Yehudi Menuhin in Provence - in the middle of 1947
from Unfinished Journey, pages 229-230:
Casals was in his seventy-first year, revered for his refusal to capitulate to Franco not only by fellow Catalans but by exiles and patriots from every region of Spain. […] He had been through not exactly desperate, but hard, cold, hungry, anxious days, collecting twigs and debris to keep himself warm; once he was picked up by the SS and questioned and in the end released. He spoke about these hardships and adventures, then sat at the piano and, with tears on his cheeks, played us excerpts from his Mass.
cite as
Yehudi Menuhin, Unfinished Journey (London, April, 1977), p. 229-230. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1409780443543 accessed: 15 October, 2024
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Pablo Casals Mass
written by Pablo Casals |
performed by Pablo Casals |
Experience Information
Date/Time | in the middle of 1947 |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, in private, indoors |
Originally submitted by tlisboa on Wed, 03 Sep 2014 22:40:43 +0100
Approved on Wed, 24 Feb 2016 14:28:12 +0000