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|birth_place = Zürich, Switzerland|death_date = |death_place = |spouse = Barbara Haskell|children = 4University of Chicago (Bachelor of Arts>BA)Harvard University (Master of Arts, Doctor of Philosophy>PhD)www.leonbotstein.com}}}}Leon Botstein (born December 14, 1946, in Zürich, Switzerland) is a Swiss-American conductor, educator, and scholar serving as the President of Bard College.Profile: Leon Botstein, Hadassah Magazine, "Botstein is a proud secular Jew not ambivalent or defensive about his identity. In I Am Jewish: Personal Reflections Inspired by the Last Words of Daniel Pearl (Jewish Lights), he writes: "In Judaism, learning is prayer, for it celebrates the human capacity for language and thought." He waxes nostalgic for the days of "exceptional Jewry," arguing that "Jews have entered the indistinguishable middle class…. We are no longer the people of the book; we are a people of ordinary vulgarity. The real tragedy of American Jewry—and Israel—is that we've used privilege to become absolutely ordinary.""NEWS, Depalma, Anthony, The Most Happy College President: Leon Botstein of Bard, The New York Times, October 4, 1992,weblink 2021-02-22,

Biography

Botstein was born in Zürich, Switzerland, in 1946.WEB, Abel, Olivia, Interview with Leon Botstein: 35 Years (and Counting) as President of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, July 6, 2011,weblink 2021-02-22, The son of Polish-Jewish physicians, Botstein immigrated to New York City at the age of two. He studied violin with Roman Totenberg and, during the summers, studied with faculty from the National Conservatory in Mexico City.WEB, Abel, Olivia, Interview with Leon Botstein: 35 Years (and Counting) as President of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, July 6, 2011,weblink 2021-02-22, At age 16, Botstein graduated from the High School of Music and Art in Manhattan. He graduated from the University of Chicago in 1967 with a bachelor's degree in history. While an undergraduate, he was concertmaster and assistant conductor of the university orchestra and founded its chamber orchestra.WEB, Elliott, Susan, Orchestrating a career: College president, conductor, and writer: for Leon Botstein, work is a three-part harmony.,weblink University of Chicago Magazine, 2021-02-22, His music teachers in college included composer Richard Wernick and the musicologists H. Colin Slim and Howard Mayer Brown. In 1967, after studying at Tanglewood, Botstein attended Harvard University, where he studied history under David Landes, writing on musical life of Vienna in the 19th and early 20th centuries. At Harvard, he was the assistant conductor of the Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra and conductor of the Doctors' Orchestra of Boston.MAGAZINE, Gregory, Alice, 2014-09-22, The Duke of Bard, The New Yorker,weblink 2017-12-25, 0028-792X, In 1969, while 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.WEB, Elliott, Susan, Orchestrating a career: College president, conductor, and writer: for Leon Botstein, work is a three-part harmony.,weblink University of Chicago Magazine, 2021-02-22, WEB, BIOGRAPHY,weblink 2020-10-12, LEON BOTSTEIN, en-US, In 1970, at age 23, Botstein became the youngest college president in history after being appointed 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.

President of Bard College

In 1975, Botstein left Franconia to become the president of Bard College, a position he still holds.MAGAZINE, Gregory, Alice, 2014-09-22, The Duke of Bard, The New Yorker,weblink 2017-12-25, 0028-792X, He oversaw significant curricular changes,NEWS, Wilson, Robin, 1997-10-10, In a 22-Year Career, Bard's President Radically Transforms College's Mission, The Chronicle of High Education,weblink 2021-02-22, and, under his leadership, Bard saw record gains in enrollment, campus growth, endowment, institutional reach, and high-profile faculty.NEWS, Wilson, Robin, 1997-10-10, In a 22-Year Career, Bard's President Radically Transforms College's Mission, The Chronicle of High Education,weblink 2021-02-22, WEB, Elliott, Susan, Orchestrating a career: College president, conductor, and writer: for Leon Botstein, work is a three-part harmony.,weblink University of Chicago Magazine, 2021-02-22, Botstein directed the launch of the Levy Economics Institute, a public-policy research center, as well as graduate programs in the fine arts, decorative arts, environmental policy, and curatorial studies; soon thereafter, he helped acquire Bard College at Simon's Rock and later founded Bard High School Early College, which operates in seven cities: Newark, New York City, Cleveland, Washington D.C., Baltimore, New Orleans, and Hudson.WEB, Elliott, Susan, Orchestrating a career: College president, conductor, and writer: for Leon Botstein, work is a three-part harmony.,weblink University of Chicago Magazine, 2021-02-22, In the wake of the death of his second child, an 8-year-old daughter, Botstein decided to return to the musical career he had begun at University of Chicago.MAGAZINE, Gregory, Alice, 2014-09-22, The Duke of Bard, The New Yorker,weblink 2017-12-25, 0028-792X, In 1985, he completed his Ph.D. in music history at HarvardBOOK, Music and its public : habits of listening and the crisis of musical modernism in Vienna, 1870-1914, 70419131,weblink and began retraining as a conductor with Harold Farberman, eventually leading the Hudson Valley Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra.MAGAZINE, Gregory, Alice, 2014-09-22, The Duke of Bard, The New Yorker,weblink 2017-12-25, 0028-792X,

1990–present: Festivals, international programs, and conducting

In 1990, Botstein established the Bard Music Festival, whose success led to the development of the critically acclaimedNEWS, Rozhon, Tracie, From Gehry, A Bilbao on The Hudson,weblink The New York Times, August 20, 1998, 2021-02-22, MAGAZINE,weblink Artistic License Two great new cultural centers open out of town, Paul, Goldberger, 2 June 2003, The New Yorker, 2012-07-09, Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, a multi-functional facility designed by Frank Gehry on the Bard campus. In 1992, in addition to being named editor of the esteemed The Musical Quarterly, he was appointed director of the American Symphony Orchestra, a position he still holds. Under Botstein's directorship, the orchestra has developed a reputation for rescuing lesser-known works from obscurity.WEB, Baker, Zachary, Leon Botstein,weblink Stanford University Libraries, 2021-02-22, In 1999, he helped establish Bard’s acclaimed Prison Initiative, which established college-in-prison programs across the country and is now active in nine states.WEB, Baker, Zachary, Leon Botstein,weblink Stanford University Libraries, 2021-02-22, In 2003, following the success of the Bard Music Festival, Botstein developed Bard SummerScape, a festival of opera, theater, film, and music, where, since its founding, he has revived 13 rare operas in full staging.NEWS, Woolfe, Zachary, An Opera Known for Obscurity, Plucked From the Shadows, The New York Times, July 19, 2013, Later that year, Botstein became the music director of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra.NEWS, Eckert, Thor, Professor Botstein in the Promised Land,weblink The New York Times, March 12, 2006, 2021-02-22, BOOK,weblink A Dictionary for the Modern Conductor, Emily Freeman, Brown, August 20, 2015, Scarecrow Press, 9780810884014, Google Books, His concerts with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra were broadcast in regular series across the U.S. and Europe, and he led the orchestra on several tours, including twice across the U.S. and to Leipzig to open the 2009 Bach Festival with a performance of Felix Mendelssohn’s Elijah in Bach’s Thomaskirche. In 2011, he stepped down from that post and became the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra's Conductor Laureate and, as of 2022, also serves as its Principal Guest Conductor.BOOK,weblink A Dictionary for the Modern Conductor, Emily Freeman, Brown, August 20, 2015, Scarecrow Press, 9780810884014, Google Books, In addition to his work with the ASO and JSO, Botstein has performed or recorded with, among many others, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, New York City Opera, Los Angeles Philharmonic, BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, and NDR Symphony Orchestra. In 2005, his recording of Gavriil Popov’s First Symphony with the London Symphony Orchestra was nominated for a Grammy Award.WEB,weblink Artist: Leon Botstein, November 19, 2019, Grammy Award, 2021-02-22, File:"Intolerance" Performed by the American Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall (26711512508).jpg|thumb|left|Botstein and the American Symphony Orchestra after a performance of Intolleranza by Luigi Nono at Carnegie HallCarnegie HallThroughout this period, in collaboration with institutions abroad, Botstein helped launch liberal arts programs to countries in Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, South Africa, Central Asia, and the Middle East. He established programs with Al Quds University,Palestinian Campus Looks to East Bank (of Hudson), New York Times, February 14, 2009 American University of Central Asia,Scott Horton Interviews The Other Scott Horton {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110220165555weblink |date=2011-02-20 }}, Antiwar Radio (Dec. 11, 2010) and Central European University,WEB,weblink CEU | About CEU & Budapest, 3 May 2008, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20080505093748weblink">weblink 5 May 2008, Bard College: About CEU and Budapest as well as helping found Bard College BerlinWEB,weblink History, August 9, 2014, Bard College Berlin, and Smolny College, Russia's first and foremost liberal arts institution.NEWS, Fischer, Karen, A Missionary for Liberal Arts,weblink The New York Times, September 7, 2014, 2021-02-22, WEB, Redden, Elizabeth, Open Society University Network Launched With $1 Billion Gift,weblink Inside Higher Education, 2021-02-22, Botstein also turned his attention to developing Bard's music program. In 2005, he oversaw the development of The Bard College Conservatory of Music and later became director of The Bard Conservatory Orchestra.WEB, Baker, Zachary, Leon Botstein,weblink Stanford University Libraries, 2021-02-22, During this period, he also helped Bard acquire the Longy School of Music, and led The Bard Conservatory Orchestra on tours of China, Eastern Europe, and Cuba. In addition to conducting for the Youth Orchestra of Caracas in Venezuela and on tour in Japan, Botstein also helped develop Take a Stand, a national music program in the U.S. based on principles of El Sistema.WEB, Ng, David, Los Angeles Philharmonic embarking on new El Sistema initiative,weblink The New York Times, January 8, 2015, 2021-02-22, WEB,weblink Fisher Center, NATIONAL TAKE A STAND ORCHESTRA: YOUTH ORCHESTRA OF THE EAST, In 2015, he founded The Orchestra Now,WEB,weblink About The Orchestra Now, bard.edu, 2021-02-22, a pre-professional orchestra and master’s degree program at Bard College; in addition to performing multiple concerts each season at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, The Orchestra Now performs a regular concert series at Bard's Fisher Center and takes part in Bard Music Festival concerts.WEB,weblink About The Orchestra Now, bard.edu, 2021-02-22, In 2016, Botstein received $150,000 as a donation to Bard College from the foundation Gratitude America, which was founded by financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to articles in The New York TimesNEWS, Patel, Vimal, Bard President Received $150,000 From Foundation Created by Jeffrey Epstein,weblink 5 January 2024, and The Wall Street Journal. At the time, Botstein was on the charity's advisory board.NEWS, Briquelet, Kate, May 17, 2023, Epstein Transferred Thousands of Dollars to Noam Chomsky, Leon Botstein: Report,weblink May 17, 2023, The Daily Beast, NEWS, Safdar, Khadeeja, May 17, 2023, Jeffrey Epstein Moved $270,000 for Noam Chomsky and Paid $150,000 to Leon Botstein,weblink May 17, 2023, Wall Street Journal, In 2018, Botstein was appointed artistic director of Campus Grafenegg in Austria, where he collaborated with Thomas Hampson and Dennis Russell Davies. On January 23, 2020, he was named chancellor of the Open Society University Network, of which Bard College and Central European University are founding members.WEB,weblink George Soros Announces Global Initiative to Transform Higher Education, WEB,weblink Leon Botstein, In 2019, Botstein appeared in the documentary College Behind Bars, a four-part television series about the Bard Prison Initiative, a degree program offered to inmates in New York prisons. The series was produced by his daughter, Sarah Botstein, who works for Ken Burns's documentary production company.WEB, Sarah Botstein,weblink 2021-09-01, Ken Burns, en-US,

Musicianship

Botstein is renownedNEWS, Davis, Peter, Wagner's Anxiety of Influence,weblink The New York Times, July 22, 2009, NEWS, Scherer, Barrymore, Undeniable Influence,weblink Wall Street Journal, August 5, 2009, NEWS, Berman, Daphna, The Money-making Music Man,weblink Haartez, December 10, 2004, for reviving and promoting neglected repertoire and composers.NEWS, Adler, Margot, Botstein Revives The East German Avant-Garde,weblink NPR, January 24, 2009, NEWS, Tommasini, Anthony, A Symphony With Powerful Champions, but Often Overlooked,weblink The New York Times, November 16, 2016, NEWS, Cooper, Michael, Bard SummerScape to Feature Work of the Composer Carlos Chávez,weblink The New York Times, February 16, 2015, In addition, as director of the American Symphony Orchestra and the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, he emerged as a significant proponent of "thematic programming", which assembles concert programs around common themes grounded in literature, music history, or art.WEB,weblink Leon Botstein, Stanford University Libraries, 2011-01-21, He is also known for the series "Classics Declassified", in which he lectures, conducts, and takes questions from the audience.WEB, ASO,weblink 29 May 2013, Both the Bard Music Festival and Bard SummerScape continue his method of reviving neglected works and synthesizing performance and scholarship. The Wall Street Journal{{'s}} Barrymore Laurence Scherer wrote, "the Bard Music Festival…no longer needs an introduction. Under the provocative guidance of the conductor-scholar Leon Botstein, it has long been one of the most intellectually stimulating of all American summer festivals and frequently is one of the most musically satisfying. Each year, through discussions by major scholars and illustrative concerts often programmed to overflowing, Bard audiences have investigated the oeuvre of a major composer in the context of the society, politics, literature, art and music of his times."NEWS, Scherer, Barrymore, Undeniable Influence,weblink Wall Street Journal, August 5, 2009,

Scholarship and writings

Botstein's scholarship focuses on the intersection of music, culture, and politics since the early 19th century.MAGAZINE, Gregory, Alice, 2014-09-22, The Duke of Bard, The New Yorker,weblink 2017-12-25, 0028-792X, WEB, Elliott, Susan, Orchestrating a career: College president, conductor, and writer: for Leon Botstein, work is a three-part harmony.,weblink University of Chicago Magazine, 2021-02-22, He has written books including Judentum und Modernitaet and Von Beethoven zu Berg: Das Gedächtnis der Moderne (2013) and The History of Listening: How Music Creates Meaning (2000). In addition, he is coeditor of Vienna: Jews and the City of Music, 1870-1938, published in 2004, and editor of The Complete Brahms: A Guide to the Musical Works of Johannes (1999).Botstein's essays for The Bard Music Festival are published as a series in the Princeton University Press.WEB,weblink Princeton University Press Books in The Bard Music Festival, Press.princeton.edu, 2012-04-19, 2012-06-22, NEWS, Matthews, David, Refuge in the Forest, Times Literary Supplement, January 27, 2012, He has been editor of The Musical Quarterly since 1993 and a frequent contributor to periodicals focusing on music and history.NEWS, Matthews, David, Refuge in the Forest, Times Literary Supplement, January 27, 2012, Botstein also writes frequently on primary and secondary education and universities: in addition to the book Jefferson's Children: Education and the Promise of American Culture (1997), he is the author of numerous articles on education in the United States.NEWS, Appel, Jacob, Leon Botstein: The Maestro of Annandale, Education Update, January 15, 2004,

Personal life

Botstein is the brother of biologist David Botstein and pediatric cardiologist Eva Griepp. Both of his parents were physicians who, after emigrating to the U.S., served on faculty of the Einstein College of Medicine in New York. He is the husband of art historian Barbara Haskell. They have two children: Clara Haskell Botstein, director of legislation and governmental relations at the D.C. office of the deputy mayor for education,WEB, NCTQ: About: Board of Directors: Clara Haskell Botstein,weblink 2023-02-13, www.nctq.org, and Max Botstein.WEB, Musleah, Rahel, May 2009, Profile: Leon Botstein,weblink October 28, 2019, www.hadassahmagazine.org, Botstein and his first wife, Jill Lundquist, are the parents of Sarah Botstein, who produced the documentary College Behind Bars, and Abby Botstein (1973-1981).

Awards{| class"wikitable"

!Title!YearWatson School of Biological Sciences, Cold Spring Harbor LaboratoryWATSON SCHOOL 2018 PH.D.S WEBSITE=COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY, 27 April 2018, |2018Goucher CollegeCOMMENCEMENT WEBSITE=GOUCHER COLLEGE, |2017AUTHOR=SEWANEE: THE UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH, |2016Yivo Institute for Jewish Research>YIVO Institute for Jewish ResearchHTTPS://WWW.YIVO.ORG/YIVO-90TH-ANNIVERSARY-GALA >TITLE = 90TH ANNIVERSARY GALA, |2015| The Deborah W. Meier Hero in Education Award - Fairtest|2015University of Alabama at BirminghamHTTP://WWW.UAB.EDU/NEWS/EXPERIENCING-THE-ARTS/ITEM/4225-UAB-PRESENTS-LEON-BOTSTEIN-2014-IRELAND-DISTINGUISHED-VISITING-SCHOLAR-ON-MARCH-13AUTHOR=SHANNON THOMASON, |2014|Jewish Cultural Achievement Award - The Foundation for Jewish Culture|2013 ACCESS-DATE=29 MAY 2013, |2013 |The University of Chicago Alumni Medal|2012|Leonard Bernstein Award for the Elevation of Music in Society|2012|Elected to the American Philosophical Society|2010|Carnegie Academic Leadership Award - The Carnegie Corporation, for outstanding leadership in curricular innovation, reform of K-12 education and promotion of strong links between their institution and their local community.|2009Gavriil Nikolayevich Popov>Popov's Symphony No. 1 and Dmitri Shostakovich Theme and Variations with the London Symphony Orchestra - nominated for a Grammy Award in the category of Grammy Award for Best Orchestral Performance>Best Orchestral Performance.|2006American Academy of Arts and LettersHTTP://WWW.ARTSANDLETTERS.ORG/ PUBLISHER=ARTSANDLETTERS.ORG, 2012-06-22, |2003|Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art|2001|Harvard Centennial Medal by the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences to recipients of graduate degrees from the School for their "contributions to society".|1996|National Arts Club Gold Medal|1995

Books

• BOOK, Botstein, Leon, The History of Listening: How Music Creates Meaning, Basic Books, New York, NY,
• BOOK, Botstein, Leon, Von Beethoven zu Berg: Das Gedächtnis der Moderne, 2013, Zsolnay,
• BOOK, Botstein, Leon, Freud und Wittgenstein Sprache und menschliche Natur, 2011, Picus Verlag, Vienna,
• BOOK, Botstein, Leon, Vienna: Jews and the City of Music, 2004, 978-1931493277, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,
• BOOK, Botstein, Leon, The Complete Brahms: A Guide to the Musical Works of Johannes, 1999, New York, NY,
• BOOK, Botstein, Leon, Jefferson's Children: Education and the Promise of American Culture, 1997, 0-385-47555-1, Doubleday, New York, NY,
• BOOK, Botstein, Leon, Judentum und Modernität : Essays zur Rolle der Juden in der deutschen und österreichischen Kultur, 1848 bis 1938, Böhlau, 1991, Vienna, 3-205-05358-3,

Selected articles, essays, and chapters

• (2020) BOOK, Botstein, Leon, Morten, Kristiansen, Strauss in Context, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, Traditionalism, 9781108379939, 2020,
• (2020) BOOK, Botstein, Leon, Nancy, Nancy November, November, The Cambridge Companion to the Eroica Symphony, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, The Eroica in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, 978-1108422581, 2020,
• (2020) BOOK, Botstein, Leon, Benedict, Taylor, Rethinking Mendelssohn, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, The Philosophical Composer: The Influence of Moses Mendelssohn and Friedrich Schleiermacher on Felix Mendelssohn, 9780190611781, 2020,
• (2018) JOURNAL, Redeeming the Liberal Arts, Liberal Education, 104, 4, 1–5, 10.1515/9780691202006-018, 2018, Botstein, L., 241873827,
• (2017) NEWS, Hungary's xenophobic attack on Central European University is a threat to freedom everywhere, Washington Post, April 4, 2017, WEB, Botstein, Leon, Hungary's xenophobic attack on Central European University is a threat to freedom everywhere,weblink washingtonpost.com, 4 April 2017,
• (2017) JOURNAL, American Universities Must Take a Stand, New York Times, February 8, 2017, NEWS, Botstein, Leon, American Universities Must Take a Stand,weblink The New York Times, February 8, 2017, 8 February 2017,
• (2016) NEWS, Bard president draws parallels between European anti-Semitism and American racism to explain Trump's win, Washington Post, December 16, 2016, WEB, Ross, Janell, Bard president draws parallels between European anti-Semitism and American racism to explain Trump's win,weblink washingtonpost.com, 16 December 2016,
• (2016) MAGAZINE, The Election Was About Racism Against Barack Obama, TIME, December 13, 2016, WEB, Botstein, Leon, The Election Was About Racism Against Barack Obama,weblink time.com, December 13, 2016, 13 December 2016,
• (2016) MAGAZINE, Why the Next President Should Forgive All Student Loans, TIME, August 12, 2016, WEB, Botstein, Leon, August 12, 2016, Why the Next President Should Forgive All Student Loans,weblink live,weblink August 18, 2020, Money.com,
• (2016) BOOK, Botstein, Leon, Jacques, Picard, Makers of Jewish Modernity: Thinkers, Artists, Leaders, and the World They Made, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, Walther Rathenau (1867-1922): Bildung, Prescription, Prophecy, 9780691164236, 2016-08-09,
• (2015) JOURNAL, Can Music Speak Truth to Power?, Musical America, August 12, 2015, WEB, Botstein, Leon, Can Music Speak Truth to Power?,weblink musicalamerica.com,
• (2014) MAGAZINE, The SAT is Part Hoax, Part Fraud, TIME, March 24, 2014, 183, 11, 17,
• (2014) NEWS, How an Anti-Semitic Composer Created 'Kol Nidre' and 'Moses', The Jewish Daily Forward, March 24, 2014, WEB,weblink How an Anti-Semitic Composer Created 'Kol Nidre' and 'Moses', Leon Botstein, 24 March 2014, The Forward,
• (2014) NEWS, Book Review: 'Mad Music' by Stephen Budiansky & 'Charles Ives in the Mirror' by David C. Paul, The Wall Street Journal, August 1, 2014, WEB,weblink Book Review: 'Mad Music' by Stephen Budiansky & 'Charles Ives in the Mirror' by David C. Paul, Leon Botstein, 1 August 2014, The Wall Street Journal,
• (2013) NEWS, Resisting Complacency, Fear, and the Philistine: The University and its Challenges, The Hedgehog Review, June 1, 2013, WEB,weblink Resisting Complacency, Fear, and the Philistine: The University and its Challenges, Leon Botstein, 1 June 2013, The Hedgehog Review,
• (2011) BOOK, Botstein, Leon, Jane, Fulcher, The Oxford Handbook to the New Cultural History of Music, New York: Oxford University Press, 256–304, The Eye of the Needle: Music as History after the Age of Recording, 978-0-19-534186-7, 2011-09-29,
• (2010) NEWS, The High School Sinkhole,weblink New York Times, February 10, 2010,
• (2010) NEWS, Why Mahler?, Wall Street Journal, October 9, 2010,
• (2009) MAGAZINE, For the Love of Learning, The New Republic, March 2, 2009,
• (2009) NEWS, Recovery Depends on School Reform,weblink New York Times, February 2, 2009,
• (2008) NEWS, The Unsung Success of Live Classical Music, Wall Street Journal, October 3, 2008,
• (2007) JOURNAL, Freud and Wittgenstein: Language and human nature, Psychoanalytic Psychology, March 24, 2007, 24, 4, 603–622, 10.1037/0736-9735.24.4.603, Botstein, Leon,
• (2006) NEWS, Memories of beginnings past,weblink The Jerusalem Post, September 21, 2006,
• (2006) NEWS, Milton Babbitt: Speaking Truth Through Music,weblink The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 14, 2006,
• (2005) BOOK, Botstein, Leon, Emily, Bilski, Jewish Women and Their Salons: The Power of Conversation, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, Music, Femininity, and Jewish Identity: The Tradition and Legacy of the Salon, 9780300103854, 2005,
• (2004) BOOK, Botstein, Leon, Judea and Ruth, Pearl, I Am Jewish: Personal Reflections Inspired by the Last Words of Daniel Pearl, Woodstock, VT: Jewish Lights Publishing, Being Jewish, 9781580232593, 2004,
• (2003) BOOK, Botstein, Leon, José, Bowen, The Cambridge Companion to Conducting, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, The Future of Conducting, 978-0521527910, 2003,
• (2003) NEWS, The Merit Myth, The New York Times, January 14, 2003, WEB,weblink The Merit Myth, Leon Botstein, 14 January 2003, The New York Times,
• (2001) BOOK, Botstein, Leon, Douglas, Seaton, The Mendelssohn Companion, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, and Emancipation: The Origins of Felix Mendelssohn’s Aesthetic Outlook, 978-0313284458, 2001,
• (2001) NEWS, We Waste Our Children's Time, The New York Times, January 24, 2001, WEB,weblink We Waste Our Children's Time, Leon Botstein, 24 January 2001, The New York Times,
• (2000) NEWS, What Local Control?, The New York Times, September 19, 2000, WEB,weblink What Local Control?, Leon Botstein, 19 September 2000, The New York Times,
• (2000) BOOK, Botstein, Leon, Stanley, Glenn, The Cambridge Companion to Beethoven, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, Sound and Structure in Beethoven's Orchestral Music, 978-1139002202, 2000,

Selected recordings

• (2020) Arthur Honegger, Dimitri Mitropoulos, and Othmar Schoeck. The Orchestra Now. Bridge.
• (2020) Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Frederic Chopin, and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. The Orchestra Now with Orion Weiss. Bridge.
• (2019) Arthur Bliss, Edmund Rubbra, and Arnold Bax. The Orchestra Now with Piers Lane. Hyperion.
• (2018) Ferdinand Ries. Piano Concertos No. 8 & 9. The Orchestra Now with Piers Lane. Hyperion.
• (2016) George Gershwin. Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue, Piano Concerto in F, Variations on "I Got Rhythm," Eight Preludes for Solo Piano. Royal Philharmonic Orchestra with Mark Bebbington. SOMM Recordings.
• (2015) Paul Hindemith. The Long Christmas Dinner. American Symphony Orchestra. Bridge Records.
• (2012) Luigi Dallapiccola. Volo Di Notte. American Symphony Orchestra.
• (2009) Bruno Walter. Symphony No. 1. NDR Symphony Orchestra, Hamburg. CPO
• (2008) Béla Bartók. Concerto for Orchestra, Four Orchestral Pieces, Hungarian Peasant Songs. London Philharmonic Orchestra. Telarc.
• (2008) John Foulds. A World Requiem. BBC Symphony Orchestra. Chandos.
• (2007) Paul Dukas. Ariane et Barbe-Bleue. BBC Symphony Orchestra. Telarc.
• (2005) Ernest Chausson. Le roi Arthus. BBC Symphony Orchestra. Telarc.
• (2004) Gavril Popov: Symphony No. 1, Op. 7, Dimitri Shostakovich: Theme & Variations, Op. 3. London Symphonic Orchestra. Terlarc. Nominated for a Grammy Award in Best Orchestral Performance.
• (2005) Aaron Copland, Roger Sessions, George Perle, and Bernard Rands. Works by Copland, Sessions, Perle, and Rands. American Symphony Orchestra. New World Records.
• (2003) Richard Strauss. Die Ägyptische Helena. American Symphony Orchestra with Deborah Voigt. Telarc.
• (2003) Franz Liszt. Dante Symphony. London Symphony Orchestra. Telarc.
• (2000) Richard Strauss. Die Liebe der Danae. American Symphony Orchestra. Telarc.
• (1999) Karl Amadeus Hartmann. Symphonies No. 1 & No. 6. London Philharmonic Orchestra with Jard Van Nes. Telarc.
• (1998) Anton Bruckner. Symphony No. 5. (Schalk Edition). London Philharmonic Orchestra. Telarc.
• (1998) Ernst von Dohnányi. Symphony No. 1. London Philharmonic Orchestra. Telarc.
• (1995) Franz Schubert. Franz Schubert Orchestrated. American Symphony Orchestra. Telarc.
• (1993) Johannes Brahms. Serenade No. 1 In D. American Symphony Orchestra and Chelsea Chamber Ensemble. Vanguard.
• (1991) Joseph Joachim. Overture To Hamlet, Overture To Henry IV, Violin Concerto In D Minor In The Hungarian Manner. London Philharmonic Orchestra with Elmar Oliveira. IMP.

References

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External links

• Bard College
• American Symphony Orchestra
• Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts
• Bard Music Festival
• Bard SummerScape
• Leon Botstein's Discography

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