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The Times (UK)
The GuardianCharelston – “Father of Spoleto Festivals Dies”
Andante Appreciation
Schrimer Website
Tim Page (Washington Post )
Washintgon Post Obit
from Opera Chic:
Menotti in 2001, in a long Corriere della Sera (July 8 issue) profile for his 90th birthday: “Why did I embark in such an adventure? Why Spoleto? (ed: he’s talking about the birth of his Spoleto Festival) Because in my 50s, I felt guilty: I wanted to rebel against the idea of the artist as entertainer, as society’s clown. I wanted to show again that artists are an asset for society and, why not, for the economy as well. I wanted to be useful. I chose Spoleto”.
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Gian Carlo Menotti, as photographed by Carl Van Vechten in 1944 (top) and in Spoleto, Italy in 2005 (bottom).
Frances Menoitt and his father, Gian Carlo Menotti
a southern gal in the north 