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| 15th Annual Mashomack International Polo Challenge |
On Saturday a week ago, June 16th, The Mashomack Polo Club hosted its 15th Annual Mashomack International Polo Challenge in Pine Plains. This is a great day in the heart of Millbrook hunt country. They began at noon with a lively Champagne reception, followed by an elegantly tented, field-side luncheon. The culmination of the day's festivities was an exciting polo match between teams representing the United States, Great Britain, Italy and France, all riding valiantly to secure the coveted trophy for their team and country.
This year they had the great honor of hosting His Highness The Maharaja Sawai Padmanabh Singh of Jaipur and welcoming the Royal Family, with Maharaj Narendra Singh playing for the dashing Team India. Following the match was a highly publicized awards ceremony. |
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| The Mashomack Polo Challenge Tailgate |
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| Team India |
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| Team Carlyle |
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| The Teams |
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| Bruce Colley, Parker Thorne, Ransher Singh Rathore, Carlo Berti, Maharaj Narendra Singh of Jaipur, Karen Klopp,Saqib Mawa-zkha, and Col. Navjeet Singh Sandhu |
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| Carlo Baccheschi Berti of Castello de Vicerello with Nick Beinstock, Parker Thorne, Don Langois, and Guille Aguero |
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| Team Quest – Nick Bienstock, Oakley Thorne, Tatin Zubiaurre, and Philip MacTaggart with Chris and Grace Meigher |
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| The Winning team – Team Carlyle Frederic Levy, President Nespresso, Giovanni Berretta, MD Carlyle Hotel, John Klopp, Julio Ezburra, James McBride, and Bruce Colley |
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| Royal Jaipur team with Vikram Chatwal |
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| Amy Broch and Jennifer Wilson |
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| Talbot Logan and Bill Miller |
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| Parker Thorne is awarded The Best Pony by Heather Croner of Sotheby's Real Estate Millbrook, together with Col. Navjeet Singh Sandhu |
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| John Klopp and Oakley Thorne |
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| Bruce and Teresa Colley |
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| Bartle Bull with Diana and Peter Chapman |
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| Andrea Walton and John Massie |
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| Lois and Eugene Colley |
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| Fabian Rameriez and Laura Lehman |
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| Alex Farman Farmiana and daughter |
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| Debbie Costa |
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| Frederic Levy and Michelle McFaul |
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| Catherine Malandrino with Teressa Colley, Susan Meyer, and Scott Annan |
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| Emel Dilek |
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| Olga Vaughan, President, La Martina USA |
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| Lindsay and David Bullock |
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| Lettica and Giovanni Beretta |
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| MC Roberts, Eric Oken, and Alexandra Kasmin |
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| Tom Flexner, Frederic Levy, and Adam Klopp |
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| Laurance and Michael Levin with Sylvia Langois |
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| Frederic Fekkai and Parker Thorne |
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| Princess Diya of Jaipur |
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| Charlotte and Octavio Serena with family and friends |
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| Anne Besamat, Teresa Colley, and Wendy Finerman |
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| Princesss Diya of Jaipur, Maharani of Jaipur, Teressa Colley, and Harsha Singh |
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Chicago — The Joffrey Women's Board held a luncheon at the Ritz Carlton Hotel on Thursday, June 14, 2012 to celebrate the Women's Board's 10th Anniversary. It was an important event and the Women's Board has been very fortunate to have been led by five dedicated women, namely Maureen Smith, Helen Melchior, Kathleen Klaeser, Christine Ott and the current president, Melissa Babcock. All were in attendance for this Anniversary Celebration.
The Women's Board is known for its exciting parties and this June event was not an exception. Historic ballet costumes were on display during the reception and Joffrey Trainees modeled some of the extraordinary ones during lunch.
As the 200 plus guests entered the Ritz Ballroom, they viewed not only the vintage costumes but dining tables with overflowing flowers in hues of pink and green in Joffrey gloss hat boxes. The luncheon menu featured a spring pea soup, followed by an elegant grilled chicken salad and ended with a chocolate Pot de Crème.
Lisa Leiden, Chair of the Joffrey Costume Committee, said that the costumes pulled from the Joffrey archives for the luncheon were a wonderful cross section and well represented the variety and depth of the Joffrey's collection. The costumes were from productions of the last decade and included The Nutcracker, Taming of the Shrew, Romeo and Juliet and Cinderella.
During the luncheon Tina Sloan, well known actress of Guiding Light and author of Changing Shoes, dazzled the attendees with her one-woman show based on her book and life experiences including a role in the Academy Award winning film, Black Swan. Thus, Ms. Sloan had a great feeling for the dance and these comments were woven into her presentation.
The chairmen of the luncheon were Sophie Bross and Elizabeth Ryan of Chicago and Jennifer Litowitz and Maggie Scheyer of Glencoe. Nena Ivon, the Chicago History Museum's Costume Council President and former Fashion Director of Saks Fifth Avenue's Michigan Avenue outpost, was the Honorary Chair. Assisting the chairs was a large and distinguished group of Women's Board Members. Joining the Joffrey members were Dusty Stemmer and Toni Canada, friends from the Costume Council Board of the Chicago History Museum.
Some of the guests included Suzette Bulley, Jamee Field and Liz Adams of Chicago; from the north shore were Mary Jo Basler and Sandra Deromedi of Lake Forest and Astrid Gamsjaeger of Glencoe; from the western suburbs was Yolanda Tyler of River Forest.
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Co-chair Elizabeth Ryan with Charlotte and Alexandra Ryan |
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Elizabeth Ryan and Tina Sloan |
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The Joffrey Luncheon is an annual event with past fetes entitled Cindy's Having a Ball and Lunch at Maxim's Celebrating The Merry Widow.
The funds garnered at the Luncheon will support the Joffrey's programs and performances, including the Costume Project whose mission is to preserve and catalogue these fabulous garments. The expected net is expected to be approximately $50,000.00.
The Joffrey Ballet is hailed as "America's Company of Firsts". Among this list is the honor of being the first dance company to perform at the White House. For more than a half-century, The Joffrey's commitment is taking world-class, artistically vibrant works to a broad and varied audience that support the company's unprecedented capacity for achieving important 'firsts'. The Joffrey formerly of New York and Los Angeles, now lives permanently in its brilliant new facility, The Joffrey Tower in Chicago. The company tours extensively, has a highly effective education program and collaborates with a myriad of other visual and performing arts organizations. |
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Sophie Bross with her Dolly Geary |
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Jenn Lake and Annie Bloch |
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Joffrey Women’s Board President Melissa Babcock with Lunch Chairs Elizabeth Ryan and Sophie Bross |
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Ann Waters and Maureen Smith |
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Dolly Geary and Tina Sloan |
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Joffrey staff in Joffrey Scarves (inspired by Pablo Picasso's original design from the ballet Parade, premiered by The Joffrey in 1973) |
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Andrea Garber and Eileen Murphy |
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Tina Sloan and Christopher Clinton Conway |
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Shauna Montgomery, Shelley Farley, and Rebecca Besser |
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Tracy Mansur and Larisa Kronfeld |
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Cathy Busch and Liz Cole |
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| The Floating Hospital (TFH) hosted its Third Annual Garden Party at the Central Park Zoo on Monday evening, June 18. The fund-raiser was co-chaired by Judith Faske and Edward W. Prager, longtime friends of TFH. Founded in 1866, TFH has served as the family doctor to New York City's most vulnerable citizens for 146 years, providing primary medical, dental, and mental health care to homeless and medically underserved NYC children and families. TFH is the single largest provider of health care to homeless families in NYC's five boroughs. |
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Miriam Villanueva, Evelyn Jones, Samantha Lamont, and Maria Dean |
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Katrina Smith and Cynthia Davis |
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The entrance to the Central Park Zoo |
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TFH President Sean Granahan |
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Patricia Cuartas and Amy Marciano |
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TFH Board Members Maude Askin, Carol Jackson, and Evelyn Lord |
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John Granahan and Lauren Dibileo |
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TFH Board Member and Party Co-Host, Judith Faske |
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TFH Board Member and Party Co-Host, Ed Prager |
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Sue Piper and Jane Paccione |
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Patsy Yanchik and Kathleen Quinn |
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Shani and Wakim Andre |
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Rosalba Del Vecchio and Robert Brittis |
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Ernie Swain, Sarajane Brittis, and Tom Della Corte |
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Julian Del Vecchio, Dede Adolph, Perry Brittis, and Geri Corrigan |
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Terri Barnes and Anthony L. Brittis |
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Michael Hesslein and Maegan Kovatch |
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Shelley Grant Hauptman and Joy Simpkins |
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Patricia K. Zendel |
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Shana, Sean, and Morgan O'Keefe |
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Marianna Brittis, Dede Adolph, and Annie Levy |
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Nina Aledort, TFH Board Chairman Anthony Brownie, Sarajane Brittis, Terri Barnes, and Joy Simpkins |
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Michael Collins and Josh Lamberg |
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Ruth Lynford and Bruce Cohen |
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Icelini Garcia-Sosa, Daniel Zendel, Robert Brittis, Geri Corrigan, Patricia Zendel, Rosalba Del Vecchio, and Julian Del Vecchio |
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United Nations Federal Credit Union Volunteers: Floyd Crumpton, Nicole Homa, Farah Emilien, James Fenimore, and Teresa Collins |
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Sarajane Brittis with TFH's Chief Financial Officer Stiles Nyerere |
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| On Thursday evening, June 21, 17 Greenwich Christian and Jewish institutions together with Polyphony Foundation founders Craig and Deborah Cogut, and event chairs David Mullen and Amy Lipton hosted a concert and reception at First Presbyterian Church in Greenwich, CT. The church was packed with 400 music lovers as acclaimed Israeli conductor Karin Ben-Josef delighted the audience with the Polyphony Youth Orchestra's renditions of Bach, Barber, Grieg and Handel. The student musicians, who range in age from 9-17 wowed the audience with the virtuosity of their playing. Included among the enormously gifted musicians were violinists Feras Machour and Yamen Saadi who both were recently awarded first prize in the prestigious Paul Ben Haim music competition in Israel. |
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| Nabeel Abboud Ashkar |
Rev. William Evertsberg of The First Presbyterian Church of Greenwich welcomed the audience and introduced the musicians. At the performance's conclusion, benedictions were offered by Rabbi Mitchhell Hurvitz of Temple Sholom, Monsignor Alan Detscher of Saint Catherine's Church and Imam Kareem Adeeb of The American Institute for Islamic and Arabic Studies.
Polyphony seeks to bring equal opportunity for music education and other innovative educational programs to Arab Israeli youth, offer Jewish youth opportunities to participate in these programs and create channels for dialogue between Jewish and Arab communities in Israel.
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| Karin Ben Josef |
The Polyphony Foundation is a U.S. based 501(c)3 organization that believes that music has a unique power to transcend cultural and social boundaries, educating both performer and audience in the art of listening and communicating. Polyphony believes creating new channels for engagement between young members of diverse communities is an essential step towards the creation of a just and peaceful society in Israel.
Polyphony was founded in 2011 by four individuals, Craig and Deborah Cogut; renowned concert violinist and co-founder of both The Orpheus Foundation and The Barenboim-Said Conservatory in Nazareth, Nabeel Abboud-Ashkar; and award winning singer, songwriter, actress, producer and activist Cher.
This is the orchestra's second annual U.S. tour and its first since being awarded the Yoko Ono Lennon Courage Award for the Arts in February at a ceremony at MOMA. Greenwich is the orchestra's first stop on the tour which also includes performances at several venues in New York City, Detroit, the Hamptons and Aspen. |
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| Craig and Deborah Cogut, co-founders of Polyphony, with their son, and Alex Cogut, Polyphony Youth Coordinator |
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| Brian Kanarek, Gigi and Ralph Strauss, Deborah Cogut, and Ari Kushner |
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| David Mullen, Shuku Hahn, Craig Cogut, and Rabbi Mitch Hurvitz |
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| Kevin Estes and Heather Wright |
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| Amy Lipton and Nancy Alchek |
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| Rabbi David Saiger, Ari Kushner, Amy Lipton, and Brian Kanarek |
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| Esther Bushell, Lee Ann and David Tolzmann, and Linda and Phil McWhorter |
| Cristina and Chris Cuomo hosted an intimate summer garden party in their beautiful backyard in Southampton, NY on Saturday, July 23rd. The evening celebrated Zacapa Rum and Seven Bar Foundation (a non-profit organization focused on establishing micro-finance initiatives) and their recent micro-finance partnership that will help women artisans living in Guatemala, the country where the ultra-premium Zacapa Rum is hand-crafted. Guests gathered on a beautiful evening and enjoyed specialty Zacapa Rum cocktails and dined on delicious Latin American inspired cuisine while enjoying the sounds of Latin American music and great company. |
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| Notable guests in attendance included: Cristina and Chris Cuomo, Tinsley Mortimer, Randy Schindler, Ross Bleckner, Alina Cho, Kimberly Guilfoyle, Gigi Ganatra, Alex Duff, Gigi Howard, and Renata Black (president and founder of Seven Bar Foundation). |
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| Michael Kaplan, Cristina Cuomo, Ross Bleckner, Eric Freeman, Jonah Roberts, and Troy Roberts |
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| Ross Bleckner, Chris Cuomo, Eric Freeman, and Michael Kaplan |
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| Cristina Cuomo, Marcy Waren, and Alina Cho |
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| Gigi Ganatra Duff and Tinsley Mortimer |
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| Gigi Howard, Tabasum Mir, Alex Duff, and Gigi Ganatra Duff |
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| Ali Edwards, Patrick Thomas, and Rachel Thomas |
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| Renata M. Black and Randy Schindler |
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| Kimberly Guilfoyle, Casey Fahey, and Susin Shin |
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| Cristina and Chris Cuomo |
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| Jenia Molnar and Tabasum Mir |
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| Beth Blake, Liz Cohen Hausman, and Marcy Waren |
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| Cristina Cuomo and Rennee Rockefeller |
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| Alex Douzet, Pricilla Dwyer, and Dr. Dwyer |
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| Christina Didonna, Emanuel Didonna, Meredith Waterman, and Cristina Cuomo |
| Photographs by PatrickMcMullan.com (Seven Bar); Annie Watt (Polyphony).
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