Word: accademia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...instrument he restored to concert-hall favor. "The guitar is as difficult as a hysterical woman," he says. "But I am faithful to her. I am not polygamous." Segovia still practices five hours each day, and for a month each summer he teaches classical guitar at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, Italy. He also gives more concerts than ever (120 scheduled this year). Segovia generally avoids flashier-sounding pieces. "If people have even a little understanding," he says, "it is better to move them than to amaze them...
Vecchi: L'Amfiparnaso (Chorus of the Accademia Corale of the Circolo Musicale di Lecco, Guido Camillucci conducting; 2 sides LP). An important milestone along the road toward opera: 14 delightful, five-part, unaccompanied 16th Century madrigals arranged in three acts...