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  CeCe Black With Ruth Miller And Ann Van Ness Maribel Lieberman With Sylvia Hemingway Carolyn Maloney With Nicole Miller, Kobi Halperin, Jean Shafiroff, Alex Hamer And Julia Haart    Jean Shafiroff celebrated France’s national holiday by hosting her annual Bastille Day luncheon at Maison Barnes in New York City, bringing together approximately 50 guests from the worlds of philanthropy, fashion, society, and culture. The elegant afternoon unfolded over a gourmet luncheon prepared by the Daniel Boulud culinary team, offering guests a taste of French hospitality in recognition of the historic holiday. French flags, spirited conversation and a shared appreciation for French culture set the tone for a gathering that has become one of Jean Shafiroff’s annual summer traditions. Bastille Day, observed annually on July 14th, commemorates the storming of the Bastille prison in Paris in 1789, a defining moment of the French Revolution. The event came to symbolize the fall of absolu...

  J’Nai Bridges Manhattan School of Music (MSM) hosted the 2023 Gala at The Rainbow Room, Rockefeller Plaza, in New York City.   Bernie Williams   The gala honored long-time members of the MSM Board of Trustees Marcia Clay Hamilton and Edward Lowenthal. A celebration of the School’s prestigious Opera Studies Program, the evening featured performances by mezzo-soprano and two-time Grammy Award winner, Metropolitan Opera Artist J’Nai Bridges (BM’09), former New York Yankee, Latin Grammy-nominated jazz guitarist and MSM Trustee Bernie Williams (BM’16), recent MSM graduates and current MSM students, among other notable performers. All the scheduled performers were either MSM alumni or current students.  Among the recent graduates to perform included MSM alumni bass-baritone Le Bu (BM ’22) and baritone Daniel Rich (MM’19); both are currently in the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development program. Le Bu was a winner of the 2022 Metropolitan Opera Laffont Co...