A symphony of music and poetry filled the air at the Shapiro Family Hall as spoken word artist and professor of writing studies and rhetoric, Paul Kirpal Gordon, celebrated the life of Walt Whitman through the power of jazz. 

Bublé is an acquired taste. In a time where rap songs dominate the charts, the soulfulness and heartwarming aspects of his music are becoming less and less popular with the majority of streamers. 

To promote the current Hofstra University Museum exhibition, Romare Bearden: Storyteller, a student-led jazz quartet performed evening pieces in Emily Lowe Gallery, interspersed by historical context by David Lalama, professor of music.