As we begin this blog about enrollment, with something of a focus on admission (beginning), ironically, we at Berklee just experienced our "end". Yesterday was our commencement, the formal end of a long and challenging road for over 800 students who completed requirements for our diploma or degree. Doubly ironic, we call "graduation" commencement, from the french, "to start". And so it is for our graduates both an ending of a phase in their lives with us at Berklee, but also a beginning, a starting point.
Motown legend Smokey Robinson, our Commencement speaker and honorary doctorate recipient, encouraged students to use the international language of music to speak to the world. Linda Ronstadt, another honoree, spoke eloquently of the transcendent power of music while merengue superstar and Berklee alumnus Juan Luis Guerra emotionally acknowledged his wife and children and his native Dominicans for the honor. Noted producer and sound engineer George Massenburg encouraged graduates to be part of the next generation of musicians who will take sound quality to a higher level.
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