Endowed Chair Established at Yale to Honor Jazz Great
The Yale School of Music announced the creation of the Willie Ruff Chair in Jazz. Ruff is currently a professor of music at the school and director of the Duke Ellington Scholarship Program.
The endowment for the chair was donated by Mitch Leigh, the Tony Award-winning composer of Man of La Mancha. Leigh and Ruff were former classmates at Yale.
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