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From:  Margaret Harrison <peggyh@i...>
Date:  Sun Jan 13, 2002  7:43 pm
Subject:  Re: [vocalist] the PERFECT teacher

ODivaTina@a... wrote:

she made me want to
> > hear more Menotti...and I will give Must The Winter Come So Soon another
> >
>
> Actually, that is Samuel Barber, not Menotti. . .
> TinaO
>

Yes, Barber wrote the music, but Menotti was the
librettist. And I've always thought the "Under the Willow
Tree" quintet in Vanessa sounded a lot like Menotti - an
off-center folk-song, like Black Swan (The Medium) or
Lullaby (The Consul).

Peggy

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