Ella Baff, Executive Director of Jacob's Pillow Dance Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival at 78 is the longest running dance festival in America. Each summer the Berkshires in Massachusetts come alive with over 150 dance performances, some of which are free.

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The President and Mrs. Obama welcome you to The White House in recognition of the recipients of the 2010 NATIONAL MEDAL OF ARTS and the NATIONAL HUMANITIES MEDAL
Van Cliburn, Philip Roth, James Taylor, Quincy Jones, Joyce Carol Oates and others
March 2, 2011
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President Barack Obama awarded a 2010 National Medal of Arts and National Humanities Medal to Van Cliburn for his contributions as one of the greatest pianists in the history of music. President Obama awarded the 2010 National Medal of Arts and National Humanities Medal to 20 honorees in the East Room of the White House on March 2, 2011 in Washington DC. The citation read “The 2010 National Medal of Arts to Van Cliburn for his contributions as one of the greatest pianists in the history of music, and as a persuasive ambassador for American culture. Since his historic 1958 victory at the first International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, Mr. Cliburn has reached across political frontiers with the universal message of beautiful music." (Photo by Jeff Malet)

Robert Brustein, theatre critic, producer, playwright, and founder of the Yale Repertory Theatre and the American Repertory Theatre.

Donald Hall, the poet laureate of the United States from 2006 to 2007

Ella Baff, Executive Director of Jacob's Pillow Dance
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival at 78 is the longest running dance festival in America. Each summer the Berkshires in Massachusetts come alive with over 150 dance performances, some of which are free.

Quincy Jones for his extraordinary contributions to American music as a musician, composer, record producer, and arranger. As a master inventor of musical hybrids, he has mixed pop, soul, hip-hop, jazz, classical, African, and Brazilian music into many dazzling fusions, traversing virtually every medium, including records, live performances, movies, and television.

Sonny Rollins is a Grammy-winning American jazz tenor saxophonist. Rollins is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential jazz musicians. A number of his compositions, including "St. Thomas", "Oleo", "Doxy", and "Airegin", have become jazz standards.

Ella Baff, Executive Director of Jacob's Pillow Dance
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival at 78 is the longest running dance festival in America. Each summer the Berkshires in Massachusetts come alive with over 150 dance performances, some of which are free.

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