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"Bruce Stanley Kovner" (born 1945 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American businessman. He is Chairman of Caxton Alternative Management LP, which he established in January 2012 to manage his investment, trading and business activities. From 1983 through 2011, Kovner was Founder and Chairman of Caxton Associates, LP, a diversified trading company. In March 2014, Kovner had an estimated net worth of around $4.8 billion.

Described as secretive even by family and friends, he is perhaps one of the least known New York City billionaires outside of professional circles. He is a leading philanthropist and former chairman of American Enterprise Institute.

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It has been great fun to find these manuscripts and pull them together into this collection. I trust that what we are doing at the school will make it possible for Juilliard students and scholars to delve into the compositional processes of these great composers and share them with the rest of the world.

I started collecting just for the personal pleasure of being close to these icons of the greatest musical achievements in Western music.

The great thing about sharing it with Juilliard is it opens it up to people with an intense interest. Now a piece can be played and performed in a new way.

At a certain point I realized that it would be better to make this collection available to the rest of the world rather than to keep it under a mattress.