{"id":1660,"date":"2006-10-11T09:11:30","date_gmt":"2006-10-11T17:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/10\/a_bottle_of_white_a_bottle_of_red_perhaps_a_bottle_of_rose_instead.html"},"modified":"2006-10-11T09:11:30","modified_gmt":"2006-10-11T17:11:30","slug":"a_bottle_of_whi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/10\/a_bottle_of_whi.html","title":{"rendered":"A Bottle Of White, A Bottle Of Red, Perhaps A Bottle Of Rose Instead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you wonder if recipients of the Billy Joel scholarship will ever feel a little lame? NYU <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyunews.com\/vnews\/display.v\/ART\/2006\/10\/11\/452c82890756c\">announces the first year&#8217;s winners<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Several graduate students in the department of music and performing arts professions were awarded a total of $500,000 from the Billy Joel Scholarship fund this summer.<\/p>\n<p>In its first year, the fund will cover part of the tuiton for three Steinhardt School of Education students: Yuval Cohen of Jerusalem; Peter Cruz of Perth Amboy, N.J.; and Michael Eckroth of Las Vegas. All of these students started at NYU this September.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>A multi-Grammy winner and 2002 Musicares Person of the Year, Billy Joel &#8212; whose daughter, Alexa Ray, attended NYU&#8217;s musical theater program &#8212; is a supporter of musical education.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Billy Joel&#8217;s extraordinary talents as a composer and a performer, and the impact of his work on the musical scene and industry resonate perfectly with NYU Steinhardt&#8217;s numerous bridges to the music profession,&#8221; said Lawrence Ferrara, chair of the music and performing arts department, in a statement.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That seems a little effusive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you wonder if recipients of the Billy Joel scholarship will ever feel a little lame? NYU announces the first year&#8217;s winners: Several graduate students in the department of music and performing arts professions were awarded a total of $500,000 from the Billy Joel Scholarship fund this summer. In its first year, the fund will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dude_thats_so_weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}