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Menotti Quits Spoleto: Composer Gian Carlo Menotti has quit as artistic director of Spoleto Festival U.S.A. in a dispute over control of the event he created, but his decision may not be final. The 80-year-old founder of the annual festival said Saturday that he will stay on if there are changes in the board of directors. And the board, which didn’t accept his resignation when it was submitted Friday, hopes differences can be smoothed over. Menotti is best known in this country for his opera of the Christmas story, “Amahl and the Night Visitors.” In 1977, he founded the international arts festival in Charleston, S.C., two decades after founding the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy, in an effort to bring together European and U.S. culture.