Bergenfield, NJ
Obituaries
Beloved Bergenfield Music Teacher Helaine Mundt Pfeiffer, 78
Former Bergenfield music teacher Helaine “Leni” Mundt Pfeiffer died on Friday, March 22. She was 78 years old. A graduate of Hamilton High School (New York) and the Baldwin Wallace Conservatory of Music (Ohio), Leni pursued a career in music that led her back to Hamilton High School as a music teacher. She continued to teach in Bergenfield after her marriage to John Pfeiffer in 1982. Dedicated to and admired by her students, Leni extended her professional career by contributing her skills to orchestras in Cleveland as well as in Syracuse and Utica. Her annual selection to the P…
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Business
Music Teacher Opening North Jersey Studio Has To Pry Kids Away From Piano
The desire to come to a music lesson has rarely been the issue for Erin Calev's students. It's having to leave, the Dumont mom says, that poses a problem. Calev, who is recently opened her first studio on Park Avenue, chalks it up to her teaching philosophy. "I realized very early on in life and early on in motherhood that a child can learn anything if you make it fun," said Calev, who has more than two decades of experience teaching music. "I really enjoy working with young kids and I actually sometimes have trouble with them not wanting to leave. Their parents have to pr…
Westport, CT
Lifestyle
Paul Winter Brings Sounds Of Brazil To Westport To Benefit Bridgeport Kids
If you didn’t make it to Rio for Carnival this year, you can still catch the beat of Brazil with Grammy-winning saxophonist and band leader Paul Winter and his My Brazil quartet when they play in Westport at Voices Café on Saturday, May 12 at 8 p.m. The concert is to benefit the Kids Empowered by Your Support (KEYS) program which gives one-on-one musical instrument lessons and group music instruction to underserved inner-city youth in Bridgeport, Conn. Without this group, the children would have no access to this empowering life experience. KEYS began in 2004 when musician and music educ…
Fairfield, CT
Schools
Educator's Musical Journey Brings Her Home To Bridgeport
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — Alicia Robinson’s music odyssey started when she heard an intriguing call for new school band members in fifth grade, the Bridgeport Public Schools educator said in a recent interview with the Huffington Post. “My music educational career began in fifth grade when there was the announcement for students who were interested in signing up for band, and I had my heart set on a flute,” she told Huffington Post contributor Rod Berger. “I wasn’t able to get a flute that year but participating in the band, being a part of something that was bigger than me was so impactful that I…
Englewood, NJ
Schools
Englewood Student ‘Idols’ Hit Recording Studio
ENGLEWOOD, N.J. – A dozen Englewood students will be cutting their own CDs, thanks to a grant from the Northern New Jersey Community Foundation. The $1,200 grant is being awarded to the Dr. John Grieco Scholarship Fund at the Academies@Englewood for the 13th Annual Englewood Idol talent competition's program. Englewood Idol is an annual singing competition open to any high school student living or attending school in Englewood. The talent competition attracts students at Dwight Morrow High School, Academies@Englewood, and The Dwight-Englewood School. “What an extraordinary experi…
