UN Day Concert 1963: Casals "El Pessebre"
- Contributing Organization
- Library of Congress (Washington, District of Columbia)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip/516-sf2m61cs4v
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- Description
- Program Description
- In the great hall of the UN General Assembly before an audience of delegates and their guests, Pablo Casals conducts a performance of his oratorio, ?El Pessebre? (?The Manager?). The performers are the Festival Casals Orchestra of Puerto Rico, the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus, Robert Shaw conductor, and the following soloists: soprano Olga Iglesias, mezzo-soprano Lili Chookasian, tenor Paulino Saharrea, bass William Warfield, baritone Pablo Elvira, and soprano Margaret Hauptman. ?El Pessebre? is a work with which Casals has undertaken a personal crusade for world peace. Based on a Catalonian poem by Casals? friend Joan Alavedra, ?El Pessebre? tells the story of the Nativity in simple, lyrical, and expressive terms. It is in five parts ? ?The Annunciation to the Shepherds ? Birth of the Son of God,? ?On the Way to Bethlehem,? ?The Caravan to Bethlehem,? ?The Manger,? and ?The Adoration.? Casals wrote the first four parts during World War II in the little town of Prades in southern France to which he had exiled himself in protest against Spain?s Franco regime. The poet had not yet written the last, and it was not until 1960 that Alavedra resumed work on it at Casals? urging. The completed score was given its first performance in Mexico in 1962, and was performed later that year in San Francisco, Puerto Rico, New York, Italy, and France. Its performance at the United Nations in October, 1963 came shortly after the signing of the nuclear test ban treaty, and the mood of optimism in the General Assembly created a receptive framework for the music. ?UN Day Concert 1963 ? Casals ?El Pessebre? is a 1966 ?Festival of the Arts? presentation from National Educational Television. It was produced for NET by United Nations Television. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
- Program Description
- 2 hour program produced by United Nations Television and initially distributed by NET in 1966. It was originally shot on videotape.
- Broadcast Date
- 1966-06-24
- Asset type
- Program
- Genres
- Event Coverage
- Performance
- Topics
- Music
- Media type
- Moving Image
- Credits
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Composer: Casals, Pablo, 1876-1973
Conductor: Casals, Pablo
Director: King, Edward
Performer: Warfield, William
Performer: Chookasian, Lili
Performer: Hauptman, Margaret
Performer: Saharrea, Paulino
Performer: Elvira, Pablo
Performer: Iglesias, Olga
Performing Group: Cleveland Orchestra
Performing Group: Festival Casals Orchestra of Puerto Rico
Producer: Slevin, Tom
Producer: United Nations Television
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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Library of Congress
Identifier: 2308732-1 (MAVIS Item ID)
Format: 2 inch videotape
Generation: Master
Color: B&W
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Library of Congress
Identifier: 2308732-2 (MAVIS Item ID)
Format: 1 inch videotape: SMPTE Type C
Generation: Master
Color: B&W
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Library of Congress
Identifier: 2308732-3 (MAVIS Item ID)
Format: U-matic
Generation: Copy: Access
Color: B&W
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Library of Congress
Identifier: 2308732-1 (MAVIS Item ID)
Format: 2 inch videotape
Generation: Master
Color: B&W
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Library of Congress
Identifier: 2308732-2 (MAVIS Item ID)
Format: 1 inch videotape: SMPTE Type C
Generation: Master
Color: B&W
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Library of Congress
Identifier: 2308732-3 (MAVIS Item ID)
Format: U-matic
Generation: Copy: Access
Color: B&W
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- Citations
- Chicago: “UN Day Concert 1963: Casals "El Pessebre",” 1966-06-24, Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed May 1, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-516-sf2m61cs4v.
- MLA: “UN Day Concert 1963: Casals "El Pessebre".” 1966-06-24. Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. May 1, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-516-sf2m61cs4v>.
- APA: UN Day Concert 1963: Casals "El Pessebre". Boston, MA: Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-516-sf2m61cs4v