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Word: rescigno (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hear more of Callas speaking on her art, for she said a great deal, especially in the 1971-72 master classes at Juilliard. Perhaps the cliché is correct: art is inscrutable. That may be the wisdom in a musing early in her career by Italian Conductor Nicola Rescigno: "It is a deep mystery why a girl born into a musically unsophisticated family, and raised in an atmosphere devoid of operatic tradition, should have been blessed with the ability to sing the perfect recitative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Grandest Diva | 3/23/1981 | See Source »

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