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Leon Botstein, conductor,
music historian, and leader in education reform, has been president and
Leon Levy Professor in the Arts and Humanities of Bard College since
1975. The author of
Jefferson’s Children: Education and the Promise of American Culture, he
has published widely in the fields of music, education, and history and
culture. Founder of Bard High School Early College, he has been a
pioneer in linking American higher education to public secondary
schools. Botstein is also a renowned international conductor who has
served as the music director and conductor of the
American Symphony
Orchestra since 1992. He is also the artistic co-director of
SummerScape and of
the
Bard Music Festival, and
The Orchestra Now, as well as
conductor laureate of the
Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra. His honors
include the
Award for Distinguished Service to the Arts from the
American Academy of Arts and Letters, and
Harvard University’s
Centennial Award, as well as the
Cross of Honor from the Republic of
Austria.
Mark Danner is a prolific writer and war reporter
who has written about politics and foreign affairs for more than 25 years. He has covered
wars and political turmoil in Central America, Haiti, the Balkans, Iraq
and the Middle East. His books include
Stripping Bare the Body,
The Secret Way to War: The Downing Street Memo and the Iraq War’s Buried History,
Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib and the War on Terror,
The Road to Illegitimacy: One Reporter’s Travels through the 2000 Florida Vote Recount and
The Massacre at El Mozote: A Parable of the Cold War. Danner is the
James Clarke Chace Professor of
Foreign Affairs and
the
Humanities at
Bard College and Chancellor’s
Professor of Journalism
and
English at the
University of California, Berkeley.