Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York 2, Boston 7; Cincinnati 1, Pittsburgh 2; Philadelphia 3, Brooklyn...
...evening in 1937 Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music presented to the public two one-act operas. What the critics came to hear was Le Pauvre Matelot, by one of the most famous of French modernist composers, Darius Milhaud. But what held them in their seats and sent them home happy was the light, tripping music and witty text of a little musical farce called Amelia Goes to the Ball, by an unknown graduate of the Institute, a youngster of 25 named Gian-Carlo Menotti. Next year Amelia made the Metropolitan, was so successful that it became a permanent...
Gian-Carlo Menotti got most of his musical education at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute, but he speaks English with an Italian accent, still regards Italy, where his family lives, as his home. In Manhattan, where he now spends most of the winter, Composer Menotti inhabits a penthouse which was originally a water tank, on the roof of an uptown apartment building...
Boston 3. Philadelphia 1; Chicago 6, St. Louis 5; Washington 3, New York 2; Cleveland 1, Detroit...
...York 2, Boston 3; Philadelphia 1, Brooklyn 3; St, Louis 1, Chicago 4; Cincinnati at Pittsburgh postponed, rain...