Word: spoleto
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...quartet, which took part in the Spoleto Festival in Italy earlier this summer, will perform Mozart's Quartet in B-flat Major, K. 589; Berg's Quartet Op. 3 and Dvorak's Quartet in A-flat Major, Op. 105. They will return here in August for two more concerts...
When Gian Carlo Menotti took over the cobbled Umbrian city of Spoleto in 1958 for his first Festival of Two Worlds, the musical fringe of Manhattan's cocktail circuit followed him and introduced the martini to local opera buffs. Italian bluebloods rapidly caught on, and musica é martini dry became the order...
Concerts & Cannelloni. Last week Spoleto was swinging with the usual galaxy of aristocrats, film stars and jet set. The earnest and the merely cultured rapidly settled into the ritual of their daily rounds: breakfast at 10, a midday chamber concert, a five-o'clock poetry reading and then a play at the Seven O'Clock Theater. Ballet or opera was the choice of enchantments for the evening-Choreographer John Cranko's intensely dramatic Romeo and Juliet, the swirling color of Yugoslav folk dances, or Conductor Thomas Schippers' sonorous rendition of Verdi's Otello...
...until they have spent an evening or part of it at Menotti's 17th century palazzo. Marvels Menotti: "I am regularly faced by an avalanche of princes, princesses, dukes and duchesses, who swarm over my house in their wonderful clothes, eating, drinking and cooking spaghetti in my kitchen. Spoleto was conceived as a small ivory turret, but has turned into a Tower of Babel...
...mention the first annual International Mandolin Festival in Verviers, Belgium (July 3). Florence's Maggio Musicale (through June 20) will repeat its popular production of Director-Set Designer Franco Zef-ferelli's Euridice, while Composer Gian Carlo Menotti's Festival of Two Worlds at Spoleto, Italy (June 24-July 18), will augment its opera and concert season with Jerome Robbins' new production of Stravinsky's L'Histoire du Soldat and five performances of the New York City Ballet...