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We all recognize the fact that many of you travel long distances to be here on the other hand you are here for a singularly distinguished. Episode in the history of this organization. We believe that you all know. That Tonight we have Leopold's to Koski here as our honored guest and I believe that you war realize that every year we try to. Keep alive. Through denizen such as this the tradition use of the organization. And also that we realize the fact that tonight this is perhaps the most exciting and interesting and we have I have the pleasure to give. Before I proceed to introduce. The hechsher I would like to. Take the opportunity. To introduce to you the guest on the day S. and I'm going to do it from right to left. First of all Mr Wendel a flower to take the club straight president of the nationality center of Cleveland. Secondly Mrs Peter salty lardy who is the president of the instant International Institute of Jersey City. Mr Robert nailing who is the president of the International Institute of Boston. This year and while I'm on the same. Cultural counselor at the French embassy in Russia. Right we rest is the United States. Passing over to our left I would like to introduce to you Mrs Lidl Hall who is the vice chairman of this dinner and also the president of an extremely with the organization in New York which has an extremely distinguished record which is the musician's emergency fund this lytell home. Beyond Mrs help Professor sceptic cardio who is the director of the Italian Cultural Institute in the United States Thanks Dr Hirmand calland who is the international president of the American Federation of Musicians see Iommi thank Miss Gertrude Eli who was vice chairman of the Golden Dawn general and beloved patron of ours from Philadelphia. Thank you may I point out to you that Philadelphia plays a certain role here in this ng. Mr Jealous of course president of the international incident Metropark thank you and one of the really most dedicated gentleman whom I've ever known in my life who has dedicated himself many many years. To a. Role in this organization which on the surface is somewhat anonymous but when I tell you that I don't believe that I was seen anyone in my life recognizing a need and working as hard for a cause and trying to avoid recognition for the work that is done. By one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen Testing one two OK good. Three. Thank. You. Good evening from the Grand Ballroom of the hotel here we're bringing you the Golden Door award presentation ceremony tonight's award will go to Les opposed to cause ski these presentations are made each year by the American Council for nationalities service to an American of foreign birth who has made an outstanding contribution to American life and culture you know as the chairman August picture or president of the American Council for nationalities service Mr hechsher. Mr. Maestros to Koski ladies and gentlemen this is going to be an evening of music and evening of tribute to a great musician and it seems a right that all words should be few or at least to my words should be few I do however want to welcome all of you here gas and travelers from a far more common for this gathering and I knew a convention of the American Council and nationalities service to celebrate this and warning once again of the Golden Dawn award. I was a delighted I'm sure all the members of the household shared by delight by the tribute which Mr middle has just paid to read Louis it is mine which I echo and respond to from the bottom of my heart Nick middle is said is more than the truth this man has borne the burden for over forty years of carrying on the work of this good old institution serving the ideal May An American society which is proud to be not homogeneous. Merely not to be a melting pot perhaps not a brutal term we use but to be a great multinational society full of the rioting and diversity proud of the different origins of the people who compose our nation. I say this about Reed Lewis and you respond to it generously I look down the list of the dinner committee and the patrons I found and many friends of mine but I didn't want to say something just a word. In tribute to Mrs David. Mrs David Coggan who has been everything that a man could desire when he has a job to do. A few. Now I know I have a number of telegrams which have come in to us and to Mark and celebrate this occasion that brings us together I have never been a great believer in reading all the telegrams that come in it seems to me that very often people who stay away from a dinner make themselves known in an easy way by sending a telegram. But there are a few here which naturally I would like to read and which I'm sure you would want me to share with you for the first time not going to do what is sometimes done and keep the final name a mystery or a climax I am going to tell you that the first time around is appropriately and properly from the president of the United States. Lyndon B. Johnson says it is an homage to join with those who are today celebrating and presenting this award in his fifty one years as an American citizen this is the Koski has brought great joy to countless audiences borne across our land his name has become synonymous with artistic excellence in the field of music most of all this nation owes him its gratitude for his distinguished contributions over so many years to the life of the mind and the spirit in these United States this evening we salute him and offer him our deepest stones. Having enriched the culture of America. Thank you. We have a telegram from the vice president. With a wonderful sentence which I'm going to read to take you know he speaks of course of the Maestro's musical brilliance and then Hubert Humphrey goes on Truly he says truly that America itself is a mighty symphony in which men and women of every national racial religious and cultural background contribute to a harmonious whole tonight's performance by members of the American Symphony Orchestra symbolizes into the further musical excellence which America seeks as part of our enjoyment of a good life in the Great Society. We have learned. We have from the governor a telegram with this sentence that I like particularly your dresses the maestro you are not only one of America's great artists but also one of her most admirable citizens. We have many tributes and messages from friends from. Associates from students from composers of all those who in the musical world who admire our guest of honor tonight here is our custody on it's for example the Golden Door never Sharman brighter than tonight. Here is a telegram from my old friend the an extraordinary man now the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington Dr S. Dillon Ripley your contributions he says in the eyes of over played in measurable role in the public appreciation of great music and so on the telegrams go on I don't think I'm going to read this I used to have one here from David Goodman scheme and many of you will remember a year ago we were honoring in a comparable way all those as they would have been to go out of the country I would like to be counted as present when the roll is called of those who wish to pay their deepest respects to Leopold's to Koski years and rich stock culture years open new doors of opportunity for young talent. Well I think I won't read any more from these messages from the grave I hope my stroke them you will put them in a scrapbook and not look at them too often I had an old schoolmaster once used to say. Criticisms for the scrap book complements for the scrap basket. Your scrap basket will be really full when you've gone through all these but it's nice somehow to get there a few messages from people who are not known here is one person. Who says that you have given your great talent inspiration and devotion to millions of music hundred Americans since one thousand nine hundred fourteen you have given me a most inspiring experience yet it is not only back to nine hundred fourteen I have known no one. Lovely old lady in the ninth decade of her life who when she heard that I was going to preside at this dinner that we were presenting the want to buy stories to Koski said you know the maestro played the music played the organ at St Bartholomew's Church at my wedding in nineteen hundred and seven. Thank you well now I'm going to introduce and introduce rather briefly first to speak up. This dinner I think of it as representing both the tribute to music but also those ideals which Maestro Stokowski himself symbolized and expressed of freedom in this country of hospitality to the immigrant of open mindedness toward all those new currents which make America the society of the promising and the and the expanding society in which it is and in order to speak for this cause we have asked Mr Daniel whether he will come and be with us tonight Pat as he is known to some of you as the years known as a good friend to me coming to us now as a scholar out of Wesleyan University where after certain trials in the world of politics years retreated to develop an air of contemplation and meditation. But when there when made isn't gentleman I first went to Washington. To play a role in the brilliant administration of President Kennedy Pap was there working with Arthur Goldberg combining and wonderfully these two worlds of politics and the art it was passed the word with art and our ambassador Goldberg in settling the Metropolitan labor dispute of that year it was partner who devoted himself to setting up the Pennsylvania Avenue commission and making. WASHINGTON a more beautiful city a city more worthy of the nation as a whole but Pappa in spite of these administrative and political activities. Is a New Yorker and as you may remember he played a part in our politics not so long ago too has always been a scholar his book Beyond the melting pot is perhaps the most perceptive modern analysis of the problems and the opportunities that America faces in taking advantage of this right actually. Which exists with its cool pop as I say is come out of this comparative retreat I'm on and for a loss aches that he should have done so and it is for me a great privilege and pleasure to introduce that Daniel body and. Just the sadness of. That will. Last just a coffee. I'm. Thinking of the. Pleasures of the way house when my sprout. Assumes the podium I can only think of anything I might have to say in terms that. In case you know much Oscar Wilde was. Brought out to view Niagara Falls and he looked a moment and said you know you would be more impressed if it flowed the other way round one. Last just cost he has long ceased to think simply an ornament to our nation. Far from merely an addition he has as Governor Rockefeller suggested. Almost one of our natural resources. And I shall be as brief as I can on the. Subject that political life I think none the less concerned him and speaking to you not some much for the Arts tonight as for the purposes circumstances of the great private organization which we which we honor. Which we've assembled to support. It's been the custom of occasions such as this for the speaker to address himself primarily to one or another of the aspects of what have been known as the contributions of the foreign born to American life. Saving I'm sure the addresses delivered from this particular forum these exercises have tended to be floored by a lurking uncertainty on the part of the speaker that was matched only by the absurdity of having to make such a speech in the first place the most conspicuous fact about the United States has always been and continues to be the degree to which it is a country of the foreign born or their newness and. These speeches were not really absurd of course it is only that they want to have been. What was being said was that those who have contributed to the building of the American nation have not been exclusively or overwhelmingly drawn from what was no older Americans stuck. So the pieces were responding however to the reality that the Lords of the United States more or less last explicitly assumed otherwise beginning with the Chinese Exclusion arcs of the nine eight hundred eighty S. and culminating in the immigration laws of the one nine hundred twenty S.. The formal policy of the American nation declared that persons of the older American nationalities were to be preferred as them and went. From newer lands. Much of this immigration legislation was based on the surface of superiority on the one hand and depravity on the other that verged on racism. The present age would I suggest find hard to believe the famous printed about in offending Greeks and poles and Italian the national reports of the period but behind it was a more profound sea of attitude which borrowing from the with the model in English experience might be called the last view of history. It is the view that depicts American history almost exclusively from the point of view of what came to pass in the English plantations on the eastern seaboard and how they were expanded over the continent how the views of the original English settlers and time came to prevail in the nation of the merge terminating not only in the course of events but providing earlier and later comers models a model to which they might become assimilated. Objections to this view are normally based on the argument this is no longer so. I suggest it was never so. The American continent has been the scene of racial and ethnic and Ricky from the sixteenth century is just this has somehow been kept a secret. I would someday or perhaps some of you will some day I hope to write a book entitled Washington's army which would measure the emergence of this fact in terms of the point at which the various ethnic groups involved discovered that they too had a role in the great events from seventeen seventy six to seventy three. Long ago for example the Knights of Columbus discovered that a third of those gallant men were Irish Catholics. More recently vice president and for a reported to us that five thousand of them were Negroes in between and from time to time contingent of the most bizarre origin or uncovered and report of the point too often alas Obs Your outing in Columbus Ohio with field Massachusetts if these reports are anything if these reports are anything like as accurate as they are earnest it would appear that Washington's army was considerably larger than we have realized but even if it turns out otherwise the fact will remain that their work Irish Catholics and negroes and Poles and Jews and Germans and so on. The nation has ever been what it is today the white Anglo-Saxon and Germany has existed more in the American star call society than in American society itself there is today no ethnic majority in the United States as of nine hundred fifty descendants of emigrants from Great Britain and Northern Ireland were thought to make up some thirty five percent of the population after which of dozens of other groups ranging from Germans with fourteen percent Turks and others with the tenth of a percent or less there are more products and some Catholics what Catholics and Jews more Jews than Hindus modules and Moslems rather more Moslems and lose probably more and do some Buddhist presumably and so on but no majority and if the American elite is still largely Angelo Saxon prizefighters have not been for a century or more and in our time the balance of influence among American scholars as well as American intellectuals for example has shifted away from the older groups and not clearly has settled among the descendants of Central and Eastern Europe in Jews. Matters a complicated further by the fact that in terms of census data the two American nationalities which clearly rank highest in social and economic status are the Japanese and the Chinese in that order. The election of John F. Kennedy in one nine hundred sixty marked the beginning of what may come to be seen as the end of the longest period of waspish in Germany in any event it set in motion events that led to the disestablishment of the ethnic bias of the earlier immigration laws that battle has passed and so it is in measure is the era of immigrant profit taking. The American Council for nationalities service for example still has important work to do still bears powerful witness to the need for the accomplishments of private agencies in the field of social welfare but because the emigration laws now tend to discriminate against the unskilled and unpromising defined by more objective terms in the Senate or McCarron it has become a fact that given the kind of counsel and assistance of the A.C.M. as provide immigrants settle into the mainstream of American life with conspicuous success and repetitive. The question arises whether it is not now possible to make some large to use of this development I would suggest that there is and that there is some urgency about doing so. The American ethnic experience has the most powerful relevant to the other nations of the world particularly the new ones and has more than a little bearing on our relations with them. Within months of its establishment in the United Nations was caught up in the Cold War its proceedings have since been dominated by that aspect of international politics. The point about the Cold War is that even if it has adopted for it's a cabbie Larry a very special little nineteenth century view of the world which sees most of the important human relations as revolving around the issue of property relations. Capitalism Socialism Communism. Each of these is a nineteenth century idiology each is preoccupied with who owns the means of production distribution and exchange. Clearly each responded to the physical appearance of industrial plant and equipment that would have started Linea certainly that. At first these are idiology competed at the level of domestic politics until ninety seven when there were no communist or socialist nations but in that year in a sequence of revolutions Russia became communist and thereafter international politics grew more and more to be defined in these men Dettori in terms whatever the true sources of conflict in the Cold War the rhetoric of the time has allowed was allowed to settle into the spray more. Recognizing the tactical disadvantage of proclaiming oneself a capitalist island in the sea of poverty in the United States has more or less consistently sought to define the true issue as that of individual liberty in as much as the West is incomparably in a more free society we have had some advantage from this argument but only as individuals and nations perceive reality our ponens are anything even more for a friend in their Torkel devotion to liberty freedom and people's democracy. On balance the period of the Cold War has been one of sustained failure for the communist bloc. Were it not for the present embroil mint and Vietnam for example the past year or so would be seen as one of kilometers setbacks for the Chinese Communist the Soviet Union is hardly doing better indeed its empire in Eastern Europe is clearly beginning to come apart. By contrast these past two decades have been periods of great success for the United States and no little expansion of our influence barring disaster in Asia we are going to find ourselves very much involved in the management of world affairs for a generation to come. And in doing so I suggest we will increasingly be dealing with issues quite different from those of the Cold War issues for which our national experience provide great strides great guidance but to which at present we paid but little attention. This of course is the emergence of ethnic and religious separatism generally perceived as nationalism but taking in fact many different forms. The nineteenth century that gave birth to the idiology the property also brought forth the spirit it is never quite been the system of thought of nationalism. In the twentieth century this spirit has manifested itself not simply in the effort to establish new nations or reestablish old ruins based on ethnic racial or religious loyalties but also in a generally heightened concern for those qualities which make one person a member of one group and distinguish him from members of. The troubles began in Ireland then Poland then spread through central your. World War One made ethnic relations a world issue the United States brought the issue of self-determination of peoples to the peace conference and there has been no peace since the Second World War was very much a struggle of conflicting nationalisms with the all important addition of racism. With a Nazi attempt to annihilate the Jews and other ethnic groups in Europe and the effort to throw the white man out of Asia a World War two became a grimly occupied forecast of things to come since that time despite what might be called the presumptions of the Cold War to be the prime source of conflict in the world what have been the events that have actually disturb the peace. Until perhaps and only perhaps the recent escalation and yet now. Most have involved conflicts between different groups of people who identify themselves in terms of religion race or ethnic garment. Hindu against Moslem in India. Against Arabs in the Near East Chinese against many today in Southeast Asia French against Moslem and Algeria white man against black man in South Africa East Indian against West African and British Guiana Chinese against Russian communists the world over Greek Cypriot against Turkish what to see against Hutu and Burundi Ebo against your ruble in Nigeria Indian against by and you didn't believe you. Many of these complex Greeks against Persian go back to the beginnings of history ancient affairs and the bone marrow of mankind. Among the new nations pump clicks of language try and religion are a primary source of stability instability both internal and with regard to their international relations nor have the established nations of the West escaped the same ordeal the defection of the U. defections in the Ukraine have come to be polite as a great factor in World War two the resurgence of nationalism is personally transforming the satellite world as we have seen from a New Belgium just torn by the well known Austria's raising questions about the role in Great Britain a socialist working class constituency defeated the shadow foreign minister the Labor Government electing instead an opponent who ran on the slogan if you want to know you're for a neighbor vote Labor in Canada the French were near to tearing the country apart. The United States is hardly a state this near universal experience ethnic conflict has pervaded our domestic live from the outside. At this time the struggle of Negro Americans to enter fully into the mainstream of our national life is the single most pressing of all domestic issues. If we have not if you have succeeded in bringing that about is the fact that we are the only nation in the world and I do not accept Brazil that has seriously undertaken to establish a biracial democracy. The current crisis in really really simulations in a word is needs a new to America nor to the world what is distinctive however is the astonishing and unprecedented degree to which the United States has been able to resolve these conflicts as they've come along one after the other we have shown a fantastic capacity to absorb an incredible range of ethnic groups allowing those who wish to do so three times in their identity enabling those who so desire to assimilate completely disappear permitting others to keep some characteristics while driving others. If this book easy in the nineteenth century. The world is beginning to find out that it is damn hard. America has something to teach here we have been able to do what it is clear other nations in the world itself must do. If we are to create a stable world order. Is it fair to suggest that our foreign policy and our foreign policy establishment seems hardly aware of this somehow i dichotomy has arisen in American public life that separates domestic affairs from foreign affairs in a way in ways that are neither to our credit nor advantage domestic politics is vulgar. Foreign policy is genteel. I exaggerate of course but not so greatly as you might think spend a morning in the Democratic National Committee and an afternoon in the State Department and you will see. To a quite astonishing degree foreign policy making tends to be the preserve of persons and classes who have been kicked out of politics Edward Banfield and James Q Wilson have noted the Zacks same phenomenon in municipal affairs displaced groups tend to define as above the battle certain pleasant areas of activities and claim them for their own. In the case of foreign policy as of city politics the displaced groups tend surprisingly to be older Americans Marilyn's a being a welcome exception in the latter case. I suggest we are paying a price for this which is that not genuinely comprehending the forms of these internal ethnic conflicts in other nations nor of addressing ourselves to their solution you have only to read the morning's news from scientists probably. A year ago for example the United States Nation and I will not carry on with some sort of port the twenty year just but to suggest that the United Nations has only just begun to address and solved problems of the multinational state structure very accurately described and to a conspicuous degree the American State Department has been on pins and interested in the problem. Anyone who who has been involved in these actors as I was very briefly last place would have learned of the desperate difficulties most nations in the world are happening with the subject and they would have found the orbit of the loveliest of the American experience this donnish ing. Development among our Chinese and Japanese citizens for example who in one generation have all but ceased to be seen as a race apart and it appeared to reciprocate that there was no not at all to the world at large while some Alabama and today I should think what is between knowledge. I would pose in closing three simple titles. As the experience relevant to those of us those of you who have supported the American Council for nationality service any of us who have an interest in this problem first the American foreign policy establishment must work at divesting itself of the aura of white Anglo-Saxon Protestant gentility which inhibit its understanding in the world and the world's understanding of US Second the ethnic diversity of the United States should become a more sustained theme of our foreign information programs and the subject of much greater study among ourselves than it has been third problems of ethnic diversity in other nations should become a recognized area of concern within the foreign policy establishment. The reality of these issues need hardly be discussed it's hard to be discussed but the significance of them is perhaps greater. In so many way as America appears to the rest of the world as a finished he completed nation and in ways we are. But in this area we. Are groping changing becoming much as they are it is perhaps the one experience we can truly share and for all of us it is a problem we ignore most deadly peril Thank you. Thank you Pat very much but I asked Mr money and whether he would come down for this dinner he said after thinking it over and rambling a little bit he said yes I have something that I'd like to say and you have said it over. And I think we shall not forget it all lead aside now the next. Person on our program who is going to pay a brief tribute to my stars to Koski I don't need to introduce told to you let me just say in a few words that one sentance. That she is know and loved wherever in the world music is cherished and wherever freedom is valued Mary and I have just. Missed a hechsher. Maestros to cops. Ladies and gentlemen. Our association with your honored guest tonight it. Goes back many more years than my care to admit. We read about him in the newspapers. Parodies name on the lips of so many people in Philadelphia. That it was a tremendous experience. When asked why. I have two students. From our class in high school. We received to take up. To go to a performance. Of the Philadelphia history. After that it was a considerable number of years before we met the man who was so important to this group that. We knew in the meantime also. That Dr Stokowski had already. Understood. And decided to do something about what he found. Was good for the music public Philadelphia. He believed in the work of. Those works which were especially London. Up persons. Who may have had or may not have had a great name. These works were played. Or performed. Very often and to the. Great amazement disappointment and sometimes. Little disgust of some of the persons who felt that they were supporting the orchestra and they were not going to keep their subscriptions if this was going to be the kind of music that they would need to listen to. But out just to kind of ski and all his elegance and seemingly totally oblivious to what the ladies found out. Direct to the way that. Are conducted that which he felt was imperative to the musical diet of the Philadelphians thereby preparing them for. The things which they enjoyed to day to the full. It was not. Too surprising on one occasion. At the Academy of Music. When for a radio program. For conductors had been invited. To conduct the orchestra for thirteen minutes of each quartet period. One of the men was the head of his musical section in the orchestra. The other three or the other two. Were well known conductors. But this all constructed from which. My Struggle stuck up skinny. Had been separated for a number of years. Played for him. As they had never played for anyone else. Their love was their. Be. Everything that he wanted from them they wanted to give to him on that particular night. The loyalties that they had. And this was something to me. Which I shall never forget to my latest day. If you have given your best and your all. With a deep sincerity. In bringing to this art the finest that can be given to it the response that you get is that with which all the money in the world. Could not bring you. Dr stickups ever be remembered in Philadelphia and in other places in the world where we are happy to see that he is equally as loved as in Philadelphia he has so much to give has given so much and will continue to have that it is a great great honor and pleasure to have been here tonight to say these few words which have not at all conveyed to you which is in my heart about him but know this there is a great man amongst us thank you. One. Thank you very much but I remember something for bringing this witness and for expressing so well what many of us know but know instinctively as you have known that through your own experience of discovery. The next step would be speech will be from a man who has combined with signal success careers in law and careers in music has risen to become a statesman in the world of music and to whom musicians are much and to whom we owe much because it is through him tonight that we are have been helped so I was we had maybe able to hear the orchestra which is soon going to play it is a great delight to introduce the president of the American Federation of Musicians is to have the kind of. Atmosphere. Is chairman of. Our distinguished guests days gas ladies and gentlemen. And saluting our Chairman I am conscious that I wish all of you to be aware of that august hechsher the first national perception on the arts one of the late beloved John F. Kennedy was the project of Journey of a long sought recognition for the arts by government. I'm happy to see his successor in the White House Mr Stevens with us tonight having paid homage to one pioneer of the American art scene I turn to another. Distinguished American a foreign birth whom we honor here tonight I fear no contradiction when I tell you that your Golden Door award to one who has made an outstanding contribution to the life and culture of his adopted country could easily have been my store Stokowski's a good many years ago is perhaps unfair to attempt to single out any one contribution by my interest to Koskie to the cultural heritage of his adopted land but several significant incidents and some which I had to prove that assisting and consulting with my friend come to mind one of his convictions was and is that organized labor. Especially that segment to the betterment of which I have devoted most of my adult life to play an active role in encouraging the cultural arts. It was maestros to cost you approached me in recent years and sought help from labor in fulfilling one of his long cherished dreams the establishment of the American Symphony which now affords this great metropolis and seat of the nation's culture another great office I was only too happy to influence other national labor leaders in supporting this dream with money. We gladly invested our hopes and our resources in his dream because we knew of the fundamental role he played in the establishment of the great Philadelphus and. The maestro has always been a pioneer. And I haven't guards think it perfectionist and if. It was one of the principle activists who influenced me to bring before the A.F.L. C.E.O. executive council recently a resolution that resulted in a further exploration by organized labor in the cultural arts I'm not sure I have yet inform my friend but I tell him and you now the president George Meany of the F L C R O N R A conducting a study of Labor's activities in the arts and it sometimes deplored a lack of activity in some of those areas to determine and possibly recommend a more active role by our thirteen million brother and in promoting appreciation for and helping expand to guarantee the survival of this most vital of American heritage years. And I can recall another significant service by my stress to close to that is no one but to a few was my conviction some years ago when the United Nations was struggling as indeed it still is to capture the imagination and support of free men everywhere. At the universal language of music could make a substantial contribution to the cause of world peace. I discussed this with the maestro he has imagination he has Derek he envisioned the possibilities immediately under real expert guidance we have the American Federation of Musicians made a preliminary study of a project that aimed at recruiting the best musicians in the whole world into the greatest Austria have a form and touring it on a permanent basis around the globe. Unfortunately the United Nations budget cannot support this multi-million dollar concept it still cannot but I can tell you that neither the maestro the American Federation of Musicians has given up the belief that the universal language of music properly sounded throughout this troubled world can have quite a soothing effect. If ever I possessed lyrical delivery by way of the strings of a violin and that was many years ago certainly I cannot voice out a quickly here and now the deep affection that I and a quarter of a million professional musician for whom I also speak hold for the maestro always throughout his long and distinguished career is the wielder of the magic baton that exact from his issues the acme of their skills the maestro has been sensitive to the economic problems of the living musician this understanding particularly and do seem to me because the economic plight of live music and musicians continues to be the main challenge of mind. Thus I salute you Maestro not only for the quality of the musicianship the extraordinary leadership and the creative role you have played in American arts community but also for your support of the Britain voter issues the importance to the preservation of. America's musical heritage. Maestro I congratulate you on the well deserved honor of yours tonight may you enjoy many many years of resigning. We come now ladies and gentlemen to the presentation of the award itself you will find on the second page of your programs the awards committed these this award were selected by a group of extraordinarily distinguished men I shall not read all their names I just begin with Brewster the president of the particular distinguished because that's my colleague Ralph Bunche Nicole's Robert girl the small college girl Princeton author J. Goldberg of the United Nations Henry golden and so on we thought it was appropriate and one of these judges should present the award itself to meisters to Koski this evening on the program you will see that Jim has to have New York University had hoped to be able to do it representing the great world of education and he has been prevented by illness from doing so and I have the pleasure because it's really a personal friendship to me I'm introducing another judge Roger Stevens seven can and has just said he is my successor somewhat enlarged in scope and size and jurisdiction but nevertheless by successor in this role of working. To try to establish a better relationship between the arts and government I. Once. Heard a man the state of the aphorism which was striking and most of my life has turned out to be true we were walking along and suddenly he turned and he said picture I don't remember why he said I don't know what connection but he said picture no man loves his successor well. You know I like mine most of the time. Roger Stevens is a given extraordinary energy and zeal with great simplicity and modesty do the work in Washington and we have seen things done under his leadership and under the leadership of President Johnson which one could hardly have supposed would have been accomplished in so short a time and so Roger Stevens is here on behalf of the federal government and as a as a friend of Biden and many of us in this room to present the Golden Door award on behalf of the judges committed to the maestro rattle. Of. Mr X.. My first casket ladies and gentlemen after those touching tributes to the maestro I think Good morning order for me to. Further you in some of this background well known facts. Of his life he was born in London and is of Polish origin. Named for his grandfather really opposed KOSKY love in Poland. His music studies took place in London at the Royal College of Music Oxford as well as and Paris Munich and Berlin his debut as a conductor took place in one thousand eight and carer's. The following year he went to America as conductor of the sense now to something and soon became an American citizen from nineteen twelve to nine hundred thirty eight he was music director of the filled up the artist which he developed into one of the foremost symphonic groups in the world through its big carvings and concerts the Philadelphia Orchestra said the standard Kustra culture and high quality of performance. Through his knowledge of our customer culture he transformed Philadelphia Orchestra from an average dark street into a superb instrument. And addition to the Philadelphia Orchestra. He has conducted the Hollywood Borchester the City Center Orchestra in New York the all-American Youth Orchestra the New York Philharmonic Orchestra the N.B.C. orchestra and the Houston Symphony Orchestra as well as many apples. In October nine hundred sixty two maestros to escape the American Symphony Orchestra. Partly composed of some of the most talented young players who have recently graduated from the great music schools of the United States and partly from experience freelance players in New York with whom he had been making records for years. The chief Amos of the American Symphony Orchestra was to our to give opportunity and musical experience to a highly town young man and woman very specter of race color or creed and to make programs drawing upon the greatest compositions from the sixteenth century to the twentieth century. This formula has govern an unusual vitality and high caliber performance as made the critics compare the American Symphony Orchestra with the great artist as of the world most of which you have many years to grow. He has studied all the instruments they are in order to be able to understand them from a player's your point. He believes that a musician should have a broad general culture as well as a complete use it which. Has travelled almost all over the world studying different kinds of music technically Arabic Balinese Chinese and Japanese and Japanese. All these were a revelation to him of the immense possibilities of music which are American and European kind of music has not yet fully express. He believes we have much to learn of the various kinds of Asiatic music. And there must learn from European music. As Miss Anderson as. He has always been through so yes for modern music he was the first to conduct in the United States many contemporary compositions such as Mahler's a symphony. He was the first to conduct our custom using the shaft cowards in the Americas as a champion of modern music he was given hundreds of American scars their first hearing including compositions from South Central and North America. His hobbies are clues to research scientific and medical research arming and. Musical language. Disappeared for motion pictures is his belief to motion pictures the inspiration and great music can reach millions of persons who might not otherwise come under its influence is made to pictures in color motion abstract forms of one called pastoral over the music of Bach and the other exuberance of the musical piece. He is an author of a book music for all of us which simply in briefly describes every phase of music of all periods in countries including the nature of music from man as father as well as mathematical standpoint. It speaks of music in the past present and above all the future and at the true inner nature of music rather than its superficial aspects. In order to improve recording techniques and radio transmission he has done research on acoustics in electronics in America Germany and how as a conductor he is apply the principles of a studies to his own recordings but the aim the ball beauty of music to the listener. I can only say as a member of the Arts Council that I think is literally one man's Arts Council and I've been reviewing already has done and lived so many and of the things that we expect to do in the Arts Council future has been well initiated by him but. Maestro it was a great honor to be able to present three of us know your work. Thank you and thank you a. Thank you. I wish I could find words to express to you all. How I feel but we do you mind if I do it with music a little later art. Thank you thank you. I feel. That in the world today are two great forces one const struction the other destruction and you of the American Council you have always supplied that wonderful force of con struction our sympathy for the US whole living far away in Lance where there is starvation. Disease. Poor quality of life you have helped him come to this land. And when they had difficulty of language or to assimilate our peculiar way of living you know have helped them. And we are grateful to you the world is grateful to you and that is how America has been made great with all these different nationalities here. The other side. Destruction. The this destruction which through partly slow our. Research. We have discovered this immense power. Atomic Energy. Which Well you as you would use it of the American Council could be such a blessing. And badly used can be such a curse. When you spoke about Philadelphia Orchestra when I was conducting that we used to go the orchestra to certain hospitals where were the maimed men from the battles of the past. I could scarcely. We could scarcely make the music when we saw dollars man with no arms no lakes one I have been a part of. I remember they brought in a big basket in the big basket was a poor unhappy creature who had no legs no arms. And lived all his life in that basket to be carried about. That's what destruction to us. And we are facing the possibility. Of still greater destruction. When the human race might be destroyed. When even the surface of this verse might be destroyed. These are thoughts which are not on my part political at all absolutely not political but for humanity. There is a rising now a young generation in America. And I have the privilege of being in touch with them. And they are seeing things in an entirely new way. From our generation. We are blessed with them. Of their in men's talents and their direct view and simplicity. Of life as life is today. I hope and believe they will help us. In the new life that we were not destroyed. The brutality of destruction men women children even animals birds destroyed. This young generation I hope will bring us to a new as fact of life. Which will be construction. And in building our new conceptions for the environs meant the spirit humanity Thank you. For the. Thank you guys from some thoughts. There is a standing ovation for the maestro. And now we come to the concert portion of the program in which I was just a KOSKY conducts members of the American Symphony in a performance of a Mozart work it is the serenade number ten grand party to in B. flat curtain listing three six one. The maestro is ascending the podium. As you heard earlier he would express his feelings. Of the Golden Door award. Expresses feelings with music. 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Service you are the American Council for National nationalities service presenting the Golden Door was devised to labels the Godspeed and the concert thank you by the wise Phil members of the American Symphony Orchestra. From the hotel this is Michael David returning to us studios in the missile building.