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...Composer Gian Carlo Menotti's Festival of Two Worlds had come some of the freshest talent of the U.S. and Europe: Choreographers Jerome Robbins and John Butler, Conductor Thomas Schippers, Painters Ben Shahn and Saul Steinberg, Stage Director Luchino Visconti. The biggest eye opener of the festival so far was an irreverent band of youngsters in sweatshirts and sneakers imported by Choreographer Robbins to give Italians a bracing sample of modern ballet...
Impresario Menotti could also count some other audience successes: a curtain-raising production of Verdi's early, daringly experimental Macbeth, given a sharply profiled, showily romantic reading by Conductor Schippers; a tensely moving performance of Eugene O'Neill's Moon for the Misbegotten; four "chamber ballets" by Choreographer John Butler. Still to come: Wisconsin-born Composer Lee Hoiby's opera The Witch, Florentine Composer Valentino Bucchi's Il Giuoco del Barone, the Daudet-Bizet L'Arlésienne...
...guards the outside pool of the U.S. Pavilion at the Brussels World's Fair (Calder's commission: $10,000). Last week Mr. Mobile left his Roxbury studio and flew to Spoleto, Italy, to supervise the installation of his sculptures, used in a ballet set in Gian Carlo Menotti's Festival of Two Worlds. Soon to be installed at the new Paris headquarters of UNESCO is the most ambitious of all Sculptor Calder's works -a 30-ft.-high mobile, The Clockwise Spiral...
...from the Ford Foundation, the season spans the last 20 years of U.S. operatic production with a repertory drawn from more than 200 submitted works. Among the composers represented were such veterans as Douglas Moore (The Ballad of Baby Doe), Leonard Bernstein (Trouble in Tahiti), Gian Carlo Menotti (The Medium, The Old Maid and the Thief), plus such lesser-known names as Vittorio Giannini (The Taming of the Shrew) and Mark Bucci (Tale for a Deaf...
...Belgian Congo and the rim of the Arctic Circle. This summer offers two special magnets for U.S. attractions: the Brussels World's Fair (highlights: the American Ballet Theater, the Philadelphia Orchestra, Louis Armstrong) and Italy's Festival of Two Worlds, organized by Gian Carlo Menotti (three new ballets by Choreographer Jerome Robbins, a new production of Verdi's Macbeth conducted by the Met's Thomas Schippers). At many other festivals and in countless solo appearances around the world, the U.S. will display an impressive roster of artists. Among them...