gian Carlo Mcnefft's Christmas open. "Amahi and the Night Visiters," produced by the Longy School of Music, will make its Boston debut at Agassis Theatre December 18 and 19. Mcnofft's "The Pele phone" is also on the program...
Whitewash & Tar. For years the most feared bandit in all Orgosolo has been a dark-eyed ruffian named Gian Battista Liandru, who turned outlaw some 32 years ago when he became bored with sheepherding at the age of 17. In time Liandru's forays became as legendary in the Sardinian hills as those of Jesse James in Missouri. Local law officers credited him and his band with more crimes than they could ever have found time to commit, but they could never find him to press the charges. Then, three years ago, Liandru's luck seemed to turn...
...Composer Gian-Carlo Menotti, 41, won another accolade last week: a whole concert given over to his music in Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium. There were selections from his operas Amelia Goes to the Ball, The Consul, Amahl and the Night Visitors, The Island God, The Old Maid and the Thief, as well as part of his ballet Sebastian and his Piano Concerto. By the end of the evening, Menotti had proved again that he is one of the most melodious composers of the day and a natural for a summer evening outdoors. Thomas Schippers. 22, led the Menotti program...
...last-ditch Verdi-lovers turned out to express their disapproval, greeted the opening curtain with whistles, catcalls and shouts of "Vergogna, vergogna!" (Shame, shame!). But the ruckus was feeble compared with the uproar they raised over Gian-Carlo Menotti's Consul and Juan Jose Castro's Proserpina (TIME, Feb. 5, 1951; March...