{"id":917,"date":"2013-01-28T21:41:30","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T21:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pianowizardacademy.com\/campus\/?p=917"},"modified":"2026-08-14T21:41:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T02:41:56","slug":"bach-is-my-best-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pianowizardacademy.com\/campus\/blog\/don-and-delayna-beattie\/bach-is-my-best-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Bach is my best friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"CENTER\"><strong>Pablo Casals <\/strong>(1876-1973)<\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\">\u201cBach is my best friend. Bach is forever, and nobody, nobody will reach the greatness and profoundness and the diversity of Bach. He is the God of music, the image of what I dream in music and what I say in music. in every style, in every feeling, Bach is exuberant!<\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\">When I played the Suites for the Cello alone for the first time in Germany, the purists said that this was not Bach and the others said that it was a real discovery. Now the Bach at that<\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\">time was played like an exercise without any real musical meaning. They were afraid to put something in it. They were afraid and even now many of the artists of today have accepted the bad theory that the music of Bach is objective. And it is the contrary, absolutely the contrary! It is the most free, the more poetic, the more everything. I advise the young musician not to fear Bach.<\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\">Everything, every feeling, everything lovely, tragic, dramatic, poetic, everything, every feeling most profound \u2013 is Bach. Bach never says a useless thing but something always so important. Yes, Bach is universal and has said in music everything that we desire in life. This is Bach: the greatest fantasy, the greatest liberty.\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pablo Casals (1876-1973) \u201cBach is my best friend. Bach is forever, and nobody, nobody will reach the greatness and profoundness [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1027,"featured_media":919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[26,162],"class_list":["post-917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-don-and-delayna-beattie","tag-bach","tag-casals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pianowizardacademy.com\/campus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pianowizardacademy.com\/campus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pianowizardacademy.com\/campus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pianowizardacademy.com\/campus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1027"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pianowizardacademy.com\/campus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=917"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pianowizardacademy.com\/campus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33696,"href":"https:\/\/pianowizardacademy.com\/campus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions\/33696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pianowizardacademy.com\/campus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pianowizardacademy.com\/campus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pianowizardacademy.com\/campus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pianowizardacademy.com\/campus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}