Welcome to Berklee - Entering Class of 2009

It's finally arrived! Move in day and Orientation are underway at Berklee today. Over 1000 students from around the world are descending on Boston today and tomorrow. Our Student Affairs and Orientation teams are doing an awesome job of welcoming students and their parents.

Parking and driving is not easy in this city on a good day, but when thousands of folks arrive to move in at all the area schools (Northeastern, MIT, Harvard and many others are very close to Berklee), it gets pretty wild. I'm glad to see that our students are finding the move-in process a little less stressful than in previous years - in part because of the communications improvements our staff have made...

Anyway...we welcome our new students. It's SO exciting to start another year of school at Berklee!

Fitness Programs offered through Berklee's LiveWell Initiative?

Fall 2009 and Spring 2010 Fitness Offerings for Berklee Students

Five Area Clubs (including branches) provide discounted student membership. Programs have been further reduced at Tennis and Racquet Club Fitness Center, Boston Kung Fu Tai Chi Institute, Healthworks for Women (5 locations), Simmons College Fitness Center, and the Greater Boston YMCA (17 locations) are partially subsidized by Berklee’s strategic initiative LiveWell. Questions may be directed to livewell@berklee.edu or phone 617-747-2411.

1. Tennis & Racquet Club Fitness Center

Conveniently located, newly renovated, comprehensive weight training equipment and a cardiovascular fitness center, personal trainer

Free three visits between Sept 2-26

939 Boylston Street – Ground Floor

Phone: 617-536-4630 Manager: Tom Dobbins

tandr.org

Student Hours: M-F 6am-4pm and 7pm-11pm and Sat + Sun 10am-8pm – unlimited use

Semester fitness membership (Sept 2 – Dec 20, 2009) for $90, payable directly to Tennis & Racquet Club (check, credit card, and cash)

2. Boston Kung Fu Tai Chi Institute

Over 20 years instructing the Berklee community in Tai Chi, Kung Fu, and Kickboxing. Close to campus.

Free Week Trial Membership Sept 2 - 26

883 Boylston Street, 4th Floor

Phone: (617) 262-0600 taichi.com

Owners/Instructors: Yao Li, Joshua Grant

Memberships: Fee: $90 for semester (Sept 1-Dec 20), payable directly to BKFTC

3. The YMCA of Greater Boston Huntington Ave Branch

YMCA Huntington Ave will hold Open Houses for Berklee Community. Great Savings. Membership includes pool, over 40 weekly group classes, a huge selection of strength training equipment, courts, use of any of their 17 facilities

Phone: (617) 927-8255 ymcaboston.org

Membership Director: Xavier Rhinehart

Single membership: $37.50/month with joining fee. Payable directly to the YMCA

Open Houses: 5am - 11pm on

Wednesday, September 9, Thursday, September 17, Wednesday, September 23 andThursday, October 1

Join on any of these dates and your joining fee of $50 will be waived.

Phone: (617) 927-8255

Website: ymcaboston.org

Membership: Xavier Rhinehart

A variety of programs. Single membership: $37.50/month with joining fee. Payable directly to the Y

4. Simmons College Fitness Center

300 The Fenway Contact: livewell@berklee.edu

simmons.edu/athletics/facilities/holmes/index.php

Memberships: Limited to 45, Fee: $90/ semester

Memberships go on sale at The Bursar on Wednesday, September 9.


5. Healthworks for Women

Wide variety of classes offered and workout at your choice of 5 locations including nearby 441 Stuart Street (Copley Square/Back Bay)

Phone: (617) 859-7700

healthworksfitness.com

Membership: Stephanie Nelson

Membership fees: $53-$43/ month; Student promotion –check Announcements.

LiveWell Website: http://www.berklee.net/st/Livewell_Information.html

LiveWell Updates also posted on my.berklee.net > Announcements

Orientation just 10 days away for New Students at Berklee College of Music

The countdown is on...

Just 10 days until Orientation 2009 begins for the entering class. We're expecting just over 1000 students from around the world to join the Berklee community starting August 31. Our orientation staff and countless others have been planned a truly outstanding welcoming program for students and families.

Our students are filled with such enthusiasm for music and life - we can't wait to welcome them to Boston!

Les Paul - RIP

Berklee was probably the first place in the world that really took the teaching of jazz and rock guitar seriously. Much is owed to the great Les Paul who was an extraordinary pioneer with respect to guitar construction and sound engineering. He died yesterday.

Here he is with his wife in the 1950's demonstrating the possibilities associated with multi-tracks:

Berklee College of Music and Its Online Presence.

Here's a bunch of cool links to various social networks with Berklee info. It's not even close to all of the various places where we share info but, it's a start. Know of more? Share them! Enjoy:

Berklee on Twitter

Berklee College of Music main page

http://twitter.com/BerkleeCollege/

Berklee College of Music Enrollment

http://twitter.com/berklee_enroll

Concerts, tips, rumors, communication

http://twitter.com/Berkleenow

Berklee College of Music on MySpace

http://www.myspace.com/berkleecollegeofmusic

Berklee on Facebook

http://www.facebook.com/BerkleeCollege

Berklee on Tour

http://www.berkleeontour.com/

Berklee Online

Our online school, berkleemusic.com, and its youtube page: http://www.youtube.com/user/berkleemusic?blend=7&ob=4

Folk, Bluegrass, Celtic Country? At Berklee? Or...a little story about the Folk Arts Quartet

Berklee has worked hard over the past several years to attract and nurture students from an ever widening array of musical genres. One result has been a growing community of musicians interested in Bluegrass, Celtic, Roots, Folk or hybrids thereof.

Read

this cool article

from "Cover Lay Down" about one band that formed at BCM! It says in part:

Someone’s doing something right at the Berklee College of Music. As a gathering place for talented musicians steeped in a variety of traditions, it has long held a reputation both a natural source for emerging artists and a hotbed of hybridization. You may not have realized it, but the odds are excellent that at least some of your own favorite artists attended the prestigious school, from Patty Larkin, Gillian Welch, Bruce Cockburn and Susan Tedeschi to Melissa Etheridge, Bill Frisell, Donald Fagin, Juliana Hatfield, Aimee Mann and John Mayer.