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...Bow & Baton. Last week Prades' great three-week Bach festival (TIME, June 12) was over. But the feeling of it still lingered on. It had been "a reunion of hearts," 73-year-old Pablo Casals told a farewell gathering of his friends. The musicians who had come to play with and listen to Bach's most famed modern interpreter enthusiastically agreed...
Casals' simple but masterfully eloquent performance of the six Suites for Unaccompanied Cello had moved the most undazzled of them to tears. When he put down his cellist's bow and took up the baton, he had called forth a fresh new spirit from the weariest fingers. With perfectionist Casals sitting before him in the audience, scholarly Pianist Rudolf Serkin had played through Bach's Goldberg Variations with a power and precision that transfigured Casals' round face...
...unforgettable memories of Prades and the little man who, to honor Bach, had broken his vow not to play in public again until Franco's government had been ousted from his native Spain. Said Oboist Marcel Tabuteau: "It is not possible to believe what Casals does with a bow. There has never been anyone like him." For voluble young Violinist Isaac Stern, Casals had "opened a door in the walls-our conventional conceptions of music-and showed us how we can go beyond without losing respect for the music itself." What he would remember most was "the meeting with...
Soon afterwards, however, Bolles restored the crew to the old order of; Claney Asp, bow; Ken Keniston, two; Ollie Iselin, three; Ted Reynolds, four; Steve Hedberg, five; Jim Slocum, six; all-American George Gifford, seven; Louis McCagg, stroke; and Bill Leavitt, coxswain...
Yale's boating is; Michael Brewer, bow; Peter Peacock, two; Dick O'Connor, three; Plato Skouras, four; Don Knode, five; Stuart Griffing, six; Bob Jones, seven; Gates, stroke; and Byam Stevens, coxswain...