Public Appearances
- Botstein was interviewed as a guest on The Colbert Report on June 4, 2007 and again on October 5, 2010.
- On August 12, 2009, Botstein appeared on the Charlie Rose Show on PBS to discuss the Al-Quds Bard Partnership, a groundbreaking collaboration in Jerusalem between Bard College and Al-Quds University.
- Botstein is regularly featured on Albany, New York-area NPR affiliate WAMC-FM.
- Botstein was the Keynote Speaker at the Stuyvesant High School 2007 Graduation on June 25, 2007
- He conducted the revival of John Foulds's World Requiem at the Royal Albert Hall in London on 11 November 2007.
- American premiere of the Herbstsymphonie (Autumn Symphony) by Austrian composer Joseph Marx on December 7, 2008 with the American Symphony Orchestra in Avery Fisher Hall, NY.
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