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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...
...Manhattan, where he is wielding a guest baton at Lewisohn Stadium, San Francisco's French-born Conductor Pierre Monteux decided it was high time to explain the discrepancy between his white moustache and black hair and to deny again the rumor that his hair is dyed. Said he: "My moustache is white from kissing the girls. But my hair is true black. Anyone is welcome to come with alcohol, with shampoo, with anything, to wash my hair and prove...
There was a period a few years back when Lily slid into a vocal slough and had more than usual trouble with pitch, but she is back in good stride now. After one more summer concert (she has already sung in Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium and Philadelphia's Robin Hood Dell), Lily will take a vacation in France with her husband, Conductor Andre Kostelanetz. Then she returns to the U.S. to sing with the San Francisco and Metropolitan Operas, make records (she has sold over 2,000,000 in the past ten years), sing on the radio...
Although Monteux is 77, he does not intend to stop conducting. He will lead the Boston Symphony, as associate conductor with Charles Munch, during a European tour next month. And this summer he will conduct in Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium, at Tanglewood and at Chicago's Ravinia Park, and run his conducting school in Maine. He is booked at home & abroad straight through the spring...
...fund was established by Lady Julia Lewisohn Henry in the hope of "cementing bonds of friendship between the British Empire and the United States...