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Spoleto Festival USA
festival, Charleston, South Carolina, United States
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- In South Carolina: Sports and recreation
…prominent of these is Charleston’s Spoleto Festival, which was founded in 1977 by the Italian opera composer Gian Carlo Menotti as the New World branch of his Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy. The annual event features hundreds of actors, singers, dancers, musicians, and other artists in more than…
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- In Osvaldo Golijov
…composer in residence at the Spoleto Festival USA; the annual festivals held at Marlboro, Vermont, and at Ravinia in Highland Park, Illinois; the Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center; and elsewhere. His numerous honours included a MacArthur fellowship in 2003. In 2006 he was named Composer of the Year by…
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