this year deborah rutter became the president of the john f. kennedy center for performing arts. she grew up in a family that loved music, her father was a founder of the los angeles master correll. rutter began playing the violin as a child and she said that playing the violin is how i found out who i was. rutter comes to washington from chicago, where she was president of the chicago symphony orchestra association, she said she was drawn to the kennedy center for the opportunity to use arts to affect the rest of the world. she wants to develop greater collaborations with other arts associations, including museums, theaters and untraditional groups. she said the kennedy center should have a seat at the table in dealing with challenging social and cultural issues. rutter is a prolific fund-raiser known for recruiting top talent. here she will serve as artistic and administrative leader for dance, chamber music and jazz. she will also oversee the national symphony orchestra and the national opera. she will be inheriting an ambitious $100 million renovation. please join me in welcom

here on c-span 3 at 8:00 eastern remarks from the president of the kennedy center, deborah rutter. on c-span 2 at 8:00 we'll show you american university citizenship conference, civic, business and education leaders discuss what it means to be citizen. on c-span at 8:00 we'll have more congressional retirement interviews. our foc

this year deborah rutter became the president of the john f. kennedy center for performing arts. she grew up in a family that loved music, her father was a founder of the los angeles master correll. rutter began playing the violin as a child and she said that playing the violin is how i found out who i was. rutter comes to washington from chicago, where she was president of the chicago symphony orchestra association, she said she was drawn to the kennedy center for the opportunity to use arts to affect the rest of the world. she wants to develop greater collaborations with other arts associations, including museums, theaters and untraditional groups. she said the kennedy center should have a seat at the table in dealing with challenging social and cultural issues. rutter is a prolific fund-raiser known for recruiting top talent. here she will serve as artistic and administrative leader for dance, chamber music and jazz. she will also oversee the national symphony orchestra and the national opera. she will be inheriting an ambitious $100 million renovation. please join me in welcom

at 8:00 eastern remarks by the president of kennedy center, deborah rutter on the importance of arts education. on c-span2 at 8:00. citizenship conference discussing what it means to be a citizen. and on c-span at 8:00, more congressional retirement interviews with michigan democratic senator carl levin and texas republican congress ralph hall, part of our week-long series. >>> this thanksgiving week c-span is featuring interviews from retiring members of congress. watch the interviews tonight through thursday at 8:00 p.m. eastern. >> as much as we've accomplished in 36 years, and i don't want to look back at that so much as to look forward to the next couple months, and in the next couple months there's a couple things i'd like to do. one is to get my defense authorization bill passed. this is an annual effort, a major effort involving large amounts of staff. i also want to finish up some work on the permanent subcommittee on investigations looking at some gimmicks which are used to avoid taxes. >> i've been a member of congress for 34 years, and, you know, to finally get beat, if i

now the new president of the kennedy center for the performing arts, deborah rutter, outlines her u future plans and emphasizes the importance of arts and education and cultural diplomacy, from the national press club, this is an hour. >>> good afternoon, and welcome. my name is myron delkheim, the washington school of media and public affairs and former international bureau chief with the associated press and the 107th president of the national press club, the national

here on c-span 3 at 8:00 eastern remarks from the president of the kennedy center, deborah rutter. on c-span 2 at 8:00 we'll show you american university citizenship conference, civic, business and education leaders discuss what it means to be citizen. on c-span at 8:00 we'll have more congressional retirement interviews. our focus will be on senator carl levin and representative ralph hall. >>> this thanksgiving week c-span is featuring interviews from retiring members of congress. watch the interviews through thursday at 8:00 p.m. eastern. >> much as we've accomplished in 36 years i don't want to look back at that so much as to look forward to the next couple of months. in the next couple of months there's a couple of things i would like to do. one is to get my defense authorization bill passed. this is an annual effort, a major effort involving large amounts of staff. i would also want to finish up some work on the permanent subcommittee on investigations, looking at some gimmicks which are used to avoid taxes. >> i've been a member of congress for 34 years and, you know, to fin

here on c-span 3 at 8:00 eastern remarks from the president of the kennedy center, deborah rutter. on c-span 2 at 8:00 we'll show you american university citizenship conference, civic, business and education leaders discuss what it means to be citizen. on c-span at 8:00 we'll have more congressional retirement interviews. our focus will be on senator carl levin and representative ralph hall. >>> this thanksgiving week c-span is featuring interviews from retiring members of congress. watch the interviews through thursday at 8:00 p.m. eastern. >> much as we've accomplished in 36 years i don't want to look back at that so much as to look forward to the next couple of months. in the next couple of months there's a couple of things i would like to do. one is to get my defense authorization bill passed. this is an annual effort, a major effort involving large amounts of staff. i would also want to finish up some work on the permanent subcommittee on investigations, looking at some gimmicks which are used to avoid taxes. >> i've been a member of congress for 34 years and, you know, to fin

here on c-span3 at 8:00 earmark it's remarks from the kennedy center, deborah ru rutter. on c-span 2 at 8:00 we'll slow you a citizen conference, they'll discuss what it means to be a citizen. speakers include retired general stanley mcchrystal and on c-span at 8:00, we'll have more congressional retirement interviews. our interviews include senator carl levin of michigan around representative ralph hall of texas. these are part of our week-long series. this thanksgiving week c-span features interviews from the entire members of congress. watch the interviews tonight through 8:30 p.m. eastern. >> i don't want to look back at that so much as to look forward to the next couple of months. in the next couple of months, there's a couple of things i'd like to do. one is to get my defense authorization bill passed. this is an annual effort, a major effort involving large amounts of staff. i also want to finish up work on permanent subcommittee investigations looking at some gimmicks which are used to avoid taxes. >> i've been a member of congress for 34 years. you know, to final