Leon Botstein

The Global Search for Education: If Music Be the Food....

C. M. Rubin | Posted 09.25.2011

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C. M. Rubin

Let us speak of even greater things with the innovative educator and president of Bard College, Leon Botstein: a man who understands the juxtaposition of art and education better than any.

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The Global Search for Education: The Way Out of Poverty

C. M. Rubin | Posted 07.10.2011

Read More: Howard Gardner, Justin Chadwick, Oliver Litondo, Global Education, C. M. Rubin, Sir Ken Robinson, PISA Test, Pasi Sahlberg, Michael Fullan, The First Grader, Maruge, Leon Botstein, Win the Future, Education Reform, Education News
C. M. Rubin

American educators and policy makers are trying to figure out how we, as a highly developed nation, can improve our education systems so that America can stay at the top in a rapidly changing world.

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WATCH: Colbert Grills Bard College President Leon Botstein

Posted 05.25.2011

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Bard College President, American Symphony Orchestra Conductor, public intellectual and bow-tie aficionado Leon Botstein paid a visit to Stephen Colber...

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Apocalypse Wow -- "Berg and His World" at Bard SummerScape

Albert Imperato | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Franz Schmidt, Leon Botstein, Hudson Valley, Alban Berg, Bard College, American Symphony Orchestra, Annandale-on-Hudson, Spiegeltent, New York News
Albert Imperato

The Bard Music Festival now makes up the last two weekends of the seven-week SummerScape festival, and is SummerScape's centerpiece and guiding spirit.

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DIVERSE ART: Summerscape Festival

bloomberg.com | Zinta Lundborg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Leon Botstein, Glimmerglass, Caramoor, Joni Mitchell, Bellinis, Alec Baldwin, Train Crash, John Kelly, Der Spiegel, Summerscape Festival, Donizetti, Diva, Arts News

Head up the Hudson Valley to Bard College for Odon von Horvath's "Judgment Day." First seen in 1937 and not much since, the play shows a town ripped ...

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Susan Wadsworth: Almost 50 Years of Young Concert Artists Series

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jim Luce

Not many people can fulfill their passion - and build an institution - for fifty years. Susan Wadsworth can. The founder of the Young Concert Artist...

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Leon Botstein and the American Symphony Orchestra Perform the Music of Henry Cowell

Albert Imperato | Posted 05.25.2011

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Albert Imperato

It's Cowell's biography that pushes this concert into the realm of serious social importance. For four years he was imprisoned in San Quentin for homosexual relations with a consenting man.

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