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...dissident, anti-Communist Social ists under Giuseppe Saragat have made no progress since their secession (TIME, Jan. 20). The one anti-Communist party which has done relatively well is Gian, nini's nee-Fascist Common Man movement, which appeals to many disillusioned Christian Democrats. It points up the obvious but disastrous desire (which helped Hitler and Mussolini to power) to fight Communism with typical totalitarian methods...
...last night in the Memorial Church a program of three lengthy choral works commissioned for the occasion. These were, in the order of their performance: a "Last Judgement" by Paul Hindemith; a set of excerpts from Virgil's "Georgies", set to music under the title of "La Terra" by Gian-Francesco Malipiero; and the Genesis account of creation, entitled by its composer, Aaron Copland, "In the Beginning." All three were performed to a miraculous perfection by New York's Collegiate Chorale, under the direction of Robert Shaw. Nell Tangeman sang with all vocal beauty the extended and difficult solo passages...
...second new ballet, Errand into the Maze, was more maze than message. Shallow music by Gian-Carlo Menotti did not help to make Martha's journey into the labyrinth (of the heart) and the battle with the Minotaur (Creature of Fear) any more intelligible or rewarding...
Contemporary composers rarely crash the culture-pearly gates of the Metropolitan Opera Company. Italian-born Gian-Carlo Menotti has done it twice in the past ten years. It has been an honor unaccompanied by noises of a cash register. Menotti's 1937 Amelia Goes to the Ball and his 1942 The Island God together got only nine Met performances (he was paid about $150 a time). In 1939 he wrote a modest little chamber opera for the radio, The Old Maid and the Thief, which has since been given 100 times and earned far more than his grand operas...
There has not been a first-rate and popular opera written since Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier in 1911.* There have even been few good tries (Deems Taylor's Peter Ibbetson, two by Gian-Carlo Menotti). Last week U.S. critics got a first look and listen to a year-old English opera, Peter Grimes. They almost unanimously hailed frail, 32-year-old Benjamin Britten as the most promising operatic composer...