Casals

[ kuh-salz, -sahlz, kah-sahlz; Spanish kah-sahls ]

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noun

Pa·blo [pah, -bloh, pah, -blaw], 1876–1973, Spanish cellist, conductor, and composer; in France after 1936; in Puerto Rico after 1956.

Casals

/ kaˈsals /

CasalsPablo18761973MSpanishMUSIC: cellistMUSIC: composer Pablo (ˈpaβlo). 1876–1973, Spanish cellist and composer, noted for his interpretation of J. S. Bach's cello suites

“They never asked Pablo Casals when he was going to retire,” she would say.

Rachel Sage, Phil Ochs, Paul McCartney, Patti Smith, Play it as it Lays, Pablo Casals of course.

Mr. Casals described the effect of the whole band as moving and exciting in a high degree.

The dance p. 101which Mr. Casals—himself a Catalan—described to me, is a round dance of some complexity.

Considered in this light Pablo Casals and his 'cello, perhaps, most closely comply with the requirements of the definition.

April 18, 2024petrichor

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