Leon Botstein
Stanford Presidential Lecture Tuesday, April 26, 2011 | 7:00pm
Cubberley Auditorium Get Map
485 Lasuen Mall
Stanford, CA 94305
Restrictions: Free & Open To Public
About Leon Botstein
Leon Botstein has been president of Bard College since 1975. He received his B.A. degree with special honors in history from the University of Chicago and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in European history from Harvard. The author of Jefferson's Children: Education and the Promise of American Culture, he has been a pioneer in linking American higher education with public secondary schools. Dr. Botstein has been the music director of the American Symphony Orchestra since 1992 and was appointed the music director of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, the orchestra of the Israel Broadcast Authority, in 2003. He is the founder and an artistic director of the Bard Music Festival, now in its twenty-first year. A member of the American Philosophical Society, Dr. Botstein has received the Carnegie Corporation Academic Leadership Award, the Award for Distinguished Service to the Arts from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Harvard University's Centennial Award, and the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art.
About this Lecture Series
The Stanford Presidential and Endowed Lecture Series in the Humanities and Arts brings the most distinguished scholars, artists, and critics of our time to the Stanford University campus for lectures, seminars, panel discussions, and a variety of related interactions with faculty, students and the community at large.
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