Word: spoleto
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
Most singers would be happy to make a career out of the engagements that the pair has since turned down: Evelyn, for instance, has bypassed invitations from the Salzburg, Glyndebourne and Spoleto festivals. Heavily in demand for knotty contemporary scores, they have been especially careful to avoid being stereotyped in what Evelyn once called "this modrun crap." have studiously built up a repertory of classical roles...
...other U.S.-born choreographer is more widely-or ineptly -copied in Europe, where even bad Robbins is good box office. But Robbins' competition (most notably Maurice Béjart's company) will have a tough time copying, ineptly or otherwise, the ballet he produced at the Spoleto Festival last week. A plotless work designed to have, according to Robbins, "the total effect of reading the morning paper," Events adds new luster to the career of a man who, from Fancy Free to West Side Story, has developed into the freshest creator of U.S. ballet...
...last week, in self-deprecation, spoke the sexiest Salome since red-haired Ljuba Welitch. The occasion was a new production of the Strauss opera at Spoleto, Italy, the musical festival that draws some 120,-ooo tourists each summer. Singing the role of "that girl"-described in Oscar Wilde's play as having "veins filled with fire"-was a fine new Negro soprano: Virginia-born Margaret Tynes...
This genteel exercise in white slavery occurred in the home of Italian Ambassador to the U.N. Egidio Ortona at an auction to raise money for Gian Carlo Menotti's Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto. Sold off with Burton and several minor works by Chagall and Tiepolo were Composer Menotti himself (for $501. to Novelist Pati Hill) and Conductor Thom as Schippers, who brought a mere $325 from Jean Feldman, ex-wife of Agent Charles Feldman. Schippers later registered a complaint with Maxwell: "Traitor, $350 for only an actor!" This week the proud owners were scheduled to feed their...