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Only two U.S. operas have been produced at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House in the past eight years; both were written by the same man. Yet 34-year-old, Italian-born Gian-Carlo Menotti, the composer, is no admirer...
...furiously booking passage home again. Walker had publicly announced that the books of Transamerica were padded with good will, inflated evaluations of subsidiary companies; that Giannini's $1,100,000,000 estimate of its worth was $800 million too high. He had sold the New York banks, booted Gian nini men out of Transamerica, was preparing to shuck off Bank of America...
...City Bank's Charles Mitchell and Chase National Bank's Albert Wiggin for the title of the nation's biggest bank. Chase won out, via mergers with other banks, and held its lead till three months ago. Then a brash West Coast upstart, old A. P. Gian nini's Bank of America, pushed past...
...other operas to come: The Devil and Daniel Webster, Stephen Vincent Benet's Faustian tale of a New Hampshire farmer who sold out to the devil, set to music by Columbia Professor Douglas Moore; Gian-Carlo Menotti's The Old Maid and the Thief, a deft, bubbling radio opera commissioned by NBC, first given in 1939; Four Saints in Three Acts, with Virgil Thomson's gravely melodious music to Gertrude Stein's nonsensical words; Tennessee's Partner, a Quinto Maganini opera on a Bret Harte short story, which has lain unperformed, unorchestrated since 1934; Aaron...
Author & composer was 30-year-old Gian-Carlo Menotti. a Philadelphia-trained Italian whose name has loomed large in opera circles since his effervescent Amelia Goes to the Ball clicked happily in 1937. Menotti turned out a second hit in 1939: a radio opera. The Old Maid and the Thief, commissioned by NBC. His newest venture, like its predecessors, is short. Unlike them, it is a tragedy. Menotti had complained: "The critics wrote that my talent was only for opera buffa...