Classical Music Month, 1994

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Part VI

The President

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Proclamation 6716--
Classical Music Month, 1994

Federal Register
Vol. 59, No. 163
Wednesday, August 24, 1994

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Title 3--
The President
Proclamation 6716 of August 22, 1994

Classical Music Month, 1994

By the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation

In the symphony halls of our great cities across
America, in the community centers of our small towns,
on radio and in recordings, a note is played that began
centuries ago and resounds to this day. At the heart of
classical music is continuity and tradition. What was
heard in a Vienna opera house was heard again in a
colonial theater in Charleston, South Carolina, was
echoed at the inauguration of President Lincoln, was
repeated in turn-of-the-century Chicago, and is played
again today by a range of musicians from the most
skilled of virtuosos to the youngest student struggling
with the complexities of the violin.

Classical music is a celebration of artistic
excellence. Great art endures through the ages, and in
the United States we have embraced that great music and
incorporated it into the American experience. Our best
art reflects our Nation's spirit--that mixture of
discipline and improvisation, the combination of strong
individual voices working together at the same time,
the bravado, the inventiveness, the dynamism of the
American character. Classical music plays in harmony
with that energy and spirit to become reinvigorated and
reinvented with each new orchestra or chamber group,
with every performance that rings out new and fresh.

This month we exalt the many talented composers,
conductors, and musicians who bring classical music to
our ears. These artists carry on a great tradition of
musical achievement, and we are proud of their
outstanding accomplishments. Whether in new American
works or in the masterpieces of the great composers of
old, music is a unifying force in our world, bringing
people together across vast cultural and geographical
divisions. Classical music speaks both to the mind and
to the heart, giving us something to think about as
well as to experience.

The Congress, by House Joint Resolution 239, has
designated September 1994 as ``Classical Music Month,''
and has authorized and requested the President to issue
a proclamation in observance of this month.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, WILLIAM J. CLINTON, President of the
United States of America, do hereby proclaim September
1994 as Classical Music Month. I urge all Americans to
observe this month with appropriate ceremonies and
activities.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
twenty-second day of August, in the year of our Lord
nineteen hundred and ninety-four, and of the
Independence of the United States of America the two
hundred and nineteenth.

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