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The original documents are located in Box 10, folder "7/2/76 - Wolf Trap Award to
Yehudi Menuhin" of the Sheila Weidenfeld Files at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential
Library.
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Shila
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
MRS. FORD
EVENT:
Presentation of the first Wolf Trap Award to
Yehudi Menuhin
GROUP:
Wolf Trap Foundation
DATE:
Friday, July 2, 1976
TIME:
4:00 p.m.
PLACE:
East Garden or Diplomatic Reception Room
(Depending upon weather)
BACKGROUND: As Honorary Chairman of Wolf Trap you will present to
Yehudi Menuhin the first annual Wolf Trap Award for his
'involvements and efforts in building deeper, life-
meaning to countless through his musicianship and his
great interest in providing music education to young
people.' (A copy is attached.) Yehudi Menuhin is also
in Washington to participate in the gala Wolf Trap
Bicentennial evening Saturday night, July 3rd.
GUESTS:
Mr. and Mrs. Yehudi Menuhin
Honoree
Mrs. Catherine Shouse
Founder of Wolf Trap
Secretary J. William Middendorf
Chairman of the Board of Wolf Trap
Miss Carol Harford
Acting President of the Wolf Trap Foundation
Miss Claire St. Jacques
Director of Wolf Trap Park
Andre Kostelanetz
9:00 -Tour
Musician and Wolf Trap guest - Hay Adams
Miss Carol Boots
Mr. Kostelanetz' friend
Digitized from Box 10 of the Sheila Weidenfeld Files at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
- 2 -
SEQUENCE:
4 4:00 p.m.
-When your guests have assembled,
Susan Porter will escort you to the
Diplomatic Reception Room or East Garden
to greet your 8 guests.
4:05 p.m.
-Simple presentation of the Wolf Trap
Award to Yehudi Menuhin.
4:08 p.m.
-Photographs.
-At your invitation, your guests will
join you for refreshments.
4:25 p.m.
-At the conclusion, return to family
quarters.
susan porter
June 30, 1976
Date Issued 6/30/76
Sheila
By
Revised
FACT SHEET
Mrs. Ford's Office
Event
Photo/Award Presentation
Group
Wolf Trap Foundation
DATE/TIME Friday, July 2, 1976
4:00 p.m.
Contact
Mrs. Shouse
Phone 938-7711
Number of guests: Total
8
Women
X
Men
X
Children
Place
East Garden or Diplomatic Reception Room
Principals involved
Mrs. Ford
Participation by Principal Present Award/photo(Receiving line)
Remarks required
Yes, but very simple
Background
The Wolf Trap Foundation hopes to make the Wolf Trap Award
an annual occasion. The first Award will be given to
Yehudi Menuhin. Mrs. Ford is Honorary Chairman of Wolf
Trap and will
REQUIREMENTS present the Award.
Social:
Guest list
Mrs. Shouse to S. Porter
Invitations
Programs
Menus
Refreshments Iced tea and simple eakes
Entertainment
Decorations/flowers Normal for Diplomatic Reception Room or
Music
bouquet for refreshments table if held outdoors.
Social Aides
No
Dress
Coat check
Other
Press:
Reporters
Yes
Photographers Yes
TV Crews
Yes
White House Photographers
Yes
Color
Mono.
Other
Technical
Support:
Microphones
No
PA Other Rooms
Recording
No
Lights
Transportation By car
ENTRANCE: SOUTH WEST GATE
Parking
South Drive
Housing
Other
(Risers,stage,platforms)
Project Co-ordinator
Susan Porter
Phone x2850
Site diagrams should be attached if technical support is heavy.
WOLF TRAP AWARD
July 2, 1976
IT'S A VERY SPECIAL HONOR FOR ME TO PRESENT
THE FIRST WOLF TRAP AWARD TO MR. MENUHIN.
HIS ARTISTRY DELIGHTS ALL WHO HAVE HEARD
HIM PLAY AND HIS SPECIAL CONCERN FOR MUSIC
EDUCATION ENDEARS HIM TO ALL MUSIC LOVERS.
AS HONORARY CHAIRMAN OF WOLF TRAP, I'M PLEASED
TO PRESENT THIS AWARD OF APPRECIATION TO YOU.
(PRESENTATION)
FORD GRANTO & LIBRARY
where where the producers let me do what
further cultural exchanges. "The more contacts between the
So fir-teuch wood-I've always had these things.
two countries, the better off we both will be."
ML
Kisco,
N.Y.
(h) Embassy of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics,
1706 18th Street. N.W. Ashington 9. D.C.
NSHIKOV, MIKHAIL
MENUHIN, YEHUDI
A RUSSIAN who smiles, a Soviet
"YEHUDI," the violinist-com-
Ambassador who is a diplomat, a
poser George Enesco once said
Communist with a keen sense of
to his great pupil, "you will soon be
public relations-this was the im-
17. Tomorrow or the day after you
pression that the "affable and out-
will be a man; what are your plans
going" Mikhail Alekseyevich
for the future?" And the young
Menshikov made on American
violinist is said to have replied, "I
newsmen and officials soon after
should like to remain a boy all my
his arrival early in 1958. Pro-
life To some critics the great
nounced a "charmer" by Wash-
charm of Menuhin's playing is a
ington observers, he presented a
kind of everlasting boyishness, an
striking contrast to his predeces-
ingenuousness toward his music
sors (Zaroubin, Panyushkin, Gro-
that makes even a Mendelssohn or
GRABY
myko, etc.) who were characteri-
Tschaikowsky concerto sound as
ized by such adjectives as "dour," "silent" and "hostile."
fresh as the first time it was played-or as fresh as, when he
The moment he and his fashionably dressed wife stepped
was five or six, Yehudi Menuhin met it for the first time.
off the Soviet TU-104 jet transport on 6 February 1958, he
"The regal bearing of a Heifetz gives a foretaste of victory,"
made it clear that he personified a revival of Moscow's to-
critic Bernard Gavoty wrote, "Enesco's presence is an as-
getherness theme, declaring that he "came as an ambassa-
surance of genius, and at one time a smile from Thibaud
dor of peace, friendship and cooperation." Skeptics were
was enough to bewitch the whole assembly. And now, here
soon plentiful but the new envoy protested that the smiles
comes Menuhin with charming shyness he immediately
were sincere, that the Russians today "are full of cheer and
captivates the audience by his modesty."
optimism and our faith in people. We believe that these
Born in New York 22 April 1916 and brought up in San
feelings are fully shared by others and of course the great
Francisco, Menuhin is the son of a Russian-born Hebrew
majority of Americans."
teacher. His parents were not particularly musical, but they
Menshikov was born in the village of Posevkino (roughly
recognized almost immediately their son's phenomenal gift
translated as "Cropville") on 21 November 1902. "Yes, I'm
-not too surprising, possibly, since he took his first lesson
from the peasantry," he admits. (Interviewers find him a
at the age of four and appeared as soloist with the San
ready talker.) "Thati is, my father was a peasant. I myself
Francisco Orchestra three years later-and nurtured it
never worked as a peasant. My father went to work on the
carefully. At 12 he began to study with Enesco (he later
railways when I was still small. And I became a manual
also studied with Adolph Busch) and thus began an inti-
laborer in the city of Borisoglebsk when I was 15." Skep-
mate relationship between pupil and master that was to in-
tical pundits have suggested that given his bearing and cos-
fluence Menuhin's career as long as Enesco lived (he died
mopolitan tastes, he must really have emerged from the
in 1955). Like his two pianist sisters, Hepzibah and Yaltah,
minor tsarist nobility. In 1922 he went to Moscow where
he was kept out of school and taught largely by his mother
he studied at the Plekhanov Institute, a school specializ-
and occasional tutors. Enesco was deeply romantic, and
ing in economics; worked part-time in a cold-storage plant.
Menuhin saying, "The artist alone
gives reality to the
In 1930, he entered the Ministry of Foreign Trade. Until
dreams of mankind," mirrors his teacher's: "he alone forges
1936, Menshikov was in London as one of the directors of
a genuine link between man and the universe."
Arkos, Ltd., a Soviet foreign trade organization. ("I had
In 1935 Menuhin made his first world tour, gave 110 con-
studied German at the Institute-so they sent me to Eng-
certs in 63 cities, and then retired for two years "to become
land.") During World War II, he helped direct unloading
a man." In 1938 he married Nola Nicholas, and had two
of allied convoys at Murmansk and Archangel. In 1943, he
children. His second marriage, to Diana Gould, took place
was sent to Atlantic City as the deputy chief of the Soviet
in 1947, and also produced two children. In the years since
delegation at the founding of U.N.R.R.A., was named by
his debut he has made it a point to play unfamiliar modern
its secretary general, Herbert Lehman to serve in Washing-
works as much as possible, and has introduced "lost" works
ton. in 1944 as one of the three deputy director generals. He
of Schuman, Mozart, Paganini. In 1937 he caused some-
stayed on until 1946, working in the agency's higher eche-
thing of a stir when he insisted on playing an encore when
lons. In June, 1946 he returned to Russia to become Deputy
he appeared with the New York Philharmonic, where it
Minister of Foreign Trade under the watchful eye of
simply "isn't done." Despite opprobrium from critics as
Anastas I. Mikoyan and was later named Minister. As a
well as the orchestra's management, he defended himself
protege of Mikoyan, he learned to deal astutely with for-
to his Carnegie Hall audience, saying sarcastically, "If
eigners, became alert to foreign points of view and was
Bach could realize what damage even two or three minutes
trained in the ways of shrewd horse-trading. Late in 1953,
of his music could do to the tradition of this great orches-
Menshikov was sent to India as Ambassador, a post he held
tra, I'm sure he'd be very sorry."
until his appointment to the United States in 1958. His wife,
(b) c/o Columbia Artists Management, 113 W. 57 St, New
Yevgenia Nikolayevna Menshikov is regarded as a valuable
York, N.Y. (h) Box 32, Alma, Calif.
asset in the Ambassador's appointed social rounds. They
have three sons, Stanislav, Genadii and Misha; a daughter,
MENZIES, ROBERT G.
Natasha; are fond of talking about their two grandchildren.
Menshikov drove home two points that he believed
NO PRIME Minister of Australia has held that post longer
would help improve Soviet-American relations: increased
than stately, brainy "Bob" Menzies. He has been in the
trade and more cultural exchanges. "Economic relations
forefront among Commonwealth heads of state, and at
between countries are basic. If economic relations improve,
home he has commanded the largest majority in the Aus-
then other relations will also improve." He pledged to help
tralian House of Representatives ever held by any of his
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istinguished American, citizen of the world,
Wolf Trap honors itself in honoring you in
presenting its first Award of Appreciation for your
involvements and efforts in building deeper, life-meaning
to countless through your musicianship and your great
interest in providing music education to young people.
The depth of your activities for mankind and the in-
fluence you have had on music appreciation and the
development of young talent is felt throughout many countries.
You have captured the love of people around the world by
your unselfish, dynamic leadership. Wolf Trap thanks you.
Presented by the
Walf Trap Foundation
July 4, 1976
FORD 07VN29 LIBRARY 29
J. T.WHILLIAM MIODENDORF Middaudor
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CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD
CHAIRMAN, EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
MRS. FORD
EVENT:
Presentation of the first Wolf Trap Award to
Yehudi Menuhin
GROUP:
Wolf Trap Foundation
DATE:
Friday, July 2, 1976
TIME:
4:00 p.m.
PLACE:
East Garden or Diplomatic Reception Room
(Depending upon weather)
BACKGROUND: As Honorary Chairman of Wolf Trap you will present to
Yehudi Menuhin the first annual Wolf Trap Award for his
'involvements and efforts in building deeper, life-
meaning to countless through his musicianship and his
great interest in providing music education to young
people.' (A copy is attached.) Yehudi Menuhin is also
in Washington to participate in the gala Wolf Trap
Bicentennial evening Saturday night, July 3rd.
GUESTS:
Mr. and Mrs. Yehudi Menuhin
Honoree
Mrs. Catherine Shouse
Founder of Wolf Trap
Secretary J. William Middendorf
Chairman of the Board of Wolf Trap
Miss Carol Harford
Acting President of the Wolf Trap Foundation
Miss Claire St. Jacques
Director of Wolf Trap Park
Andre Kostelanetz
Musician and Wolf Trap guest
Miss Carol Boots
Mr. Kostelanetz' friend
- 2 -
SEQUENCE:
4:00 p.m.
-When your guests have assembled,
Susan Porter will escort you to the
Diplomatic Reception Room or East Garden
to greet your 8 guests.
4:05 p.m.
-Simple presentation of the Wolf Trap
Award to Yehudi Menuhin.
4:08 p.m.
-Photographs.
-At your invitation, your guests will
join you for refreshments.
4:25 p.m.
-At the conclusion, return to family
quarters.
susan porter
June 30, 1976
FORD LIBRARY
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ward
to
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stinguished American, citizen of the world,
Wolf Trap honors itself in honoring you in
presenting its first Award of Appreciation for your
involvements and efforts in building deeper, life-maining
to countless through your musicianship and your great
interest in providing music education to young people.
she depth of your activities for mankind and the in-
fluence you have had on music appreciation and the
development of young talent is felt throughout many countries.
You have captured the love of people around the world by
your unselfish, dynamic leadership. Wolf Trap thanks you.
Presented by the
Walf Trap Foundation
FORD of DEPAILS LIBRARY
July 4, 1976
Milliam J.WILLIAM MIODENDORF Middendor
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CHAIRMAN of THE BOARD
CHAIRMAN, EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
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Thursday, July 1. 1976
THE WHITE HOUSE
OFFICE 07 THE PRESS SECRETARY TO MRS. FORD
Mrs. Ford will present the first annual Wolf Trap Award to
violinist Yehudi Menuhin in a 4 PM ceremony in the Diplomatic
Reception room or the East Garden, depending on the weather.
Friday, July 2, 1976.
Mrs. Ford is honorary chairman of Wolf Trap. The presentation
of the award to the 70-year-old musician is in recognition
of his influence on music appreciation and interest in music
education.
Others attending the ceremony will be Mrs. Menuhin, top
officials of Wolf Trap and Andre Kostelanetz.
# # #
Press pick-up in West Lobby at 3:45 PM
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istinguished American, citizen of the world,
Wolf Trap honors itself in honoring you in
presenting its first Award of Appreciation for your
involvements and efforts in building deeper, life-meaning
to countless through your musicianship and your great
interest in providing music education to young people.
The III depth of your activities for mankind and the in-
fluence you have had on music appreciation and the
development of young talent is felt throughout many countries.
You have captured the love of people around the world by
your unselfish, dynamic leadership. Wolf Trap thanks you.
Presented by the
Walf Trap Foundation
FORD & GREATO LIBRARY
July 4, 1976
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WASHINGTON (UPI) -- BETTY FORD WILL PRESENT THE FIRST ANNUAL WOLF
RAP AWARD TO VIOLINIST YEHUDI MENUHIN AT THE WHITE HOUSE TOMORROW
TERNON.
MRS. FORD IS HONORARY CHAIRMAN OF WOLF TRAP. OTHERS ATTENDING THE
REMONY WILL BE MRS. MENUHIN, TOP OFFCIALS OF WOLF TRAP AND
NDUCTOR ANDRE KOSTELANETZ.
UPI 07-01 07:27 PED
SERAD - FORD LIBRARY
THE WASHINGTON POST
Saturday, July 3, 1976
B3
LIBRARY
Personalities
Crown Prince Harald of Norway
and his Crown Princess Sonja, drop-
bed off their country's Bicentennial
sent at the White House yesterday.
They handed President Ford a check
for $200,000, to start a health and
ports center for the handicapped in
Minnesota, to be called the Vinland
National Center.
Ford has sent a present of a brace-
et to Sandy Snyder, a Bowling Green
state University student he thought
as shooting him June 7, when a
lashbulb on her camera went off
ounding like a gun. Secret Service
gents and members of the crowd
unged at her, and the President's let-
er said he hoped the incident would
ave a happy ending in her memories.
Violinist Yehudi Menuhin was
ken to the White House by Wolf
cap founder Catherine Filene
house yesterday. Menuhin was sus-
ised by being presented with the
rst Wolf Trap Award by Mrs. Ford.
had an idea it would be something
easant rather than unpleasant-I
lew it wasn't likely to be a slap in
e face," he said,
The award, on which appears a 1969
notograph of Menuhin and Shouse at
olf Trap's cabin during the time the
olinist was helping with the plans
r the theater, was, Shouse said,
probably one of 1,057 medals you
ve." Menuhin replied that it was "a
ecious one" nevertheless.
He and Andre Kostelanetz, who also
is present at the ceremony, will per-
rm at Wolf Trap tonight, in a piece
Crown Princess Sonja and
nmissioned by Menuhin from Alan
Prince Harald, above,
vahness.
at a Norwegian Embassy
Bing Crosby and Bob Hope seem to
starring in a royal extravaganza
reception with Vice President
led "The Road to Glory" this week.
and Mrs. Rockefeller:
Queen Elizabeth II, who made Hope