Clint Eastwood Receives Berklee Degree at Monterey Jazz Festival
November 5, 2007—VIDEO UPDATE: Now you can watch Clint Eastwood receive his honorary doctorate, an award he called "one of the great honors I'll cherish in this lifetime."
September 24, 2007
President Roger Brown and Larry Simpson, senior vice president for academic affairs, conferred an honorary doctorate on film director, producer, actor and longtime Monterey Jazz Festival board member Clint Eastwood on Saturday, September 22. The ceremony took place as part of the celebration for the Monterey Jazz Festival's 50th anniversary. Star Berklee alumna Diana Krall '83 was present on the Jimmy Lyons stage to help bestow the honor on a man who's chosen masterworks by Johnny Hartman, Irene Kral, and Dave Brubeck for his film soundtracks, has composed his own jazz pieces, and made documentaries about seminal figures in the genre, including Bird. The Berklee Monterey Quartet, four of Berklee's finest young musicians, performed at the festival, helping demonstrate that the next generation of talent is ready and raring to appeal to audiences Eastwood has helped to develop through the world of cinema.
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Clint Eastwood (second from left, flanked by Berklee president Roger H. Brown and Diana Krall '83) looks at the doctoral collar, held by Larry Simpson, senior vice president for academic affairs.
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