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...Symphony Hall with Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops. The champagne pops on the lowest level, but the music and seats for $.50 are in the second balcony. Seats for the Friday and Saturday shows are scarce, but buy now for later. On this side of the Charles, the Bach Society Orchestra will give a concert Sunday evening at 8:15. For $.75 in Paine Hall. Friday at 8:30 p.m. there will be a Piston Seminar also in Paine Hall. David Gross will give a piano recital Sunday afternoon at 3:30 p.m. in Leverett House. Free...
...grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful." Thus Pablo Casals once described his cello, an instrument he played with unmatched intelligence, mastery and passion. The analogy to a love affair was apt, for Cellist Casals gave himself to his favorite music (Bach, Mozart) with the sort of evident personal dedication which, as much as his skill, won the world's reverent respect. Last week admirers by the thousands were gathering to honor him at the annual Casals Festival, this year being held in San Juan, Puerto Rico. But for the first time since...
That long, extraordinary career began in the small, dusty Catalan town of Vendrell, south of Barcelona, where Casals' father was a church organist. By the time the boy was eleven, he had mastered the organ, piano and violin and had turned to the cello and the music of Bach (later he was to begin each of his days by playing a few minutes of Bach's Well Tempered Clavichord). Packed off to Barcelona to study, he played in a gambling casino to support himself. Said one awed casino patron: "He transformed a cage into a concert hall...
...love for Bach finally brought him out of retirement. In 1950, on the 200th anniversary of Bach's death, Violinist Alexander Schneider, a Casals protege, persuaded El Maestro to take part in a Bach festival in Prades. From all over the world famed soloists-Joseph Szigeti. Isaac Stern. Rudolf Serkin-poured into the village on the slopes of the Pyrenees to play with the man Fritz Kreisler had called "the best who draws...
Lubow, a student of Claudio Arrau, won the Pierian Sodality Concerto contest this spring. At Town Hall he will perform works by Bach, Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin and Prokofieff...