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Carnegie Hall 2008
Opening Night Gala
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Opening Night Gala Concert at Carnegie Hall in Stern Auditorium/Perelman
Stage.
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On
September 24, 2008, Carnegie Hall opened its 118th season with a
gala benefit concert featuring music director Michael
Tilson Thomas leading the San Francisco Symphony
in the Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage. The performance also
launched Bernstein: The Best of All Possible Worlds, a three-month
citywide festival honoring one of the most important international
musicians of the 20th century and a quintessential New Yorker—Leonard
Bernstein—in commemoration of the 90th anniversary of his birth
and the 50th anniversary of his appointment as the Music Director
of the New York Philharmonic. The opening night concert featured
an all-Bernstein program that featured music from a wide variety
of Bernstein's stage works—from such early triumphs as West
Side Story and On the Town to later works, Mass and A
Quiet Place. Soprano Dawn Upshaw, baritone Thomas
Hampson, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, and Mr.
Thomas, who all worked with and learned from Leonard Bernstein,
were joined by Broadway star Christine Ebersole for
the concert.
The Opening Night Gala of Carnegie Hall's 118th Season was
chaired by Suzie Kovner and Bruce Kovner and co-chaired by Mercedes Bass and
Sid Bass. The gala sponsor was PricewaterhouseCoopers with
major support for the Opening Night Gala Broadcast by S. Donald Sussman. The
benefit included a gala dinner at The Waldorf=Astoria's Grand
Ballroom following the concert. The gala, which was attended
by more than 600 guests, raised close to $4.2 million. All
proceeds benefit Carnegie Hall's artistic and education programming.
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Baritone Thomas Hampson, soprano Dawn Upshaw, conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, and vocalist Christine Ebersole with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra.
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Opening Night Gala chairmen and co-chairmen, sponsors, artists, and Carnegie
Hall trustees.
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Gala co-chairmen Mercedes Bass and Sid Bass with cellist Yo-Yo Ma.
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Gala chairmen Bruce Kovner and Suzie Kovner.
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Opening Night Gala Journal chairman Judith Resnick and Carnegie Hall Trustee Burton Resnick.
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Carnegie Hall's chairman of the Board Sanford
I. Weill, Bank of America's chief marketing officer Anne
Finucane, and Carnegie Hall's executive and artistic director Clive
Gillinson.
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Gala Broadcast Sponsor S. Donald Sussman and Abigail Asher.
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Trustee and Special Events Committee chairman Laura H. Pomerantz and husband John J. Pomerantz.
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Opening Night Gala Sponsor PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP's chairman and senior partner Dennis Nally and Karen Nally.
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Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas.
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Carnegie Hall Trustee Oscar de la Renta and Barbara Walters.
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Carnegie Hall trustee Ronald E. Blaylock and wife Judith I. Byrd-Blaylock.
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Carnegie Hall Notables Carrie Cloud and Carter Peabody.
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Bonnie Bronfman and Charles R. Bronfman.
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Cellist Yo-Yo Ma, Gala co-chairman Mercedes Bass,
Gala chairmen Suzie Kovner and Bruce Kovner, and Maestro Michael Tilson Thomas.
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Opening Night Gala Dinner at The Waldorf-Astoria.
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| Photos:
Images 1, 4-6, 8, 10, 12-17: Julie Skarratt. Images
2, 3, 7, 9, 11: Chris Lee |
