New CDs Capture HRO Beethoven Performances

Sterling Classics has just released Beethoven Live at Harvard, a four-CD collection of Beethoven performances by the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra led by HRO Conductor James Yannatos, senior lecturer on music. Recorded between 1983 and 1995, the discs include the Third (Eroica), Sixth (Pastoral), Seventh, and Ninth (Choral) Symphonies as well as the Fourth Piano Concerto and the Overture to Egmont.

The Glee Club, the Radcliffe Choral Society, and the Collegium Musicum lend their voices to the Ninth Symphony, and celebrated pianist Anton Kuerti solos in the concerto. Yannatos describes the recorded results as "exciting, well produced, and fully professional" in quality. Currently available through the HRO (496-6272), the set will soon appear in local record stores.

National Security Programs names new director

Lt. General James T. Scott (USA Ret.) has been named director of national security programs at the Kennedy School of Government.

Scott will direct the School's executive program in national security, a two-week management training program for senior military officers and senior civilians in the national defense establishment, and its national security fellows program, a one-year program in professional military education. He will also play a role in Harvard's expanding education and research efforts in defense and international affairs. He will succeed Lt. General (Ret.) Bernard Trainor.

Scott retired from the position of Commander of the U.S. Army Special Operations Command in September 1996. In that role, he was responsible for recruiting, training, equipping, and employing the nation's forces involved in special operations.

Borus wins Vestermark Award for excellence in psychiatric education

Jonathan F. Borus, professor of psychiatry at the Medical School and psychiatrist-in-chief at Brigham and Women's Hospital, has been named the winner of the 1997 Vestermark Award for excellence, leadership, and creativity in the field of psychiatric education.

Borus was cited for a number of accomplishments, including his national leadership in psychiatric education and for his work as founding editor of the journal, Academic Psychiatry.

Borus was also recognized for his contributions to innovative curricula for psychiatric residency training and his mentoring of psychiatric educators nationwide.

Borus will receive the award and give the annual Vestermark Lecture in May at the Scientific Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association in San Diego.