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Istvan Vardai, Julia Novikova, Ning Feng, Irina Nikitina, Jaesig Lee, Ayyub Guliyev, and Johannes Fischer at The International Musical Olympus Festival's Six Rising Stars at Carnegie Hall.
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| Alex Hitz of the Bevelry Hills Kitchen (http://www.thebeverlyhillskitchen.com/) held a pre-Oscar dinner for friends from out of town and in town at his hilltop villa in the Sunset Plaza area of the Hollywood Hills. |
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Percy Gibson, Joan Collins, Alex Hitz, and Dennis Basso |
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Doris Brynner and Peter Dunham |
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Joan Collins and Nikki Haskell |
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Carolina Herrera, Alex Hitz, Wendy Goldberg, and Lauren King |
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Denise Hale |
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Alexandra and Billy Kimball |
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Dr. Alan Malouf and Denise Hale |
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Carly Steel and Tamsin Lonsdale |
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Michele Herbert, Kathy Hilton, and Barbara Davis |
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Frances Schultz, Tom Dittmer, and Marin Hopper |
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Patrick McMullan, and Barbara Davis |
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Beatrice Reed and Reinaldo Herrera |
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Michael Green |
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Carlos Mota, Andrea Dellal, Alex Hitz, and Carlos Souza |
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Lisa Fine and Karen Santo Domingo |
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Farhad Farman-Farmaian and Marin Hopper |
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Lisa Reuben, Simon Reuben, and Joyce Reuben |
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Andrea Dellal |
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Amanda Goldberg |
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Karina Fields |
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Michele and Larry Herbert |
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Eric Bushard and Degen Pener |
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Rick Hilton |
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Shell and Craig Cardon |
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Trey and Jenny Laird |
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Emilia Fanjul and Dennis Basso |
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Barbara Davis, Bronson Van Wyck, and Nikki Haskell |
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Victoria Brynner, Michael Green, and Doris Brynner |
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Michele Herbert, Larry Herbert, and Barbara Davis |
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Glenn Hinderstein and Diana Nathanson |
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Waldo Fernandez and Konstantin Kakanias |
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Wendy Goldberg and Denise Hale |
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Marymount Manhattan College Writing Center held its 17th Anniversary dinner at Doubles last Wednesday night.
The Writing Center, which opened in February 1995 encourages the craft of writing through instruction, programs, and user-friendly facilities. |
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Paul Andrejo, Grace Chang, Barbara Goldsmith, Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, Jeannette Watson, and Alex Sanger |
| Its resources include a literary library, publications, audio and video archives and a number of writing carrels with personal computers. The Writing Center also features many unique events, courses and workshops including the Best Selling Authors Series with writers such as Tom Wolfe, William Styron, Dominick Dunne, Gloria Steinem and others; monthly workshops celebrating different heritages and various aspects of the writing business; clinics designed to assist writers with works-in-progress; plus the annual Writers' Conference - a full day of informative panel discussions along with a celebrated keynote speaker. |
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Carola Frumkes, Bel Kaufman, and Joyce Eichenberg |
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John Calicchio, Jane Levine, and Arthur Indursky |
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Tina Flaherty and Peter Karadimas |
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Grace Edwards |
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Sharon Green and Elizabeth Strong-Cuevas |
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Susan Isaacs, Peter Scardino, Susan Barash, and Judith Kelman |
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George and Margie Marks |
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Bettye Musham and Denise LeFrak |
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Stephen Jacoby, Cygall Dias, and Richard Rubenstein |
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\Hyatt Bass
and Lewis Frumkes |
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Felice Ross, Rozalind Jacobs, Betsie Von Furerstenberg Reynolds, and Mimi Levitt |
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Richard Lederer and Betsy Bartlett |
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Ethel LeFrak and Regina Peruggi |
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Lawrence Block, Judith Greenburg, and Dan Greenburg |
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Malachy and Diana McCourt |
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Stanley Schulman and Armel Flood |
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Amber Frumkes and Scott Daspin |
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Elly Tatum, Charlyn Goins, and Pola Rosen |
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Barbara Taylor Bradford, Mary Higgins Clark, and Bob Bradford |
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The Musical Olympus Foundation, led by Irina Nikitina, presented an international festival at Carnegie Hall featuring six International Music Competition winners. German percussionist Johannes Fischer, South Korean tenor Jaesig Lee, Chinese violinist Ning Feng, Hungarian cellist Istvan Vardai, Russian soprano Julia Novikova and Azerbaijani conductor Ayyub Guliyev performed to a sold-out audience at Carnegie's Zankel Hall. The performance was followed by a cocktail reception at the Helen Yarmak studio, where guests toasted the young musical prodigies. The evening also featured the Olympus Chamber Orchestra, a group formed under the auspices of the Musical Olympus Foundation, featuring some of the most promising young musicians in New York City.
The Musical Olympus Foundation was established in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1995. The foundation develops and implements a range of international cultural projects, and is producing unique international musical presentations. The International Musical Olympus Festival has come to be known as a showcase of winners. For more information, visit www.musicalolympus.com. |
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Johannes Fischer |
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Julia Novikova |
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Istvan Vardai |
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Timothy John |
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Jaesig Lee |
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Veronica and David Zou |
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Ning Feng |
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Ayyub Guliyev |
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Graciana Del Castillo |
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Anait Bian and Michael Arguello |
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Michelle Marie Heinemann and John Heinemann |
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Dr. Kevin Plancher |
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Natalie Faeh and Bob Djavan |
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Michael Siegel and Jamie Drake |
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| Photographs by PATRICKMCMULLAN.COM (Hitz); Cutty McGill (Writing Center). |
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