Word: menottian
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...music is distinctively Menottian -sometimes obvious but always packed with powerful melodic appeal. Composing for a twelve-year-old star was a problem. One choice was to keep all the singing roles simple and "wide-eyed"; another was to keep the boy's part easy, the others more florid. Menotti chose middle ground, and although he has some difficult singing (and acting) to do, curly-haired and clear-voiced little Chet Allen of Princeton's Columbus Boychoir carries it off beautifully. Menotti has no peer when it comes to setting the English language to music and, as always...
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