TIME Goes to the Opera

1950: Gian-Carlo Menotti
"At heart, Menotti is a melodic composer for whom "melody is a form of remembrance ... it must have a quality of inevitability in our ears." His arias come to him easily, his long recitatives more painfully. ... He has made a lilting, hurdy-gurdyish rhythm, among other musical devices, particularly his own."
From: Composer on Broadway, May. 01, 1950

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