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...best performance last week was that of a mute who didn't sing a note. This week Menotti's seven-year-old opera bouffe, The Old Maid and the Thief (TIME, May 1, 1939) is to be sung to beer and hot dogs at a Carnegie Hall pop concert. Next month, Menotti will sail for Europe to visit Milan, his home town, and do research in Paris for a ballet about Marcel Proust. He lives at Mt. Kisco, N.Y. in a glistening glass and wood house called "Capricorn," with Symphonist Samuel Barber, an aspiring poet named Robert Horan...
...leader is also probably the Army's best-known hymn writer, with more than 250 to his credit. A verse from one of them (sung to the tune of The Old Rustic Bridge) well sums up his conception of a Salvationist's business...
...octaves, little of the praise will be reserved for the programming. Composers of church music have never been forced to leave sopranos out of their chorales in order that their genius might be reserved for masculine choirs in a men's college. The mixed group of 35 which has sung for Memorial Church services for three years has been able to bring with it a selection of religious music hitherto unheard in the Yard...
...been nine years since Maria Jeritza had sung before a New York audience, but all the old magic was still there. The 3,000 who jampacked Carnegie Hall cheered as they never had before - and many of them had bravoed many an earlier Jeritza performance. As much as anything else, the audience applauded the 58-year-old soprano's apparently in destructible beauty. In a silver-spangled white dress flown East by Hollywood's Adrian, the golden-haired diva looked like the late Jean Harlow in her prime. And when she sang her program of high-powered arias...
...Austrian baron, Leopold von Popper, and married Hollywood Producer Winfield R. Sheehan (who died last July). During the war she quartered G.I.s in her castle near Salzburg, and turned her California ranch into a free convalescent home for wounded soldiers. Since a Carnegie Hall concert in 1937, she has sung mostly on the West Coast...