Braun Music Center
Braun Music Center, known colloquially as Braun, is a music education building at Stanford University in California. Opening its doors in 1984, Braun serves as both the epicenter for music at Stanford, as well as a link between Stanford's main residential and activities centers. As the main building for the Department of Music, Braun is the venue for the department's concerts and recitals and offers rehearsal studios and practice facilities as well as classrooms and offices. History The largest donor for the construction of the hall was the Carl F. Braun Trust under the trusteeship of Carl's son, John Gilbert Braun. The Carl Braun Trust donated a substantial portion of the more than $6.3 the million needed for the project. John G. Braun was a financier educated at UC Berkeley and a lifetime trustee of Caltech. However, John donated the funds for Stanford's music center in honor of his late father, Carl Braun, who earned a degree in mechanical engineering from Stanford in 1907. The Stanford Music Department, previously housed in the Knoll, had been fighting a new building since their inception in 1947. Chairman of the department Albert Cohen put it bluntly, "our facilities have been inadequate for awhile...