On Friday June 29th, Elon University President Leo M. Lambert and Director of Cultural Programs George Troxler were on hand to welcome a large turnout to the third annual EMF Piano Faculty Concert in McCrary Theatre. The program...
Read MoreAlthough he had no way of knowing it at the time, Gian Carlo Menotti’s 1959 decision to ask Charles Wadsworth to create a series of informal noonday chamber music concerts for the original Italian Spoleto Festival was...
Read MoreWhile 2001 was the 25th anniversary of the Spoleto Festival USA, it was the 23rd for the concurrent Piccolo Spoleto, designed and launched in 1979 by the City of Charleston’s Office of Cultural Affairs. The official...
Read MoreOrigins When Gian Carlo Menotti left Italy to come to America to study at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia, members of his affluent and influential family had said, “Oh, don’t go to America because it is a...
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