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The Melodrama And Melodies Of a Singular Composer

Gian Carlo Menotti, who died yesterday at the age of 95, was a riot of contradictions -- a supremely gifted composer who also wrote some of the tawdriest music in the literature; a charming and brilliantly innovative impresario who ended up estranged from all three of the arts festivals he founded on as many continents; a man who once created operas for Broadway and network television, and whose work is now virtually unknown among a younger generation of musicians....
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By Tim Page