Even today, 50 years after his death in October 1973 at age 96, Pablo Casals remains the world’s most celebrated cellist—the man and his instrument inextricably linked in the minds of music lovers the ...

Musician Yeesun Kim wakes up every morning the way Pablo Casals did — by playing one of Bach’s six, demanding cello suites from memory. With her eyes closed, Kim’s fingers dart along her cello’s neck ...

“It is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful.” Thus Pablo Casals once described his cello, an instrument he played with ...

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