Word: faustian
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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...other operas to come: The Devil and Daniel Webster, Stephen Vincent Benet's Faustian tale of a New Hampshire farmer who sold out to the devil, set to music by Columbia Professor Douglas Moore; Gian-Carlo Menotti's The Old Maid and the Thief, a deft, bubbling radio opera commissioned by NBC, first given in 1939; Four Saints in Three Acts, with Virgil Thomson's gravely melodious music to Gertrude Stein's nonsensical words; Tennessee's Partner, a Quinto Maganini opera on a Bret Harte short story, which has lain unperformed, unorchestrated since 1934; Aaron...