CANADA
PRIME MINISTER - PREMIER MINISTRE

Few events in our lifetime have so deeply affected the minds and souls of men as the death of John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

I shall always consider myself privileged to have known this extraordinary man - to have felt the warmth of his personality; the stimulation of his intellect;; and to have seen the breadth of his vision. He is gone, but the world still mourns his passing.

Because music gives rare and special eloquence to grief of this poignancy and dimension, it is a source of considerable satisfaction to me that a Canadian composer, Oskar Morawetz, has in this work expressed so movingly the sorrow we all carry in our hearts.

L. B. Pearson

Ottawa
1965