![]() ![]() These are my images of the great humanist who said: L'espace Casals is a perfect tribute: it is human in scale and when my wife and I were there recently on a perfect September morning it was just us and the master's recording of the Bach Cello Suites. But the residents are intensely proud of their adopted son and he is remembered in the one room museum behind the modern mediathèque in the town centre. In fact sleepy Prades has changed little from the delightful Catalan town described above. San marti del canigo windows#There is no Café Casals in the main square, none of his recordings grace the shop windows and the two houses he lived in are private residences marked only by discrete plaques. Today Prades wears its Casals connection lightly but proudly. ![]() ![]() Indeed, centuries before, this very region had been part of the nation of Catalonia' - from Joys and Sorrows by Pablo Casals The lovely patterns of orchards an vineyards, the wild and craggy mountains with ancient Roman fortresses and monasteries clinging to their sides - these too were a replica of parts of my homeland. The countryside seemed no less familiar to me. With its winding cobbled strees and whitewashed houses with red tiled roofs - and the acacia trees that were then in bloom - Prades might have been one of the Catalan villages I had known since childhood. And in spite of the sorrow in me, I found respite in my surroundings. I could not have imagined at the time that I would spend the next seventeen years of my life in this little town in the Pyrenees. 'So it was that in the spring of 1939 I came to Prades. Here, in an attempt to at least partially rectify that, is a reblog of my 2010 tribute to the great Catalan musician and humanitarian titled A musician is also a man. It is one of many paradoxes that in an age when classical music is obsessed with anniversaries, this important anniversary is passing virtually unnoticed. on Monday, 22 October 1973 in the Auxilio Mutuo Hospital, San Juan, Puerto Rica. ![]()
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