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Leon Botstein is a Swiss-born American conductor and musicologist who was president of Bard College from 1975 to 2026. Botstein is credited with transforming Bard and significantly raising its international profile over the course of his long tenure as president. His retirement from the presidency in June 2026 was colored by revelations that he had maintained a friendly relationship with financier and child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein between 2011 and 2018. In October 2026, he resigned from his remaining roles at Bard College, as Leon Levy Professor in the Arts and Humanities and as principal conductor of the Bard College Conservatory of Music orchestra, after more than 50 years at the institution. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Bo...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)
