Pablo Casals in Perpignan - in the middle of 1943
from Joys and Sorrows. Reflections by Pablo Casals, as told by Albert E. Kahn, pages 242,243:
One day Alavedra and I learned from friends of ours that a Catalan Language and Poetry Festival was being arranged in Perpignan. Prizes were to be awarded for original writings in the Catalan tongue. Without telling me, Alavedra submitted a poem he had brought with him in a notebook when he fled across the Pyrenees from Spain. It was a long poem he had written several years before in Barcelona for his five-year-old daughter, Macía. He had, in fact, written it at her request – as a song for them to sing together on Christmas Eve beside the miniature manger they had built together. / At the … more >>
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Albert Kahn and Pablo Casals, and (ed.), Joys and Sorrows. Reflections by Pablo Casals, as told by Albert E. Kahn. In British library (London, 1970), p. 242,243. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1424563330715 accessed: 5 October, 2024
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Experience Information
Date/Time | in the middle of 1943 |
Medium | broadcast |
Listening Environment | indoors, in public |
Notes
Listening experience that gave an idea to Pablo Casals to compose the oratorio El Pessebre, “The Manger”.
Originally submitted by tlisboa on Sun, 22 Feb 2015 00:02:10 +0000
Approved on Mon, 11 Jan 2016 18:59:02 +0000