I will never forget it.Thank you, Mr. Menotti, for your operas. Although you left us today, your music will live on.
Thursday, February 01, 2007
Gian Carlo Menotti
Just before Christmas sometime in the early '50s my parents sent my brother and me to the movies on a Saturday afternoon. When we returned to the house there was music coming from the living room. Our family gift that year was a television! And emanating from the miniscule speaker was Amahl and the Night Visitors. 
I will never forget it.
Thank you, Mr. Menotti, for your operas. Although you left us today, your music will live on.
I will never forget it.Thank you, Mr. Menotti, for your operas. Although you left us today, your music will live on.
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2 comments:
I love the way your parents surprised you! They obviously were opera lovers.
I grew up listening to "Live from the Met" every Saturday on the radio with my Dad. One year when we were both a lot older, the traveling Met company came to Madison and I bought tickets for the two of us for all 3 performances: Tosca & Carmen were two but don't remember the third. I remember Carmen stomped out her cigarette with bare feet and the audience gasped!
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