Upcoming Events
2024 Events
October 8, 2024, 7 pm | Après-work Apéro | Café Un, Deux, Trois | 123 West 44th Street, New York, NY
Join members and friends for wine and hors d’oeuvres at this classic French restaurant in the theater district.
Feel free to practice your possibly fractured French.
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October 15, 2024, 7 pm | Dinner with William S Hearst | National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South (East 20th St) New York, NY 10003
William S. Hearst was Senior Vice President of Associate Labor Relations and Human Resources for Bloomingdale’s Stores: the 59th Street Flagship, 32 Department Stores, and 13 Outlets nationwide.
A 1974 graduate of Cornell University, Bill holds an A.B. degree in Music and American History with substantial coursework in Industrial and Labor Relations. Upon graduation, Bill embarked on a dual career at Bloomingdale’s, as well as a professional organist and choirmaster. At Bloomingdale’s, Bill progressed through 19 different positions that spanned Operations, Fashion Buying, Store Management, and most recently Corporate Human Resources. Simultaneously, Bill cultivated a full Episcopal liturgical music career in organ performance, choir building, and conducting. After 29 years, Bill retired from his church music career in 2004, focusing exclusively on Bloomingdale’s. A passion for music performance, however, continues unabated. Bill and his wife Joan are native New Yorkers who raised their three children, Billy, Mary, and Andrew.
Bill Hearst was Chairman of the Board of the Stecher and Horowitz Foundation, a relationship that began in 1964 when he was a student at the original Stecher and Horowitz School of Music. An avid opera enthusiast, Bill spends a portion of each day maintaining piano repertoire and performing in small ensembles with friends.
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November 12, 2024, 7 pm | Soirée d’automne Cocktail Dînatoire | National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South (East 20th St) New York, NY 10003
More information to follow.
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December 10, 2024, 7 pm | Dîner featuring vocalist Margot Sergent | National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South (East 20th St) New York, NY 10003
A multi award-winning classical musician, Margot Sergent started her music education at 4 years old. At 8, she appeared in one of France’s most popular national TV shows. She received a “Performance Award “at the exclusive Ecole Normale/Alfred Cortot University, where world famous composer Michel Damase was among the jury members.
She has participated in tours with Archie Shepp’s protegee, Monica Passos, and number-one pop selling artist in France Nolwenn Leroy. Noticed by famed jazz pianist Kirk Lightsey and Pierre Boussaguet (bass player for Michel Legrand) during a jam performance at the Jazz Gallery of Berlinval, Margot was encouraged by her mentors to get a more complete jazz education.
Before moving from Paris to New York City in 2015, Margot attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston, studying songwriting and jazz improvisation, and vocal performance with Maggie Scott, former vocal teacher to Diana Krall and Esperanza Spalding. In December 2022, Margot performed the show “From Paris With Love” at The Cutting Room, and “The Margot Sergent Trio: A Parisian Cabaret Revival” at City Vineyard.
Margot has also performed for prestigious luxury brands such as Cartier, in historical places such as Musée du Louvre, Musée Carnavalet, Hotel Bristol with prestigious agencies such as Ivanna Music, and Absolut Live in Paris, and Hanklane Music in NY.
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Tentative Calendar of Meetings 2024 (As of 9/12/24)
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Date |
Event |
Speaker/Topic |
Venue |
| Jan 9 | Dinner | Annual Meeting: State of the Club | NAC |
| Feb 13 | Dinner | Raclette | Léna |
| Mar 12 | Dinner | Clémence Boulouque on Audrey Hepburn | NAC |
| April 9 | Apéro | Après-work Apéro 6-7:30 | Café 1, 2, 3 |
| April 24 | Cocktail | April in Paris | Boucherie Union Square |
| May 7 | Cocktail Dînatoire | Cocktail dînatoire 7:15 – 8:45, honoring Jérôme Lohez 9/11 Foundation Scholarship winners | Café 1, 2, 3 |
| May 14 | Reception | New Members 2023 & 2024 | Château Village |
| May 18 | Festival | Festival des auteurs francophones en Amérique organisé par Rencontre des auteurs francophones 12 – 8 pm | OCabanon |
| June 4 | Dinner | David Lincoln Ross – Wine Tasting | NAC |
| July 9 | Cruise | Pre-Bastille Sail |
Classic Harbor Line | 62 Chelsea Piers |
| July 14 | Fête | Bastille Day | Madison Ave (btw 59 & 63rd) |
| Sept 24 | Dinner | Speaker David Doty | NAC |
| Oct 8 | Apéro | Après-work Apéro 7-8:30 | Café 1, 2, 3 |
| Oct 15 | Dinner | William S Hearst | NAC |
| Nov 12 | Cocktail | Soirée d’automne | NAC |
| Dec 10 | Dinner | Chanteuse Margot Sergent | NAC |
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January 7, 2025 | 7 pm | Dinner with Author Lila Azam Zanganeh on The Enchanter, Nabokov and Happiness | National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South (East 20th St) New York, NY 10003
“She invites us from beginning to end to appreciate the world ‘through the Nabokovian lens.’ It is in sum a method she proposes, implying that happiness is within our reach, that in order to access it we need to become ourselves, by impregnation and mimetic design, characters of his œuvre.”
-Eric Chevillard, Le Monde
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Tentative Calendar of Meetings 2025 (As of 9/12/24)
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Date |
Event |
Speaker/Topic |
Venue |
| Jan 7 | Dinner | Annual Meeting: State of the Club and Guest Speaker Author Lila Azam Langaneh | NAC |
| Feb 11 | Dinner | Raclette | TBA |
| Mar 20 | Dinner | Speaker TBA NB: Thursday | NAC |
| April 15 | Apéro | Après-work Apéro 7-8:30 | Café 1, 2, 3 |
| April 22 | Cocktail | April in Paris | TBA |
| May 13 | Reception | New Members 2024 & 2025 | Château Village |
| June 3 | Dinner | Speaker TBA | NAC |
| June 8 | Brunch | Roland Garros Men’s Finals | Monte’s Trattoria |
| July 8 | Cruise | Pre-Bastille Sail |
Classic Harbor Line 62 Chelsea Piers |
| July 14 | Fête | Bastille Day |
Madison Ave (btw 59 & 63rd) & Central Park |
| Sept 16 | Dinner | Speaker TBA | NAC |
| Oct 7 | Apéro | Après-work Apéro 7-8:30 | Café 1, 2, 3 |
| Oct 14 | Dinner | Speaker TBA | NAC |
| Nov 11 | Cocktail | Soirée d’automne | TBA |
| Dec 9 | Dinner | Program TBA | NAC |
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