Gian Carlo Menotti
Gian Carlo Menotti
Gian Carlo Menottiwas an Italian-American composer and librettist. Although he often referred to himself as an American composer, he kept his Italian citizenship. He wrote the classic Christmas opera Amahl and the Night Visitors, along with over two dozen other operas intended to appeal to popular taste...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth7 July 1911
CountryItaly
composers love
My advice to composers is, 'Try to reach 90, and everyone will love you.'
love charity born
Love is born of faith, lives on hope, and dies of charity.
bobby composer love takes white
It takes a Bobby White to make a tired 90-year-old composer write a song about love.
love heart space
I know of no better definition of love than the one given by Proust - Love is space and time measured by the heart.
love inspiring flower
Love, which, in concert with Abstinence, established Faith, and which, along with Patience, builds up Chastity, is like the columns that sustain the four corners of a house. For it was that same Love which planted a glorious garden redolent with precious herbs and noble flowers-roses and lilies-which breathed forth a wondrous fragrance, that garden on which the true Solomon was accustomed to feast his eyes.
liver loathe
I loathe my body. The liver spots, the sagging flesh.
art felt god music
I have always felt that art, especially music, is but a demonstration of God.
content life memories music simplify
I have a heart problem, so I have to simplify my life and be content with memories and friends and music.
score
I can sit on a chair with a score and give myself a wonderful performance.
gives god melody
God gives you the gift of melody or He doesn't - it's as simple as that.
melodies
Writing beautiful melodies is not fashionable because it is very difficult to do.
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A Schubert song, the A-major chord at the opening of Wagner's 'Lohengrin' - such incredible beauty is a mystery, the divinity of music.
christmas compete nobody
One lived in the impression that nobody could ever compete with the 'Nutcracker' or 'A Christmas Carol.'
dared modest nobility rediscover
For better or for worse, in 'The Last Savage,' I have dared to do away completely with fashionable dissonance, and in a modest way, I have endeavored to rediscover the nobility of gracefulness and the pleasure of sweetness.