PAU CASALS - EL CANTO DE LOS PAJAROS (EL CANT DELS OCELLS)

THE WORDS OF PAU CASALS AT THE UNO This is the greatest honour of my life. Peace has always been my greatest concern. I learnt to love it when I was but a child. When I was a boy, my mother —an exceptional, marvellous woman—, would talk to me about peace, because at that time there were also many wars. What is more, I am a Catalan. Today, a province of Spain. But what has been Catalonia? Catalonia has been the greatest nation in the world. I will tell you why. Catalonia has had the first parliament, mu