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Classic Arts News Spoleto Festival to Open With Philip Glass Work for Mystery Instrument The thirtieth Spoleto Festival USA will open on May 26 with a fanfare written by Philip Glass for a new mystery instrument.
Nigel Redden, the festival's general director, wouldn't reveal specifics about the instrument, except to describe it as "quite big; a good deal bigger than a double bass, and easy to play." The piece is a few minutes long; the instrument was made by a poet in Los Angeles.

This year's festival, which runs May 26-June 11 in Charleston, South Carolina, will include a new production of Gounod's Rom_o et Juliette, choreographer Bill T. Jones' full-length work Blind Date, and a performance of Mozart's Mass in C minor featuring soprano Jennifer Larmore.

The festival was founded in 1977 by composer Gian Carlo Menotti as a counterpart to his Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy.

 
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