AT PRADES THEY HONOUR CASALS
By GERARD BOURKE
Tillagers at Prades, cet hernally
nt any,
mer were stamped "Going 10
a colourful community where passports that sum nestling amid the olive Prades forbidden between groves of the eastern slopes Jume 2-20."
Famous players Join the 30- plece Prodes festival orchestra
of the French Pyrenees, are alert this month. Visitors at low fees. "Without looking at from distant countries have him you feel all his intentions, arrived for the annual music We understand each other like festival to honour the great an old happily married
commented the
distinguished
'cellist, Pablo Casals, Now violinist Rudolf Serkin, after living there in voluntary being conducted by Casals exile.
When asked whether he has surrendered his Spanish pass- Chala hissed "It is my a port
country. Let Franco give up his passport!"
FEW PUPILS A
summer fcs-
עננן
1 ten years since he reunced his steadfast intention of not playing again in countries reeaguising the France regime in Spain. Since then Casals has chosen to live among the 4,000 - Between the inhabitants of this chamli tivals, Casals teachles a towe village, who call him the puplis. ploy with all nuster
best effors during lessons. This Sometimes Casals will travel is the only way. Words are not to neutral Andorra, the Arid enough. I do not belleve in country high in the Pyrenees, teachers who can only falk," he to meet friends coming froni has observed. He also uses the Spain, the country he will no peace he finds there
for com→ longer enter. Free, he exerts a posing, and has recently written powerful intuence on behalf of an oratorio, Finally, he believes his beloved Catalans, especially that his exilo draws attention those living at Vendrell, south to a political Ideology with of Barcelona, where 110 was which he himself cannot agree. born in 1876, For they still
regard
him almost
patron saint.
as their
play
Casala first learned to both
organ and plano, taught by his father. When he tried the violin, his brothera and sisters leased him for play- ing with his eyes closed, and a serene expression. Today ho does the same when he enthralls international critics.
MUCH IN DEMAND As with most pensant com- munities, folk music was much in demand, and young Pablo wrote simple sardonos
and
other Catalan dunces for friends. Later the national Spanish composer, Albeniz, was surprised to find a cafe orches- tra in Barcelona possessing so Indisputably gifted a musician as Casals, "Pablo transforms a cafe into a concert hall, and a concert hall into a temple," has been said.
During a search for worth- while musie for his band, Casals first came across Un{C= companied 'cello suiles by Bach; yet such high standards does he dopt, -that he did not presume to play
This great music in public for another 10 years, hough admiring it intensely. "After Bach, it is Mozart I like most," he admits, and st_be- gins each day by playing Bach at the plane.
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY JULY 16, 1955.
THE GARDEN PARTY SEASON-
+
by GILES
"That's settled then, Vicar-all you have to do now is slip round and tell the Lady Dowager that little Miss Whatsit's going to open the fete instead of her.”
MURDER WAS
BUSINESS
JACK RAMSAY tells another of
the world's strangest stories
stair,
But-and-ben with Burke and
Hare,
Burke's the butcher, Here's the
thies, Know the boy who buys the
beef,"
T
Their method was simple. Either Burke or Hare
"Up the close and down the Burke, an Irish emigre, Was smooth, crafty, so-called. religious. He had brains would go roaming the and, occasionally, faint pangs drinking-dens in which the of conscience. „Like Macbeth, town abounded, seeking a his majestic archetype, his likely subject. When found, dreams were filled with he was invited home, soused HUS, behind heavy terror.
with liquor, then smothered, shutters, did Edin-
The body was then stripped Hare, also an emigre, was and, under cover of dark- burgh mock the vile horror that stalked bestial and callous, "his dull, ness, carted to Surgeons' His parents were Door, and
wynds dead blackish
wide Square, and payment re had ten other children to look her dark closes and afler, so, but for an allowance 127
years ago. Mothers apart, one rather higher up ceived. given to their young musician clutched their children to than the other." No finer by a secretary to King Alfonsa their skirts and men who feelings ever called him to XI, his advance might have been slow indeed, With it, he walked alone by night heel. went to Brussels .and then to blanched at every sound Para to study, but was soon from the shadows. drawn again to Catalonia. It
was then that Queen Cristina Invited him to play
at court.
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London Express Service
THEIR
Burke and M'Dougal at the Bar.
made in Court.
From a drawing
the partner How could Knox, and his survived
he so 40 followers profess innocence of readily betrayed by over
Though saved from the what was going on before those years.
gallows, vengeance followed In this way Burke, on one two figures whom all recognised? after. Recognised by fellow- to have workmen he was flung into occasion, picked up in the How could they fall
an old Irish- doubts as to where the plentiful quicklime and blinded. High Street As for the two women woman and her dumb grand- from? Yet they apparently did. supply of unburied bodies came they had none of the female son, who had come
from Nothing was said, either then or skinny, wizened, Glasgow to seek friends in at the trial, despite publie outcry
soon rendered senseless
It preyed upon the living- graces:
and gave him a valuable sap- and upon the dead also. vicious, the dregs of their the capital. The old soul was and violent tirades in the Press.
сол
suggested that he should cover
It is worth noting that as soon
phire now mounted on his bow, For this was the heyday of kind.
In 1901, he made his formal the Resurrectionists those debut at the Lamoureux
To this wretched lodging with whisky, then murdered certs in Paris, and three years ungodly rogues who traded later played in New York-atter in corpses with the unato- house therefore and to those in the back room. The part as the hue and cry arose for the ners at first planned to missing Jamle his remains were dhe promotor had audaciously mists at Surgeons Square to wretched people came abandon the boy in the quickly rendered unrecognisable,
old Army pen- his already balding head with a keep their black marble dis. Donald, an
When a Mrs Gray lifted aside streets, but changed their quickly to die of
straw on "thé béd in wig, to appear more musical secting slabs well supplied sioner,
minds. Next day, while Hare Some But he certainly did not require with "aubjecta."
Was out, Burke took the Burke's room and discovered such tricks to display his great
there the unclothed body of an frightened child to where his old woman the partnership en- musiclanship.
grandmother lay dead, lift- tered its last bitter phase, The ing him on to his knee, pollee were called in, and all four (Burko. M'Dougal and the two Hands) were arrested and put on trial for murder,
To do this the coffins of INTER-WAR YEARS
the newly-dead were plun- During the inter-war years, dered--and old people and he built up the renowned Pablo beggars disappeared without Casals orchestra, though even trace in the warrens of the. now fow people realise, they go to the Prades Festival, Old Town. his dual capacity as 'cellist er
until
or
conducior. "I enjoy rehearsals Midnight vigils were spent even more than conducting the with chattering teeth
and orchestra in public," ho says. pointing out that he likes to Huttering candles by the work In close contact with grave-sides of loved ones recently passed away. And
fellow musicians,
indestructible position ពន
On recordings, Casals has an the graves themselves, for member of the famous trio with protection, were imprisoned pianist, Alfred Cortot. and in enges of "black purga violinist, Jacques Thibaud: torial rails." But despite it Elderly concert-goers recall with pride hearing Casals give shadowy figures were too recitals with Paderewski, But often seen emerging from when young
Casals the gloom of trees bent man know pleasures other than
beneath their ghoulish loud. music: "Now six sels of tennis, then two Brahms' sextols," he would suggest.
when
CIVIL WAR
No Questions -
broke his back.
Well Known
But in the strange lack of con- clusive evidence Hare was pre- This scene of indescribe witness.
valled upon to become King's His wife was niso able horror, said the spared as 'ho could not bear, hypocrite Burke afterwards, evidence against her.
She, by lay most heavily on his the way, had, appcured in dock, heart.
with an infant in the throes of whooping cough in her arms.
The customary tea-chest being too small for the double load, the bodies were,
A Signpost
Hare a debt of £4 in rent. them (the bodies) out, being not proven
and the charge against MDougal
On hearing this
His last days were spent as a
ja. Ume he was one of the less
sightless beggar in London: for auspicious sights on the north alde of Oxford Street and, from
a safe distance, was pointed out
to children by their fearful
nannies.
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forced into an old herring- On the Christmas morning of barrel. At Knox's rooms 1828, before William Horo
a packed and "the
Jury students had had shivering court-room, the drink and neglect, leaving work," said Burke, "to get found Burke gulity of murder To make good this loas Hare so stiff and cold. We re- verdict, Burke turned to her and hit on the plan of selling the ceived £16 for them both." said: "Well, thank God you're Casals happened to be con-
Ho It was $10 a body and no body to "the doctors". ducting Beethoven's
With the success and ease safe." pacan 10 liberty, the Ninth
Symphony, questions asked. Thus did informed Burko-and the of these operations the part
Before a frenaleg crowd of felt themselves) civil war was officially medical science ensure ita diabolical partnership was ner gave up all pretence of 20,000, who declared. "I have just received own advance in face of strict formed.
working. Drink became un- cheated of a victim, Burke was news from the minister," he called from the rostrum, giving legislation which permitted Dr Robert Knox, brilliant, limited, they dressed better hanged to the High Street, on the dramatic first reports, He only the bodies of suicidea one-eyed surgeon, descen. The neighbours were told of. Wednesday, January 20, 1820- On the following Friday his body. has since vowed to conduct the and murderers for dissection. dant of the great Reformer a legacy.
-was taken to the college and same work when he cant return.
The murders of Mary placed in the anatomical theatre, freely to Spain. Meanwhile For William Burke and and sinister, silent figure streets named
Paterson and Daft Jamie, to where a continuous stream of William Hare it provided a behind these scenes, paid a
sightscorn passed through at the Spain have been renamed, and much of his property there has royal road to riches. It high price for the body and name but two more, were rate of 60 a minute, from 10 mads them, in the end, lead- made it known through his equally gruesome affairs. o'clock in the morning HII dusk, When he announced his In-ng pinyers in the geldy assistants that he would be only thou art is the After this Burkes was dissected For Quality, Prices and Selection....
glad to see them again if incriminating factors for salted and put into barrels for drama that reached ita
his fervent the purpose, of future, lectures. he refused honorary climax on the Christmas they had another to dispose Knox and green from Oxford and Coon-
disciples..
And his name passed into com- bridge, ns, well as an offer to morning of 1828...
mc Engliali ukige, The partners were willing. Mary, and Jamie ware
bren Boized..
after
tention of going futo exile
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the Anatomical · Muséumit" politics apart from music, but virtue and two husbands still provide their future victims.; comely Beauty which 60 their loss; they went him groot alive, were paying guests at Murder was easier than often in the past she had ings on his 70th birthday when squalid lodging house in sveto months they students who nowe stared shared with those same pupil Sir John Barbirolli, by Hard and his wife in niho
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