Manhattan School of Music News

The Watchung Arts Center, at 18 Stirling Road in Watchung, has an active weekend coming up, to include a free Zumba dance session on Saturday morning and a performance by jazz piano player Rio Clemente to wrap up the center's "Jazz in the Gallery" series.

The Manhattan Klezmer Band will perform 5 to 8 p.m. Sunday at Deer Head Inn, 5 Main St., Delaware Water Gap.

Ebersole and the trio showcased classics standards from the '20s and '30s by Fats Waller , Cole Porter .

The 54-year-old has lived in the district for nine years and has a boy who will be entering PVC , and a girl in CET .

John F. Kennedy Memorial High School Senior Stefan Curcic has been accepted into the United States Air Force Academy and will be heading off on the day of his high school graduation.

Two Florida State College at Jacksonville students graduating in May 2013 are about to be awarded their associate degrees.

Monheit grew up on Long Island. She began singing at an early age, which comes as little surprise given the musicality of her family: Her grandmother and aunt were professional singers, her father played banjo and her mother was involved in musical theater.

Edward Neeman, an internationally recognized pianist currently doing advanced studies at UC's College-Conservatory of Music, has replaced Japan's Kotaro Fukuma in the concert at 2:30 p.m. this Sunday, May 12, in Xavier's Gallagher Student Center Theater.

Equity actor Jackson Davis in PacRepA*s season-opening production of A'An Iliad,A' continuing through June 2, at the Circle Theater in Carmel.

The view from London's Royal College of Music reminds Hoang Pham of a scene in the 1990s Australian film about a fellow musician he much admires.

Jason Moran's status as one of the most gifted and acclaimed jazz stars to emerge in the past 15 years is a matter of record.

Pianist Duy Bui will be performing three concerts this summer. They will be on May 26 at United Church of Christ, 295 Atlantic Ave., North Hampton, June 9 at Greenland United Methodist Church, 87 Great Bay Road Greenland, and June 23 at First Parish Church, 218 Central Ave., Dover.

Tonight, April 29, The New York Pops marks its 30th birthday with a grand gala evening honoring the musical talents of songwriters Frank Loesser and Jule Styne , and the centennial of legendary entertainer Danny Kaye .

With the school district on the brink of major transitions, four people are running for two seats on the Provincetown School Committee.

The West Point Band presented its annual Young Artist Concert in the Eisenhower Hall Ballroom at West Point in N.Y. on April 21.

Shen Yun Performing Arts will have two more performances at The David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center on Sunday April 28.

Mercedes Ellington, President of The Duke Ellington Center For The Arts, has announced that the 114th Birthday of her grandfather Duke Ellington will be celebrated with two events this year -- today, April 28, and Monday, April 29 .

The Andy Leon Memorial Young Teacher Jazz Award Mentorship Program will take place 3 to 4:30 p.m. Sunday at Deer Head Inn, 5 Main St., Delaware Water Gap.

Weston Public Library will hold a piano duet by Matthew Harrison and Vlada Yaneva from 3 to 5 p.m. Sunday, May 5, in the library's Community Room, 56 Norfield Road.

J. Warren Mitchell, who has won national accolades for his operatic tenor voice and has sung in renowned venues such as Carnegie Hall in New York, hopes to continue to perform in the world's most famous opera houses.