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    Yankee’s Great Bernie Williams Graduates with Bachelor of Music at Manhattan School of Music

    Yankee’s Great Bernie Williams Graduates with Bachelor of Music at Manhattan School of Music

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    Former Yankee superstar and four-time World Series Champion Bernie Williams will join hundreds of other students from Manhattan School of Music in the school’s annual commencement ceremony at Riverside Church on Friday May 13th from 11:30am-2:30pm. 48-year-old Puerto Rican-born Bernie Williams will receive a Bachelor of Music from MSM where he has been studying jazz guitar for the past four years.

    WEDNESDAY May 11th:  Bernie Williams will perform with a roster of current MSM jazz students and distinguished alumni and faculty at the school’s annual fundraising gala at the Rainbow Room, Rockefeller Center.

    FRIDAY MAY 13th

    Bernie Williams receives diploma from MSM President James Gandre in Commencement Ceremony at Riverside Church.

    Manhattan School of Music is recognized as one of the world’s leading music conservatories. Founded in 1918 as a settlement music school by Janet Daniels Schenck, MSM is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. Offering a full range of degrees in jazz, classical music, opera, and beginning in Fall 2016, musical theater, the School has a student body of approximately 950 students who come from more than 50 countries and nearly all 50 states.

    World Liberty TV, team was on hand at The Manhattan School of Music’s Annual Gala -2016 where we had the honor of interviewing Bernie Williams as well as taping his live performance which he did with Jazz Sextet, see this and more right here in our World Liberty TV, Sports Channel.

    The 9th Annual Urban Angel Awards Gala 2012

    The 9th Annual Urban Angel Awards Gala 2012

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    Dale T. Irvin is the eleventh President of New York Theological Seminary and Professor of World Christianity. He was elected to this position by the Seminary’s Board of Trustees on July 19, 2006 after serving as Acting President since January 1, 2006, and his permanent appointment became effective on August 1.

    Previously, he served as Vice President for Academic Affairs and Academic Dean of the Seminary and is a long-time member of the Seminary’s Faculty. A graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary (M.Div., 1981) and Union Theological Seminary in New York (Ph.D., 1989), he has been a member of the New York Theological Seminary Faculty since 1989.

    He is the co-author with Scott W. Sunquist of History of the World Christian Movement, a two-volume project that is being written with a consulting team of more than 50 scholars from around the world and published by Orbis Books of Maryknoll, NY. Volume 1, Earliest Christianity to 1453, is now in its fifth printing. Dr. Irvin’s previous books include Christian Histories, Christian Traditioning: Rendering Accounts (Orbis Books, 1998), and The Agitated Mind of God: The Theology of Kosuke Koyama (Orbis Books, 1996), which he edited with Akintunde E. Akinda. His articles have appeared in a number of journals, among them Christianity Today, The Ecumenical Review and The Journal of Pentecostal Studies.

    Dr. Irvin has held visiting or adjunct appointments at the University of Uppsala, Sweden; Drew University Theological School; Union Theological Seminary, New York; Wake Forest University Divinity School; New Brunswick Theological Seminary; and Regent University School of Divinity. He is currently the Executive Vice President and member of the Editorial Board of The Living Pulpit, a highly acclaimed journal for preaching. He is also a regular teacher and preacher in churches throughout the New York City region. An ordained minister in the American Baptist Churches USA, he is a member of The Riverside Church in New York City.