Mayor Michael Bloomberg and
Matthew David.
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LIVE FROM LINCOLN CENTER
High Society in High Gear
To Mark Cultural Milestone
By Roger Webster
 OSTS
Beverly Sills and Placido Domingo traded jokes and compliments
during the recent star-studded celebration of the 25th anniversary
of Live From Lincoln Center, the award winning television
series created and produced by John Goberman.
They
introduced such legends, as Jessye Norman, Helen Huang and Itzhak
Perlman who performed live, and a video montage of program
highlights that Goberman put together. Mayor Mike Bloomberg
paid homage to Beverly as New York City’s greatest ambassador.
Muffie Potter Aston, Thomas A. Renyi,
Beverly Sills, Joseph
Perella,
Daisy Soros.
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The
performance ended on a brassy note, with famed trumpeter Wynton
Marsalis and his jazz band playing When the Saints Go
Marching In right off the stage, leading the audience of 650 to
the promenade, where they were charmed by the stunning
candle-and-flower centerpieces and a giant “25” fashioned out of
2,500 black magic roses designed by Matthew David.
During
the delicious dinner created by Glorious Foods, Ms. Sills introduced
benefit co-chairs Muffie Potter Aston, Daisy Soros, Joseph
Perella of Morgan Stanley, and Thomas A. Renyi of The
Bank of New York. She presented Lillian Vernon and American
Express Company’s Kenneth I. Chenault with Lincoln
Center’s Laureate Award for benevolence.
Isabella Rossellini.
Photo by Chance Yeh
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Among
those gracing the evening were Helen Gurley Brown, Isabella
Rossellini, Libby Pataki, Imaculada de Habsburgo, novelist Mary
Higgins Clark, New York City Ballet’s Peter Martins and
Darci Kistler, Regina Resnik, Dr. Sherrell Aston, Paul Soros,
Prince Dimitri of Yugoslavia, Denise Rich, Kathryn Chenault,
Beth Renyi, Georgette Mosbacher, Carol and Earle Mack, Dayssi
and Paul Kanavos, Gigi and Adrienne Vittadini, Allison and Leonard
Stern, Mary and Marvin Davidson, Barbaralee Diamonstein and
Ambassador Carl Spielvogel, Linda and
Mort Janklow, Pilar Crespi , Steve Robert, Ann and Bill
Ziff, Saundra Whitney and Paul Wallace, Hon. Schuyler and
Catia Chapin, Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe, R. Couri
Hay, CeCe Cord, David Patrick Columbia and Arnold Scaasi.
The
evening raised $1.6 million to insure that people all over the
country can continue to experience the best of the performing arts
right in their own living rooms. Bravissimo!
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