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Hall of Fame (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Gian Carlo Menotti's Christmas opera, Amahl and the Night Visitors...
...offered a careful balance: something old, something new. First he flooded the hall with the singing airs of Mozart's Adagio in E. Then, tucking his fiddle under his chin again and staring intently at his stubby fingers, he launched into the amiable and sometimes pyrotechnic moods of Gian-Carlo Menotti's two-year-old Violin Concerto. As always, his tone was luxuriant, his pitch impeccable, and he brought the music to full-blooded life. From Manhattan's experienced audience, the modern work drew down an extra round of applause...
...networks and their related record companies, charging conspiracy and discrimination to keep non-BMI music from being heard as often as it should be. Among the 33: Ira (I Got Rhythm] Gershwin. Arthur (Dancing in the Dark] Schwartz, Dorothy (I Can't Give Yon Anything but Love) Fields. Gian-Carlo (The Consul) Menotti. They reckon that they and other non-BMI composers have collectively lost $50 million in royalties in the past decade. Their demand: triple damages ($150 million) and a court order directing broadcasters...
...Gian-Carlo (The Consul) Menotti, Italian-born composer of eerie operas, was asked in Washington whether he thought composers ought to reap some of the take from jukeboxes. "Unfortunately," he said, "I'm afraid that my music will never get into jukeboxes unless ihe whole country gets neurotic...
...mysterious court for an unspecified crime, chivied by a cold, incomprehensible bureaucracy until he is finally led away by two black-clad agents and stabbed to death. This macabre theme of man tortured by forces he does not understand was successfully used by Alban Berg in Wozzeck and by Gian-Carlo Menotti in his more popular Consul. Salzburg first-nighters, remembering Von Einem's earlier, impressive opera, Danton's Death (TIME, Aug. 18, 1947), came with high hopes. But by the final curtain, they found themselves less than spellbound, responded with lukewarm applause...