Gian Carlo Menotti
# Radio Episode Summary This radio show features the musical works of composer Gian Carlo Menotti. The program opens with a piece called "The Hello Aria," which comes from Menotti's opera titled "The Telephone."
The phrase "the best of all possible worlds" was coined by the German polymath and Enlightenment philosopher Gottfried Leibniz in his 1710 work Essais de Théodicée sur la bonté de Dieu, la liberté de l'homme et l'origine du mal, more commonly known simply as the Theodicy. The claim that the actual world is the best of all possible worlds is the central argument in Leibniz's theodicy, or his attempt to solve the problem of evil.
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“Gian Carlo Menotti.” Best of All. Radio broadcast, January 24, 1955.
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