Editing Leon Botstein

{{Short description|American conductor, educator (b. 1946)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2021}}
{{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>

== Biography ==
Botstein was born in [[Zürich]], [[Switzerland]], in 1946.<ref name="auto">{{cite web|last1=Abel|first1=Olivia|title=Interview with Leon Botstein: 35 Years (and Counting) as President of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY|date=July 6, 2011|url=https://hvmag.com/archive/interview-with-leon-botstein-35-years-and-counting-as-president-of-bard-college-annandale-on-hudson-ny/|access-date=2021-02-22}}</ref> The son of Polish-Jewish physicians, [[immigration to the United States|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 [[Conservatorio Nacional de Música (Mexico)|National Conservatory in Mexico City]].<ref name="auto"/> 

In 1963, at age 16, Botstein graduated from the [[The High School of Music and Art|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.<ref name="auto8">{{cite web|last1=Elliott|first1=Susan|title=Orchestrating a career: College president, conductor, and writer: for Leon Botstein, work is a three-part harmony.|url=https://magazine.uchicago.edu/0212/alumni/vitae.html|website=University of Chicago Magazine|access-date=2021-02-22}}</ref> His music teachers in college included composer [[Richard Wernick]] and the musicologists H. Colin Slim and [[Howard Mayer Brown]]. In 1967, after studying at [[Boston University Tanglewood Institute|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, earning an MA in 1968. At Harvard, he was the assistant conductor of the [[Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra]] and conductor of the Doctors' Orchestra of Boston.<ref name="auto3">{{Cite magazine|last=Gregory|first=Alice|date=2014-09-22|title=The Duke of Bard|magazine=The New Yorker|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/09/29/pictures-institution|access-date=2017-12-25|issn=0028-792X}}</ref>

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.<ref name="auto8"/><ref>{{Cite web|title=BIOGRAPHY|url=https://www.leonbotstein.com/biography|access-date=2020-10-12|website=LEON BOTSTEIN|language=en-US}}</ref> 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 Lincoln Lundquist|Oliver Lundquist]], who was on the board of trustees.<ref name=":0" /> 

== President of Bard College ==
In 1975, Botstein left Franconia to become the president of [[Bard College]], a position he still holds.<ref name="auto3"/> He oversaw significant curricular changes,<ref name="auto4">{{Cite news|last=Wilson|first=Robin|date=1997-10-10|title=In a 22-Year Career, Bard's President Radically Transforms College's Mission|work=The Chronicle of High Education|url=https://www.chronicle.com/article/in-a-22-year-career-bards-president-radically-transforms-colleges-mission/|access-date=2021-02-22}}</ref><ref name=":0"/> and, under his leadership, Bard saw record gains in enrollment, campus growth, endowment, institutional reach, and high-profile faculty.<ref name=":0"/><ref name="auto4"/><ref name="auto8"/> 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 [[Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College|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 Jersey|Newark]], [[New York City]], [[Cleveland, Ohio|Cleveland]], [[Washington, D.C.|Washington D.C.]], [[Baltimore, Maryland|Baltimore]], [[New Orleans, Louisiana|New Orleans]], and [[Hudson, New York|Hudson]].<ref name="auto8"/><ref name=":0"/>

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]].<ref name="auto3"/> In 1985, he completed his Ph.D. in music history at [[Harvard University|Harvard]]<ref>{{Cite book |title=Music and its public : habits of listening and the crisis of musical modernism in Vienna, 1870-1914  | oclc=70419131 |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70419131}}</ref> and began retraining as a conductor with [[Harold Farberman]], eventually leading the [[Hudson Valley Philharmonic]] Chamber Orchestra.<ref name="auto3"/><ref name=":0"/>

===1990–present: Festivals, international programs, and conducting===
[[Image:Fisher at Bard College.jpg|200px|thumbnail|right|Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts]] In 1990, Botstein established the [[Bard Music Festival]], whose success led to the development of the critically acclaimed<ref>{{cite news|last1=Rozhon|first1=Tracie|title=From Gehry, A Bilbao on The Hudson|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/08/20/garden/from-gehry-a-bilbao-on-the-hudson.html|newspaper=The New York Times|date=August 20, 1998|access-date=2021-02-22}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2003/06/02/030602crsk_skyline?currentPage=1|title=Artistic License Two great new cultural centers open out of town|first=Paul|last=Goldberger|date=2 June 2003|magazine=[[The New Yorker]]|access-date=2012-07-09}}</ref> [[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 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.<ref name="auto5">{{cite web|last1=Baker|first1= Zachary |title=Leon Botstein|url=https://prelectur.stanford.edu/lecturers/botstein/|website=Stanford University Libraries|access-date=2021-02-22}}</ref> In 1999, he helped establish Bard’s acclaimed [[Bard Prison Initiative|Prison Initiative]], which established college-in-prison programs across the country and is now active in nine states.<ref name="auto5"/>

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.<ref>{{cite news|last=Woolfe|first=Zachary|title=An Opera Known for Obscurity, Plucked From the Shadows|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=July 19, 2013}}</ref> Later that year, Botstein became the music director of the [[Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=Eckert|first1=Thor|title=Professor Botstein in the Promised Land|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/12/arts/music/professor-botstein-in-the-promised-land.html?|newspaper=The New York Times|date=March 12, 2006|access-date=2021-02-22}}</ref><ref name="auto7">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k9SOCgAAQBAJ&q=%22Leon+Botstein+%282003%22%22Jerusalem+Symphony+Orchestra%22&pg=PA171|title=A Dictionary for the Modern Conductor|first=Emily Freeman|last=Brown|date=August 20, 2015|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=9780810884014|via=Google Books}}</ref> 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 (oratorio)|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.<ref name="auto7"/> 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 (composer)|Gavriil Popov]]’s [[Symphony No. 1 (Popov)|First Symphony]] with the [[London Symphony Orchestra]] was nominated for a Grammy Award.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.grammy.com/grammys/artists/leon-botstein/791|title=Artist: Leon Botstein|date=November 19, 2019|publisher=Grammy Award|access-date=2021-02-22}}</ref>

[[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 Hall]] in 2018.]]Throughout 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]],<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/world/middleeast/15quds.html Palestinian Campus Looks to East Bank (of Hudson)], ''New York Times'', February 14, 2009</ref> [[American University of Central Asia]],<ref>[http://antiwar.com/radio/2010/12/11/the-other-scott-horton-8/ Scott Horton Interviews The Other Scott Horton] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110220165555/http://antiwar.com/radio/2010/12/11/the-other-scott-horton-8/ |date=2011-02-20 }}, ''[[Antiwar.com#Antiwar Radio|Antiwar Radio]]'' (Dec. 11, 2010)</ref> and [[Central European University]],<ref name="ceu.bard.edu">{{cite web |url=http://ceu.bard.edu/about/ |title=CEU &#124; About CEU & Budapest |access-date=3 May 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080505093748/http://ceu.bard.edu/about/ |archive-date=5 May 2008  }} Bard College: About CEU and Budapest</ref> as well as helping found [[Bard College Berlin]]<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.berlin.bard.edu/about-us/history/|title = History|access-date = August 9, 2014|website = Bard College Berlin}}</ref> and [[Smolny College]], Russia's first and foremost liberal arts institution.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Fischer|first1=Karen|title=A Missionary for Liberal Arts|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/08/education/a-missionary-for-liberal-arts.html|newspaper=The New York Times|date=September 7, 2014|access-date=2021-02-22}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Redden|first1=Elizabeth|title=Open Society University Network Launched With $1 Billion Gift|url=https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/02/04/amid-authoritarian-resurgence-george-soros-pledges-1-billion-toward-new-university|website=Inside Higher Education|access-date=2021-02-22}}</ref>

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.<ref name="auto5"/> During this period, he also helped Bard acquire the [[Longy School of Music of Bard College|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.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Ng|first1=David|title=Los Angeles Philharmonic embarking on new El Sistema initiative|url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/la-et-cm-los-angeles-philharmonic-el-sistema-youth-20150108-story.html|website=[[The New York Times]]|date=January 8, 2015 |access-date=2021-02-22}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/event/?eid=131228|work=Fisher Center|title=NATIONAL TAKE A STAND ORCHESTRA: YOUTH ORCHESTRA OF THE EAST}}</ref> In 2015, he founded The Orchestra Now,<ref name="auto1">{{cite web |url=https://www.bard.edu/theorchnow/about/ |title=About The Orchestra Now |publisher=bard.edu |access-date=2021-02-22}}</ref> 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 [[Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts|Fisher Center]] and takes part in [[Bard Music Festival]] concerts.<ref name="auto1"/>

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 Times]]''<ref>{{cite news |last1=Patel |first1=Vimal |title=Bard President Received $150,000 From Foundation Created by Jeffrey Epstein |work=The New York Times |date=May 17, 2023 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/17/us/leon-botstein-bard-college-jeffrey-epstein.html |access-date=5 January 2024}}</ref> and ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]''. At the time, Botstein was on the charity's advisory board.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Briquelet |first=Kate |date=May 17, 2023 |title=Epstein Transferred Thousands of Dollars to Noam Chomsky, Leon Botstein: Report |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epstein-transferred-thousands-of-dollars-to-noam-chomsky-leon-botstein-report |access-date=May 17, 2023 |website=[[The Daily Beast]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Safdar |first=Khadeeja |date=May 17, 2023 |title=Jeffrey Epstein Moved $270,000 for Noam Chomsky and Paid $150,000 to Leon Botstein |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/jeffrey-epstein-noam-chomsky-leon-botstein-bard-ce5beb9d |access-date=May 17, 2023 |website=[[Wall Street Journal]]}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/newsroom/george-soros-launches-global-network-to-transform-higher-education|title=George Soros Announces Global Initiative to Transform Higher Education|website=Opensocietyfoundations.org|access-date=December 14, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://opensocietyfoundations.org/people/leon-botstein|title=Leon Botstein|website=Opensocietyfoundations.org|access-date=December 14, 2024}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|last2=|first2=|last3=|first3=|last4=|first4=|last5=|first5=|last6=|first6=|title=Sarah Botstein|url=https://kenburns.com/staff/sarah-botstein/|access-date=2021-09-01|website=Ken Burns|language=en-US}}</ref>

== 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"/>

== Scholarship and writings ==
Botstein's scholarship focuses on the intersection of music, culture, and politics since the early 19th century.<ref name="auto3"/><ref name="auto8"/> 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]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://press.princeton.edu/catalogs/series/bfs.html |title=Princeton University Press Books in The Bard Music Festival |publisher=Press.princeton.edu |date=2012-04-19 |access-date=2012-06-22}}</ref><ref name="auto6">{{cite news|last=Matthews|first=David|title=Refuge in the Forest|newspaper=Times Literary Supplement|date=January 27, 2012}}</ref> He has been editor of [[The Musical Quarterly]] since 1993 and a frequent contributor to periodicals focusing on music and history.<ref name="auto6"/> 

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]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Appel|first=Jacob|title=Leon Botstein: The Maestro of Annandale|newspaper=Education Update|date=January 15, 2004}}</ref>

== 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,<ref>{{Cite web |title=NCTQ: About: Board of Directors: Clara Haskell Botstein |url=https://www.nctq.org/about/boardMember/Clara-Haskell-Botstein |access-date=2023-02-13 |website=www.nctq.org}}</ref> and Max Botstein.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Musleah |first1=Rahel |date=May 2009 |title=Profile: Leon Botstein |url=https://www.hadassahmagazine.org/2009/05/29/profile-leon-botstein/ |access-date=October 28, 2019 |website=www.hadassahmagazine.org}}</ref><ref name=":0" />

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).<ref name=":0" /> 

==Awards==
{| class="wikitable"
!Title
!Year
|-
| Honorary Doctor of Science, [[Watson School of Biological Sciences]], [[Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Watson School 2018 Ph.D.s |url=https://www.cshl.edu/watson-school-2018-phds/ |website=Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory |date=27 April 2018 }}</ref>
|2018
|-
| Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, [[Goucher College]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Commencement |url=http://www.goucher.edu/commencement/ |website=Goucher College }}</ref>
|2017
|-
| Honorary Doctor of Music, [[Sewanee: The University of the South]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sewanee.edu/newstoday/top-stories-homepage/convocation-recap.php|title=Top Stories Homepage - Gowns awarded, honorary degrees conferred during Convocation - Sewanee: The University of the South|author=Sewanee: The University of the South|access-date=January 15, 2016|archive-date=October 8, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181008134956/https://www.sewanee.edu/newstoday/top-stories-homepage/convocation-recap.php|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|2016
|-
|Lifetime Achievement Award - [[Yivo Institute for Jewish Research|YIVO Institute for Jewish Research]]<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.yivo.org/YIVO-90th-Anniversary-Gala |title = 90th Anniversary Gala}}</ref>
|2015
|-
| The [[Deborah W. Meier]] Hero in Education Award - [[Fairtest]]
|2015
|-
| Caroline P. and Charles W. Ireland Distinguished Visiting Scholar Prize - [[University of Alabama at Birmingham]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.uab.edu/news/experiencing-the-arts/item/4225-uab-presents-leon-botstein-2014-ireland-distinguished-visiting-scholar-on-march-13|title=UAB - UAB News - UAB presents Leon Botstein, 2014 Ireland Distinguished Visiting Scholar, on March 13|author=Shannon Thomason}}</ref>
|2014
|-
|Jewish Cultural Achievement Award - The [[Foundation for Jewish Culture]]
|2013 
|-
|Kilenyi Medal of Honor - The Bruckner Society of America<ref>{{cite web|title=www.abruckner.com|url=http://www.abruckner.com/thebrucknersociety/brucknersocietynew/leonbotstein/|access-date=29 May 2013}}</ref> 
|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.
|2009
|-
|[[Gavriil Nikolayevich Popov|Popov's]] ''Symphony No. 1'' and [[Dmitri Shostakovich|Shostakovich's]] ''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]].
|2006
|-
|Award for Distinguished Service to the Arts from the [[American Academy of Arts and Letters]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.artsandletters.org/ |title=artsandletters.org |publisher=artsandletters.org |access-date=2012-06-22}}</ref>
|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==
* {{cite book|last=Botstein|first=Leon|title=The History of Listening: How Music Creates Meaning|year=<!-- forthcoming -->|publisher=Basic Books|location=New York, NY}}
* {{cite book|last=Botstein|first=Leon|title=Von Beethoven zu Berg: Das Gedächtnis der Moderne|year=2013|publisher=Zsolnay}}
* {{cite book|last=Botstein|first=Leon|title=Freud und Wittgenstein Sprache und menschliche Natur|year=2011|publisher=Picus Verlag|location=Vienna}}
* {{cite book|last=Botstein|first=Leon|title=Vienna: Jews and the City of Music|year=2004|isbn=978-1931493277|publisher=Princeton University Press|location=Princeton, NJ}}
* {{cite book|last=Botstein|first=Leon|title=The Complete Brahms: A Guide to the Musical Works of Johannes|year=1999|location=New York, NY}}
* {{cite book|last=Botstein|first=Leon|title=Jefferson's Children: Education and the Promise of American Culture|year=1997|isbn=0-385-47555-1|publisher=Doubleday|location=New York, NY}}
* {{cite book|last=Botstein|first=Leon|title=Judentum und Modernität : Essays zur Rolle der Juden in der deutschen und österreichischen Kultur, 1848 bis 1938|publisher=Böhlau|year=1991|location=Vienna|isbn=3-205-05358-3}}

==Selected articles, essays, and chapters==
* (2020) {{cite book |last=Botstein|first=Leon|editor-first=Morten|editor-last= Kristiansen |title=Strauss in Context|publisher=Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press|chapter=Traditionalism|isbn=9781108379939|date=2020}}
* (2020) {{cite book |last=Botstein |first=Leon |editor-first=Nancy |editor-link=Nancy November |editor-last=November |title=The Cambridge Companion to the Eroica Symphony |publisher=Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press |chapter=The Eroica in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries |isbn=978-1108422581 |date=2020}}
* (2020) {{cite book |last=Botstein|first=Leon|editor-first=Benedict|editor-last=Taylor|title=Rethinking Mendelssohn|publisher=Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press|chapter=The Philosophical Composer: The Influence of Moses Mendelssohn and Friedrich Schleiermacher on Felix Mendelssohn|isbn=9780190611781|date=2020}}
* (2018) {{cite journal|title=Redeeming the Liberal Arts|journal=Liberal Education|volume=104|issue=4|pages=1–5|doi=10.1515/9780691202006-018|year=2018|last1=Botstein|first1=L.|s2cid=241873827 |doi-access=}}
* (2017) {{cite news|title=Hungary's xenophobic attack on Central European University is a threat to freedom everywhere|newspaper=Washington Post|date=April 4, 2017}}<ref>{{cite web|last1=Botstein|first1=Leon|title=Hungary's xenophobic attack on Central European University is a threat to freedom everywhere|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2017/04/04/hungarys-xenophobic-attack-on-central-european-university-is-a-threat-to-freedom-everywhere/|website=washingtonpost.com|access-date=4 April 2017}}</ref>
* (2017) {{cite journal|title=American Universities Must Take a Stand|journal=New York Times|date=February 8, 2017}}<ref>{{cite news|last1=Botstein|first1=Leon|title=American Universities Must Take a Stand|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/08/opinion/american-universities-must-take-a-stand.html?ref=opinion&_r=0|newspaper=The New York Times|date=February 8, 2017|access-date=8 February 2017}}</ref>
* (2016) {{cite news|title=Bard president draws parallels between European anti-Semitism and American racism to explain Trump's win|newspaper=Washington Post|date=December 16, 2016}}<ref>{{cite web|last1=Ross|first1=Janell|title=Bard president draws parallels between European anti-Semitism and American racism to explain Trump's win|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/bard-president-draws-parallel-between-postwar-european-anti-semitism-and-2016-american-racism-to-explain-trumps-win/2016/12/16/628aee90-c2d4-11e6-aa03-f2e1260448ff_story.html|website=washingtonpost.com|access-date=16 December 2016}}</ref>
* (2016) {{cite magazine|title=The Election Was About Racism Against Barack Obama|magazine=TIME|date=December 13, 2016}}<ref>{{cite magazine|last1=Botstein|first1=Leon|title=The Election Was About Racism Against Barack Obama|url=https://time.com/4597969/election-racism-obama/|magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|date=December 13, 2016 |access-date=13 December 2016}}</ref>
* (2016) {{cite magazine|title=Why the Next President Should Forgive All Student Loans|magazine=TIME|date=August 12, 2016}}<ref>{{cite web |last1=Botstein |first1=Leon |date=August 12, 2016 |title=Why the Next President Should Forgive All Student Loans |url=https://money.com/next-president-should-forgive-all-student-loans/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200818165413/https://money.com/next-president-should-forgive-all-student-loans/ |archive-date=August 18, 2020 |website=[[Money.com]]}}</ref>
* (2016) {{cite book |last=Botstein |first=Leon |editor-first=Jacques |editor-last=Picard |title=Makers of Jewish Modernity: Thinkers, Artists, Leaders, and the World They Made |publisher=Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press|chapter=Walther Rathenau (1867-1922): Bildung, Prescription, Prophecy |isbn=9780691164236|date=2016-08-09 }}
* (2015) {{cite journal|title=Can Music Speak Truth to Power?|journal=Musical America|date=August 12, 2015}}<ref>{{cite web|last1=Botstein|first1=Leon|title=Can Music Speak Truth to Power?|url=https://www.musicalamerica.com/features/?fid=205&fyear=2015|website=musicalamerica.com}}</ref>
* (2014) {{cite magazine|title=The SAT is Part Hoax, Part Fraud|magazine=TIME|date=March 24, 2014|volume=183|issue=11|pages=17}}
* (2014) {{cite news|title=How an Anti-Semitic Composer Created 'Kol Nidre' and 'Moses'|newspaper=The Jewish Daily Forward|date=March 24, 2014}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://forward.com/articles/194853/how-an-anti-semitic-composer-created-kol-nidre-and/|title=How an Anti-Semitic Composer Created 'Kol Nidre' and 'Moses'|author=Leon Botstein|date=24 March 2014|work=The Forward}}</ref>
* (2014) {{cite news|title=Book Review: 'Mad Music' by Stephen Budiansky & 'Charles Ives in the Mirror' by David C. Paul|newspaper=The Wall Street Journal|date=August 1, 2014}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/book-review-mad-music-by-stephen-budiansky-charles-ives-in-the-mirror-by-david-c-paul-1406927119|title=Book Review: 'Mad Music' by Stephen Budiansky & 'Charles Ives in the Mirror' by David C. Paul|author=Leon Botstein|date=1 August 2014|work=The Wall Street Journal}}</ref>
* (2013) {{cite news|title=Resisting Complacency, Fear, and the Philistine: The University and its Challenges|newspaper=The Hedgehog Review|date=June 1, 2013}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://hedgehogreview.com/issues/the-american-dream/articles/resisting-complacency-fear-and-the-philistine-the-university-and-its-challenges|title=Resisting Complacency, Fear, and the Philistine: The University and its Challenges|author=Leon Botstein|date=1 June 2013|work=The Hedgehog Review}}</ref>
* (2011) {{cite book |last=Botstein |first=Leon |editor-first=Jane |editor-last=Fulcher |title=The Oxford Handbook to the New Cultural History of Music |publisher=New York: Oxford University Press|pages=256–304 |chapter=The Eye of the Needle: Music as History after the Age of Recording |isbn=978-0-19-534186-7|date=2011-09-29 }}
* (2010) {{cite news|title=The High School Sinkhole|url=http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/18/a-diploma-in-10th-grade/?scp=1&sq=the%20high%20school%20sinkhole&st=cse|newspaper=New York Times|date=February 10, 2010}}
* (2010) {{cite news|title=Why Mahler?|newspaper=Wall Street Journal|date=October 9, 2010}}
* (2009) {{cite magazine|title=For the Love of Learning|magazine=The New Republic|date=March 2, 2009}}
* (2009) {{cite news|title=Recovery Depends on School Reform|url=http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/06/preparing-for-the-next-job-market/?scp=1&sq=recovery%20depends%20on%20school%20reform&st=cse|newspaper=New York Times|date=February 2, 2009}}
* (2008) {{cite news|title=The Unsung Success of Live Classical Music|newspaper=Wall Street Journal|date=October 3, 2008}}
* (2007) {{cite journal|title=Freud and Wittgenstein: Language and human nature|journal=Psychoanalytic Psychology|date=March 24, 2007|volume=24|issue=4|pages=603–622|doi=10.1037/0736-9735.24.4.603|last1=Botstein|first1=Leon}}
* (2006) {{cite news|title=Memories of beginnings past|url=https://www.jpost.com/local-israel/in-jerusalem/memories-of-beginnings-past|newspaper=The Jerusalem Post|date=September 21, 2006}}
* (2006) {{cite news|title=Milton Babbitt: Speaking Truth Through Music|url=https://www.chronicle.com/article/milton-babbitt-speaking-truth-through-music/|newspaper=The Chronicle of Higher Education|date=April 14, 2006}}
* (2005) {{cite book |last=Botstein|first=Leon|editor-first=Emily|editor-last=Bilski|title= Jewish Women and Their Salons: The Power of Conversation|publisher=New Haven, CT: Yale University Press|chapter=Music, Femininity, and Jewish Identity: The Tradition and Legacy of the Salon|isbn=9780300103854|date=2005}}
* (2004) {{cite book |last=Botstein|first=Leon|editor-first=Judea and Ruth|editor-last=Pearl|title=I Am Jewish: Personal Reflections Inspired by the Last Words of Daniel Pearl|publisher=Woodstock, VT: Jewish Lights Publishing|chapter=Being Jewish|isbn=9781580232593|date=2004}}
* (2003) {{cite book |last=Botstein|first=Leon|editor-first=José|editor-last=Bowen|title=The Cambridge Companion to Conducting|publisher=Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press|chapter=The Future of Conducting|isbn=978-0521527910|date=2003}}
* (2003) {{cite news|title=The Merit Myth|newspaper=The New York Times|date=January 14, 2003}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/14/opinion/the-merit-myth.html|title=The Merit Myth|author=Leon Botstein|date=14 January 2003|work=The New York Times}}</ref>
* (2001) {{cite book |last=Botstein|first=Leon|editor-first=Douglas|editor-last=Seaton|title=The Mendelssohn Companion|publisher=Westport, CT: Greenwood Press|chapter=Neoclassicism, Romanticism, and Emancipation: The Origins of Felix Mendelssohn’s Aesthetic Outlook|isbn=978-0313284458|date=2001}}
* (2001) {{cite news|title=We Waste Our Children's Time|newspaper=The New York Times|date=January 24, 2001}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/25/opinion/we-waste-our-children-s-time.html?|title=We Waste Our Children's Time|author=Leon Botstein|date=24 January 2001|work=The New York Times}}</ref>
* (2000) {{cite news|title=What Local Control?|newspaper=The New York Times|date=September 19, 2000}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/19/opinion/what-local-control.html|title=What Local Control?|author=Leon Botstein|date=19 September 2000|work=The New York Times}}</ref>
* (2000) {{cite book |last=Botstein|first=Leon|editor-first=Stanley|editor-last=Glenn|title=The Cambridge Companion to Beethoven|publisher=Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press|chapter= Sound and Structure in Beethoven's Orchestral Music|isbn= 978-1139002202 |date=2000}}

==Selected recordings==
* (2020) [[Arthur Honegger]], [[Dimitri Mitropoulos]], and [[Othmar Schoeck]]. [http://theorchestranow.org The Orchestra Now]. Bridge.
* (2020) [[Erich Wolfgang Korngold]], [[Frederic Chopin]], and [[Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov]]. [http://theorchestranow.org The Orchestra Now] with [[Orion Weiss]]. Bridge.
* (2019) [[Arthur Bliss]], [[Edmund Rubbra]], and [[Arnold Bax]]. [http://theorchestranow.org The Orchestra Now] with [[Piers Lane]]. Hyperion.
* (2018) [[Ferdinand Ries]]. ''Piano Concertos No. 8 & 9''. [http://theorchestranow.org 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) [[Gavriil Popov (composer)|Gavril Popov]]: ''Symphony No. 1, Op. 7,'' [[Dimitri Shostakovich]]: ''Theme & Variations, Op. 3.'' [[London Symphonic Orchestra]]. Terlarc. Nominated for a [[Grammy|Grammy Award]] in [[Grammy Award for Best Orchestral Performance|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 (Bruckner)#Schalk's_published_edition,_1896|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==
* [http://www.bard.edu Bard College]
* [http://www.americansymphony.org/ American Symphony Orchestra]
* [http://fishercenter.bard.edu/ Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts]
* [http://fishercenter.bard.edu/bmf Bard Music Festival]
* [http://fishercenter.bard.edu/summerscape Bard SummerScape]
* [https://www.amazon.com/s?i=popular&rh=p_32%3ALeon+Botstein&ref=dp_byline_sr_music_1 Leon Botstein's Discography]

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