March 26, 2022 To commemorate the renewal of the website, "The Song of the Birds" performed by cellist Casals at the United Nations will be released as a free download.
As a result of the Spanish Civil War that broke out in 1936, General Francisco Franco came to power and Catalunya was persecuted, including a ban on the public use of the Catalan language. Casals, whose hometown is Catalonia, went into exile in France in 1939. Picasso's painting "Guernica" was painted in 1937 following the Spanish Civil War. The free use of Catalan was permitted after Catalan became the official language of the Statute of Autonomy in the Statute of Autonomy, which was newly established based on the new Constitution of Spain enacted in 1978. was. On October 24, 1971, when Casals, the largest cellist of the 20th century, was 94 years old, a concert was held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York to celebrate United Nations Day. At this concert, Casals's "Psalm to the United Nations" was premiered under his own direction, but Casals, who was on the podium, began to speak quietly to the large number of participants at the UN General Assembly. .. "I haven't played the cello in public for a long time, but I feel it's time to play it again." "I'm going to play a song called'Bird Song El Cant dels Ocells' from a Catalan folk song. The birds sing like this.'Peace, Peace, Peace'. The melody is What Bach, Beethoven and all the greats admired and loved, and the soul of my people, Catalonia. " Lento & Vivace believes that playing an instrument with all one's heart has the power to move people's hearts and connect people to people's hearts through music in a dimension that transcends values. I have added more arrangements from Casals' arrangement, but my desire is to end with a chord in C major. Wishing for a peaceful world without war, we hope that you can play the song of birds singing with Peace and Paece.
