Pablo Casals had already played for a president and a queen, at palaces and Carnegie Hall when he settled in for a Matinee Musicale concert 100 years ago at First Methodist Church in Duluth. A News ...
In 1913, celebrated Spanish cellist Pablo Casals acquired a cello made by Venetian luthier Matteo Goffriller in 1733. He played it for the rest of his life, including at Peabody on February 12, 1915.
When Amit Peled was 10, his parents gave him a gift: a cassette of music by cello master Pablo Casals. Peled had no classical background; his parents were not musicians. He says his own budding ...
World-famous cellist Pablo Casals and his wife took a sightseeing tour of Spokane prior to his concert at the Davenport Hotel. “It was such a fine morning that we wanted to get out,” Casals told a ...
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 ...
In the pantheon of cello gods, a place is surely reserved for the late, great Pablo Casals — not least for rescuing from obscurity the six magnificent suites for solo cello by Johann Sebastian Bach.
Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Israeli-American cellist Amit Peled announces the release of his latest ...
In the dusty little French Pyrenees town of Prades (pop. 4,397), the atmosphere was as vibrant as a violin string. Musicians and music-loving tourists from all over Western Europe and the U.S. had ...