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Memorial Concert For Celebrated NYC Music Educator Jerry Sheik

Source: Carmen Bazzini
September 13, 2010

On October 2, 2010, music will fill the O. Henry School's auditorium in Chelsea in tribute to beloved music teacher, Jerry Sheik, who passed away on June 1st. Performers are his former students, now renowned musicians, who have gone on to work with both the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonic, as well as Bob Dylan, Dizzy Gillespie, Tito Puente, Lionel Hampton, Aretha Franklin, and on Broadway. Sheik and students from some 30 years ago reunited in April for a celebratory concert ...

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