ALPERT MAKES $15 MILLION DONATION TO MUSIC SCHOOL
Trumpeter HERB ALPERT has donated $15 million (£7.5 million) to the California Institute Of Arts’ School Of Music, just months after donating $30 million (£15 million) to a nearby university.
The A&M label founder will be honoured for his generous monetary gift - the school will now be renamed the Herb Alpert School Of Music.
In November (07), Alpert handed over $30 million to pay for a new music school at the University Of California, Los Angeles via his Herb Alpert Foundation.
The 73-year-old says, "Are these gifts accelerating as I’m getting older? Not really.
"When I first visited the CalArts campus in the early 1990s, it was a real exciting moment to see students being free and expressing themselves. I felt that CalArts was a real creative place where people could push the edges and come up with things that are different from what we’ve heard in the past.
"It’s a new paradigm out there now. It takes, I think, these young artists to figure out how best to get through the maze."
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