Tag: Westminster Choir College
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Rider University task force to evaluate possible fall opening
Rider University, which moved to remote learning in response to COVID-19 in March, has formed a task force to create a plan for the fall semester in the wake of the pandemic, Rider University officials announced May 7. Rider officials expect the college to be fully open for the fall semester, including the relocation of…
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Princeton pianist plays for patients at Saint Peter’s University Hospital
International concert pianist and Princeton local AnnaLotte Smith may have had to postpone her concert tours in England and France this summer, but the ever-active musician is wasting no time during the virus lockdown. The 23-year-old Westminster Choir College graduate has prepared a free virtual concert series for hospital patients and nursing home residents, beginning…
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University officials postpone Rider and Westminster graduations
Rider University administrators have postponed graduation ceremonies for seniors on the university’s Lawrence Township campus and for seniors at the Westminster Choir College in Princeton. Administrators said the decision to postpone the graduation ceremonies and Westminster Choir College’s annual reunion was made in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak. Gatherings of more than 50 people…
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Westminster Conservatory presents pianists Ena Barton and Phyllis Alpert Lehrer
Westminster Conservatory’s Faculty Recital Series is featuring pianists Ena Barton and Phyllis Lehrer during a February evening recital in the Bristol Chapel. The performance on Feb. 22 at 7:30 p.m. will be staged at the chapel located on the campus of Westminster Choir College of Rider University in Princeton. According to conservatory officials, admission is…
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Attorney General named as defendant in Westminster Choir College legal action
Opponents fighting Rider University’s sale of Westminster Choir College have adjusted their legal tactics by dropping their federal lawsuit against the deal and suing New Jersey’s Attorney General in a separate legal action. Howard McMorris, a former Westminster trustee, and six other plaintiffs last week named Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal as a defendant in…
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Sale of Westminster Choir College contested in court
Seven members of the Westminster Foundation are suing Rider University and the Chinese buyer of the school’s Westminster Choir College in a state court in an attempt to block the sale. In a 60-page lawsuit filed Sept. 6 in Superior Court, the group of plaintiffs claimed, among other things, that Beijing Kaiwen Education Technology Co.…
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Foundation interested in purchasing Westminster Choir College
A Westminster Choir College graduate leading a campaign against Rider University’s planned sale of her alma mater said on June 27 that a nonprofit organization she leads would try to raise the money to buy the college and its Princeton campus rather than see them sold to a foreign buyer. “Being independent has been the…
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Westminster Foundation will keep up fight against sale of choir college
A group made up of Westminster Choir College alumni and others plans to go to state court and before the state Department of Education to stop the sale of the music school to a foreign buyer, the group’s lawyer said on June 25. Members of the Westminster Foundation of Princeton, New Jersey Inc., also made…
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Professors caution sale of Westminster could be losing proposition for Rider
An analysis by one retired and two current Rider University professors raises questions about the financial health of the prospective buyer of Rider’s Westminster Choir College, in a deal the professors suggest could end up costing the university millions of dollars. The 13-page paper, written by professors Gerald Klein, Arthur Taylor and Michael Brogan, was…
