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4 unusual facts about Pablo Casals


Community Arts Music Association

Since the 1920s, CAMA has presented such artists as Pablo Casals, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Vladimir Horowitz, Jascha Heifetz, Igor Stravinsky, Artur Schnabel, Isaac Stern and Marian Anderson, with yearly performances from the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

Gerald Fagan

Presented with the `Citizen's Medal' by President Adamkus of Lithuania, he has also been honoured by Conservatory Canada with an Honorary Licentiate and chosen to conduct the Fagan Singers at the Monserrat Monastery Pilgrimage in Spain where they performed Pablo Casals choral repertoire.

James Schevill

He was influenced by his father, Rudolph Schevill, who created and chaired the department of romance languages at UC Berkeley, and created the West Coast committee in defense of the Spanish republic at the request of his friends Pablo Casals and Fernando de los Rios.

Song of the Birds

Song of the Birds is a 1985 collection of sayings, stories, and impressions of Pablo Casals made by cellist Julian Lloyd Webber.


Alvar Suñol Munoz-Ramos

In 2008, he also created a sculpture of Catalan cellist Pablo Casals, in the Boulogne Billancourt of Paris.

Banatul Philharmonic of Timișoara

Other performers in Timișoara have included pianists Annie Fischer, Artur Rubinstein, and Carlo Zecchi; violinists Bronisław Huberman, Fritz Kreisler, Jacques Thibaud, and Eugène Ysaÿe; and cellists Pablo Casals and Gregor Piatigorsky.

Christopher Bunting

He was awarded a scholarship to study for the best part of a year with the great Pablo Casals in Prades.

Julia Culp

Before long, she was performing all over Europe and America, sharing the stage with such notable composers, conductors and singers as Edvard Grieg, Richard Strauss, Camille Saint-Saëns, Enrico Caruso, Otto Klemperer, Willem Mengelberg, Pablo Casals, Percy Grainger, Enrique Granados and Thomas Beecham.

Julius Röntgen

He became a renowned accompanying pianist, working for the great violinist Carl Flesch, the singer Johannes Messchaert, and the cello player Pablo Casals.

Karen Tuttle

In 1955, she was invited by Pablo Casals to perform chamber music with him at the Casals Festival in Prades, where she returned for at least seven subsequent festivals.

Leslie Spotz

Spotz studied, as a full-scholarship recipient, at the Curtis Institute of Music with Mieczysław Horszowski, who was associated with Pablo Casals.

Lodewijk Mortelmans

In 1903, with financial support from the patron François Franck, Mortelmans founded the Maatschappij der Nieuwe Concerten ("Society of New Concerts") in Antwerp, which attracted notable guest conductors and artists such as Gustav Mahler, Siegfried Wagner, Hans Richter, Richard Strauss, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Pablo de Sarasate, Jacques Thibaud, Pablo Casals, and Fritz Kreisler.

O vos omnes

Some of the most famous settings of the text are by Tomás Luis de Victoria (two settings for four voices: 1572 and 1585), Carlo Gesualdo (five voices: 1603; six voices: 1611), and Pablo Casals (mixed choir: 1932).

Orpheus Club of Philadelphia

These have included Maude Powell, violinist, who accompanied and played in no less than seven formal concerts between 1886 and 1897; Victor Herbert, cellist (1896); Pablo Casals, cellist (1904); Marcel Tabuteau, oboist: William Kinkaid, flautist: Louise Homer, operatic contralto; David Bisham, baritone (coincidentally a member of the Orpheus Club and a star of the Metropolitan Opera); Noah Swayne and Wilbur Evans, bassos (also members of the Orpheus Club).

Ørnulf Gulbransen

Rudolf Serkin with Members of the Marlboro Festival Orchestra, conducted by Pablo Casals

Paseo La Plaza

The center also includes a small convention center for up to 1200 visitors, divided into the Alfonsina Storni, Pablo Casals and Julio Cortázar Rooms.


see also

Judy Kang

She has performed at major festivals such as Marlboro, Ravinia, Banff, Bargemusic, Manchester, Aspen, the Ottawa International Chamber Music Festival, Lenaudiere, and the Pablo Casals Festival as well as at various pop and jazz festivals like Lollapalooza and the Festival Internacional Jazz Barcelona, to name a few.