I came here to see Pau Casals...What I did not know is, I would also find my friend, the late Robert Berks, sculpting Casals as he spoke. Two great artists together. Magical.
I'm from Québec and i'm reading some comments under Pau Casals videos and I understand so much the feeling of Catalans when they talk about their culture or the independance... We are in the same position in the Canada... I wish you the liberty for your nation as much as for us.
@Cibergoya do u know that he live half of his life in Puerto Rico and his mother was puertorrican?, he was called Pablo there, now think if he was alive what would really insult him.
Yes, you are absolutely right, and he had his Pablo Casals Festival there in Puerto Rico every year. People would travel all over the world just to see him. My grandparents always did.
No you're wrong, his full name was Pau Casals i Defilló, but was known as Pablo Casals during his professional career. It was sort of an early 20th century stage name, but his real name was Pau.
Is it so difficult calling him by his name? PAU. It is so frustrating having to find the best composer of my nation in the language that franco used to punish us... Identity is just one and the only one.
Pau Casals i Defilló was his birth name & Pablo Casals was his stage name. His mother was Catalan born in Puerto Rico. Which technically does not make her Puerto Rican since her ancestry is not Puerto Rican. I am sure most of us here have commented because some how his music is of importance to us. Pablo Casals is the reason I am a cellist. And will be until I die.
"Technically does not make her puertorican? What exactly is the "technical" aspect which you are trying to reference here? Does that mean that there are no puertoricans? After all, at some point most puertoricans were just like his mother, since Spaniards populated Puerto Rico and had children there. Were these children not puertorican, because of their "ancestry," but then somehow magically, their children did become puertorican, losing that ancestry in the process? How exactly does that work?
Maybe you do not know the speech he did in the ONU Council... I will paraphrase him "But let me say one thing, I'm a catalan, today a province of Spain. But what has been Catalonia? Catalonia has been the greatest nation in the world..." Of course he is the master of himself, and he decided to be a catalan. I pray you respect for what he wanted to be. Don't talk if you don't know what you're saying.
racismo? ha ha ha, si te oyera Casals te diría muy bien lo que es el racismo y el genocidio; por desgracia aún apechugamos con la herencia de paquito y sus secuaces. En fin, la ignorancia es atrevida. Pau, sempre seràs un gran mestre :)
Noshir, I want Friesland to separate from Holland! Then we can get out of that bloody EU and we will have the Friese Vrijheid back! :-P You know the story of Gemme van Burmania? He was present at the inauguration of Felipe II of Spain, representing Friesland... But he refused to kneel, speaking his famous words: "We Frieslanders only kneel for God"...
CASALS MOTHER was PUERTORICAN. He lived in Spain and died in Puerto Rico. He might have been called Pau at home, I dont know. But internationally he WAS KNOWN as Pablo. THESE ARE FACTS, NOT OPINION, dedicated to all those for whom being Spanish or Hispanic is an Offense. By the way, is HIS MUSIC of any importance to any of you?
al goodusician th8nks , understands, and talks well about Bruckner. Casals didn t. that is not a matter if taste. it s simply says,Casals was a weak ignorant musician.
the super-catalanist proclaims of this great master were originated because of the tremendous dictature he suffered; he had to leave catalonia because of the dictature, he and many many other intelectuals where persecuted in franco's time, for anybody living such unpleasant expierence is logical to develop an irrational hate to whatever has to do with Spain, but Spain is not Franco, totalitarism in Spain is over, allready for 34 years...
@enriccm Who are you to speek in his name, do you know why he did it ? Thinking seems hard to you ! Identity is the premis of racism and war, we are fed up you're thinks !
...I can understand Pau Casals because he himself SUFFERED dictature, but let's not misunderstand the today's situation, please catalans, don't act like your enemy and destroy culture, , be smart, we have double treasure in catalonia:TWO languages. etc, , ..don't miss the oportunity.. don't let poiliticians and media tell you what to think, , what to hate, what is right and what is wrong, judge for yourselves, there's nothig bad in having two instead of one
