A Succession For Spoleto

“After more than three decades as artistic director of the festival’s chamber music series, [Charles] Wadsworth — long credited with transforming the genre into a populist art form in this country — will no longer imprint his blend of exuberance and erudition on the midday concerts that Gian Carlo Menotti, the founder of its parent, Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy, likened to an aperitif.”