Carnegie Hall hosted a gala to celebrate the opening of the new season to come! Whoever bought a ticket could attend. This year, Patricia Clarkson, Ronan Farrow, Zac Posen, Liev Schreiber, and Elizabeth Segerstrom joined Carnegie Hall in celebration!
Visceral excitement and pure, richly textured musicality come together in this opening night program that features the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conductor Riccardo Muti, and violin superstar Leonidas Kavakos. She 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.
