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From: President Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2013 8:02 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Message from Leon Botstein's office Dear =r. Epstein, President Botstein asked that I send you =his article from the L.A. Times. Best =egards, Catherine ♦ Catherine Susser =uiggi I PO Box 5000 Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504 <=pan style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Menlo Regular'; color: =gb(102, 102, 102); ">I I www.bard.edu adiv> <=iv> http://www.latimes.com/e=tertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-botstein-hollywood-bowl-review- 20130829=0,4204208.story Music review: Botstein has last laugh =ith L.A. Phil at the Bowl • The conductor's hands-off interpretive approach =uesday made for a sensational Prokofiev with violinist Jennifer Koh as =oloist. Leon Botstein =onducts the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl. (Michael =obinson Chavez, Los Angeles Times / January 14, 2009) By Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times =usic Critic EFTA_R1_01656797 EFTA02520203 August =8, 2013, 2:20 =.m. They laughed =hen Leon Botstein became president of Bard College in 1975, at the very =dea that a 28- year-old could enliven a venerable New York liberal arts college. They laughed in 1990 when Botstein =tarted the Bard Music Festival, which had the appearance of a vanity =peration for his own seemingly dubious ambitions as a conductor. They =aughed once more when he became music director of the American Symphony Orchestra 20 years ago, especially after some =ocky early performan