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Patricia Clarkson, Ronan Farrow, Zac Posen,
Liev Schreiber, and Elizabeth
Segerstrom joined
Carnegie Hall to celebrate the 2023–2024 season. The
Opening Night Gala concert featured the Chicago
Symphony Orchestra (CSO) conducted by Riccardo
Muti. Acclaimed violinist Leonidas
Kavakos performed Tchaikovsky’s Violin
Concerto on a program that also included Mussorgsky’s Pictures
from an Exhibition, a work that Muti conducted at
the Ravinia Festival in his 1973 CSO podium debut. Mercedes
T. Bass and Hope and Robert F. Smith were the
Gala Lead Chairmen for the evening. A black-tie dinner at
Cipriani 42nd Street followed with guests including Harrison
Ball, Gina Gershon, Susan Jaffe, Beejan Land, Serena and
Shawn Levy, Zoe Lister-Jones, Taylor Neisen, Galina Novikova,
Tatiana and Alexei Ratmansky, Deborah Rutter, Sophie
Sumner,
and Jessica Vosk. |