Even today, 50 years after his death in October 1973 at age 96, Pablo Casals remains the world’s most celebrated cellist—the man and his instrument inextricably linked in the minds of music lovers the ...
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Cellist Pablo Casals, 1914(Ferdinand Schmutzer/ Wikimedia Commons) Pablo Casals made musical history with his cello, playing for kings, queens and presidents around the world. But following his death ...
The ironies of artistic genius and public taste are subtly explored in this winding, entertaining tale of a musical masterpiece. Music critic Siblin parallels short, fluent biographies of composer ...
Kelley (Moon of the Snowblind) retells the life stories of musicians Pablo Casals (1876–1973) and Robert Johnson (1911–1938), who serendipitously both recorded albums in late November 1936, in this ...
After the teenage Catalan cellist Pablo Casals (1876-1973) found an edition of Bach's "Suites for Unaccompanied Cello" in a Barcelona music shop around 1890, he practiced for a dozen years before ...
Hear a mix of two recordings made on November 23, 1936, put together by Brendan Baker for Radio Diaries. Nov. 23, 1936, was a good day for recorded music. Two men, an ocean apart, each stepped up to a ...
Cellist Pablo Casals, 1914(Ferdinand Schmutzer/ Wikimedia Commons) Pablo Casals made musical history with his cello, playing for kings, queens and presidents around the world. But following his death ...
The remarkable story of six suites composed for cello by J.S. Bach in the early 1700s, Eric Siblin’s new book is at once a study of music, a work of history, and a passionate tribute. Siblin, the ...