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...Prades' Church of St. 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...
...dusty 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...
Record-makers the world over were getting set for the 200th anniversary this July of the death of Johann Sebastian Bach. Some of the best of the new Bach recordings...
...make a movie of The Medium, later supervise productions of The Consul in London and Paris, as well as at La Scala. In his dedication to opera, he regrets that he has not had greater chance for orchestral composition. He has written a piano concerto and a ballet suite, Sebastian, is currently working on a violin concerto...
...full of music. After his morning walks he goes to the new grand piano sent to him by an admiring music lover of Buffalo, N.Y. "As I have done all my life long," he begins his musical day with preludes and fugues from the Well-Tempered Clavier of Johann Sebastian Bach...