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...before many rehearsals had passed, Casals had won new homage for himself as well as Bach-from even the younger musicians who had never heard him except on records, and who had come to Prades to learn from him but not necessarily to be overawed...
...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 clustered there for the most notable of the summer's festivals in honor of Johann Sebastian Bach, who died 200 years ago next month. Prades' festival was centered in one of Bach's most renowned interpreters, 73-year-old Cellist Pablo Casals, who had come out of self-imposed retirement there (TIME, Jan. 30) for the occasion...
...month ago, when some of the world's top virtuosos first gathered in Prades for rehearsals, stocky little Pablo Casals quickly dismissed the idea that he himself deserved any special homage. "We are here because of Bach," he said. "We are also here to give pleasure and we will give pleasure to each other. I thank you. I love...
Bergsma's first full-sized symphony. In the program notes, he set about describing it in unabashed terms: "It is not a neoclassic work; the March is not that of Sousa, nor the Aria that of Bach . . . What the symphony is must be heard in the music. My basic aim was a direct, varied and purposeful musical expression. That is, of course, the aim of every honest composer...
Brandenburg Concert? (soloists and chamber group conducted by Fritz Reiner; Columbia, 6 sides LP). Dedicating the group "very humbly" to the Margrave of Brandenburg, in three of these Bach brought to perfection the concerto grosso form (in which a group of instruments instead of an individual soloist is pitted against an accompanying orchestra). Conductor Reiner balances his various instrumental voices like a master juggler, and gives the whole spacious warmth as well. Recording: good...