Sounds of Summer; 1; Casals Concert in Puerto Rico

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got around and people started saying to each other, hey, let's tune in that music show on NET, you know the one where Steve Allen keeps his big mouth shut, interesting idea. Well the idea for this show is so simple, it's remarkable it hasn't been done before, because people have always liked to listen to music in the summertime, but it wasn't until the 40s and 50s that the organized summer music festival started to become a nationwide phenomenon. Today there are literally thousands of such festivals ranging from hard rock, jazz and blues to pop and classical. If you like music as much as I do, there are at least 20 of these festivals you'd like to attend in person this summer. Well every Sunday night at this time, from now through September 28th, sounds of summer will enable us to do just that without ever leaving home. So lean back and relax, put your feet up on the barbecue pit or the coffee table or the dog or whatever you put your feet

on on Sunday night and we'll get started. Tonight you and I will have the privilege of attending the opening night of Festival Cassals in San Juan Puerto Rico. The first such festival was held in the city of Prad, France, in 1950. It was conceived by the violinist Alexander Schneider as a way of getting his friend Pablo Cassals to play in public again. Something the world's greatest cellist had refused to do in protest against, as I'm sure you remember, Generalissimo Franco's takeover of his beloved Spain. Well Cassals agreed and annual festivals were held in Prad through 1956. In 55 to fulfill a promise made to his mother that he would visit the land of a birth, Cassals went to Puerto Rico and he decided that that was where he wanted to live. And since 1957, the Festival Cassals has been held in the theater of the University of Puerto

Rico. Alexander Schneider has been one of Cassals' closest personal friends for over 20 years. Known as Sasha to his intimate, he was for 12 years the second violinist of the famed Budapest String Quartet. Several days before the opening night of the concert, our film crew photographed Alexander Schneider interviewing Cassals at his home in Santurse, a suburb of San Juan. The miracle of nature. This is the first thought when I get up. The miracle

of myself, the miracle of all the human beings, the beauty and the plans and the trees and the things. This is my first thought. And then I continue the miracle and I go to piano and I play a couple of brilliant and fused of the well -tempered Flavia of Bach. This belongs to nature also. It is the beginning of everything in music. And this, I have done all my life. All my,

except when I am traveling, naturally I have not piano. Not a piano. But this is my beginning of every day. And how is about the cello? Comes first or comes second? Yes, of course. Every day too. Yes, every day. Every day. When you watch television, what do you like? I do. I do sometimes. I like the Westerns. The Westerns? Yes. But the rest, the attachments and things are not interesting. And I accept that the Western franches, so yes, so simple and another thing.

I have known them. In America, I was here in 1991. And the Westerns, they had, I have seen the Westerns with revolvers. And I have played with them cards. I played card with them. Where was that? Where? In Texas, yes, in Texas. And I was really afraid because I, I, I have recovered the name of the cowboys. We think I was, yes. And I used to, I said, I want them, my man. You can hear. Who you want? Yes,

yes, you want them. A lot of money. So you were afraid? I was afraid, of course. And happily, happily, they let me go. And then we embraced. Loved it. And there were two Chinese with them, playing. Two playing, yes. And they won, too. Yes, I see that they won, at the end. Well, it's important that we know that. All these ones are wonderful. I can tell you don't bother. I know the, the orchestra is arriving in a few days. And all of them are looking forward again to make music with you. I know. Because nowhere else in the world. Those want to enjoy making music. Yes, but nowhere. I am so happy, so happy. And you will again have a wonderful orchestra with wonderful people who are here only because of you to make

music with you. Yes, well, and it's a pleasure for me and wonderful. Every time I have the impression that I have my orchestra in Barcelona, I had, during 18 years. And they were like my, my family, you see. Yes. Well, this is also your family. Yes, and the wonderful people, wonderful musicians, yes. And I have the impression that they come here as to enjoy music, to enjoy music. For the first Cassal's festival in San Juan in 1957, the orchestra played without a conductor. For Cassal's had suffered a heart attack at its very first rehearsal. In an interview with Bernard Taper, published in the New Yorker magazine, Cassal's explained what he thought were the reasons for the attack. I quote him, of course.

It was the emotion I was feeling, he said then. The emotion and the memories. Here was an orchestra of wonderful musicians from all over the United States, who had come to me so that we could make music together. And as I went up to the podium, I was thinking of my own old orchestra in Barcelona, whose members had been like my children. We were so close for so many years. I was remembering the last time we had been together. It had been a rehearsal also for Beethoven's ninth. We had just finished the third movement when word came from the government, that civil war had broken out in Spain and that Barcelona might be attacked at any moment. There would be no concert. I told the men this news. I said I did not know when we would meet again. So I proposed that before we dispersed, we do the last movement as our farewell.

In one voice, the orchestra cried yes, and so we did it. While in Spain, the nightmare was beginning. Then we parted. Those were the memories in my mind as I went before my new orchestra. And you may imagine how I was feeling. I am sure that was what brought on my attack. Pablo Casal's recovered completely from his heart attack. And for the past 11 years, it never missed a performance of the festival that bears his name. And tonight would be no exception. The audience is assembled in the theater of the University of Puerto Rico. And in the matter of moments, Pablo Casal's will make his entrance to conduct Mozart's symphony number 38, indeed, the Prague symphony. This will be followed by handles concerto for oboe strings and continuing and be flat to be conducted by Alexander Schneider. And so we did it. And so we did it. And so we did it. And

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