Both will address graduates, students and community members at the annual celebration. The school will present Titus Underwood, principal oboe of the Nashville Symphony Orchestra and 2021 Sphinx Medal of Excellence recipient, with its Alumni Achievement Award, which recognizes significant professional contributions to the field. Sellars and McClary both received MacArthur Foundation Fellowships – the so-called “genius grants” – for their visionary work at the intersection of music and humanity.ĭuring Honors Convocation on Tuesday, June 1, at 7pm EDT, CIM will honor Melissa Kraut, co-head of cello at CIM and co-founder of the Sitka Cello Seminar, with its Distinguished Alumni Award, which honors alumni who have attained the highest stature in their field. The school will confer Honorary Doctorates upon them at that time. We’ll be kicking off our celebration on December 14.Ground-breaking opera stage director Peter Sellars and iconic musicologist Susan McClary will address graduates at the Cleveland Institute of Music’s 96th Commencement Ceremony on Wednesday, June 2, at 7pm EDT. The statistics for both this blog and the discography show us that there is a lot of interest in Tony Bennett’s Christmas music and we are delighted to do this again. A Sun newsman named Francis Pharcellus Church wrote the now-famous column “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.” You can read Virginia’s letter and the column at the Newseum website.Īnd, while we’re on the subject, once again The Year of Tony Bennett will help celebrate the Christmas season with another edition of The Twelve Days of a Tony Bennett Christmas. Then I was reminded of the story of the little girl who, in 1897, wrote the New York Sun to inquire of the editor if it was true what her friends had told her, that there was no Santa Claus. It’s one of Tony’s lesser known recordings, I’m Comin’ Virginia, recorded in 1961 for the album My Heart Sings. Seriously, though, I did find the page that Santa visited quite interesting. I’ve “smudged” Santa’s ISP and IP address to protect his privacy. How do I know this?Įarlier today I was reviewing the statistics for The Interactive Tony Bennett Discography and found this engaging visitor: I have incontrovertible proof (more or less) that Santa Claus loves Tony Bennett.

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