Editing Leon Botstein (section)

{{Short description|American conductor, educator (b. 1946)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
|name        = Leon Botstein
|image       = Leon Botstein conducting.jpg
|occupation  = Scholar, Conductor, Educator
|office      = President of [[Bard College]]
|term_start  = 1975
|term_end    = 
|predecessor = Reamer Kline
|successor   = 
|birth_name  = 
|birth_date  = {{Birth-date and age|December 14, 1946}}
|birth_place = [[Zürich]], [[Switzerland]]
|death_date  = 
|death_place = 
|spouse      = [[Barbara Haskell]]
|children    = 4
|education   = [[University of Chicago]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])<br>[[Harvard University]] ([[Master of Arts|MA]], [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]])
|website     = {{URL|www.leonbotstein.com}}
|relatives = [[David Botstein]] (brother)
}}

'''Leon Botstein''' (born December 14, 1946, in [[Zürich]], Switzerland) is a Swiss-born American [[conducting|conductor]], educator, historical musicologist,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Jackson |first1=Jeffrey H. |last2=Pelkey |first2=Stanley C. |date=2005 |chapter=Introduction |title=Music and History: Bridging the Disciplines |location=Jackson |publisher=University Press of Mississippi |page=xiii |isbn=978-1-57-806762-6}}</ref><ref>{{cite Grove |title=Leon Botstein}}</ref> and scholar serving as the President of [[Bard College]].<ref>[http://www.hadassahmagazine.org/2009/05/29/profile-leon-botstein/ 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.""</ref><ref name=":0">{{cite news|last1=Depalma|first1=Anthony|title=The Most Happy College President: Leon Botstein of Bard|newspaper=The New York Times|date=October 4, 1992|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/04/magazine/the-most-happy-college-president-leon-botstein-of-bard.html|access-date=2021-02-22}}</ref>