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===Later years=== Casals appeared in the 1958 documentary film ''[[Windjammer (1958 film)|Windjammer]]''. In the 1960s, Casals gave many [[master class]]es throughout the world in places such as [[Gstaad]], [[Zermatt]], Tuscany, [[Berkeley, California|Berkeley]], and [[Marlboro, Vermont|Marlboro]]. Several of these master classes were televised. On 13 November 1961, he performed in the [[East Room]] at the White House by invitation of President [[John F. Kennedy|Kennedy]] at a dinner given in honor of the Governor of Puerto Rico, [[Luis Muรฑoz Marรญn]]. This performance was recorded and released as [[#R1961|an album]]. Casals was also a composer. Perhaps his most effective work is ''[[Sardana|La Sardana]]'', for an ensemble of cellos, which he composed in 1926. His oratorio ''El Pessebre'' was performed for the first time in [[Acapulco]], Mexico, on 17 December 1960. He also presented it to the United Nations during their anniversary in 1963. He was initiated as an honorary member of the Epsilon Iota chapter of [[Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia]] music fraternity at [[Florida State University]] in 1963.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sinfonia.org/TheSinfonian/issues/2002-12-part1.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120528161849/http://www.sinfonia.org/TheSinfonian/issues/2002-12-part1.pdf |archive-date=28 May 2012 |url-status=live|title=''The Sinfonian'' December 2002}}</ref> He was later awarded the fraternity's [[Charles E. Lutton Man of Music Award]] in 1973. One of his last compositions was the "Hymn of the United Nations".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.un.org/geninfo/faq/factsheets/hymn.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060624005037/http://www.un.org/geninfo/faq/factsheets/hymn.pdf |archive-date=24 June 2006 |url-status=live|title=United Nations โ Fact Sheet # 9: "Does the UN have a hymn or national anthem?"}}</ref> He conducted its first performance in a special concert at the United Nations on 24 October 1971, two months before his 95th birthday. On that day, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, [[U Thant]], awarded Casals the U.N. Peace Medal in recognition of his stance for peace, justice and freedom.<ref>Pau Casals Foundation, [http://www.paucasals.org/en/-PAU-CASALS-United-Nations-speech United Nations Peace Medal] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131023133952/http://www.paucasals.org/en/-PAU-CASALS-United-Nations-speech |date=23 October 2013 }}</ref> Casals accepted the medal and made his famous "[[I Am a Catalan]]" speech,<ref>{{YouTube|AKlkO3Tt3Kw|Video of Pablo Casals "I am a Catalan" speech, 1971}}</ref> where he stated that [[Catalonia]] had the first democratic [[Parliament of Catalonia|parliament]], long before England did. In 1973, invited by his friend [[Isaac Stern]], Casals arrived at Jerusalem to conduct the youth orchestra and the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra. The [[Jerusalem Music Center]] in [[Mishkenot Sha'ananim]] was inaugurated by Casals shortly before his death. <ref>Dudman, Helga (1982). ''Street People.'' The Jerusalem Post/Carta (1st ed.), Hippocrene Books (2nd ed.). pp. 21โ22. ({{ISBN|978-965-220-039-6}})</ref> The concert he conducted with the youth orchestra at the Jerusalem Khan Theater was the last concert he conducted.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://jerusalemsymphonyorchestra.wordpress.com/2013/07/01/%D7%94%D7%99%D7%A9%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%99-%D7%94%D7%9E%D7%90%D7%95%D7%9E%D7%A5-%D7%A4%D7%91%D7%9C%D7%95-%D7%A7%D7%96%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%A1-%D7%95%D7%94%D7%A1%D7%99%D7%9E%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%AA/|title=ืืืฉืจืืื ืืืืืืฅ โ ืคืืื ืงืืืืก ืืืกืืืคืื ืืช|date=1 July 2013}}</ref> Casals' memoirs were taken down by [[Albert E. Kahn]], and published as ''Joys and Sorrows: Pablo Casals, His Own Story'' (1970).
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