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From the moment famed Cellist Pablo Casals agreed to lead a 1950 Bach festival in Prades (TIME, Jan. 30, et seg.), Columbia Records began setting the stage to record it. Among other things, canny Columbia saw to it that only Columbia (or entirely unaffiliated) artists were invited to take part. This guaranteed some fine artists, but excluded such notable Bach interpreters as Harpsichordist Wanda Landowska, who happens to make records for Victor...
Joliot-Curie, French atom scientist, Russian Writer Ilya Ehrenburg and Russian Composer Dmitri Shostakovich. One delegate to get through was Pablo Picasso, Spanish-born painter. "C'est terrible" cried Picasso, describing the thorough security screening of congress delegates arriving on cross-channel steamers...
...little French Pyrenees town of Prades, music-loving tourists from all over the world assembled for the Bach festival featuring the interpretations of Pablo Casals, generally considered the greatest living...
...Pablo Picasso's pen & ink Nude Woman with Raised Arms was sketched in 1909, when the artist had already proved himself a master of academic drawing, and got bored with it. African carvings gave him a new departure: they substituted corners for classical curves and punch for prettiness. Picasso applied their principles to his Montmartre models, but he kept a respect for the realities of the human figure which the Africans never had. His Bergamo sketch was a tense, ebony-hard construction, half model and half idol. With such rough-cut works, Picasso had served notice that he preferred...
Segovia is beginning a tour that will take him to Belgium, The Netherlands, England, Switzerland, Italy and the U.S. before he returns to his present home in Montevideo. Like his compatriot, Catalan Cellist Pablo Casals, he has not returned to Spain since the civil war of the '30s. Still practicing from five to six hours a day, self-taught Andrés Segovia often permits himself a restrained self-compliment: "The teacher is satisfied with his pupil...