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Emotional Flood. The eminent musicians in the audience were staggered by the emotion of it all. Said Composer Gian Carlo Menotti: "Nowhere in Europe could you have an evening like this. English royalty entertains movie stars. Our President entertains artists." Obbligatoed Eugene Ormandy: "An inspiration to all of us." Leonard Bernstein, who sat with his head buried in his hands during most of the recital, was nearly overcome. "I was deeply moved by the entire occasion," he admitted, "not merely by the music of Casals but by the company in which it was played." Maestro Casals was the calmest...
...danger of being skewered by the conductor's baton, and a singer who wants to be heard has to shout down the throat of the tuba. But despite such drawbacks, the audience at Manhattan's Xavier Theater last week saw and heard as fine a revival of Gian-Carlo Menotti's stark Greenwich Village drama. The Saint of Bleecker Street, as the opera is likely to receive. What made the production even more surprising was that not one of the professional performers was paid...
Probably the most sophisticated American coffeehouse is Hollywood's Renaissance, which puts out its own newsletter, holds art classes, has a closet full of chess sets, and has presented such theatrical products as Gian Carlo Menotti's opera The Old Maid and the Thief and a revue based on the cartoon characters of Jules (Sick, Sick, Sick) Feiffer. Renaissance imitations have appeared all over Sunset Strip-the Unicorn, Pandora's Box, Chez Paulette, the Bit-but the closest approximation is Positano at Malibu Beach, where patrons sip $1 spumoni sodas, play Monopoly and pingpong, and take...
This genteel exercise in white slavery occurred in the home of Italian Ambassador to the U.N. Egidio Ortona at an auction to raise money for Gian Carlo Menotti's Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto. Sold off with Burton and several minor works by Chagall and Tiepolo were Composer Menotti himself (for $501. to Novelist Pati Hill) and Conductor Thom as Schippers, who brought a mere $325 from Jean Feldman, ex-wife of Agent Charles Feldman. Schippers later registered a complaint with Maxwell: "Traitor, $350 for only an actor!" This week the proud owners were scheduled to feed their...
...Opera Company (NBC, 4-5 p.m.). Gian Carlo Menotti's nine-year-old Christmas opera, Amahl and the Night Visitors...