{"id":676,"date":"2007-02-06T19:20:57","date_gmt":"2007-02-07T00:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp\/2007\/02\/but_there_is_a_star_and_it_has\/"},"modified":"2007-02-06T19:20:57","modified_gmt":"2007-02-07T00:20:57","slug":"but_there_is_a_star_and_it_has","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/2007\/02\/but_there_is_a_star_and_it_has\/","title":{"rendered":"BUT THERE IS A STAR, AND IT HAS A TAIL: THIS LONG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gian Carlo Menotti 1911-2007<BR><BR><br \/>\nAlong with all the other Amahls out there, a salute to Gian Carlo. Everybody should have such a regret in their obit: &#8220;I used it as an excuse to work less. Now I regret it bitterly.&#8221; He was 95, and the Spoleto Festival he founded and ran for over fifty years made him feel as<br \/>\nthough he never had enough time.<BR><BR><br \/>\n<A href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&#038;grid=&#038;xml=\/news\/2007\/02\/02\/db0201.xml\">Telegraph<\/a><bR><br \/>\nBernard Holland, <A href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/02\/02\/arts\/music\/02menotti.html\">NYTimes<\/A><BR><br \/>\nJohn Francis Lane, <A href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/obituaries\/story\/0,,2004975,00.html\">Guardian<\/A><BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/entertainment\/3501740.stm\">BBC News<\/A><BR><br \/>\n<A href=\"http:\/\/www.schirmer.com\/default.aspx?TabId=2419&#038;State_2872=2&#038;ComposerId_2872=1039\">G. Schirmer<\/A><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gian Carlo Menotti 1911-2007 Along with all the other Amahls out there, a salute to Gian Carlo. Everybody should have such a regret in their obit: &#8220;I used it as an excuse to work less. Now I regret it bitterly.&#8221; He was 95, and the Spoleto Festival he founded and ran for over fifty years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-676","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}