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Cellist Pablo Casals greets first lady Jacqueline Kennedy after a concert given in the White House in November 1961.
El Maestro kisses the hand of First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy during a reception for the Governor of Puerto Rico, Luis Muñoz Marin and his wife, at the White House on November 13, 1961. Casals left Fascist Spain to live in the USA, Puerto Rico. He never returned to his native Catalonia until his remains returned after the restoration of democracy.
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-welcome-the-white-house-concert-pablo-casals
Here’s a more complete quote…
Pablo Casals: “In the confusion that afflicts the world today, I see a disrespect for the very values of life. Beauty is all about us, but how many are blind to it! They look at the wonder of this earth — and seem to see nothing. People move hectically but give little thought to where they are going…
“Each second we live in a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that never was before and will never be again. And what do we teach our children in school? We teach them that two and two makes four, and that Paris is the capital of France. When will we also teach them what they are? We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique. In all of the world there is no other child exactly like you. In the millions of years that have passed there has never been another child like you. And look at your body — what a wonder it is! Your legs, your arms, your cunning fingers, the way you move! You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything. Yes, you are a marvel. And when you grow up, can you then harm another who is, like you, a marvel? You must cherish one another. You must work — we all must work — to make this world worthy of its children.”
Source: https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/03/10/pablo-casals-joys-and-sorrows-jfk/
His performance of “Song of the Birds” at the UN makes me cry just by thinking about it.
El Maestro kisses the hand of First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy during a reception for the Governor of Puerto Rico, Luis Muñoz Marin and his wife, at the White House on November 13, 1961. Casals left Fascist Spain to live in the USA, Puerto Rico. He never returned to his native Catalonia until his remains returned after the restoration of democracy.
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-welcome-the-white-house-concert-pablo-casals
Here’s a more complete quote…
Pablo Casals: “In the confusion that afflicts the world today, I see a disrespect for the very values of life. Beauty is all about us, but how many are blind to it! They look at the wonder of this earth — and seem to see nothing. People move hectically but give little thought to where they are going…
“Each second we live in a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that never was before and will never be again. And what do we teach our children in school? We teach them that two and two makes four, and that Paris is the capital of France. When will we also teach them what they are? We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique. In all of the world there is no other child exactly like you. In the millions of years that have passed there has never been another child like you. And look at your body — what a wonder it is! Your legs, your arms, your cunning fingers, the way you move! You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything. Yes, you are a marvel. And when you grow up, can you then harm another who is, like you, a marvel? You must cherish one another. You must work — we all must work — to make this world worthy of its children.”
Source: https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/03/10/pablo-casals-joys-and-sorrows-jfk/
His performance of “Song of the Birds” at the UN makes me cry just by thinking about it.
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