Was Still Teaching … Even On His Deathbed I am saddened to inform you of the passing of our esteemed colleague and dear friend, Professor Emeritus of Music Roman Totenberg. A survivor of two world wars, Roman offered the world hope and love through his extraordinary music-making. First guided in his art by 19th century [...]
Composer Was Dean of the College of Fine Arts 1992-2000 I am sorry to announce that Bruce MacCombie has passed away after a long illness. He served as dean of the College of Fine Arts (then School for the Arts) from 1992-2000. A distinguished composer and theorist, his works have been recorded on the BGS [...]
March 6, 2012 at 12:37 am
I was honored to have British MP and former Culture Minister David Lammy speak and take questions in my arts leadership class this evening. The Labour party member who is expected to seek higher office, spoke of the transformative role choral singing played in his development as a young man. Lammy emphasized that art teaches [...]
February 16, 2012 at 11:55 am
A”perfectly cast ensemble performs some of the most enduring songs and theatre music ever written…Morris Robinson (Joe) sing(s) with touching realism and personal connection… No one should miss it“– Chicago Sun-Times See a short introduction of this lavish production by Renee Flemming and hear Morris Robinson sing: http://bit.ly/y95Y1x
January 11, 2012 at 4:09 pm
CFA salutes George Whitman (COM’35, SMG’35), who died at 98 shortly before Christmas, founded Shakespeare and Company, a harbor for any writer from expatriate celebrities to drug-addled wannabes, in 1951. Bracketed by the Seine and Notre-Dame, the store, named after the French bookshop that was the Jazz Age haunt of Hemingway and Fitzgerald, attracted its [...]
December 15, 2011 at 12:14 pm
Arnold Schoenberg: A Survivor from Warsaw from BU School of Music on Vimeo. I am pleased to announce the launch of our newest web initiative, BU’s Virtual Concert Hall. We have decided to coincide the launch with the release of the video production of our most recent concert at Symphony Hall, which featured a great [...]
December 13, 2011 at 6:15 pm
By the numbers: $1.68 = One grande coffee. $1.46 = Amount of yearly U.S. (state and federal) arts funding per person. In a recent letter to the editor published in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Benjamín Juárez, Dean of the College of Fine Arts, explains how arts infrastructure is being “dismantled” by shrinking state and [...]
October 25, 2011 at 11:47 am
Florida Governor Rick Scott (R) has proposed reducing state aid to educational programs that are not in the fields of science, technology, engineering or math. This is a bad idea. I support Michael Crow’s (president, Arizona State University) position that our graduates must have the “ability to understand the complexity and interrelatedness of our cultural, [...]
October 20, 2011 at 3:42 pm
Dear College of Fine Arts Alumna/us: I have recently completed my “freshman” year as dean of the Boston University College of Fine Arts. My course of study, not surprisingly, was two invigorating semesters of what might be called “CFA 101.” I have learned many things—about the interests of my fellow faculty members, the ambitions of [...]
October 13, 2011 at 11:25 am
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