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Berklee Appoints New President: Photographs
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Accredited journalists covering Berklee's Presidential Announcement Press Event may download the photographs below.
Journalists downloading images should see the following web pages:
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All photographs by Farnsworth/Blalock Photos, except where otherwise noted.
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Jazz vocal quartet Syncopation opened the event with a gorgeous set that included "My Romance" and "Cherokee." From left: students Christy Bluhm, Jeremy Ragsdale, Christine Fawson (faculty), and Lee Abe.
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Allan McLean, chair of the Berklee College of Music Board of Trustees, speaks about the presidential search process to students, faculty, alumni, and staff gathered in the David Friend Recital Hall.
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Board of Trustees Chair Allan McLean has the happy task of building the suspense and cueing the introductory drumroll...
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...from Associate Professor Kenwood Dennard, who has played with Miles Davis, Sting, and Herbie Hancock. He based the drumroll on Roger Brown's name in Morse code.
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Then Berklee's next president, Roger Brown, took his turn at the podium. He thanked those involved, got a few laughs, and closed with a quotation from the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore that spoke to the melding of work and joy.
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Brown was joined onstage by his wife, Linda Mason, while Allan McLean read a statement of support from President Berk, who was in Los Angeles at the Grammys, accepting the President's Merit Award from the Recording Academy.
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Many in the standing-room-only house had a chance to congratulate the president-elect.
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