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Alert and active as ever, Cellist Pablo Casals celebrated his 94th birthday in San Juan, P.R., by joining Violinist Alexander Schneider and Pianist Mieczyslaw Horszowski in a performance of Mendelssohn's Piano Trio in D Minor. Rhapsodized Schneider: "Don Pablo played it as beautifully as he did ten years ago-no, 40 years ago." Later, at the official mansion of Puerto Rico Governor Luis Ferre, it was Casals' turn to hear other musicians give a recital in his honor. "It was all wonderful music," he said. Casals was eminently qualified to be a critic; included in the selections...
...Janis often came to study at Michael and Karen's apartment, and a strong attachment developed. When Michael took off on a field trip to Antarctica, the two women became good friends and decided that because they both liked Michael, all three ought to live together. Last May the trio formalized it all with an improvised wedding ceremony attended, incidentally, by other trios...
...have thought also that, knowing and loving that trio of Beethoven, and having composed perhaps as great music of his own, he too must know-and far better than you or I-that, although this world may be no great shakes, the future problematical, and no telling what may become of us, one thing is certain: so long as there is such music in the world, there is always something we can do about the worst that the world...
Then of a sudden he was speaking of Beethoven, and of a sudden I realized that he was speaking of that andante cantabile, the slow movement of the B-flat Trio [Opus 97]. He stopped speaking and began to sing. It was as though the composer, impatient of words, had found speech an impertinence in the presence of such music. The conversation ceased while he sang the theme through to its end. Then he resumed...
...RECORD presents many subtleties of whale song, starting out on solos, moving on to duets and then a very long trio. The first side begins with a solo, which bears a strong resemblance for the first few minutes to a badly squeaking door. During the song, which the record jacket assures us has not been speeded up or slowed down, there are some long high creaks. Band two plays these calls at one-quarter speed, showing the musical subtleties of a long high creak...