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The Memoirs of Pablo Casals, Pablo Casals as Told to Thomas Dozier, Life en Espanol, New York (1959). Cellist in Exile. A Portrait of Pablo Casals, Bernard Taper, McGraw-Hill, New York (1962). Casals, Photographed by Fritz Henle, American Photographic Book Publishing Co., Garden City (1975). ISBN 0-8174-0593-3.
Pablo Casals (1876–1973), was born in Spain to a Puerto Rican mother Pilar Defilló. He was a cello player and a supporter of the Spanish Republican Government and as such came to odds with Generalisimo Francisco Franco when the Spanish Republican Government was overthrown. Casals went to live in the French village of Prades.
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Pablo Casals still participated at the age of ninety, conducting his oratorio El Pessebre [2] (The Crib), a work written during the war on a poem by his friend Joan Alavedra i Segurañas . The Festival takes place, among other venues, in one of the jewels of Romanesque Catalonia, the Abbey of Saint-Michel-de-Cuxa, at the feet of the Canigou.
The song was made famous outside Catalonia by Pau Casals' instrumental version on the cello. [2] After his exile in 1939, he began each of his concerts by playing this song. For this reason, it is often considered a symbol of Catalonia. [1] Joan Baez included it in her 1966 best selling Christmas LP Noël, with a dedication to Casals.
Casals Conducts: 1964 is a 1964 American short film directed by Larry Sturhahn. It is a documentary about the cellist and conductor Pablo Casals . It won an Oscar at the 37th Academy Awards in 1965 for Best Short Subject .
After the law was signed by then Governor of Puerto Rico Luis Muñoz Marín, the task of organizing the orchestra was given to the same group which organized the Casals Festival. The first live concert was performed on November 6, 1958 in Mayagüez, hometown of Don Pablo Casals’s mother. [2]
Pau Casals at an unknown date, c. 1910s-1920s. The Orquestra Pau Casals (Spanish: Orquesta Pau Casals) was established by Pablo Casals (sometimes known as Pau Casals) in the early 1920s in Barcelona, with the debut performance taking place October 13, 1920.