Leon Botstein

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Leon Botstein is affiliated with the following schools: Central European University, Bard College, University of Chicago, Harvard University

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According to Wikipedia, Leon Botstein is a Swiss-American conductor, educator, and scholar serving as the President of Bard College. Biography 1946–1975: Early life, education, and career Botstein was born in Zürich, Switzerland, in 1946. The son of Polish-Jewish physicians, Botstein immigrated to New York City at the age of two. Interested in music from an early age, he studied violin with Roman Totenberg and, during the summers, studied with faculty from the National Conservatory in Mexico City. At the age of sixteen, Botstein graduated from the High School of Music and Art in Manhattan, and earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Chicago in 1967, where he graduated with a degree in history. While an undergraduate, he was concertmaster and assistant conductor of the University orchestra and founded University of Chicago’s chamber orchestra. His music teachers at University of Chicago included composer Richard Wernick and the musicologists H. Colin Slim and Howard Mayer Brown. In 1967, after studying at Tanglewood, Botstein then went to Harvard University, where he studied history under David Landes, writing on musical life of Vienna in the 19th and early 20th centuries. At Harvard University, he was the assistant conductor of the Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra and conductor of the Doctors’ Orchestra of Boston. In 1969, while still a graduate student, Botstein was awarded a Sloan Foundation Fellowship and began work for New York City Mayor John V. Lindsay’s administration as special assistant to the president of the Board of Education of the City of New York. In 1970, at age 23, Botstein became the youngest college president in history after his appointment as president of the now-defunct Franconia College in New Hampshire. He was offered the position after meeting his future father-in-law, Oliver Lundquist, who was on the board of trustees. While there Botstein founded the White Mountain Music Festival, an offshoot of which is still operating today.

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Listening through Reading: Musical Literacy and the Concert Audience (1992) (128)
The Cultural Politics of Language and Music: Max Brod and Leoš Janáček (2003) (37)
Jefferson's Children: Education and The Promise of American Culture (1997) (32)
The future of conducting (2003) (21)
The Future of Music in America: The Challenge of the COVID-19 Pandemic (2019) (20)
Jewish Women and Their Salons: The Power of Conversation (2005) (19)
Brahms and Nineteenth-Century Painting (1990) (17)
The Future of the Orchestra (1996) (15)
Memory and Nostalgia as Music-Historical Categories (2000) (14)
Toward a History of Listening (1998) (12)
The Demise of Philosophical Listening: Haydn in the 19th Century (2012) (12)
Music in History: The Perils of Method in Reception History (2006) (10)
Mendelssohn and the Jews (1998) (9)
Time and Memory: Concert Life, Science, and Music in Brahms’s Vienna (2009) (7)
Bard High School Early College. (2003) (6)
Music and Ideology: Thoughts on Bruckner (1996) (6)
Education Reform in the Reagan Era: False Paths, Broken Promises. (1988) (6)
Vienna : Jews and the city of music 1870 - 1938 (2004) (6)
Realism transformed: Franz Schubert and Vienna (1997) (6)
The Aesthetics of Assimilation and Affirmation: Reconstructing the Career of Felix Mendelssohn (2012) (6)
Josef Frank, architect and designer : an alternative vision of the modern home (1996) (6)
Music of a century: museum culture and the politics of subsidy (2004) (6)
Schoenberg and the Audience: Modernism, Music, and Politics in the Twentieth Century (2012) (6)
Brahms and his audience: the later Viennese years 1875–1897 (1999) (6)
The Opera Revival (1994) (6)
The Training of Musicians (2000) (6)
The Jew as Pariah: Hannah Arendt's political philosophy (1983) (5)
Analysis and Criticism (2001) (5)
Old Masters: Jean Sibelius and Richard Strauss in the Twentieth Century (2011) (5)
The College Presidency: 1970–1990 (1990) (5)
Mendelssohn, Werner, and the Jews A Final Word (1999) (5)
Nine Proposals to Improve Our Schools. (1983) (5)
Music of Szymanowski (2000) (5)
German Jews and Wagner (2009) (4)
The Power of Conversation: Jewish Women and Their Salons (4)
The Children of the Lonely Crowd (1978) (4)
Rediscovering George Enescu (1997) (4)
After Fifty Years: Thoughts on Music and the End of World War II (1995) (4)
Freud on war and death: thoughts from a nuclear perspective (1984) (4)
Haydn Studies: The consequences of presumed innocence: the nineteenth-century reception of Joseph Haydn (1998) (4)
Songs Without Words: Thoughts on Music, Theology, and the Role of the Jewish Question in the Work of Felix Mendelssohn (1993) (4)
Hearing Is Seeing: Thoughts on the History of Music and the Imagination (1995) (4)
Max Weber and Music History (2010) (3)
Sound and structure in Beethoven's orchestral music (2000) (3)
History and Performance Practices (2005) (3)
Returning to a Different Philosophical Tradition (1998) (3)
Pfitzner and Musical Politics (2001) (3)
Wagner and Our Century (1987) (3)
Freud and Wittgenstein: Language and human nature. (2007) (3)
College Could Be Worth It (1976) (2)
The National, the Cosmopolitan, and the Jewish (2014) (2)
Wagner and Our Century: Pro and Contra Wagner . Thomas Mann, Allan Blunden. ; The Darker Side of Genius: Richard Wagner's Anti-Semitism . Jacob Katz. (1987) (2)
Art and the State: The Case of Music (2005) (2)
On Conductors, Composers, and Music Directors: Serge Koussevitzky in Retrospect (2002) (2)
History, Rhetoric, and the Self: Robert Schumann and Music Making in German-Speaking Europe, 1800-1860 (1994) (2)
A Brave New World (2001) (2)
A Mirror on Higher Education (1992) (2)
Whose Gustav Mahler? (2020) (2)
Mendelssohn as Jew: Revisiting Controversy on the Occasion of the Composer's 200th Birthday (2009) (2)
History and Max Reger (2004) (2)
The Future of a Tradition (1993) (2)
Oh, Grow Up (1999) (2)
Structuring Specialization as a Form of General Education. (1991) (2)
The Eye of the Needle: Music as History after the Age of Recording (2011) (2)
Pre-Modern Art of Vienna, 1848-1898 (1987) (2)
Music in Times of Economic Distress (2008) (2)
Liberating the Pariah (2009) (2)
The Echo of Sound: The Politics and Perils of “Cultural Appropriation” (2018) (2)
Reversing the Critical Tradition: Innovation, Modernity, and Ideology in the Work and Career of Antonín Dvořák (2012) (2)
Aesthetics and Ideology in the Fin-de-Siecle Mozart Revival (1993) (2)
Schenker the Regressive: Observations on the Historical Schenker (2002) (2)
Artur Schnabel and the Ideology of Interpretation (2001) (2)
A Mirror to the Nineteenth Century Reflections on Franz Liszt (2010) (2)
Music and Language (1993) (1)
Richard Wagner at Two Hundred (2012) (1)
Music, Technology, and the Public (1994) (1)
Reinventing Life and Career: The Perils of Emigration (2008) (1)
Recording and Reality: The Musical Subject (2012) (1)
Musings on the History of Performance in the Twentieth Century (1999) (1)
Music between Metaphysics and Politics (2000) (1)
An Unpublished Piece of Mahleriana (2002) (1)
The Marginalization of Music: The American Example (2013) (1)
On the Uses of the Concept of the Cosmopolitan (2017) (1)
Review: Disciplining Music: Musicology and Its Canons by Katherine Bergeron, Philip V. Bohlman (1994) (1)
Béla Bartók Fifty Years After (1995) (1)
Beyond the Conceits of the Avant-Garde: (2021) (1)
The consequences of presumed innocence: the nineteenth-century reception of Joseph Haydn 1 (2017) (1)
Subjects for Debate: Women and Patronage in Music Remembering Helen Huntington Hull (1893–1976) (1994) (1)
Wagner as Mendelssohn: reversing habits and reclaiming meaning in the performance of Mendelssohn's music for orchestra and chorus (2004) (1)
Collaboration, Principle, and Compromise: Negotiating the Links between Music and Politics (2014) (1)
Alban Berg and the Memory of Modernism (2010) (1)
The Future of High School: A Radical Proposal. (2001) (1)
A Curricular Strategy for Liberal Arts Education in Historical Perspective (1973) (1)
Rethinking the Twentieth Century (1999) (1)
Facing the Music: Scholarship and the Teaching of Music in the American University in the Era of Donald Trump (2017) (1)
The Future of Opera (2014) (1)
The Jewish Question in Music (2011) (1)
Some Thoughts on Curriculum and Change (1996) (1)
The Trouble with High School: The Key: Refocusing the Inquisitiveness and Energies of Adolescents on Learning. (2006) (1)
Preserving MemoryFelix Galimir in memoriam (1910–1999) (1999) (1)
Between Aesthetics and History (1989) (1)
Let Teenagers Try Adulthood (2008) (0)
Who is Listening? Who is Reading? (2019) (0)
Thinking about the Twentieth Century (2018) (0)
Concerto for orchestra ; Four orchestral pieces ; Hungarian peasant songs (2001) (0)
Two American Masters in Memoriam: George Perle (1915–2009) and Lukas Foss (1922–2009) (2010) (0)
On Criticism and History (1995) (0)
In Memoriam: H. Colin Slim (1929–2019) (2019) (0)
On Time and Tempo (1994) (0)
Before and After Auschwitz: (2019) (0)
Leon Botstein on Hannah Arendt and Max Weber (2022) (0)
“The Precision of Poetry and the Exactness of Pure Science”: Nabokov, Stravinsky, and the Reader as Listener (2013) (0)
In the Shadows of September 11, 2001 (2001) (0)
Post-Pandemic Anxieties: Contemplating the Prospect that Classical Music Culture Might Disappear (2020) (0)
The Quarterly's Quandary: A Fin-de-Siècle Editorial Outlook (1993) (0)
Music and Jews (2019) (0)
Resisting Oblivion: Past Performances and Performers (2021) (0)
Before and After Auschwitz: Korngold and the Art and Politics of the Twentieth Century (2019) (0)
Notes from the Editor. In the shadows of September 11, 2001 (2001) (0)
The Philosophical Composer (2020) (0)
Editions, New and Old, and the Misuse of Scholarly Authority (2019) (0)
Il'ya Murometz : symphony no. 3 op. 42 (2003) (0)
Laughing With and At Classical Music, in Public (2018) (0)
Schubert in History (2014) (0)
On the Power of Music (2006) (0)
Beyond Death and Evil: Prokofiev’s Spirituality and Christian Science (2008) (0)
Serenade no. 1 (1993) (0)
The Modernist Invention of Mexico: Carlos Chávez, the Mexican Revolution, and the Cultural Politics of Music (2015) (0)
Maeterlinck and the cat (2005) (0)
Talent Developed: Conversations with Masters in the Arts and Sciences (1997) (0)
The Search for Meaning in Beethoven: (2020) (0)
Music, Language, and Meaning in Opera: Puccini and His Contemporaries (2016) (0)
A Pyrrhic Victory for Scholarship? The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians@@@The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1981) (0)
Arnold Schoenberg: Language, Modernism and Jewish Identity (1992) (0)
The Paradoxes of Doom (1996) (0)
Donald Mitchell (1925−2017) in Memoriam (2017) (0)
Music as the Language of Psychological Realism: Tchaikovsky and Russian Art (1998) (0)
Notes from the editor. Toward a history of listening (1998) (0)
An Unforgettable Life in Music: Mstislav Rostropovich (1927–2007) (2007) (0)
Cinderella; or Music and the Human Sciences. Unfootnoted Musings from the Margins (2017) (0)
Looking Back: The Musical Quarterly at One Hundred (2016) (0)
Notes from the Editor. Analysis and criticism (2001) (0)
Why Music Matters (2004) (0)
Revisions and Emendations (2000) (0)
Elliott Carter: An Appreciation (2008) (0)
On George Perle (2016) (0)
Innovation and Nostalgia: (2021) (0)
America's Stake in the Estate Tax. (2000) (0)
Book Review:Hannah Arendt: For Love of the World Elisabeth Young-Bruehl (1985) (0)
Disciplining Music: Musicology and Its Canons . Katherine Bergeron , Philip V. Bohlman . (1994) (0)
The Audience (2020) (0)
Book Review:Music and the Middle Class: The Social Structure of Concert Life in London, Paris and Vienna William Weber (1977) (0)
The Oxford History of Western Music: An Appreciation (2004) (0)
Redeeming the Liberal Arts. (2018) (0)
Second Thoughts: The Genre of Biography and Natalie Bauer-Lechner as Witness (2014) (0)
Behind the Beard (2000) (0)
The State of the Business: Chamber Music America after Thirty Years (2008) (0)
Listening to Shostakovich (2021) (0)
In Search of Beauty: Autocracy, Music, and Painting in Rimsky-Korsakov’s Russia (2018) (0)
Confronting the Recent Past: Robert Craft and Pierre Boulez in Memoriam (2015) (0)
Witnessing Music: The Consequences of History and Criticism (2011) (0)
Heinrich Heine on Mendelssohn (2012) (0)
George Crumb and the Power of First Hearing (2022) (0)
Chopin and the Consequences of Exile (2017) (0)
Sanctioned Daydreams: Music, Pictures, and Architecture (2011) (0)
Patronage, Performance, and Scholarship (2012) (0)
Neoclassicism, Romanticism, and Emancipation: The Origins of Felix Mendelssohn’s Aesthetic Outlook (2017) (0)
TheEroicain the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (2020) (0)
New Hopes are Needed (2008) (0)
Dante Symphony ; Tasso (2003) (0)
What Is Innovation, Really?. (1972) (0)
Recent Books on Music (2004) (0)
Aesthetics and Ethics: The Political Consequences of Culture and the Cultural Consequences of Politics (2017) (0)
Transcending the Enigmas of Biography: The Cultural Context of Sir Edward Elgar’s Career (2011) (0)
Institutional Obligations in an Age of Wealth. (2007) (0)
Beethoven. Maynard Solomon (1980) (0)
Viewpoint: What Is Innovation, Really? (1972) (0)
Words and Music: The Legacy of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (1925–2012) (2013) (0)
The Exiled Intellectual and the American University (2013) (0)
Symphony no. 1 . Theme and variations, op. 3 (2004) (0)
Out of Hungary: (2020) (0)
Music, Morality, and Method (1997) (0)

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