MUSIC

Spoleto USA
A Festival Discovers America (1977)
58 minutes

A visit to the Spoleto Festival the year it started a U.S. season in Charleston , S.C. Filmed in Italy and the United States.

Some of the highlights of the festival were:

• Staging of Gian-Carlo Menotti's opera "The Consul"
  
• A production of "The Queen of Spades", Tchaikovsky's opera
  
• A brilliant chamber music series by Charles Wadsworth and Peter Serkin
  
• Scriabin Day (Scriabin Rarities); conceived, produced and directed by Joseph Wishy
  
• Scriabin Dance Program; Alberto Mendez, Glen Tetley, George Balanchine,
  Sir Frederick Ashton, Lar Lubovitch, Anna Sokolow, choreographers, world premieres; Isadora Duncan, Ted Shawn, Ninette de Valois, revivals
  
• Pantheus - The Poem of Fire; Glen Sheldon, conductor
  
• Scriabin Piano Recital; John Ogden, pianist
  
• Orchestral Concert; Gary Sheldon, conducto