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SUMMARY:Chris Botti
DESCRIPTION:  \nGet Tickets \nMain Stage\n(Building 11A)\nOrchestra $104\, Mezzanine $84 \nPre-Show OCC Foundation\nReception at B2Bistro $75 \nPost-show VIP Packages\navailable at chrisbotti.com.\n \nAbout the OCC Foundation Concert Event\n \nSince 1965\, the OCC Foundation has proudly served the Ocean County College community\, supporting thousands of deserving students. Over the past 60 years\, we’ve awarded over $22 million in scholarships and special program funding. Your generosity continues to make a lasting impact\, supporting initiatives like the Helping Hands Food Pantry\, the Blauvelt Speaker Series\, the Global Travel Experience\, select programming at the Grunin Center for the Arts\, the Robert J. Novins Planetarium\, and the Veteran & Military Resource Center (VMRC)\, resources for Athletic programs\, and support for many other college and student-led programs. \nAbout Chris Botti\nGRAMMY-winning trumpeter Chris Botti has been one of the most popular instrumentalists in the world for nearly three decades; he’s collaborated with some of the biggest superstars on the planet\, including Sting\, Paul Simon\, Barbra Streisand\, Lady Gaga\, Tony Bennett\, Frank Sinatra\, Aretha Franklin\, Bette Midler\, Joni Mitchell\, Steven Tyler\, Andrea Bocelli\, Herbie Hancock\, Yo-Yo Ma\, and others; he’s topped the jazz charts with numerous albums\, earned multiple Gold and Platinum records\, performed with symphony orchestras and on prestigious stages from Carnegie Hall to the Hollywood Bowl to the Sydney Opera House. \nIn short\, Chris Botti really needs no introduction. Yet with his Blue Note Records debut\, he’s offering one anyway. Vol.1 is in many ways a fresh start for the trumpeter. Having successfully crossed over from jazz renown to pop stardom\, Botti’s first album in more than a decade finds him crossing back\, with a small group project focused on acoustic jazz and classic standards. \n“I turned 60 in 2022\, at a time that seemed like a restart for so many things in the world\,” Botti says. “I wanted to strip away all the orchestral arrangements and special guests and focus more on my playing\, the playing of my band\, and these jazz classics that we always love playing on stage.” \nWhile Botti could boast of the major names with whom he’s shared stages\, this project allows him to share his enthusiasm for the jazz greats past and present that excite him – his conversation is peppered with references to everyone from Miles Davis to Keith Jarrett to Pat Metheny to Brad Mehldau. He points to landmark albums like Davis’ Kind of Blue\, John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman\, or Metheny’s duo outing with Charlie Haden\, Beyond the Missouri Sky as models for the kind of “lifestyle” music he set out to make – music that is exquisite on its own but can also set the scene for a coffee shop or hotel lounge\, instantly generating a sophisticated mood. \nOf course\, Botti couldn’t have found a more ideal home for this artistic rebirth. Blue Note has been a standard-bearer of jazz throughout its storied history\, and the trumpeter found a receptive partner in label president Don Was. “Anyone that’s lucky enough to say they’re on Blue Note Records should be pinching themselves\,” Botti says. “It’s a fantastic honor. I had great runs on Verve and Columbia\, so it’s amazing to now arrive on the most famous traditional jazz record label.” \nSponsors\nSilver Serenade Sponsors \n \n  \nShare This:
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CATEGORIES:OCC Foundation
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SUMMARY:Basil Camu
DESCRIPTION:  \nGet Tickets \nMain Stage (Building 11A)\nIn-person tickets Free\nLivestream Free\, Advanced Registration Required \n \n  \nIf livestream viewing is interrupted due to technical difficulties\, a recording of the event will be emailed to Livestream registrants within two business days following the event\, and will be viewable for 48 hours once received. \nAbout Basil Camu\nWhen you ask Basil what he thinks about himself\, he’ll tell you he is incredibly lucky. He\nhas family he loves dearly\, friends and colleagues who inspire him\, and every day he gets to care for trees\, soil\, and flowers. He pursues his purpose and passions as the co-founder of Leaf & Limb\, a tree care company in Raleigh\, NC\, and Project Pando\, a non-profit that aims to connect people to trees. He is a Treecologist\, ISA Board Certified Master Arborist\, Duke graduate\, Wizard of Things\, and author of the book From Wasteland to Wonder – Easy Ways We Can Help Heal Earth in the Sub/Urban Landscape. His work has been featured in the New York Times\, Seattle Times\, Forbes\, Gardenista\, The Joe Gardener Show\, and a number of other publications and podcasts. When he’s not having fun at work\, he likes to pull invasive plants from his pocket forests\, contemplate on his front porch\, and go hiking with his family. \nThe sponsors of the Blauvelt Speaker Series have generously underwritten the cost of tickets for this program.  \nThe Blauvelt Speaker Series is funded in part by the generosity of the late Bradford Thomas & Eleanor G. Blauvelt and the Wintrode Family Foundation. This year’s 2025-2026 additional sponsors include Carluccio\, Leone\, Dimon\, Doyle\, Gutman & Petro\, LLC\, Arlene and Frank Dupignac\, Jr.\, and Novins\, York\, Jacobus & Dooley\, P.A. \nShare This:
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CATEGORIES:Blauvelt Speaker Series,OCC Foundation
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SUMMARY:Admiral James Stavridis
DESCRIPTION:  \nGet Tickets \nMain Stage (Building 11A)\nIn-person tickets $20\nLivestream Free\, Advanced Registration Required \n \n  \nIf livestream viewing is interrupted due to technical difficulties\, a recording of the event will be emailed to Livestream registrants within two business days following the event\, and will be viewable for 48 hours once received. \nAbout Admiral James Stavridis\nA Florida native\, Jim Stavridis attended the US Naval Academy at Annapolis\, and spent 37 years in the Navy\, rising to the rank of 4-star Admiral. Among his many commands were four years as the 16th Supreme Allied Commander at NATO\, where he oversaw operations in Afghanistan\, Libya\, Syria\, the Balkans\, and counter piracy off the coast of Africa. He also commanded US Southern Command in Miami\, charged with military operations through Latin America for nearly three years. He was the longest-serving Combatant Commander in recent US history. Following his military career\, he served for five years as the 12th Dean of The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. \nIn the course of his career in the Navy\, he served as senior military assistant to the Secretary of the Navy and the Secretary of Defense. He led the Navy’s premier operational think tank for innovation\, Deep Blue\, immediately after the 9/11 attacks. Admiral Stavridis was promoted directly from 1-star rank to 3- star rank in 2004. \nHe won the Battenberg Cup for commanding the top ship in the Atlantic Fleet and the Navy League John Paul Jones Award for Inspirational leadership\, along with more than 50 US and international medals and decorations\, including 28 from foreign nations. He also commanded a Destroyer Squadron and a Carrier Strike Group\, both in combat. \nIn 2016\, he was vetted for Vice President by Secretary Hillary Clinton\, and subsequently invited to Trump Tower to discuss a cabinet position with President Donald Trump. \nHe earned a PhD from The Fletcher School at Tufts\, winning the Gullion prize as outstanding student in his class in 1983\, as well as academic honors from the National and Naval War Colleges as a distinguished student. He speaks Spanish and French. \nAdmiral Stavridis has published thirteen books on leadership\, character\, risk\, the oceans\, maritime affairs\, and Latin America\, as well as hundreds of articles in leading journals. An active user of social networks\, he has tens of thousands of connections. His TED talk on 21st century security in 2012 has close to one million views. He tweeted the end of combat operations in the Libyan NATO intervention. Two of his most popular books are the novel 2034: A Novel of the Next World War which was a New York Times bestseller and is being published in 22 languages; and To Risk It All: Nine Conflicts and The Crucible of Decision. His most recent book\, The Admiral’s Bookshelf\, highlights twenty-five essential leadership lessons drawn from classic works of literature. \nAdmiral Stavridis is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist and Chief International Security Analyst for NBC News. \nHe is happily married to Laura\, and they have two daughters – one working at Google and the other a Nurse Practitioner and former naval officer\, both married to physicians. \nThe sponsors of the Blauvelt Speaker Series have generously underwritten the cost of tickets for this program.  \nThe Blauvelt Speaker Series is funded in part by the generosity of the late Bradford Thomas & Eleanor G. Blauvelt and the Wintrode Family Foundation. This year’s 2025-2026 additional sponsors include Carluccio\, Leone\, Dimon\, Doyle\, Gutman & Petro\, LLC\, Arlene and Frank Dupignac\, Jr.\, and Novins\, York\, Jacobus & Dooley\, P.A. \nShare This:
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SUMMARY:Maureen Dowd
DESCRIPTION:Get Tickets \n  \nMain Stage (Building 11A)\nIn-person tickets $20\nLivestream Free\, Advanced Registration Required \n \n  \nIf livestream viewing is interrupted due to technical difficulties\, a recording of the event will be emailed to Livestream registrants within two business days following the event\, and will be viewable for 48 hours once received. \nAbout Maureen Dowd\nMaureen Dowd is a columnist for The New York Times Opinion Pages and a feature writer for The Times’s Styles and Arts & Leisure sections. Ms. Dowd won the Pulitzer Prize in 1999\, in the commentary category\, for her “unsparing columns on the hypocrisies involved in the Lewinsky affair and the effort to impeach President Clinton.” Ms. Dowd was appointed a columnist for the Op-Ed page of The New York Times in January 1995 and has covered ten presidential campaigns. She served as White House correspondent during the first Bush and the Clinton administrations\, gaining a wide following of admirers and imitators for her witty\, incisive\, and acerbic portraits of the powerful. \nMs. Dowd joined The Times as a metropolitan reporter in October 1983. She began her career in 1974 as an editorial assistant for The Washington Star\, later becoming a sports columnist\, metropolitan reporter\, and feature writer. When The Star closed in 1981\, she went to Time magazine. \nA 1992 Pulitzer Prize finalist in national reporting for her coverage of the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill hearings\, Ms. Dowd received the Breakthrough Award from Women\, Men and Media at Columbia University in 1991 and a Matrix Award from New York Women in Communications in 1994. She was named one of Glamour’s Women of the Year for 1996 and won the Damon Runyon Award in 2000 for outstanding contributions to journalism. In 2017\, she received the Ernie Pyle Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists. In 2024\, she received the Excellence in Journalism Award from the American News Women’s Club. She has written three best-selling books — Bushworld\, Are Men Necessary? and most recently The Year of Voting Dangerously — plus Good Cop\, a short story about her dad\, a police officer in the U.S. Senate. Her latest book\, Notorious\, a captivating collection of her most compelling celebrity profiles\, was released in March 2025. \nBorn in Washington\, D.C.\, she received a B.A. degree in English literature from Catholic University in Washington\, D.C. in 1973 and honorary doctorates from Manhattanville College in Purchase\, N.Y.\, and the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. In 2012\, she received an honorary doctorate from National University of Ireland\, Galway. She received her master’s degree in English literature from Columbia University in 2023. \nThe sponsors of the Blauvelt Speaker Series have generously underwritten the cost of tickets for this program.  \nThe Blauvelt Speaker Series is funded in part by the generosity of the late Bradford Thomas & Eleanor G. Blauvelt and the Wintrode Family Foundation. This year’s 2025-2026 additional sponsors include Carluccio\, Leone\, Dimon\, Doyle\, Gutman & Petro\, LLC\, Arlene and Frank Dupignac\, Jr.\, and Novins\, York\, Jacobus & Dooley\, P.A.\n \nShare This:
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CATEGORIES:Blauvelt Speaker Series,OCC Foundation
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SUMMARY:New Jersey Symphony
DESCRIPTION:  \nThis event has moved to the\nHealth and Human Performance Center (Gym)\n(Building 29) \nPark in Parking Lot 2\nFree Event\, bring your own seat \nAbout the Event\nEnjoy the sounds of the New Jersey Symphony under the stars! This free program features a medley of timeless classics\, Broadway themes\, and patriotic favorites the whole family will love. \nAttendees are encouraged to bring their chairs or blankets for seating. \nThis concert is sponsored by the Ocean County College Foundation and Vision Financial Services\, with support from the Ocean County Cultural and Heritage Commission and Ocean County Board of Commissioners. \nGregory D. McDaniel conductor\nNew Jersey Symphony \nWolfgang Amadeus Mozart Overture to The Magic Flute\nFlorence Price “Silk Hat and a Walking Cane” from Dances in the Canebrakes\nBéla Bartók Romanian Folk Dances\nGioachino Rossini Overture to William Tell\nRichard Rodgers Carousel Waltz\nDuke Ellington / arr. Custer Duke Ellington!\nVarious Composers / arr. Ricketts Satchmo!\nStephen Schwartz / arr. Ricketts Highlights from Wicked\nVarious Composers / arr. Lowden Armed Forces Salute \nShare This:
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