Summer Lovin'

The French-inspired dinner scene at the 2008 Caramoor International Music Festival's Opening Night Gala and Benefit in Katonah, New York.

The Caramoor International Music Festival launched its summer season in Katonha with a gala evening in a “garden of great music,” the 63rd annual summer festival in the Venetian Theater with Michael Barrett leading the Orchestra of St. Luke's with guest artists Alisa Weilerstein, cello; Igor Begelman, clarinet; and Jon Kimura Parker, piano, playing works by Copland, Bernstein, Fauré, and Gershwin.

Edward and Patricia Falkenberg, Pamela and John Hervey, Judy and Tony Evnin, and Michael Barrett

Opening Night Gala honorees were long-time advocates for the American arts in Paris, Samuel and Judith Pisar of Manhattan and Paris. Co-chairs are Patricia and Edward Falkenberg of Manhattan and Scarsdale, and Pamela and John Hervey of Katonah. Opening Night was sponsored, in part, through the generous support of Reach Capital Management, LP.

The evening began with cocktails in the Reception Tent and Italian Pavilion in Caramoor’s magnificent gardens, followed by a French-inspired dinner, created by Great Performances. The concert was followed by dessert and dancing with the artists at “Club Caramoor.” The attire for the evening was Paris Chic.

Igor Begelman, Alisa Weilerstein, and John Kimura Parker

The story of Caramoor is the astonishing legacy of Walter and Lucie Rosen, who built the great house and filled it with their treasures. Mr. Rosen was the master planner for the Caramoor estate. His dream was to create a place to entertain friends from around the world. Their musical evenings were the seeds of today’s International Music Festival. Realizing the pleasure their friends took in the beauty of Caramoor – the house with its art collection; the gardens; and the musical programs on summer evenings – the Rosens established a Foundation to open Caramoor to the public in perpetuity. Lucie Rosen survived her husband by seventeen years. During those years, she expanded the Music Festival: The Spanish Courtyard was used as a setting for musical events, as it is today. Under her direction, the great stage of the Venetian Theater was built.

Barbara and Ralph DuPont with Nina and Michael Stanton

Harriette and Noel Levine

Diana Hoagland, Sandra Joys, Jay Cantor, Mrs. Herbert Schutz, and David Joys

Antoinette Cooper and Lee Blair

Anthony Blinken with Judith and Samuel Pisar

Barbara Spector and Philip Schlussel

Diane and Robert Moss

Judy Evnin and Michael Barrett

Kevin and Chris Madden

Emily and Eugene Grant

Jeanette Barry, Zita Rosenthal, and Bryn Cohen

John and Susan Freund

Ayodele and Nigel Hart

Pamela and John Hervey

Morris W. and Nancy Offit

Marti and Robert Dinerstein

Michael Barrett, Elisabeth Saxe, Pamela Hervey, Nigel Hart, John Hervey, and Ayodele Hart

Jennifer Moulton, Lynn Siegel, and Cathy Henry

Jeffrey and Tondra Lynford

Oceana, the largest international organization focused solely on protecting the oceans, held a reception at Christie's where the auction house was also holding its Ocean Liner auction preview.

The event showcased a life preserver from R.M.S. Titanic, never before seen in public. It is the first preserver from the doomed ship ever to be offered for sale in North America and is one of only six known to be in existence. The night after this reception, the preserver was sold at auction at Christie’s for $68,500.

All proceeds from the Oceana event, sponsored by AIG Environmental and Nautica, benefited the marine conservation efforts of Oceana.

More than 140 attended and received a private tour of the Christie’s Ocean Liner preview, learning the history of each item. Bettina Alonso, the head of Oceana’s New York office and Vice President of Global Development, Law & Order star and Oceana board member Sam Waterston, as well as Oceana Senior Vice President and Chief Scientist Mike Hirshfield also spoke to the guests.

Elina Miakisz, Sara Eisenstat, Meg Confrey, Susan Gordon, Sam Waterston, Joe Miakisz, Charlotte Osborne, Alison Jones, and Ron Fiamma

Oceana’s work continues to grow in importance as worldwide overfishing, habitat destruction, pollution and global climate change deplete the oceans. Scientists have projected that if current trends in human activity continue all commercially fished species could collapse by the middle of this century.

Mike Hirschfield told the guests that “The exhibit at Christie’s is about the ocean surface. Oceana’s purpose is to find out what is going on under the ocean’s surface and do something about it.” To learn more about Oceana’s mission, campaigns and victories, visit: www.oceana.org [2].

To view the complete results of the auction, click here [3].

Bettina Alonso

Alex Salkeld, Jenna lazar, Sam Waterston, Cece Coffin, and Mary Skinner

Tyler Heiden Jones and Diane McNulty

Sam Waterston and Michael Hirshfield

Alain and Youne Sajous

Almudena Fernandez and Cameron Alborzian

Anna Nieto and Ivo Tomasinni

Charles Howland and Richard Faber

Dan Pimentel and Jacques Doassans

Bridgite Johns and Scott Maddalene

Jenna Yoon and Polly van Raalte

Micah Kagan and Sara Eisenstat

Diana Paxton and Erin O'Brien

Ethel Tejada and Ivi Navarrete

Ella Newman

Marie Kotsonis and Rodnet Hilton Brown

Erin O'Brien, Sir Thomas Moore, Nina Kaminska, and Kay Breakstone

John Ianitto and Tish Bacon

Mirian and Jason Lamberth

Monica and Jeffry Ruthizer

Richard Torrenzano

David Haines and Jean Zhang

David Stoneand Rodney Hilton Brown

Kimberly and Kenneth Thomson

Øivind Johanson and Andrew Shaw

Geoff Melus, Nikki Dietrich, and Eugenie Meluso

Greg Dietrich and Geoff Meluso

Mimi Crune and Brent Jibadlo

Larry Sharpe, Ivo Tomisini, and WR Mann

The Young Patrons Circle of American Friends of the Louvre (AFL) hosted its inaugural New York benefit, Soirée au Louvre last week with more than 200 gathering at Espace on West 42nd Street.

Candida Höfer, the world renowned photographer, granted AFL the exclusive rights to project her monumental images of the Louvre’s beautiful galleries as part of the event.


	Eric Spear

Among those attending were YPC co-chairs Olivia Chantecaille and Kipton Cronkite, Fabiola Beracasa, Catherine Forbes, Lisa Anastos, Jennifer Bell, and Gustaf Demarchelier.

Funds raised will support a major educational initiative at the Museum — the translation into English of the Louvre’s online collections database, Atlas. The database gives open online access to the 35,000 works of art on exhibit at the Louvre.

With more than 10 million visitors accessing the Louvre’s web site each year, the new translation is expected to benefit millions of English-speakers around the globe.

The Young Patrons Circle of American Friends of the Louvre was launched in 2006 to engage young professionals and art lovers in supporting one of the world’s greatest museums.

The group is individuals between ages 21 and 40 who enjoy social and academically-focused forums in which to share their interest in the Louvre, philanthropy and French culture.

Anabel Vartanian

Viviane Lapointe and David Pezza

Kipton Cronkite and Serena Nikkah

Tracy Stern

Catherine Forbes, David Chines, and Channing Norton

Maximilian and Larissa Whitney

Fabiola Beracasa and Olivia Chantecaille

Genevieve Bahrenberg

Paul McCabe and J. Ulving

Kipton Cronkite and Jennifer Bell

Lisa Anastos

The Nature Conservancy’s Beaches and Bays Gala was held in East Hampton at the home of Libby and Shahab Karmely (the former home of Robert D. L. Gardiner). There was a dinner catered by Glorious Food, dancing to Paul Richard’s Band from Hank Lane Productions and an after party for the juniors with desserts and cocktails until midnight.

The mission of the Nature conservancy is to preserve the plants, animals and natural communities that represent the diversity of life on earth, by protecting the lands and waters they need to survive. No small task, and getting larger and larger by the day.
To learn more, visit their website: www.nature.org/longisland [6]