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Amahl and the Night Visitors (NBC, 4-5 p.m.). The NBC Opera Co. in the eleventh annual presentation of Gian Carlo Menotti's Christmas opera...
...documentary called "Sunday" shows the demonstration protesting a police ban on folk-singing in Washington Square, and is currently entered at the Tours Film Festival in France. It was very well received at the July 1961 Spoleto Festival organized by Gian-Carl Menotti, and subsequently took a second Golden Gate Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival in November...
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...
...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...
Conductor La Selva, 31, is far more than a musical talent scout-as last week's performance demonstrated. He whipped his orchestra through a fiery performance that seemed to burn with fresh brilliance along Menotti's arching melodic lines. Moreover, La Selva kept his singers working in fine coordination with the orchestra as he cued their entrances with a fiercely stabbing finger, a violent toss of his head. At opera's end Composer Menotti, who had watched misty-eyed, rushed backstage to embrace La Selva. "I was," said a surprised Menotti, "extremely moved...