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Article: Notable composer and society member William Bolcom defended the Arts in an address at University of Michigan's Phi Kappa Phi spring initiation.(Chapter Update)
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- Phi Kappa Phi Forum
- Article date:
- June 22, 2009
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Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and Phi Kappa Phi member William Bolcom urged Americans to take care of the artistic health of the nation, especially in a recession, in a keynote speech at the University of Michigan Phi Kappa Phi chapter 39 induction ceremony on March 15.
Bolcom, who retired in 2008 after 35 years of teaching at the university's School of Music, based his remarks largely on his celebrated and versatile works for the concert hall, opera, cabaret, stage, ballet and film--for doing "what a busy composer does these days in the 20th and 21st centuries." as he put it. At the same time, the 2006 National Medal of Arts recipient provided a perspective on ...