Word: pezzo
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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...
...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...
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