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Each day at dawn an explosion of sound reverberates through the hills above California's Carquinez Strait, 30 miles up San Pablo Bay from San Francisco and the Golden Gate. At the sandy tip of a new superhighway pushing across the hills from Richmond to the industrial town of Crockett, an army of mammoth machines comes noisily to life; their motors growl and their exhausts spout blue fumes into the mountain air. Tough, broadnosed bulldozers hungrily tear up the soil; potbellied scrapers scoop and level it; lumbering compact-ers press it down with their massive weight. Directly before...
...season, Piatigorsky has traveled 60,000 miles concertizing all over the world. Recently, he finished recording three Beethoven trios with Jascha Heifetz and William Primrose, and he has been invited to record Bach's six Unaccompanied Suites, long identified as a specialty of ailing Cellist Pablo Casals. Next season Piatigorsky will take a "sabbatical" to pursue two of his other interests-oceanography ("You know what oceanographers do on their vacation? They go in the water") and lizard and snake collecting ("It's extraordinary how intolerant people are about snakes"). But there will still be music. His 19-year...
...days before the festival was to open, while rehearsing his orchestra in the slow movement of Schubert's Fifth Symphony, Pablo Casals, 80, suffered a coronary thrombosis. Doctors, including Boston's Paul Dudley White, summoned to Puerto Rico by Governor Luis Munoz Marin, were optimistic about recovery, hoped that with complete rest he might even be able to play and conduct again in the future. But Casals' friends sadly faced the likelihood that his 'active career as a musician was over...
...Spanish Civil War he was a passionate Loyalist. At war's end he exiled himself to "the village of Prades (pop. 5,400) in Southern France, where he spent much of his time and money helping refugees from Franco Spain. For a decade the world heard little of Pablo Casals' music; in 1947 he vowed never to appear in public so long as Franco ruled Spain. When Sir Stafford Cripps invited him to England to explain why Great Britain supported Franco, Casals refused, commented: "He would talk politics; I am talking morals...
...symphonic and chamber music will be substituted for the solo pieces Casals was to have played. From all over the world telegrams of sympathy poured in. Pianist Rudolf Serkin called on his fellow artists to make the festival "an expression of our love, devotion and gratitude for Casals." Pablo Casals was characteristically less concerned about himself than about the music he would not be able to play. "What a pity," he murmured when he woke from a nap under his oxygen tent. "Such a wonderful orchestra...