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	Education Update - Leon Botstein: The Maestro of Annandale
		Botstein's principle target is an institutional inertia that he believes has dampened teaching and intellectual ferment at many of the nation's leading universities.
		Despite his grand ideas for higher education, Botstein argues that "the influence of universities is wildly overrated." He notes the lack of historical correlation between the political attitudes of college faculty and the students that they have taught.
		Botstein readily acknowledges: "I'm sort of a composite of a variety of debts that I owe to many, many, many people....I would be nothing without the teachers who took an interest in me." By his own account, he ended up a college president by accident.
	www.educationupdate.com /archives/2004/jan04/issue/col_botstein.html (1453 words)

	FACULTY - Leon Botstein (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Leon Botstein has been music director of the American Symphony Orchestra (ASO) since 1992; in 2003 he was appointed music director of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, the orchestra of the Israel Broadcast Authority.
		Leon Botstein is also a prominent scholar of music history, the editor of The Musical Quarterly, and the author of numerous articles and books on such diverse topics as music, education, history, and culture.
		He is the recipient of the National Arts Club Gold Medal, the Austrian Cross of Honor from the Austrian Cultural Forum, the Centennial Medal of the Harvard Graduate School of the Arts and Science, and the Award for Distinguished Service to the Arts from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
	www.bard.edu /ci/interior/fac-LB.html (427 words)

	classical music - andante - leon botstein will quit guest conducting to focus on jerusalem symphony
		Leon Botstein says he will give up his international guest conducting engagements to concentrate on his new duties as music director of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra and his continuing obligations to institutions in the United States.
		Botstein, who was named to the position in Israel this week, told the Daily Freeman of Kingston, New York, that he will remain as president of Bard College in New York State and will continue to serve as music director and principal conductor of the American Symphony Orchestra.
		Botstein told the newspaper that he accepted the position in Jerusalem in part because "to me, as an American Jew, it's an important place." The conductor, known for adventurous programming, says that he hopes to reinvigorate the Jerusalem Symphony, which has recently suffered serious financial problems.
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=21502 (421 words)

	Pace University - School of Education - April
		Leon Botstein’s remarks reflected his familiar themes, which recount the failures of American education in relating learning to authentic situations, and the significant amounts of time wasted on non-essential tasks.
		Botstein formerly served as president of Franconia College, lecturer in history at Boston University and special assistant to the president of the New York City Board of Education.
		Leon Botstein is music director of the American Symphony Orchestra, as well as co-artistic director of the Bard Music Festival and artistic director of the American Russian Young Artists Orchestra.
	appserv.pace.edu /execute/page.cfm?doc_id=8399 (624 words)

	FORWARD : Arts & Letters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Botstein was hired, with the backing of the Jerusalem Symphony's musicians and Israeli cultural officials, to try to rescue the forgotten stepchild of Israeli orchestras after it had been all but abandoned by its main backer, the Israel Broadcasting Authority.
		Botstein was born in Zurich to Polish-Russian Jewish parents and raised in New York.
		Botstein's determination to enhance Bard's reputation as a performance center drove the development of the widely acclaimed new Richard B. Fisher Center, an on-campus theater and concert hall complex designed by the celebrity architect Frank Gehry.
	www.forward.com /issues/2003/03.12.26/arts3.html (1391 words)

	Chautauqua 2002 Lecture Platform > Leon Botstein (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Dr. Botstein formerly served as president of Franconia College, lecturer in history at Boston University, and special assistant to the president of the New York City Board of Education.
		He is past chairman of the Harper's Magazine Foundation and of the New York Council for the Humanities, a member of the National Advisory Committee for the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute, and a member of the board of the Central European University and of numerous other boards and professional associations.
		Leon Botstein is music director of the American Symphony Orchestra, as well as co-artistic director of the Bard Music Festival and artistic director of the American Russian Youth Orchestra.
	www.chautauqua-inst.org /Lectures/botstein.html (475 words)

	Untitled
		Professor Leon Botstein has charged that school is a waste of time from the onset of adolescence to graduation, producing only boredom and frustration.
		Leon Botstein, president of Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, says that teens should move on to higher education, vocational training, and national service or jobs instead of marking time in "boring" secondary school systems.
		Botstein are segregation by sex, and the culture of the "jock".
	www.suite101.com /print_article.cfm/499/29465 (697 words)

	American Symphony Orchestra - Leon Botstein, Music Director
		Botstein is the founder and Co-Artistic Director, and of a new winter concert series for the American Symphony Orchestra.
		Botstein was described by Gramophone as "compelling [while] the LSO fire on all cylinders." His next recording of Liszt's Dante Symphony and Tasso with the LSO will be released later this year.
		Leon Botstein studied violin with Roman Totenberg and conducting with James Yannatos, Richard Wernick, and Harold Farberman.
	www.americansymphony.org /about_us/music_director.cfm (465 words)

	The Chautauqua Institution > The Chautauquan Daily
		Botstein said that, unlike the people who had been speaking all week, he was not an expert, but a practitioner.
		Botstein said, "Not a single school system has ever ripped off the public as grotesquely as industry." No public school teacher has ever gotten rich on the job, he said.
		Botstein pointed out that 100 years ago, teenagers were caring for families, holding down jobs and contributed to the economy and to the welfare of their families.
	www.chautauqua-inst.org /daily_botstein.html (3157 words)

	Telarc International: Leon Botstein
		Leon Botstein is the Music Director of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra and of the American Symphony Orchestra in New York.
		Botstein and the American Symphony of Strauss’s Die Agyptische Helena with Deborah Voigt was released in June 2003.
		Leon Botstein has been president of Bard College in New York since 1975, and is also an active scholar of music and history.
	www.telarc.com /biography/bios.asp?aid=8&gsku=0642 (286 words)

	Like Stravinsky
		Leon Botstein, who wears a variety of hats (perhaps too many, all at the same time), is the most recent disciple on discs, although not to particular advantage in the major work—
		Botstein fares better with the Concert Overture of 1904-05, from the end of Szymanowski's Warsaw Conservatory studies—so Straussian it could have been a lesser work by the elder composer (whose concert music was turning to embers by then).
		Botstein adds two song cycles originally for voice and piano, both from the immediate Postwar-One period, whose Debussy-Ravel indebtedness is decorated with orientalisms: Four Songs of the Infatuated Muezzin, and the five-part Slopiewnie (translated "Wordsong" in the album notes).
	classicalcdreview.com /szy2.htm (590 words)

	classical music - andante - leon botstein named music director of struggling jerusalem symphony
		Leon Botstein has been named music director of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra (JSO), according to a press representative for the conductor.
		According to Botstein's representative, the conductor has met with Jerusalem Mayor Uri Lupolianski and Ehud Olmert, who as Minister of Trade and Industry oversees the Broadcast Authority, and received their commitment to continued funding for the JSO.
		Botstein is known as a polymath — he is a scholar and the president of Bard College, where he founded the Bard Music Festival — and for innovative, often multi-disciplinary programming.
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=21476 (376 words)

	The Christian Science Monitor \| csmonitor.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Leon Botstein shared the dazed horror of the rest of America when he first heard of the shootings at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., last month.
		Botstein worries that the passion teens naturally express is suppressed rather than nurtured in high school.
		Botstein would like to see 16-year-olds begin four-year or community colleges, enter vocational training, or try their hands in the working world.
	www.csmonitor.com /durable/1999/05/18/text/p15s1.html (1027 words)

	ARYO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Now in his seventh season with the ASO, Maestro Botstein continues to revolutionize concert repertoire with his championing of rare masterpieces and contemporary music, his innovative thematic programming, and his commitment to bringing great orchestral music to new and expanding generations of listeners.
		Leon Botstein received his undergraduate education from the University of Chicago and his doctoral degree from Harvard University.
		Botstein has been president of Bard College in New York, where he is also Leon Levy Professor in the Arts and Humanities.
	www.aryoonline.org /who/botstein.htm (295 words)

	Greg Sandow -- Schoenberg and Leon Botstein at the Bard Music Festival
		The festival— co-directed by Robert Martin (cellist and associate dean of Bard College) and by the formidable Leon Botstein (president of Bard, public-television commentator and music director of the American Symphony Orchestra) -- has dedicated itself, in each of its 10 years, to a single composer.
		Botstein, who was on the podium, is, at best, a gentleman amateur (despite the ideas, connections, and sheer force of character that get him conducting jobs).
		Botstein dazzled me, I’ll happily say, by programming these pieces, since their zany orchestration might have shed light on the equally wild scoring of the Variations.
	www.gregsandow.com /bard.htm (1437 words)

	Salon \| Second Thoughts: Totally wasted
		Leon Botstein, president of Bard College, is willing to make the charge.
		Here, says Botstein, "Young people learn how excruciatingly slow time passes." Many of them seem resigned to boredom, years of it, even in the midst of the continual change and fragmentation of their days.
		As Botstein points out, high school students are subjected to a daily diet of criticism and the potential for public failure almost every adult would dread.
	archive.salon.com /mwt/tisd/1998/03/04tisd.html (1114 words)

	Leon Botstein biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Leon Botstein (1946 -) has been the president of Bard College since 1975, and is generally credited with elevating the academic and cultural reputation of the college to its current standing.
		He is also the music director and principal conductor of the American Symphony Orchestra and the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, as well as a well-known advocate of progressive education.
		From 1970 to 1975 he served as the president of the now-defunct Franconia College, where he became the youngest college president in the history of the country.
	leon-botstein.biography.ms (132 words)

	The American School Foundation, A.C.
		Leon Botstein has been a leader and innovative thinker on the subject of education ever since he became the youngest college president in American history.
		Botstein is widely regarded as a dynamic Renaissance man and one of America's leading intellectuals.
		Dr. Botstein also is the editor of The Musical Quarterly and has published more than 100 articles and reviews in newspapers and journals on such diverse topics as music, education, history and culture.
	asf.edu.mx /enghtm/misc/bear_bulletin_files/bb_dec02/leonbotstein.html (420 words)

	American Symphony Orchestra: A Rare Evening With Enescu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Leon Botstein conducted four pieces on Friday: two from the turn of the last century, two from from the period surrounding World War II.
		Botstein's programs are chronically overloaded or whether they sound long by virtue of the performances.
		Botstein's enlightened proselytizing for neglected repertory backfires when the performances misrepresent the causes being championed.
	www.xcf.berkeley.edu /~akuo/nytimes.htm (620 words)

	Discussion on Mozart's "Don Giovanni" - iBerkshires.com - Home
		Leon Botstein, president of Bard College and Simon’s Rock College, is also music director and principal conductor of the American Symphony Orchestra.
		Leon Botstein is also the founder and co-artistic director of the Bard Music Festival, an annual series of events where the musical world of a single composer is explored.
		Botstein is a writer on music and history, and in 1996 received Harvard’s prestigious Centennial Medal for his scholarly work.
	www.iberkshires.com /story.php?story_id=16717 (678 words)

	After a long absence following a devastating fire, The Baffler (http://www
		Botstein comes across as a Renaissance Man. When he is not dictating to underlings like Skiff, he is out conducting symphony orchestras (albeit mediocrely) or writing think pieces on a variety of topics in the mass media.
		In a January 27, 1996 NY Times article, Botstein fawned over the deep-pocketed nabobs: "These are people who made their money by doing something new, not something old.
		For Botstein's purposes, this would be money well spent since Gehry's name has instant cachet, like a Rolex watch or a Prada handbag.
	www.columbia.edu /~lnp3/mydocs/culture/gehry.htm (1820 words)

	Bold Type: Leon Botstein
		Leon Botstein, president of Bard College and music director of the American Symphony Orchestra, does not believe that our best days are behind us.
		Leon Botstein delivers a thought-provoking discourse on the promise of American culture, education, and democracy.
		that discusses the intellectual uniformity that is pervasive among institutions of higher learning, as well as a short essay by Leon Botstein on what these schools must do in the next fifty years if they are to once again become the vibrant center of a flourishing society.
	www.randomhouse.com /boldtype/1197/botstein (148 words)

	New York Daily News - Entertainment - Aria of trouble: 'Jews & Vienna' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Botstein, the longtime president of Bard College who recently became music director of the Jerusalem Symphony, did a three-volume doctoral dissertation at Harvard on the social and cultural role of music in turn-of-20th-century Vienna.
		Botstein also was a scholarly consultant for "Vienna: Jews and the City of Music, 1870-1938," an exhibit at the Yeshiva University Museum, which also opens Sunday and runs through June 30.
		Botstein programmed Sulzer's setting of Biblical Psalms to illustrate how closely Jews identified with Austria - part of the melody is that of the Austrian national anthem.
	www.nydailynews.com /entertainment/story/161367p-141497c.html (321 words)

	deseretnews.com \| 3 classical releases stand out
		Leon Botstein is a meticulous conductor, yet one whose attention to detail isn't overshadowed by his innate musicality.
		Botstein's collaboration with the London Symphony Orchestra on this recording of Liszt's "Dante Symphony" and the tone poem "Tasso" is nothing less than superlative.
		The same can be said for "Tasso." This descriptive work is rich in emotional and expressive content, and Botstein captures the drama of the music with his insightful interpretation.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,595085431,00.html (700 words)

	Central Committee Update Fall 2002
		The administrators explained that they consider things such as student input in the form of SOTC form and EPC report, the enrollment of students in the courses offered, the diversity of courses that are offered, and the academic excellence and scholarship of the professor outside Bard.
		Leon Botstein informed us that almost 100% professors evaluated for tenure get good recommendations from faculty and Students.
		Both Leon and administrators assured the central committee that the student inputs are taken very seriously for tenure decisions and there have been instances where a faculty was given not tenure because of student input.
	student.bard.edu /studentgovt/fall2002update.htm (1207 words)

	Amazon.com: Gliere: Symphony No. 3, Op. 42 "Ilya Murometz": Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The work is programmatic and tells of the heroic deeds of a medieval knight-strongman, (translated as) "Il 'ya from the town of Murom." Given the orchestration--quadruple woodwinds, four trumpets, eight horns, four trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, two harps, celeste, and strings--he comes across as a combination of Superman, Batman, Robin Hood, and Wagner's Siegfried.
		Leon Botstein brings out great warmth in the London Symphony's string section, the flute bird-curlicues in the second movement are luscious, and, in general, his leadership has nice forward propulsion in a work that can easily sound bloated.
		Botstein's tempi in the first movement are often not even in the same universe as Gliere's - i.e.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00007GZAT?v=glance (2514 words)

	Bartok Concerto for Orchestra Botstein [SF]: Classical Reviews- November 2001 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In his interesting essay which accompanies this CD, Leon Botstein, who is perhaps better known as an academic than as a conductor, makes a good case for not overlighting the folk sections found in all of this music, at the expense of the lyricism and complexity of counterpoint which is fundamental to Bartók's compositional style.
		Botstein is, perhaps, better at portraying colour than he is passion, although the 'horror movie' style music Bartók composed for the fourth piece - shades of The Miraculous Mandarin here - is very well characterised.
		All well and good, but Botstein's admirable self-control prevents him from fully exploiting the myriad of brilliant effects Bartók calls for in his masterpiece the Concerto for Orchestra.
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2001/Nov01/Bartok_Concerto_Botstein.htm (673 words)

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