Brandeis, Long Linked to Leonard Bernstein, to End Music Ph.D. Programs

Brandeis University (MA) will put its two doctoral programs in music composition and theory and in musicology on hiatus with plans to close them, The Boston Globe reported. The university, whose list of most famous faculty members included Leonard Bernstein early in its existence, sent a letter to faculty members last week saying that it was no longer in a position to sustain the two Ph.D. programs at the required level,