Casals at Marlboro
Pablo (Pau) Casals at the Marlboro Music Festival. Filmed in the summer of 1967 for the Bell Telephone Hour.
Pablo (Pau) Casals at the Marlboro Music Festival. Filmed in the summer of 1967 for the Bell Telephone Hour.
Rudolf Serkin, Piano and Pablo (Pau) Casals, Cello
University of California, Berkeley, 1960. Nina de Veritch, cello; Janet Goodman, piano.
University of California, Berkeley, 1960. Nina de Veritch, cello; Janet Goodman, piano
In a home interview in Prades, France, cellist Pablo Casals - Pau Casals i Defilló - talks with former student Madeline Foley about style, technique, conducting, family, his introduction to [...]
1st Movement: Allegro. Pablo (Pau) Casals Master Class. Cellist, Joanna deKeyser.
1st Movement: Allegro. Pablo (Pau) Casals Master Class. Cellist, Joanna deKeyser.
1st Movement: Allegro. Pablo (Pau) Casals Master Class. Cellist, Joanna deKeyser.
Pablo Casals Performance: August 1954, age 77, at Abbaye "Saint-Michel-de-Cuxa", near Prades, France
University of California Berkeley, 1960. Bonnie Hampton, cello.
University of California, Berkeley, 1960. Nina de Veritch, cello; Janet Goodman, piano.
Casals Speaks on Artist's Social Responsibility
Final bars of Schumann Adagio and Allegro
Pau Casals i Defilló, known during his professional career as Pablo Casals, was born in Catalonia, Spain, December 29, 1876. He is generally regarded as the pre-eminent cellist of the first half of the 20th century, and one of the greatest cellists of all time.
Casals was also an internationally renowned political figure, a voice for human rights, and an activist against oppressive governments. He dedicated his life and used the power of his career to oppose the Spanish dictator Francisco Franco. Following the brutal Spanish Civil War and Franco’s consolidation of power, Casals refused to perform in countries that officially recognized the Franco government, a decision that included a refusal to play in the United States. Until his death in 1973, he made only one exception: in 1961 he performed at the White House for U.S. President John F. Kennedy (1917–1963), a man he greatly admired. In 1971, at the age of ninety-five, he performed his “Hymn of the United Nations” before the United Nations General Assembly. Casals sought to inspire harmony among people, using both the voice of his cello and the power of his self-imposed silence.