C.W. Post Department of Music

Concert Tour 2006. Spain and France

Long Island University • C.W. Post Campus • School of Visual and Performing Arts

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Agenda for May 21

Pau (Pablo) Casals (1876-1973)

From the Tour Itinerary

8:00 a.m.	Breakfast at hotel
9:00 a.m.	Board coach and depart for an excursion to Montserrat, site of a Benedictine Monastery, first settled in the 9th century. The Montserrat Massif, rising 4,055 ft. had 13 different hermitage sites before the arrival of Napoleon's troops in the 19th century. It is considered one of the holiest sites in Catalonia
10:00 a.m.	Guided tour of the monastery
11:00 a.m.	Free time for shopping, exploration, and independent lunch Reassemble in the "changing room" of the monastery
12:00 p.m.	The world-renown Escolania choir of the Montserrat Monastery Basilica will sing at the beginning of Mass
12:15 p.m.	Performance: The Long Island University Choir will sing immediately following the Escolania choir Independent lunch at Montserrat
2:00 p.m.	Depart Montserrat for El Vendrell, home of the famed cellist Pau Casals until his exile by Franco in the 1930's. The town still supports the arts and music and has recently opened the Pau Casals Auditorium
4:00 p.m.	Arrive in San Salvador where there will be a private visit of the beachfront home (now a museum) of the famed cellist Pau Casals. Normally closed on Sundays, it is being opened for this visit. Pau Casals lived in the area until his exile by Franco in the 1930's
6:00 p.m.	Rehearsal with the local choir in San Salvador Church of El Vendrell Walk together to nearby restaurant
7:00 p.m.	Dinner
9:00 p.m.	Performance: The Long Island University Choir, Madrigal Singers and Merriweather Consort will give a joint concert with the Cor Zongora de L’Escola Municipal de Musica Pau Casals at San Salvador Church Return to Barcelona following the performance

Links

• Current time in Barcelona. (They are on Central European Summer Time)
• About Barcelona (City Council Web site)
• Weather in Barcelona
• Day Visit to Montserrat Spain (hear the Monastery bells)
• Photo of the Benedictine Monastery of Montserrat
• Photo of the summit of Sant Jeroni (highest point of the Montserrat massif)
• Escolania de Montserrat
• Pau Casals Foundation
• A Portrait of Pablo Casals

Notes

• Barcelona is 3839 miles (6177 km) (3336 nautical miles) from New York, NY
• The tour is currently located is Catalonia, one of the seventeen autonomous communities that make up Spain. Its capital is Barcelona and it contains the provinces of Barcelona, Girona, Lléida, and Tarragona. More about Catalonia
• Pablo Casals, who was originally named Pau Carlos Salvador Defillo de Casals, was born in Vendrell, on December 29, 1876
• "The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all." (Pablo Casals)

Department of Music
C.W. Post Campus
Long Island University
720 Northern Boulevard
Brookville, NY 11548
(516) 299-2474
music@cwpost.liu.edu
C. Culver, Chairman