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Nonetheless, Columbia's ten-volume Prades Festival set (20 sides LP) makes record history. The performances were tape-recorded in a schoolhouse near the acoustically unsuitable Perpignan Cathedral, where the public performances were given. Although still not acoustically perfect (the piano sounds are particularly dull), the sum is a magnificent monument to Bach...
...Pierre in the French Pyrenees, every pew, aisle and choir stall was crammed with hushed listeners. As the last tones of Johann Sebastian Bach's Cantata for Soprano and Bass, No. 32 floated away, there was silence. Then, in an unexpected gesture, the tall, white-haired Bishop of Perpignan arose, raised his hands and gave the first clap, signaling an end to the church ban on applause. As bald little Pablo Casals bowed from the podium, the 2,000 listeners clapped so thunderously that a piece of plaster shook loose from the high roof, clattered into the church...
Without Effort. One night last week, in Prades' Cathedral of St. Pierre, the Bishop of Perpignan welcomed the artists and the "musically select audience, all united here in the same spirit." Then as bald, spectacled Cellist Casals took his place in the transept, the entire audience rose with the orchestra in a quiet tribute...
...soon as he found his own painting style, he found a market and critical acclaim, for Dufy's art is nothing if not charming. Today he lives in a comfortably bourgeois house surrounded by maple trees in Perpignan. "Every night," he told a recent visitor, "I go to bed tired but contented. I do as much as my strength permits; I think I'm entitled to sleep in peace...
From that point on, his liberal Education was dearly bought in a series of tough schools. He stayed in Spain until the bitter-end exodus to Perpignan, then spent three years grimly reporting the decline & fall of the Italy he had once admired. He was kicked out twice, readmitted once. In India, he put in eleven months of painstaking discovery, came to no startling conclusion about "the problem," but gave Times readers a memorable correspondence course in its complexities...