Word: accademia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Christina befriended the Italian sculptor Bernini, set up her own art center in 1674 called the Accademia degli Arcadi in imitation of classical antiquity, and stocked it with a museum of oils, many of which she had brought as baggage. Her Palazzo Riario near the Vatican became a "stopping place for every prominent and noble art lover of the age. While they proclaimed the era "il seicento de Cristina" she peeked and listened through a window concealed in the ceiling of her painting gallery. And when she died at the age of 61, Pope Innocent XI broke precedent by having...
...soaring Sonata in C Major (Opus 2, No. 3). After two encores and a dozen curtain calls, he unconcernedly ambled offstage to a standing ovation. Typically, following his triumph, he repaired last week to the regenerative quietude of a month-long teaching engagement at Siena's Accademia Musicale Chigiana. Untypically, he will return in August to meet a full schedule of performances on the summer music-festival circuit...
...letters, diplomats, philosophers and scholars. The masses speak various provincial dialects, although the differences have gradually been softened by modern communications. At the same time, new complications have arisen in the borrowing of words from French and English. Thus the longtime guardian ' of Italian lexicography, the Accademia della Crusca in Florence, faces a touchy job of arbitration between pedantry and colloquialism...
...Sonatina, Nocturne, Suite Castellana (John Williams, guitar; Westminster). A remarkable young (20) Australian guitarist in three nice pieces by Spanish Composer Federico Moreno. The tones are water clear, the style one of caressing delicacy, and the whole reminiscent of a precocious Segovia, who in fact taught Williams at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana of Siena...
Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera (Birgit Nilsson, Carlo Bergonzi, Cornell MacNeil, Giulietta Simionato, Sylvia Stahlman, Fernando Corena; Chorus and Orchestra of L'Accademia di Santa Cecilia conducted by Georg Solti; London). A rather studied approach and over-resonant sound take some of the flash out of this performance, but Soprano Nilsson and Mezzo Simionato remain joys to the ear, and Tenor Bergonzi sings with distinction...