Word: chigiana
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...cathedral of sound. "With a cathedral, you must have the right proportions, the right balance," he says. Already he's begun tinkering with the SSO's architecture. Building from the foundations up, he'd like to hold master classes - as he does each summer at Siena's Accademia Chigiana - with young Australian conductors, to fill the ranks left by expat stars Simone Young and Sir Charles Mackerras. "We have a fantastic orchestra, fantastic soloists, good composers - why we have not conductors?" he asks with a rhetorical flourish...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...patron. The slim, white-haired nobleman has remodeled his vast, 800-year-old palazzo in Siena to house a concert hall and theater, gathered together one of Europe's finest music libraries. On the count's payroll are the topnotch Siena quintet (now known as the Quintette Chigiana), the choirmaster of Siena's newly organized town choir, the visiting artists who perform each winter in the Chigi-underwritten concert season. Each fall, moreover, the count backs Siena's big' week-long festival of Italian music...
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