New York Philharmonic
Opens 2010–11 Season with
Opening Night Gala
and Concert Wednesday, September 22
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The New York Philharmonic opened its
169th season with an Opening Night Gala
and concert on Wednesday, September 22, 2010 at
Avery Fisher Hall (65th Street and
Broadway).
There were 860 guests
and the black-tie affair raised over $2,630,000.
Judith M. and Russell L. Carson
and Carol Sutton
Lewis and William M. Lewis, Jr. served as this
year’s Gala Chairmen. The Gala’s Executive Vice
Chairmen were Paul Calello and Jane DeBevoise,
Agnes and Gerald L. Hassell, and Mark A.
Hayek. The Opening Night Gala was presented by
Breguet and was generously underwritten by
BNY Mellon, Judith M. and Russell L. Carson,
and Credit Suisse.
Guests included
Alec Baldwin, Caroline
Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg, Desiree Rogers,
Deborah Roberts and Al Roker, Henry and Marie-Josée
Kravis, Barry and Fran Weissler, Borough President
Scott Stringer and Elyse Buxbaum, Dennis Paul and
Coralie Charriol Paul, Lawrence and Ronnie Ackman,
Robert and Helen Appel, Adrienne Arsht, Tony Bechara,
John and Gaily Beinecke, Joshua Bell, Roland and
Lois Betts, Charles and Myra Biblowit, Harvey and
Arlene Blau, The Honorable Donald M. Blinken and
Vera Blinken, Doug and Bebe Broadwater, Charles and
Bonnie Bronfman, Kenneth and Noreen Buckfire, James
E. and Nancy Buckman, Calvin and Jane Cafritz, Yoko
Nagae Ceschina, John and Jill Chalsty, Kenneth and
Kathryn Chenault, Peter and Brooke Cohen, Rodgin and
Barbara Cohen, Alan D. and Betsy Cohn, Barry and
Bobbi Coller, Joyce Cowin, George and Carol Crapple,
Mary Sharp Cronson, Toos and Hira Daruvala,
Nathaniel and Lucy Day, Elizabeth de Cuevas, Robert
Del Tufo, Richard and Jennie DeScherer, Liz Diller,
Joe and Diana DiMenna, Ed Duffy, Renaud and
Christine Dutreil, Katherine Farley and Jerry I.
Speyer, Meyer and Barbara Feldberg, Christy Ferer,
Pamela Fiori, Jay and Randy Fishman, J. Christopher
Flowers, William and Daria Foster, Robert M. and
Dale Frehse, Jr., Marina K. French, Michael Fuchs,
Annabelle Garrett, Cosby and Timothy M. George,
Gladys George, Alan and Sandra Gerry, Alan and Kajsa
Gilbert , George, Spera and Jane Ginsburg, Peter and
Jamee Gregory, Günther and Renata Greiner, Bud and
Jennifer Gruenberg, Paul and Diane Guenther, Patty
Hambrecht, Charles Hamlen, Sung E. Han-Andersen and
Chris Andersen, Gurnee and Marjorie Hart, Robert and
Mary Jane Hekemian, Robert Hekemian, Jr. and Colleen
Hekemian, C. Robert and Mary Henrikson, Roger and
Susan Hertog, George and Joan Hornig, Howard and
Ellen Katz, Mrs. William T. Knight, III, Eugene and
Barbara Kohn, Bruce and Suzie Kovner, H. Frederick
Krimendahl, II and Emilia A. Saint-Amand, Honey M.
Kurtz, Leonard and Evelyn Lauder, Laurence and Dalia
Leeds, Richard and Karen LeFrak, John and Betty
Levin, Magnus Lindberg, Linda and Samuel H.
Lindenbaum, Robert V. Lindsay, Robert and Margot
Linton, Bob and Martha Lipp, Albert and Carol
Lowenthal, Alan and Christina MacDonald, James and
Ellen Marcus, Nancy Marks, Branford and Nicole
Marsalis, Wynton Marsalis, Peter and Leni May,
Crystal McCrary, Thomas and Diahn McGrath, Thomas
and Heidi McWilliams, Mervon Mehta, Gene Mercy,
Slade and Phyllis Mills, Philip and Cheryl Milstein,
Vivian Milstein, Sylvester and Gillian Miniter, The
Honorable Michael Mukasey and Mrs. Mukasey (Susan),
The Honorable Frank N. Newman and Mrs. Newman (Lizabeth),
Charles and Anne Niemeth, Morris and Nancy Offit,
Stuart Orsher and Gladys George, Norman and Liliane
Peck, Donald A. Pels and Wendy Keys, Itzhak and Toby
Perlman, Charles and Elaine Petschek, Joel I. and
Joan Picket, Heather Randall, Behzad Ranjbaran,
Elina Ranjbaran, Thomas and Elizabeth Renyi, Liz
Robbins, Dr. Leon and Paula Root, Jonathan and Diana
Rose, Sandra Priest Rose, Dr. Elihu Rose and Susan
Rose, Benjamin M. and Donna Rosen, Robert L. Rosen
and Dr. Dale Atkins Rosen, Charles and Carol
Schaefer, David and Lisa Schiff, Bernard and Irene
Schwartz, Marvin and Donna Schwartz, Ric Scofidio
and Liz Diller, Martin and Edith Segal, Shirley
Bacot Shamel and Charles D. Shamel, Fred and Irene
Shen, Joel and Joan Smilow, Maurice Sonnenberg, Paul
and Daisy Soros, Oscar and Argie Tang, Douglas and
Duhanne Tansill, Donald and Barbara Tober, Ronald J.
and Christie Ulrich, Thomas and Ann Unterberg, John
and Lauren Veronis, Stephen and Diane Volk, Herbert
and Svetlana Wachtell, Mary J. Wallach, Stanford and
Sandra Warshawsky, Sue Ann Weinberg, The Honorable
James D. Wolfensohn and Elaine Wolfensohn,
Ermenegildo and Elena Zegna and Edoardo Zegna and
Angelo Zegna.
Music Director Alan Gilbert
conducted the New York Philharmonic in the U.S.
Premiere of Wynton Marsalis’s Symphony No. 3,
Swing Symphony, a New York Philharmonic
Co-Commission, performed jointly by the Philharmonic
and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. The
Orchestra also performed R. Strauss’s Don Juan
and Hindemith’s
Symphonic Metamorphoses on Themes
by Carl Maria von Weber