To the Editor:
Re "Never Mind the Monster, Watch Out for That Set" by Daniel Wakin [July 9]:
Creative ideas can germinate for decades before their full blooming. It was during my 1972 mythology class at John Dewey High School in Brooklyn that Elliot Goldenthal first shared his thoughts that the Beowulf story might make a great opera. During that period of testing his wings, Mr. Goldenthal, with his customary ebony clothes and long Byronesque hair, also choreographed, cast and wrote music for a five-minute interpretation of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth as his end-term project. It does this teacher's heart good to have cultivated a small plot in the early garden of this composer's genius.
Carmine J. Giordano Lake Worth, Fla.