Word: accademia
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...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...
Earth & Sun. It was not always so. The academy likes to trace its lineage back three centuries to the Accademia dei Lincei (Academy of Lynxes-named for an animal then believed to have especially keen eyesight), probably the world's oldest scientific society. But in those days, relations between the Papacy and science were far from cordial. The four young men who met in a Roman palace in 1603 to organize the accademia were taking a considerable chance. And trouble came quickly. In 1633, Galileo Galilei, most famous of the Lynxes, was picked up by the Inquisition and compelled...
...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...
...five years ago Father Piccirilli moved from central Manhattan to The Bronx, built a red brick house across several city lots with a large carriage door through which to haul out big sculptures. His sons he sent back to Italy one by one to study at Rome's Accademia San Luca. U. S. sculptors presently found that the Piccirillis could finish their works in marble better than they could themselves. Through the years the six brothers faithfully executed such work by other sculptors as Frederick MacMonnies' Civic Virtue in Manhattan, Daniel Chester French's great Lincoln...