Word: menotti
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...losing some $4,000 a month. Now the place is prospering. La Pine-O'Neill have found that they can pack their restaurant not only by playing the music of the masters but also with modernist works of such composers as Irving Fine and Gunther Schuller. Next: Menotti's 30-minute opera The Telephone. The musicians find the whole thing relaxing, and countless bourbon drinkers have told O'Neill that they have never heard Beethoven in quite so clear a tone...
...fourth year, the Harvard Opera Guild offered five productions. It provided unpretentious fun in the fall with Workshop productions of Menotti's The Telephone and Wolf-Ferrari's The Secret of Suzanne. Ill-advisedly, the Group mounted in the spring a new English translation of Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio, which, except for the Blonda of Vivian Thomas '60, was far beyond the abilities of everyone concerned...
...Lowell House Music Society which had started staging production in 1938, followed up its tentative universal of Pergolesi's with a spirited and well-oiled performance of Menotti's The Old Maid the Thief, under the direction of Richard B. Hines...
...Extremes. The Bergamo festival has launched such well-known Italian composers as Gian Francesco Malipiero and Giorgio Ghedini on their operatic careers (a notable exception: Gian Carlo Menotti, who, says a friend, "found his Bergamo in America"). The two new works at this year's festival displayed the extremes of two warring contemporary Italian styles. The Admiral, by Arturo Andreoli, 58, a longtime coach at La Scala, was a typical example of verismo (an operatic movement comparable to literary "realism"), made popular in the late igth century by Mascagni, Leonca--vallo, Puccini. Based on a one-act play...
...Lathrup Village (Detroit); Architect Eero Saarinen, Bloomfield Hills (Detroit) ; Kansas City Star President Roy Roberts, Mission Hills (Kansas City); Douglas Aircraft Chairman Donald Douglas Sr., Rolling Hills (Los Angeles); Caltech President Lee A. Du-Bridge, Pasadena (Los Angeles); Architect Wallace K. Harrison, Huntington, L.I. (New York); Composers Gian Carlo Menotti and Samuel Barber, Mt. Kisco (New York); Author John Hersey, Southport, Conn. (New York); Secretary of Defense Thomas Gates, Devon (Philadelphia); Secretary of the Treasury Robert Anderson, Greenwich, Conn. (New York); Artist Andrew Wyeth, Chadds Ford (Philadelphia); Westinghouse Electric Corp. Chairman Gwilym Price, Carnegie (Pittsburgh); United Steelworkers President David McDonald...