Alpert Makes $15 Million Donation To Music School

The A+M label founder will be honoured for his generous monetary gift - the school will now be renamed the Herb Alpert School Of Music.

In November (07), Alpert handed over $30 million to pay for a new music school at the University Of California, Los Angeles via his Herb Alpert Foundation.

The 73-year-old says, "Are these gifts accelerating as I'm getting older? Not really.

"When I first visited the CalArts campus in the early 1990s, it was a real exciting moment to see students being free and expressing themselves. I felt that CalArts was a real creative place where people could push the edges and come up with things that are different from what we've heard in the past.

"It's a new paradigm out there now. It takes, I think, these young artists to figure out how best to get through the maze."