Editing Leon Botstein (section)

== Musicianship ==
Botstein is renowned<ref>{{cite news|last=Davis|first=Peter|title=Wagner's Anxiety of Influence|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/26/arts/music/26davi.html|newspaper=The New York Times|date=July 22, 2009}}</ref><ref name="auto2">{{cite news|last=Scherer|first=Barrymore|title=Undeniable Influence|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970204619004574320190510992778?KEYWORDS=%E2%80%9Cone+of+the+most+intellectually+stimulating+of+all+American+summer+festivals%E2%80%9D|newspaper=Wall Street Journal|date=August 5, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Berman|first=Daphna|title=The Money-making Music Man|url=https://www.haaretz.com/1.4784614|newspaper=[[Haartez]]|date=December 10, 2004}}</ref> for reviving and promoting neglected repertoire and composers.<ref>{{cite news|last=Adler|first=Margot|title=Botstein Revives The East German Avant-Garde|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99814511|newspaper=NPR|date=January 24, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Tommasini|first=Anthony|title=A Symphony With Powerful Champions, but Often Overlooked|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/17/arts/music/a-symphony-with-powerful-champions-but-often-overlooked.html?|newspaper=The New York Times|date=November 16, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Cooper|first=Michael|title=Bard SummerScape to Feature Work of the Composer Carlos Chávez|url=https://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/02/16/bard-summerscape-to-feature-work-of-the-composer-carlos-chvez/|newspaper=The New York Times|date=February 16, 2015}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://prelectur.stanford.edu/lecturers/botstein/#_ednref9|title=Leon Botstein|work=Stanford University Libraries|date=2011-01-21}}</ref> He is also known for the series "Classics Declassified", in which he lectures, conducts, and takes questions from the audience.<ref>{{cite web|title=ASO|url=http://www.americansymphony.org/downloads|access-date=29 May 2013}}</ref> 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."<ref name="auto2"/>