Word: menotti
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harry is the hero of Henry Miller's first and only play, Just Wild About Harry, written in three days in 1960 and given its world premiere last week in Spoleto at Gian Carlo Menotti's Festival of Two Worlds. The play is standard, consistent Miller all the way; that is to say, it is a show of dirty drivel...
...director of the Summer School Chorus. Under her direction the Smith College Glee Club has appeared, over the past 15 years, in Carnegie Hall, Town Hall, and Symphony Hall, and has toured England, Mexico and Italy. In Spoleto, Italy, the group was conducted by the composer Gian Carlo Menotti...
...dramatic cantata called The Death of the Bishop of Brindisi, Menotti makes the same point with fresh power and beauty. In its premiere in Cincinnati's Music Hall, his music won him an ovation greater than any in his long career. Scored for full orchestra, two soloists, and a chorus of 525, the cantata had 325 children onstage and everybody's mother in the audience. But Brindisi would have been a triumph anywhere...
...Menotti's story is told in searing memories that come to the bishop in his deathbed. Having blessed the children who set sail from Brindisi on the way to their deaths in the Children's Crusade, he torments himself with recriminations. "What faith, what love, can justify the man who makes himself the arbiter of other people's lives?" he pleads-but the chorus gives him no answer. The children's innocent voices haunt him. The adult chorus damns him: "Cursed be the shepherd who leads his flock to death," the people cry, and they burn...
Onstage, the adult choristers applauded while the children cheered and wept. Said Menotti, seized for a change with the delights of life: "Nothing like this has ever happened to me before. I want the final chorus sung at my funeral...