A group of talented musicians in Professor Victoria Morse's French 102 class put together a free evening of French jazz and film music on May 7. The concert was performed by nine musicians from Connecticut and New York.

The event was made possible through the Esther Haseltine Schiavone Cultural Fund, established in 2006 through the Gateway Community College Foundation by Schiavone’s daughter Jennifer Schiavone, who set up the endowment in her mother’s memory to help the arts programs put on at GCC by her longtime friend and author, GCC Professor Franz Douskey.