After a seven-week tour of the United States, Canada and Mexico, in which it played 32 concerts in 25 communities to audiences totaling 150,000 music lovers, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra left by air today for a three-week tour of Japan and India.
Samuel Rubin, president of the America-Israel Cultural Foundation which, with the J. M. Kaplan fund, sponsored the American tour, hailed the orchestra. He said the series of concerts “was highly successful, in both the critical reaction and public acclaim achieved.” The results, he said, “more that justified the $100,000 investment made by the Foundation in bringing the orchestra to this country as a part of its continuing program of cultural exchange between the United States and Israel.” The Foundation, he said, is “dedicated to the concept that cultural exchange between the nations of the world is one of the newest and best diplomatic weapons in the world struggle for peace.”
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