Blashfield Address
In 1916 Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield established a fund for an annual address that would assist the American Academy of Arts and Letters to both preserve the English language in its beauty and integrity, and to cautiously enrich it with such terms as grow out of the modern condition. The focus of the address has evolved over the decades, and is now devoted to some aspect of arts or letters by a distinguished speaker.
Click here for a list of Blashfield Address speakers.
2011 Speaker
 Rocco Landesman |
The 2011 Blashfield Address, titled The Play’s The Thing, was delivered by Rocco Landesman at the Ceremonial on May 18, 2011. Mr. Landesman has taught dramatic literature at Yale, produced several Broadway shows, and served as president of Jujamcyn, a company that owns and operates five Broadway theaters. Since 2009 he has served at chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts.
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