IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Born in Catalonia, Pau Casals was the ...

I am wandering inside a used sheet music store in Barcelona, Spain, on October 23, 1973. Yesterday, on the 22nd, Pablo Casals—a cellist, composer, and conductor—died at the age of 96 in Puerto Rico.

“It is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful.” Thus Pablo Casals once described his cello, an instrument he played with ...

No settling-in moments from Capuçon after swiftly striding onstage. Instantly head down and cutting straight into his cello upon contact with his chair, Bleuse and the orchestra right with him, and ...

WHEN I was in San Juan recently, I took a taxi out to the Santurce district, where Pablo Casals lives in a house by the sea, to talk with him and see how he is getting on. He is now ninety-two years ...

The ironies of artistic genius and public taste are subtly explored in this winding, entertaining tale of a musical masterpiece. Music critic Siblin parallels short, fluent biographies of composer ...

“Rainbow! Rainbow!” cries the old man with the cello. The young cello student before him smiles, but plainly hasn’t a clue what he is talking about. The old man explains that every unit of musical ...

“FOR me, as for thousands of others, his existence is a source of joy.” So Thomas Mann once wrote in a tribute to the cellist Pablo Casals. This was in 1954, when Casals was seventy-seven. Probably no ...

Almost every morning at 8, a tubby little old man in baggy pants, a wool shirt and a brown pullover sweater emerges from the concierge’s cottage of the Chateau Valrac in the sleepy little ...

The texture of Bach in its playing, as with any musical piece, is that can be about interpretation but it is also about the journey of the musician playing it. Cellist Robert La Rue who has played in ...

WORCESTER — Internationally acclaimed rising star and prestigious competition-winning cellist Zlatomir Fung will give the headline concert on Oc. 26 in Mechanics Hall as Music Worcester's "The ...