Loading streams...
Now Playing
Connect with Us
Podcasts & RSS Feeds
| All Content |
| RSS |
| View all podcasts & RSS feeds | ||
Most Active Stories
- Minister Reflects On Decades As Elder In Methodist Church
- Two Teacher Training Programs, One Spot In The Budget
- Protesters Crowd Legislature For Fifth 'Moral Monday'
- After Innocence: Wrongfully Convicted Of Murder, Exonerated Days Before Execution Date
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Of NC Moving Out Of Iconic Chapel Hill Building
Hosts, Reporters and Producers
The State of Things
11:47 am
Tue March 22, 2011
A Renaissance Man For The Modern Age
By Amber Nimocks and Frank Stasio
- Leon Botstein speaks with host Frank Stasio before giving a series of talks at Duke University.
Leon Botstein is on a mission to make Americans think more. As president of Bard College in New York's Hudson Valley, he pushes science education as well as arts and humanities. This may surprise classical music fans who know him best as the music director and conductor of the American Symphony Orchestra. But Botstein clings to a classical view of academics, insisting that knowing something about everything is the best way to create an informed citizenry.