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For Release Upon Receipt — March 6, 2006
Carnegie Hall Concert to Kick Off Boston University Presidential Inauguration Events
The inauguration of Boston University President Robert A. Brown begins on a high note at New York’s Carnegie Hall when the Boston University Symphony Orchestra and Symphonic Chorus perform in his honor at 8pm on Tuesday, April 18, nine days before the formal on-campus ceremony to install Brown as BU’s tenth president.
Presented by Boston University’s College of Fine Arts, the concert at Isaac Stern Auditorium in the country’s premier venue for classical music is expected to attract many of the nearly 50,000 BU alumni who reside in the tri-state area.
The BU Symphony Orchestra, conducted by David Hoose, will perform Ralph Vaughan Williams’ “Symphony No.4 in F minor.” Williams’ “Dona nobis pacem,” with Ann Howard Jones conducting the Orchestra and Symphonic Chorus, comprises the second half of the program, featuring performances by soloists Michelle Johnson, soprano, and Simon Estes, bass-baritone. Hoose is professor of Music and Director of Orchestral Activities in the BU School of Music, and Jones is professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities.
"The College of Fine Arts is thrilled to honor President Brown in the prestigious setting of Carnegie Hall, and to welcome him to New York, home to so many Boston University students, past and present," said CFA Dean ad interim Walt Meissner.
Concert tickets are available exclusively through the Carnegie Hall box office at (212) 247-7800 or www.carnegiehall.org.
At 3pm on Thursday, April 27, Dr. Brown formally takes the helm of the nation’s fourth largest private university at ceremonies at BU’s Agganis Arena, followed on Friday by day-long symposia examining the institution’s multi-faceted role in the city of Boston, as an educator, as a contributor to research, and in the world. A full schedule of inaugural events and information is available at www.bu.edu/inauguration.
Selected in May 2005, Dr. Brown assumed the BU presidency in September after 25 years at MIT, the final seven as provost. A distinguished scholar and an innovative leader in higher education, the Texas native earned his Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota and a B.S. and M.S. in chemical engineering at the University of Texas at Austin.
Boston University College of Fine Arts is a conservatory-style school, offering professional training in Music, Theatre Arts, and Visual Arts along with a liberal arts curriculum to graduate and undergraduate students. The School of Music, founded in 1873, combines the intimacy and intensity of conservatory training with a broadly based, traditional liberal arts education.