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5 unusual facts about Leon Botstein


Emmanuel Dongala

Bard President Leon Botstein, who has aided a number of refugee professors, offered him a job teaching chemistry at the American college.

Joan Peyser

Her biography of Bernstein was, according to Leon Botstein, the first attempt at a critical account of his life and work.

Raising of school leaving age

Leon Botstein is an advocate of reducing the minimum dropout age to below 16.

Siegfried Matthus

On January 25, 2009, Leon Botstein and the American Symphony Orchestra presented the New York premiere performance of Matthus's "Responso," a four-movement symphony written in 1977.

The Musical Quarterly

Since 1993 The Musical Quarterly has been edited by Leon Botstein, president of Bard College and principal conductor of the American Symphony Orchestra.


Nancy Maultsby

Max Bruch: Odysseus Jeffrey Kneebone, Nancy Maultsby, Camilla Nylund (soloists); NDR North German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus, Leon Botstein (conductor).


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