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Word: pezzo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cello Colours (Andre Navarra; Capitol). A varied recital of fine celloing, effective whether in the melancholic atmosphere of Faure's Elegie or the gee-whiz intricacies of Tchaikovsky's Pezzo Capriccioso. French Cellist Navarra gives the lie to the old saying that cellists are incurable sentimentalists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Records, Oct. 22, 1956 | 10/22/1956 | See Source »

...secluded cliffside villa near Naples early last week, scarcely an hour passed without the insistent jangle of the telephone or the arrival of a score of pleading telegrams, the arrival or departure of a pezzo grosso (big shot). Finally the white-haired old gentleman in the villa gave in -as he probably intended to do all along. And so, five days after his resignation as president of Italy's Constitutional Court (TIME, Oct. 1), shrewd Enrico de Nicola, 78, went back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Successful Squeeze | 10/8/1956 | See Source »

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