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MondayMarch 1, 2010 |
Trustees: Suggestions welcome for future honorandsNormally four or five in number, our honorary degree recipients are diverse persons of great distinction whose achievements are consonant with the values of Bates College. |
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ThursdayMarch 14, 1996 |
Distinguished conductor and cellist to receive honorary degreeRostropovich’s fame as a cellist started at the age of 13 in 1940, when he played with an orchestra conducted by his father. He first performed in the United States in 1956 as part of a Soviet-American cultural exchange program. |