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REMARKS: PBS CONCERT
EAST ROOM
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1989
THANK YOU FOR THIS WONDERFUL CONCERT. BARBARA AND
I ARE DELIGHTED TO HOST YET ANOTHER "IN PERFORMANCE AT
THE WHITE HOUSE."
FOR THIS IS AMERICA'S HOUSE. AND WHAT BETTER
EVIDENCE THAN THIS EVENING'S PARADE OF STARS.
DELIGHTING US HERE IN THE EAST ROOM WITH THEIR SPIRIT
AND TALENT. AND MILLIONS OF YOU THROUGH THE MAGIC OF
PBS.
THE POET CARL SANDBURG ONCE SAID: "THE REPUBLIC
IS A DREAM. NOTHING HAPPENS UNLESS FIRST A DREAM."
WELL, IT WAS A DREAM THAT BROUGHT CHRISTOPHER
COLUMBUS TO AMERICA -- AND SO MANY MILLIONS OF FAMILIES
IN THE SCORES OF DECADES SINCE. THEY CAME TO BUILD A
BETTER LIFE. AND, YES, TO FIND A BETTER WORLD.
RISKING MUCH, THEY ACCOMPLISHED MORE. UPLIFTING THIS
GOOD AND BLESSED COUNTRY.
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TONIGHT, F. MURRAY ABRAHAM AND LYNN REDGRAVE READ
BEAUTIFULLY FROM WONDERFUL REMINISCENCES OF IMMIGRANT
LIFE. AND INDEED, AN EVENING LIKE THIS REMINDS US -- --
THROUGH MUSIC, AND ORATORY -- OF THE RICH HERITAGE THAT
IS OUR LAND.
THAT HERITAGE SPRINGS FROM MANY VALUES -- FAITH IN
GOD, PRIDE IN FAMILY, BELIEF IN THE DIGNITY OF WORK.
AND OF MANY RACES, RELIGIONS, AND CREEDS. OUR HERITAGE
IS RURAL AND URBAN, NATIVE-BORN AND FOREIGN-BORN. AND
HAILS FROM MANY NATIONS -- IMMIGRANTS WHO BELIEVED IN
THE AMERICAN DREAM, AND WHO MADE THAT DREAM A REALITY.
FROM THE SEND-OFF OF COLUMBUS TO THE LIFT-OFF OF
COLUMBIA, AMERICA IS A LAND OF DREAMS -- DREAMS THAT
COME TRUE. AS WE HAVE SEEN AND HEARD FROM YOU TONIGHT
-- AND AS WE WON'T SOON FORGET. THANK YOU FOR THIS
DELIGHTFUL EVENING. GOD BLESS YOU. AND GOD BLESS THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
# # # #
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(Smith/Blessey)
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September 13, 1989
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CONCERT
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: PBS CONCERT
EAST ROOM
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1989
Thank you for this wonderful concert. Barbara and I are
delighted to help host yet another "In Performance at the White
House
"
Program
For this is America's House. And what better evidence than
this evening's parade of stars. Delighting us here in the East
Room with their spirit and talent. And millions of you through
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the magic of PBS.
You know, like Lynn Redgrave, Teresa Stratas, and all of
tonight's performers, the poet Carl Sandburg was an artist. And
it was he who said, "The Republic is a dream. Nothing happens
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unless first a dream."
Well, it was a dream that brought Christopher Columbus to
America -- and so many millions of families in the scores of
decades since. They came to build a better life. And, yes, to
find a better world. Risking much, they accomplished more.
Uplifting this good and blessed country.
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Tonight, F. Murray Abraham read beautifully from "American
Mosaic. And indeed, an evening like this reminds us -- through
music, and oratory -- of the rich heritage that is our land.
From the send-off of Columbus to the lift-off of Columbia,
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America is a land of dreams -- dreams that come true. So thank
you for an unforgettable evening that celebrates our heritage.
God bless you. And God bless the United States of America.
# # # #
REV. 9/6/89
SCRIPT-
IN PERFORMANCE AT THE WHITE HOUSE
F41
"The House I Live In"
SHOW RUNDOWN
1. FUNDER CREDIT AND OPENING TITLES
1:30
1:30
2. ENTRANCE OF THE PRESIDENT & MRS. BUSH
0:30
2:00
WHCA ANNOUNCE
HOST
3. INTRO LYNN REDGRAVE & WELCOMING REMARKS
2:30
4:30
WHCA ANNOUNCE
4. LYNN REDGRAVE:
Sings: "I've Got To Get Back To New York"
2:15
6:45
5. LYNN REGRAVE INTRO JAZZ QUARTET
1:00
7:45
"BENNY CARTER
6. BENNY CARTER, DICK HYMAN, MILT HINTON, MEL LEWIS
ALL STAR QUARTET
Play: "I've Got The World On A String"
4:30
12:15
"DROVND THE WORLD IN so DAYS"
& hist NAMES
7.
A
0:30
12:45
8. MILT HINTON.
Plays: "Joshua Itt De Battle "
3:00
15:45
9. F. MURRAY ABRAHAM
Self-intro & Dramatic Reading
3:00
18:45
10. ABRAHAM:
Intro to Roy Clark
0:30
19:15
11. ROY CLARK
Song #1:
Song #2:
Song #3:
10:00
29:15
12. LYNN REDGRAVE INTRO TERESA STRATAS
0:30
29:45
IN PERFORMANCE #602
September 6, 1989
Page 2.
13. TERESA STRATAS
Sings: "O Mio Babbino Caro"
2:15
32:00
14. LYNN REDGRAVE
Dramatic Reading
2:45
34:45
15. TERESA STRATAS
Sings: "I'm A Stranger Here Myself"
4:00
38:45
Talks: re Kurt Weill
0:30
39:15
Sings: "Lost in the Stars"
3:00
42:15
16. LYNN REDGRAVE & F. MURRAY ABRAHAM
Dramatic Readings - Collage
6:00
48:15
150 BENNY COFFER QUARTET "I'VE GUT WORLD IN P STRING"
3:00
17. ENSEMBLE
Finale -- Medley
"Christopher Columbus"
"I'm Sitting on Top of the World"
"It's a Great Big Wonderul World"
"What the World Needs Now"
"It's a Wonderful World"
"It's a Small World"
"They All Laughed"
"Christopher Columbus"
4:30
52:45
18. PRESIDENT'S REMARKS
2:00
54:45
19. CLOSING CREDITS & FUNDER
1:45
56:30
PROGRAM- include
Dickttyman, music Director
& marine Band
IN PERFORMANCE #602
9/6/89
LYNN REDGRAVE
WELCOMING REMARKS
Hello, and welcome to the White House!
You can have no idea how thrilling it is for
me to be the one to say those words:
"welcome to the White House!" How did a
little girl from London happen to stand in the
Chief Executive's Mansion in the United
States, the symbol of American government,
and extend a welcome to this audience --
and to millions of viewers on public
television all over the country?
Ah, that is the secret of our program today,
"In Performance at the White House". And it's
also the secret of what makes this country
so strong and energetic! What is it? Well,
it's just that we've all come from somewhere
else. I only happen to have come a little
later. Quite recently, in fact! And we all
took a chance, a bit of a leap into the
unknown, by coming here. For some of us,
it was a great-grandfather who took the
chance, and found a better life. For me,
well, me mum stood at the door and said"
"all right, love, if that's what you really
want, go on, then!"
(MORE)
IN PERFORMANCE #602
LYNN REDGRAVE (CONT'D)
WELCOME (CONT'D)
So, in the spirit of Columbus Day, which
remembers one of the greatest leapers' and
risk-takers of all times, we present a
program of song and story in celebration
of venturing out there to find
to find
something better! And another thing -- you
remember the expression "melting pot"? It
was supposed to be what your great-grandad
tumbled happily into here. Except no one
really felt that way. People fitted in,
but they didn't melt in. And so what we
have today is more of a mosaic, with all the
pieces and designs quite visible.
Our performers, for example. Absolutely
unique talents. Americans, yes, and with
other cultures in the background, way back,
or way, way back!
Teresa Stratas, international concert and
opera star, Grammy Award winner, prima donna
of many opera film and television shows --
and, incidentally, Canadian-born of Greek
immigrant parents.
The all-star quartet of jazz musicians, Benny
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Carter, Milt Hinton, Dick Hyman and Mel Lewis.
They've played with all the great ones from
(MORE)
IN PERFORMANCE #602
9/6/89
LYNN REDGRAVE, (CONT'D)
WELCOME (CONT'D)
Cab Calloway to Benny Goodman -- you see
what a Brit knows about American jazz? --
and, as we say in London, you ain't heard
nothin' yet!
F. Murray Abraham, leading off-Broadway actor,
co-star last season of Mike Nichols'
production of "Waiting for Godot", and
Oscar winner for his performance in the
film "Amadeus".
And if that weren't enough, we are especially
pleased to be able to present one of the top
we was and
performers in his field, Mr. Roy Clark,
(COPY TO COME)
I'm part of that mosaic, too. My husband
is an American -- from one Danish and one
English parent. And my small claim to fame
is that two of my children and I were the
first -- the very first -- immigrants to
be admitted in the bicentennial year. Our
appointment was 9 AM on January 1, 1976.
And here we are!
And now, as an example of how the urge to get
up and go can be overpowering, a ditty. It's
my story, exactly, for as you might guess, I
came to America because that's where
Broadway is. Mr. Hyman, if you please.
IN PERFORMANCE #602
9/6/89
LYNN REDGRAVE
INTRO JAZZ QUARTET
If you have any doubts, that song was called
"I've Gotta Get Back to New York", and it was
written by the great team of Rodgers & Hart --
each man, incidentally, the son or grandson
of immigrants.
X
"Jazz" -- origin of word unknown, is always
cited as a uniquely American musical form.
Yes, I can see it in my grade school history
book now: "uniquely American". Well,
American it may be, but from where? Here we
do know something. Jazz grew from African
roots as they took hold here and became field
songs, work songs, and most importantly, the
spiritual. The jazz spirit was expressed as
ragtime and a dozen other forms, and then
jumped back across the Atlantic to become
well known all over Europe, too.
And now, as promised, our jazz quartet:
Benny Carter, Milt Hinton, Mel Lewis, and
our music director, Dick Hyman.
IN PERFORMANCE #602
9/6/89
DICK HYMAN
INTRO TO
(COPY TO COME)
MILT HINTON
IN PERFORMANCE #602
9/6/89
F. MURRAY ABRAHAM
SELF-INTRO
I'm F. Murray Abraham and I'd like to say
something about work. Yes, work. One of
the qualities of American life that attracted
SO many immigrants was the availability of
work, and the appreciation accorded hard
work, work well done, and the rewards of
work. You hear it over and over in our songs
and stories. Here's an example. It's one
of many first-person narratives collected
by sociologists over the years as they
examine the immigrant experience and the
mosaic of America. This reminiscence came
from a man who came here from Czechoslovakia.
He was thinking back on a long life as a
coal miner.
MO Diec
IN PERFORMANCE #602
F. MURRAY ABRAHAM
READS FROM
I came in February 1912 and I start work in the
"AMERICAN MOSAIC"
mine, and in March I was seventeen years old.
GEORGE PALOCHEK
I helped the track man, laying tracks for the
wagons. Then I worked on cutting machine, drill
machine. Yeah, $2.15 for ten hours, and they
take seven cents off for lamp. You have to buy
your own tools too. I left the house at five
o'clock, I come home at five o'clock. I work
lots of Sundays. Those two dollars, big dollar
bills, so
I worked five years in the mine and then I was
twenty-two, I enlisted in the army. War broke
out April the seventh, so I enlist in May. I
said, "I live in this country, I'm going in the
army." Two years I was in the army, and I was
a corporal. War was over 1918, and they want me
re-enlist. "No," I said, "I think I go back
in the coal mine". When I come home from army
the mine was $7.50 instead of $2.15.
I was 24. I had one friend from the old country
and he said, "How about getting married? I know
a good girl". I never seen, her before, never
know her before. She look okay -- young kid,
seventeen years old. When we got married I
said, "Let's go home, because tomorrow work".
IN PERFORMANCE #602
F. MURRAY ABRAHAM, CONTINUED
PALOCHECK, CONTINUED
I don't want to miss work for a woman! It
worked out all right, I guess. Oh heck, fifty-
eight years since she hooked me!
My sons went in the mine too, but they quit.
All my boys were in World War II, and when they
came back, they didn't want it no more. They
saw how hard I worked.
I bought this property because it was only ten
minutes from the mine. I can see the mine from
the front, and hear the noise sometimes, you
know. Railroad noise and stuff, sometimes a
whistle blowing.
When I was sixty-five I went to work. Yeah,
I went to work on my birthday. And they wouldn'
give me no lamp. They said, "George, that's all
When you're sixty-five, that's finish". And I
stood on my head. That was on television,
clear to California -- sixty-five-year-old
standing on his head [laughs] Well that's it.
That's the law. No lamp. My shovel over there,
it's itching. It wants to go digging.
IN PERFORMANCE #602
9/6/89
TERESA STRATAS
SELF-INTRO
I'm Teresa Stratas. Opera has been a big
part of my life, and I've always been
amazed that opera is regarded by so many
Americans as elite, even remote. Maybe
it's because most of the famous operas are
in languages that many Americans don't speak.
Well I can't do anything about that! But
I can assure you that at the core of every
great opera aria is an emotion, a human
situation that we all know. Maybe it's two
people coming together in love, or parting in
sorrow, or swearing revenge. But it is
always something in us, not remote at all.
"O mio babbino caro", from Puccini's one-act
opera "Gianni Schicchi", is sung by a young
woman to her father, whom she believes is
dying.
IN PERFORMANCE #602
9/6/89
LYNN REDGRAVE
INTRO READING
That young woman in Puccini's opera was
asking, you might say pleading, in that aria
for her father's permission to leave home, to
start a new life with her man.
This next young woman, another of our first-
person narratives, is leaving home as well --
but she is not asking her mother, she's
teller her. As to what she is leaving home
for and what she finds
IN PERFORMANCE #602
LYNN REDGRAVE
READS FROM
I said to my mother, "Mamma, I'm going to
"AMERICAN MOSAIC"
America." She says, "I will not let you go to
SYLVIA BERNSTEIN
America. First of all, you're SO young. And
second of all, what are you going to do in
America? You don't have a trade." I come from
a family of ten children, and between all the
ten children was only two girls, the oldest and
the youngest, and that was me. I says, "Mamma,
if you won't let me go to America, I'll run
away. "
So I wrote to my brother, he should send me some
money, a ticket, I'll be glad to pay him back.
I was fourteen years old. At fourteen they woul
not let you in without parents. I said, "I'll
try to pass for sixteen."
The trip. .I'll tell you. My mother was afrai
a girl alone. My mother said to me, "Don't
talk to men, because if you talk to men you get
pregnant [laughs]. They sent me with an
English boat. We are watched when we come. An
agent takes over the refugee. I came here like
baggage. I went to Hamburg with the train,
and from Hamburg to Liverpool in a small boat.
Every time the agent waited, he put another
mark on my clothes, the next agent should know
who I am.
IN PERFORMANCE #602
LYNN REDGRAVE, CONTINUED
READS FROM
So I come on the boat and I can't speak
"AMERICAN MOSAIC"
English. It's sad--you don't understand
what they say, only by the faces. There was
SYLVIA BERNSTEIN CONTINUED
a Russian from America, so I could talk to him
a little. He says, "You want a cup of tea?
There is the chef. Go over and ask him for a
cup of tea." I says, "How do you ask in
English?" He says, "Say to the chef, 'Give me
a kiss'". And I didn't know. I went over to
the chef and I says, "Give me a kiss".
He was an elderly man and the English are
very polite, understanding. He looked at me
and I looked at him, and I knew something was
wrong
IN PERFORMANCE #602
9/6/89
TERESA STRATAS
TALKS RE
"I'm a Stranger Here Myself", by Kurt Weill.
KURT WEILL
A rather fitting song for this celebration,
wouldn't you say?
Weill, who wrote "Three Penny Opera",
"Knickerbocker Holiday", and much more,
was an immigrant if ever there were one.
He was chased out of his native Germany by a
regime that regarded his art as dangerous,
and he was glad to escape. He made America
his home, and we are richer for it. Here is
the title song from "Lost in the Stars",
an opera with its roots in Alan Paton's
famous novel about South Africa, "Cry the
Beloved Country".
IN PERFORMANCE #602
F. MURRAY ABRAHAM
READS FROM "AMERICAN MOSAIC" We came by ship. We came to Ellis Island.
JOHN DAROUBIAN
What are they going to do to us on Ellis Island?
Many, many of our people were sent back. Some
people were sent back because they couldn't
speak right; some because they were sick.
There was always something. I'm worrying,
"Will this thing work? What are we going to
(COLLAGE #1)
do? Will I get in? Will I get a job? Can I
work?"
Doctors came and examined us and so on. Then
finally we got in. Our relatives came and
got us.
After that begins the New York life. It was
funny. As I say, I arrived Friday and the
first thing I asked my cousins was, "Where is
the school?"
IN PERFORMANCE #602
LYNN REDGRAVE
READS FROM
It was 1906. I was six years old and we were
"AMERICAN MOSAIC"
on a train with some other immigrants going
SONIA WALINSKY
from New York to Chicago. I had learned a littl
English before we left home, and I remember
when people on the train spoke to me in
Russian I said, "Speak only English. I am an
Americanka."
(COLLAGE #2)
My brother and I were entered in school in
Chicago right away. And my brother, who was
ten, was surprised to see me on the stage of
the auditorium of the school the first Friday
we were there. There was a program, and
different children were supposed to do
different things, and I was supposed to wave
the American flag. I was véry proud. I
waved it and waved it and waved it with all
my might. I thought I was really an
Americanka then.
IN PERFORMANCE #602
F. MURRAY ABRAHAM
READS FROM
There was no work in Glasgow -- seven
"AMERICAN MOSAIC"
shipyards and they was all shut down. I
THOMAS NEIL
said I'm going to America where a man can
make a living. I came out on the Skandia,
and I went through Ellis Island and the
(COLLAGE #3)
immigration man says, "Where you from?"
and I says, "Glasgow", and he says, "What
state is that in?" and I answered, "It's in
a hell of a state," and he let me in.
IN PERFORMANCE #602
LYNN REDGRAVE
READS FROM
I'll never forget that moment when I had to
"AMERICAN MOSAIC"
leave and the train went away. My family,
ZOSIA KAMINSKY
everybody was there. My mother, my father,
sisters, brothers, little nephews, some
friends. And I remember my mother made me a
(COLLAGE #4)
little pillow, so I'll be able to lay down on
the train on the bench.
Of course I was very anxious to go, to see the
world. My husband's taking me to see America
and to see the whole world. Everybody was
crying. I couldn't understand why they're
crying. When the train started moving, then
I was crying, too. My mother, my father,
my sisters and brothers, all crying.
[BURSTS INTO TEARS]
IN_PERFORMANCE #602
rev. 9/6/89
FINALE, (CONT'D)
REDGRAVE AND STRATAS
ABRAHAM, MALE SINGER, HYMAN
It's a world of laughter,
It's a small world after all,
A world of tears,
It's a world of hope,
It's a small world after all,
And a world of fears.
There's so much that we share
That it's time we're aware
It's a small, small, world!
It's a small world after all!
ORCHESTRA
MUSIC
ALL SING
They all laughed at Christopher Columbus,
When he said the world was round.
They all laughed when Edison recorded sound!
They all said we never could be happy,
They laughed at us and how!
MURRAY ABRAHAM (SPOKEN)
But ho! Ho! Ho!
ALL (SUNG)
Who's got the last laugh!
LYNN REDGRAVE (SPOKEN)
Ho! Ho! Ho!
ALL (SUNG)
Who's got the last laugh!
MALE SINGER (SPOKEN)
Ho! Ho! Ho!
ALL (SUNG)
Who's got the last laugh now!
MILT HINTON ON BASS
MUSIC
BENNY CARTER ON SAX
ALL
Columbus, Columbus,
Who's got the last laugh now!
DICK HYMAN (PIANO)
(Ding, ding, ding)
IN PERFORMANCE #602
rev. 9/6/89
FINALE
MILT HINTON
BASS SOLO
BENNY CARTER
SAX LICKS
ALL: (SINGING IN
WHISPERING STYLE)
Mister Christopher Columbus!
He used rhythm as a compass.
When his men began a rumpus,
Up spoke Christopher Columbus:
LYNN REDGRAVE SINGS
I'm sitting on top of the world,
Just rolling along, just rolling along.
We're quitting the blues of the world,
Just singing a song, just singing a song.
ALL: SING
Mister Christopher Columbus!
MALE SINGER
It's a wonderful world,
I'm just walking on air.
Talk of heaven and earth,
I've got more than my share.
Happy all day through,
It's a wonderful world,
TERESA STRATAS SINGS
It's a great
big
wonderful world we live in
When you're in love you're a master
of all you survey,
You're a gay Santa Claus!
You've a kingdom, power and glory,
The old, old, oldest of stories
Is new, true,
You've built your Rome in just one
day
(MORE)
IN PERFORMANCE #602
F. MURRAY ABRAHAM
READS FROM
I was born in France, on the border, Italy --
"AMERICAN MOSAIC"
Menton. I lived in that place, the French
CESAR LE CLAIR
Riviera, the Italian Riviera. You got lots
of tourists, the beautiful hotels, the
restaurants.
(COLLAGE #7)
After the war I got a job in a bar, then in
hotel, and then on ship. So I meet new
maitre d', all new people, but friendly. No
different from hotel--just hotel is on ground
and this is hotel on water. I see now the new
passenger, new faces -- one girl, very nice,
very sympathique. I tried to talk a little
bit, to make a little joke. I make friendly
with this girl. This girl is name Nellie
O'Brien- Irish girl, American Irish. The
cruise finish. I say, "I'd like to see you
more. Give me the number of the telephone
and where you live."
Cesar in love with this girl. When I come
back I said, "I think Cesar in love with you."
And her parents said, "Cesar, that's nice
because Nellie, she more in love than you
think." So everything go nice and smooth md
now Cesar call this girl fiancee. So I
belong to O'Brien family now.
We married with the tuxedo -- beautiful,
IN PERFORMANCE #602
F. MURRAY ABRAHAM (CONT'D)
READS FROM
tremendous. Now we le rve the altar, walk out
"AMERICAN MOSAIC"
thorugh the big door and the chapel. All the
CESAR LE CLAIR (CONT'D)
people now very happy. Cesar no can stand.
There started a little tear in my eyes, but
I said, "This just from my happiness."
You marry, you make love, and one day you get
a beautiful surprise. My wife say, "Cesar,
I'm pregnant." Can you imagine how that make
me feel happy? You were just in a room by
yourself with this nice girl -- now the family
coming, now three people. You feel more happy.
You leave in the morning with happy, and you
come back late in the nighttime for more
happy, to see all the family home.
Now is my second life here, my second home,
my second everything. Starting all over, but
more better and better. Because I'm married,
I'm happy. I like my work. I love this girl.
I love this country. This is my second life.
IN PERFORMANCE #602
rev. 9/6/89
FINALE (CONT'D)
MURRAY ABRAHAM (SPEAKING)
I see trees of green, red roses, too,
(WITH CARTER SUPPLYING
I see them bloom, for me and you,
MELODY LINE)
And I think to myself,
What a wonderful world!
ABRAHAM SINGING
I see skies of blue and clouds of white,
The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night,
And I think to myself,
What a wonderful world!
LYNN REDGRAVE SINGS
The colors of the rainbow, so pretty in the sky
Are also on the faces of people going by.
MALE SINGER
I see friends shaking hands,
Saying, "How do you do?"
They're really saying.
TERESA STRATAS SINGS
What the world needs now is love, sweet love,
It's the only thing that there's just too
little of.
ORCHESTRA INTERLUDE
MUSIC
REDGRAVE AND STRATAS
It's a world of laughter, a world of tears,
It's a world of hopes and a world of fears.
There's so much that we share,
That it's time we're aware
It's a small world after all!
MALE SINGER & ABRAHAM
It's a small world after all,
It's a small world after all,
It's a small world after all,
It's a small, small, world!
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IN PERFORMANCE #602
F. MURRAY ABRAHAM
READS FROM
My two daughters say to me, "I'm American."
"AMERICAN MOSAIC"
Yes, it's wonderful, you are an American.
IBRAHIM HASSAN
But you have an origin and you should be
proud of your origin and the contribution
that your origin brought to this United States.
This tree, this almond tree--the roots were
(COLLAGE #5)
almond. Yours was apple, and others were
orange roots. Now we have these three, four
trees in this garden. Each one is different.
Each one is useful. Each one is delicious.
And that's the way I feel about the
United States. It's a beautiful garden
composed of so many wonderful and
delicious fruit trees.
IN. PERFORMANCE #602
rev. 9/6/89
LYNN REDGRAVE
READS FROM
I was undecided, because the same week on
"AMERICAN MOSAIC"
TV I saw a lot of riots in Newark, and that
CLAUDINE RENAUD
scared me because I am black. It was 1966,
I think. I said, "Oh my, I'm not going
to come to this country. To see the people
fighting like that, it will kill me"
But I ask my cousin--I ask her advice if
(COLLAGE #6)
I can come, and she tell me I can come,
because the colored people mix with the
white people. I don't have to be afraid,
and anyway, I have to try.
THE WHITE HOUSE
wASHInGTon
SEPTEMBER 8, 1989
7064
TO:
SPEECHWRITERS
157
FM:
CATHY FENTON, SOCIAL OFFICE
THROUGH:
LAURIE FIRESTONE,
RE:
REMARKS FOR THE PRESIDENT FOR
SEPT. 17 PBS CONCERT/EAST ROOM
Attached are the draft remarks for the
President to make at the end of the Sept. 1
concert in the East Room. Please edit
them and place them on cards for the
President. (We would appreciate a draft
copy of your edit.) The teleprompter
will be available for the President
again, however the distance from the stage
will be greater than last time. Regard-
less of whether he decides to use the
prompter, we will have his remarks on
it.
Many thanks.
IN PERFORMANCE #602
PRESIDENT BUSH -- CLOSING REMARKS
Thank you Miss Redgrave and the whole cast for a wonderful concert.
Just for the record, the Bush family came to this country from
England. I feel I'm in good company.
Columbus, incidentally, may not have wanted to come to a New World,
or may not have recognized it as a new world, but he definitely
started something. He had only a small crew with him; that first
beach head was less than a hundred men -- but the word got around.
He took a chance -- in the fifteenth century it was a big chance, the
chance you'd never come back -- and many people who sailed out never
did come back. But for five centuries now people all over the world
have risked much and often given up everything, to come here, to start
over, to improve their lives.
Why? Because that is the nature of human beings, to strive for some-
thing better. There is, if I may say so, a "new world" in each of us,
wanting to be explored and recognized. We are individuals, yes, but.
we know we live in society, and we want to get together to make a bette
society, the sort where that new world can flourish.
The responsibility for that society is therefore personal. We each
bear it. No one is exempt or out of the mainstream. That American
mosaic in which we each have a place depends for its strength and
integrity on each of us. The country will always have problems to be
solved. It is not all right to look the other way. The house we live
needs the attention of all of us. So it is not all right to be carried
by the system without contributing, ot to drag on it figuring that
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IN PERFORMANCE #602
PRESIDENT'S CLOSING REMARKS (CONT'D)
someone else will pay the bills or take care of things. With
each of us, accountability starts with the person.
Again, thank you all for a wonderful evening, and God bless you.