Czech music, and his published works include Dvorak and His World and Janacek and His World, both for Princeton University Press. He received the Janacek Medal from the Czech Republic and is a Laureate of the Czech Music Council, and also writes regularly for the New York Times. Philip Bohlman serves as Mary Werkman Distinguished Service Professor of Music and the Humanities at the University of Chicago, where he also serves on the Jewish Studies faculty. His published works include Jewish Music and Modernity (Oxford University Press, 2008), The Music of European Nationalism: Cultural Identity and Modern History (2nd ed., revised: Routledge, 2009), World Music: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2002). A pianist, he also is the artistic director of the New Budapest Orpheum Society, a Jewish cabaret ensemble at Chicago. Leon Botstein has been the president of Bard College since 1975. As a conductor, he serves as the music director of both the American Symphony Orchestra and the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra. Dr. Botstein is the author of Jefferson's Children: Education and the Promise of American Culture, editor of The Musical Quarterly, co-editor of Jews and the City of Vienna, 1870-1938, and editor of The Compleat Brahms. He has been the recipient of the Carnegie Corporation Academic Leadership Award, the Award for Distinguished Service to the Arts from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Harvard University's Centennial Award, and the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art.is President James Borders is the Glenn McGeoch Collegiate Professor