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EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY-GENERAL

CABINET DU SECRETAIRE GENERAL Rm. S-3840A - Tel. (212) 963-5495 - FAX (212) 963-1185

26 March 1998

Dear Maestro Gamba,

As the Secretary-General is overseas on official travel, I write to thank you for your kind letter of 23 March 1998 with information on your Concert scheduled for 26 October 1998. It is wonderful to know of this performance.

I thank you for your positive response to my reference to the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR50) this year and the participation of many orchestras around the world in saluting Human Rights. We would be most pleased if you would refer to your Concert as a performance to support Human Rights and include in your programme an insert on this subject. (Copy attached from a recent performance in Geneva.)

I will convey your request for Patronage to the Secretary-General upon his return, as well as the recording of your historic Concert of 1979.

As I mentioned, Lord , , and Marta Istomin, all listed among your Board or Honorary Members, have expressed support and interest in the United Nations in recent months. In particular, Lord Menuhin is a long and dear friend of the Secretary-General.

Thank you and all good wishes.

'ours sincerely,

Gillian Martin Sorensen Assistant Secretary-General for External Relations

Maestro Piero Gamba President Symphonicum Europae 866 United Nations Plaza New York, NY 10017 iiZ JT.-IA. TT-iUi iT O taAci V Hii 002/002

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Board of Directors March 23, 1998 0 d 1 t^Harry Belafonte E. Blondal Bengtsson Piero Gamba His Excellency uu MAR 2 4 1998 1!) Gary Graff man Mr. Kofi Annan Jose Greco Secretary General of the United Nations EXECUTIVE OFFIC: United Nations OF TH£ SECRECY-GENERAL Carlton Sedgelev New York, NY 10017

Founding Members Dear Mr. Secretary General, Pablo Casals Victor De Sabata We take the liberty of presenting you with the recording of our "Gala Concert at Philip Newman Carnegie Hall", which illustrates eloquently the high aims of our Foundation: a Albert Schweitzer Andres Segovia greater spiritual fusion of man through the arts. Igor Stravinsky The album also contains the names of past and present personalities, great artists Honorary Members and heads of state alike, who actively support our goals, both as Honourary Members or with their High Patronage. Duchesse of Alba Christiaan Barnard Jorge Bolet On October 26, 1998, we shall perform anojher_great Gala Concert at Lincoln Placido Domingo Center, which will be even superior in range and importance from our previous Philippe Entremont one. It will be performed by an orchestra composed of over one hundred renowned Jose Ferrer musicians, exclusively forty Concert Masters and seventy Principals from fifty I^Eugene Istomin different nations with the adhesion of as many dignitaries. Byron Janis jpYehudi Menuhin The selected program will include Mascagni's Hymn of the Sun and Beethoven Zara Nelsova Symphony EX. The evening is billed as the "Millennium Gala Concert of the Luciano Pavarotti Nations". Jean-Pierre Rampal Due to the objectives of the Foundation, and to the extremely broad spectrum of Renata Tebaldi international participation in this most prestigious event, may we request the honour of your High Patronage, as Secretary General of the United Nations. Nicanor Zabaleta Such honour bestowed upon us would greatly inspire all the artists performing as well as the audience in attendance.

We sincerely thank you, Mr. Secretary General, for your kind attention to this matter and anxiously await your reply.

Respectfully yours,

Maestro Pieriero Garaha ^ President SUITE 587-866 UNITED NATIONS PLAZA. NEW YORK. N.Y. 10017. TEL (212) 955«T?0& FAX (212) 829-0327