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 Moving to Higher Ground
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Amanda Foreman, Dominic Cooper, Gabrielle Tana, Anna Wintour, Saul Dibb, Keira Knightley, Nick Meyer, and Michael Kuhn at The Cinema Society's screening of “The Duchess.” |
Swing was in the air a couple of weeks ago as the fall social season began as Jazz at Lincoln Center Board member Jack Rudin and his wife Susan hosted a festive party for friend and Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center, Wynton Marsalis’s new book at the Four Seasons Grill Room in midtown Manhattan.
The book, written with historian Geoffrey C. Ward is called, “Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life.” The party brought together Wynton’s many friends from all walks of life from New Yorkers like Thelma Golden, Scott Schiff, Jonathan F.P. Rose, Stanley Crouch, former Mayor David Dinkins and New York City Councilwoman Inez Dickins, sports hero Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, as well as performers Bernadette Peters, Lynn Whitfield, Ben Vereen and Wendell Pierce, and television anchors Harry Smith and Maurice DuBois.
Everyone was treated to a special performance by Wynton and his quartet including Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra members Ali Jackson, Dan Nimmer, Carlos Henriquez and Walter Blanding. Many Jazz at Lincoln Center Board members were also in attendance including Chairman, Lisa Schiff, Dick Cashin, John Arnhold, Diane Coffey, Alan Cohn, Tom Lee, Mark Rosenthal, Marshall Sonenshine, Marlene Hess, Ed Lewis. |
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Ali Jackson, Dianne Coffey, Susan Rudin, Jack Rudin, and Carlos Henriquez |
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Ken Mask and Edward C. Arrendell |
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Kengo and Kyoko Nakamura |
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Adrian Ellis, Executive Director, Jazz at Lincoln Center and wife Libby Ellis |
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Wynton Marsalis with NYC Councilwoman Inez Dickins |
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Former Mayor David Dinkins, Harry Smith, William C. Rhoden, and Sharon Lopez |
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Stanley Crouch with Jazz at Lincoln Center Chairman Lisa Schiff |
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Dianne Coffey and Donna Aston |
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Jazz at Lincoln Center Board member Mark Rosenthal and Adrian Ellis |
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Gordon J. Davis |
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Jazz at Lincoln Center Board member Tom Lee, Scott Schiff, and Lisa Schiff |
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Maurice DuBois, Thelma Golden, and Wynton Marsalis |
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Ellis Marsalis III |
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Genevieve Stewart and Brandi Stewart |
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Jazz at Lincoln Center Board member Alan Cohn and wife Betsy Cohn |
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Wynton Marsalis and Bill Rudin |
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Lori Barclay, Bernadette Peters, and friend |
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Joe Temperley and Dan Morgenstern |
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Willie Jones III and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar |
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Mary Fiance Fuss and Dan Nimmer |
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Meghan Thornton and Jono Gasparro |
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Lynn Whitfield, Wynton Marsalis, Raymond Kelly, and Ali Jackson |
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Jonathan F.P. Rose and Lawrence Patrick |
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Sam Hollander and Stephanie Simon |
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Jackie Harris |
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Lisa Cashin, Jazz at Lincoln Center Board member Melanie Shorin, and Jodi Arnhold |
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Jazz at Lincoln Center Board member Dick Cashin with wife Lisa Cashin |
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Dennis Wurst and Stacy Leigh |
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Gladys Glassman, Bobbie Leit Schwartz, and Anne Gallagher |
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The Cinema Society joined with Chanel and Vogue to hold a super-glam screening of one of the hottest tickets of Fashion Week, The Duchess starring Keira Knightley, directed by Saul Dibb and based on Amanda Foreman’s best-selling biography of Georgianna Spencer, the Duchess of Devonshire in the late 18th century.
Academy Award nominee Keira Knightley plays the duchess who was the great-great-great-great aunt of Diana, Princess of Wales. Their lives and histories in many ways mirrored each other, at once ravishing, glamorous, adored by their contemporaries and also tragic. The film also stars Dominic Cooper who with Knightley was also present at the Public Theater screening as well as the supper which followed at the brand new Cooper Square Hotel.
Anna Wintour and Cinema Society founder Andrew Saffir welcomed the famous and boldfaced crowd that included Susan Sarandon, Donald and Melania Trump, Tory Burch, Ivanka Trump, Valentino and Giancarlo Giammetti, Donna Karan, Aerin Lauder, Rachel Roy, Damon Dash, Tommy Hilfiger, LeBron James, Jeff Gordon, David Schwimmer, Matchbox 20’s Rob Thomas, Eva Amurri, Griffin Dunne, Steven Klein, Judith Light, Anh Duong, Katie Lee Joel, Salman Rushdie, Blaine Trump, Dominick Dunne, Daphne Guinness, Richard Meier, Coco Rocha, Ryan Lochte (US Swim Team, #2 in Olympic Gold Medals behind Michael Phelps), Joel Schumacher, Tom Florio, Andre Leon Talley, Lee Radziwill, Hamish Bowles, Marina Rust Connor, Bee Shaffer, Charlie Shaffer, Dayssi Olarte de Kanavos, Jemma Kidd, Sam Shaffer and Kathryn Neale, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, Lauren Davis Santo Domingo, Filipa Fino, Maggie Betts, Yigal Azrouel, Daniel Benedict, Amanda and Christopher Brooks, Mario and Anne Grauso, Jamie Johnson, Julie Macklowe, Anne McNally, Ross Bleckner, Eleanor Ylvisaker, Zani Gugelmann, Chanel’s John Galantic, Arie and Coco Kopelman, Barbara Cirkva, Christine Dagousset, Rebekah McCabe, Saul Dibb, Amanda Foreman, Jeffrey Hatcher (screenwriter), Michael Kuhn (producer), Gabrielle Tana (producer), and Paramount’s Nick Meyer. |
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Anna Wintour and Keira Knightley |
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Amanda Brooks |
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Anh Duong |
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Dominic Cooper and Bee Shaffer |
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Aerin Lauder |
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Blaine Trump |
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Coco Rocha |
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Daphne Guinness and Steven Klein |
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Hamish Bowles |
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Andrew Saffir and Ryan Lochte |
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Jeff Gordon |
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Dominick Dunne and Griffin Dunne |
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Jill Kargman, Andrew Saffir, Coco Kopelman, and Arie Kopelman |
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Eva Amurri |
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Jim Jones and Damon Dash |
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Katie Lee Joel |
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Jemma Kidd |
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Judith Light |
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Lauren Santo Domingo |
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Marina Rust Connor |
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John and Sasha Galantic |
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Marisol and Rob Thomas |
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John Schumacher and Barbara Cirkva |
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Dayssi Olarte de Kanavos |
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Donna Karan |
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Donald and Melania Trump |
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Salman Rushdie |
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Maggie Betts and Zani Gugelmann |
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Susan Sarandon |
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Johannes Huebl and Daniel Benedict |
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Rebekah McCabe, Mario Grauso, Anne Grauso, Tory Burch, and Lyor Cohen |
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Richard and Ana Meier |
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Tommy Hilfiger |
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Zoe Buckman and David Schwimmer |
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Rachel Roy |
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Stephanie Winston Wolkoff |
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Tory Burch |
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Ivanka Trump |
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Tom Florio |
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Lebron James |
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Valentino |
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| The UJA-Federation of New York hosted their first annual “Sunset Cocktails” at the East Hampton Golf Club. Alisa F. Levin, UJA-Federation’s Chair of Women’s Philanthropy, was the guest speaker at the event hosted by Natalie and Brett Barth, Donna and Yale Fergang, Jen and Jon Harris, Cara and Jeff Klein, Tricia and Jason Pantzer and Eleanor and Rodney Propp. |
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Jason Pantzer and Eleanor Propp |
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Drew Anderman, Mitch Jacobs, and Samantha Ettus |
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Nancy Lascher, Donna Fergang, and Rochelle Ludwig |
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Michael and Tamara Stark |
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Kathy and Jeff Kramer with Tricia Pantzer |
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Vicki and Joseph Tahl |
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Rachel Dalton and Nisa Amoils |
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Cindy Mark, Hillary Leibowitz, and Daniel Leibowitz |
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Natalie Barth, Yale Fergang, Alisa F Levin, and Jason Pantzer |
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Cara and Jeff Klein |
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Hayim Grant and Dani Grant |
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Danielle Grant, Cara Klein, and Pam Henes |
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