Hilary Field Respass has been appointed president and executive director of The Hochstein School, effective July 1. Respass has served as executive director of Boston University Tanglewood Institute since 2014. Prior to that she held the leadership role at the community divisions of The Hartt School at the University of Hartford in Connecticut – a .April 26, 2022
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If the Douglass family was a piece of music, Tanglewood would be a central motif. Now the Douglasses are adding a
fortissimo climax.
Chair of the Boston University Tanglewood Institute Advisory Council, Chester “Chet” W. Douglass and his wife, Joy, have pledged $1 million to launch the Tanglewood Institute Young Artists Fund, the largest gift in the 54-year history of the Boston University Tanglewood Institute (BUTI).
BUTI is a summer training program for promising musicians, singers, and composers 14 to 20 years old, on its own 64-acre campus in Lenox, Mass. The new fund, created to strengthen the more than five-decade partnership between the Institute and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, marks a significant investment in the training of young artists through a continuum of music education connecting BUTI and Tanglewood, the BSO’s summer home, just down the street.
LENOX â The Boston University Tanglewood Institute has launched its Young Artists Fund with a $1 million pledge by Dr. Chester W. Douglass and his wife, Joy, operators of the seasonal Douglass House bed-and-breakfast on the shores of the Stockbridge Bowl.
The pledge is the largest in BUTIâs 55-year history, according to an announcement from the Boston University College of Fine Arts, which operates the summer institute on West Street for young musicians.
Hilary Field Respass, executive director of Boston Universityâs Tanglewood Institute in Lenox, applauded the gift from Dr. Chester W. Douglass and his wife, Joy. Douglass, chairman of the instituteâs advisory council, âhas been an invaluable leader for BUTI for the past six years,â Respass said.
Lenox â The Boston University Tanglewood Institute campus on West Street (Route 183) will be closed for the second consecutive summer because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
But, the program for young musicians ages 14 through 20 will offer 20 online choices for instrumentalists, singers and composers, according to a BU announcement.
The decision to go virtual as âBUTI From Anywhere 2021â stems from the universityâs decision to place all its various summer pre-college programs online, said Hilary Field Respass, executive director of BUTI. The institute is part of the Boston University College of Fine Arts.
It has nothing to do with whatever the Boston Symphony Orchestra decides about Tanglewood this summer, she said. Nor was it due to the lack of state guidance, so far, on whether overnight camps for young people can operate during the season.