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29 December 2025

Worthy.


Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that will never be again, and what do we teach our children? We teach them that two and two make four, and that Paris is the capital of France. When will we also teach them what they are? We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique. In all the years that have passed, there has never been another child like you. Your legs, your arms, your clever fingers, the way you move. You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything. Yes, you are a marvel. And when you grow up, can you then harm another who is, like you, a marvel? You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children.

Pablo Casals

Happy Birthday, Pablo Casals


My work is my life. I cannot think of one without the other. To “retire” means to me to begin to die. The man who works and is never bored is never old. Work and interest in worthwhile things are the best remedy for age. Each day I am reborn. Each day I must begin again. For the past eighty years I have started each day in the same manner. It is not a mechanical routine but something essential to my daily life. I go to the piano, and I play two preludes and fugues of Bach. I cannot think of doing otherwise. It is a sort of benediction on the house. But that is not its only meaning for me. It is a rediscovery of the world of which I have the joy of being a part. It fills me with awareness of the wonder of life, with a feeling of the incredible marvel of being a human being. The music is never the same for me, never. Each day is something new, fantastic, unbelievable. 

Pablo Casals, born on this day in 1876

The Bourrées from Bach's Cello Suite No. 3, BWV 1009 ...

29 December 2024

Rediscovery.


My work is my life. I cannot think of one without the other. To “retire” means to me to begin to die. The man who works and is never bored is never old. Work and interest in worthwhile things are the best remedy for age. Each day I am reborn. Each day I must begin again. For the past eighty years I have started each day in the same manner. It is not a mechanical routine but something essential to my daily life. I go to the piano, and I play two preludes and fugues of Bach. I cannot think of doing otherwise. It is a sort of benediction on the house. But that is not its only meaning for me. It is a rediscovery of the world of which I have the joy of being a part. It fills me with awareness of the wonder of life, with a feeling of the incredible marvel of being a human being. The music is never the same for me, never. Each day is something new, fantastic, unbelievable. 

Pablo Casals

Excellent.

An excellent album ...

Happy Birthday, Casals


The man who works and is never bored is never old. Work and interest in worthwhile things are the best remedy for age.

Pablo Casals, born on this day in 1876

The Bourrées from Bach's Cello Suite No. 3, BWV 1009 ...

30 December 2022

Committed.

Some twenty years before he committed the entire cycle to 78rpm disc for HMV, Pablo Casals ventured into the recording studio and recorded three movements of the third suite for Columbia records.  Recorded acoustically on April 23, 1915, this record is dubbed using a medium tone steel needle in my Rankin-restored EMG Model Xb “Oversize” on May 1, 2020 ...

29 December 2022

Happy Birthday, Casals


Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that will never be again And what do we teach our children? We teach them that two and two make four, and that Paris is the capital of France. When will we also teach them what they are? We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique. In all the years that have passed, there has never been another child like you. Your legs, your arms, your clever fingers, the way you move. You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything. Yes, you are a marvel. And when you grow up, can you then harm another who is, like you, a marvel? You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children.

Pablo Casals, born on this date in 1876

Casals performs the Bourees from Bach's Cello Suite No. 3 ...

29 December 2021

29 December 2020

29 December 2019

Excellent.

An excellent album ...

Reborn.


Work helps prevent one from getting old. I, for one, cannot dream of retiring. Not now or ever. Retire? The word is alien and the idea inconceivable to me. I don’t believe in retirement for anyone in my type of work, not while the spirit remains. My work is my life. I cannot think of one without the other. To “retire” means to me to begin to die. The man who works and is never bored is never old. Work and interest in worthwhile things are the best remedy for age. Each day I am reborn. Each day I must begin again.

For the past eighty years I have started each day in the same manner.  It is not a mechanical routine but something essential to my daily life. I go to the piano, and I play two preludes and fugues of Bach. I cannot think of doing otherwise. It is a sort of benediction on the house. But that is not its only meaning for me. It is a rediscovery of the world of which I have the joy of being a part. It fills me with awareness of the wonder of life, with a feeling of the incredible marvel of being a human being. The music is never the same for me, never. Each day is something new, fantastic, unbelievable.

Pablo Casals

Art.


The art of not playing in tempo--one has to learn it. And the art of not playing what is written on the printed paper.  The main thing in life is not to be afraid to be human.

Pablo Casals

Happy Birthday, Casals


Pablo Casals was born on this date in 1876.

Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that will never be again And what do we teach our children? We teach them that two and two make four, and that Paris is the capital of France. When will we also teach them what they are? We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique. In all the years that have passed, there has never been another child like you. Your legs, your arms, your clever fingers, the way you move. You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything. Yes, you are a marvel. And when you grow up, can you then harm another who is, like you, a marvel? You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children.

Pablo Casals

Casals performs Bach's Cello Suite No.1 in G major, BWV 1007 ...

27 June 2019

29 December 2018

Happy birthday, Casals.


Pablo Casals was born on this day in 1876.

Real understanding does not come from what we learn in books; it comes from what we learn from love of nature, of music, of man. For only what is learned in that way is truly understood.

Pablo Casals

Bach's Cello Suite No.1 in G major, BWV 1007 ...

21 March 2017

Happy birthday, Bach.

Haussmann, Bach, 1748


Johann Sebastian Bach was born on this day in 1685.

What I have achieved by industry and practice, anyone else with tolerable natural gift and ability can also achieve.

Johann Sebastian Bach

Pablo Casals performs one of the greatest pieces of music ever written, Bach's Cello Suite No.1 in G major, BWV 1007 (the Sarabande is at 8:09) ...



Bach: A Passionate Life ...

29 December 2016

Happy birthday, Casals.


Pablo Casals was born on this day in 1876.

The Maestro performing the Bach Cello Suite No.1, BWV 1007 ...



Sanctify the house ...

29 December 2015

Happy birthday, Casals.

Pablo Casals was born on this day in 1876.

Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that will never be again And what do we teach our children? We teach them that two and two make four, and that Paris is the capital of France. When will we also teach them what they are? We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique. In all the years that have passed, there has never been another child like you. Your legs, your arms, your clever fingers, the way you move. You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything. Yes, you are a marvel. And when you grow up, can you then harm another who is, like you, a marvel? You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children.

Pablo Casals

Casals teaches a class on Haydn's Cello Concerto in D Major ...