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At Wollman
Rink in Central Park for the annual skating party hosted
by the Women's Committee of the
Central Park Conservancy. 7:30 PM. Photo: JH.
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This
past Monday night some lucky New Yorkers as well as many
from Europe, especially Turkey, were guests of Mica and
Ahmet Ertegun, in conjunction with Alem Magazine and the American Turkish
Society at a cocktail reception at the Metropolitan Museum of
Art followed by a black tie dinner dance at the Temple of Dendur.
The purpose of the dinner was to celebrate Turkish culture, fashion
and the art, but the venue made it a memorable sensation beyond
any purpose other than sheer pleasure.
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Nan
Kempner and Mica Ertegun
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Mr. Ertegun,
the founder and former chairman of Atlantic Records is an authentic
tycoon and impresario. He has developed the careers
of some of the greatest popular music and jazz talent of the
20th century. His persona is present as a character in two current
hit films — Beyond the Sea and Ray, both
stories about careers in which he had a profound influence. His
wife Mica is the noted interior designer whose work is known around
the world. The couple have been prominent
here in New York for decades and their sophisticated and very
often hip “entertainments” are a must-go because
they are always fun, interesting, and draw a brilliant array
of people from all over the globe.
Monday night they brought us The Whirling Dervish
Dancers who
made a special trip from Turkey to perform their hypnotic movements
in the traditional Sufi manner. We’ve all heard the term “whirling
dervish” with most of us never knowing what it meant and
whom it was referring to. They also brought Sami Goz,
the French orchestra leader who has entertained at so many fabulous
events
all over the world, to provide the dinner and dance music. Mr.
Goz is famous for being able to sing almost any popular song
in the language and the style (and often the similar sound) of
its creator.
Alem Magazine, which co-sponsored the evening, is Turkey’s
most widely read lifestyle publication. Now they are expanding
worldwide, beginning with New York because in their words, it
is “the center of fashion” and the “center
of the world.” Their photographers were on hand, along
with Patrick McMullan and his corps of lensmen,
and JH
and the Digital to
cover the event which will be featured in multiple pages in an
upcoming edition of Alem. The magazine also made a generous
contribution to the scholarship program at Columbia University
under the direction
of Dr. Mehmet Oz of New York Presbyterian Hospital. |
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Ahmet Ertegun and Diane Sawyer |
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The
fashion show with jewelry
by Atasay |
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The
cocktail reception featured a runway fashion show in the Great
Hall of jewelry
by Atasay, one of the greatest manufacturers of Turkish jewelry.
The Turks have an age-old tradition of gold jewelry, ancient and
timeless, as the models demonstrated so easily.
About eight-thirty, the crowd of 400 moved on through the galleries of the Sackler
Wing to the Temple of Dendur, with its moat bathed in candlelight and its ruins
illuminated by spots. The décor and flowers were provided by David
Monn.
Once everyone
had found their seats at table, Mr. Ertegun introduced the evening
and pointed out that the work of the American Turkish Society, which was founded
in 1949, was to build a bridge between the US and Turkey. Turkey, which sits
on the borders of Iraq, is a bridge between East and West and offers opportunities
to help bring stability to a troubled world. As a prosperous, secular, democratic
and open society with a Muslim majority, she serves as an example of other countries
in its region to dispel the notion that Islam and democracy are incompatible.
Then he introduced the Whirling Dervish Dancers, asking
also that there be no table talk while they performed. This seems to be an impossible
task for quite a few of even the most sophisticated adults. Be they bored or
suffering from ADD, I cannot determine, but some just won’t shut up, no
matter what. However: a band of special musicians for the Dancers took their
seats in front of Sami Goz orchestra, tuning up while the Dancers took their
traditional places on the
plaza of the temple, and it began. |
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Whirling
Dervish Dancers in
formation
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Whirling
Dervish Dancers in action |
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The
performance lasted about twenty minutes and was mesmerizing whatwith
the combination
of the costume, the music and the turning (it’s a very simple but highly
disciplined step that allows the dancers to continue twirling for so long without
getting dizzy and falling — don’t try it). After their exciting
performance, the dinner was served. And soon thereafter everyone was up and
dancing to Sami
Goz.
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The
table settings
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It was an amazing
evening, with the fresh fallen snow lit up outside the galleries’ skylight.
In the glamorous crowd: Newlyweds (as of last weekend) Bonnie
and Charles Evans, Sirio and Egidiana Maccioni, Marty Richards,
Rick
Friedberg and Francine LeFrak, Sid and Mercedes Bass, Joan Ganz
Cooney and Pete Peterson, Fernanda Niven, Lynn Nesbit, Lynn Wyatt with Bobby
Short, Oscar and Annette de la Renta, Louise Grunwald, Reinaldo
and Carolina Herrera, Christine and Steve Schwarzman,
Lionel Pincus with Princess Firyal of Jordan, Gale Hayman, Kenny
Lane, Nan Kempner, Marshall Rose, Dr. Patrick Stubgen and Dana
Hammond, Pamela Gross and Jimmy Finkelstein, David and Julia Koch,
Damon
and Liz
Mezzacappa, Duane Hampton, Mary McFadden, David and Lisa Schiff,
Pietro Cicognani, Patricia Patterson, Audrey and Mehmet Kirdar,
Ron and Harriet Weintraub, Barbara and Bobby Liberman, Annette
Tapert, Alexander Marchessini and Genevieve Faure, Carol and George
McFadden, Linda Wachner, Peggy Siegal, Dominick Dunne, Nina Griscom
with Leonel Piraino, Hannah Pakula, Dr. Dan Baker, Elizabeth de
Cuevas with Federico Manzano, Helen Mirren and
Taylor Hackford, John Richardson, Kosei Hara, Jason Epstein and
Judith Miller, Antoinette
Guerini-Maraldi, Paul Beirne, Jeffrey Leeds, Sheila and Tom Wolfe,
Tom Freston, Tom Krens, Diane Sawyer, Donald and Catie Marron,
Joan and Paul Marks Jann Wenner and Matt Nye, Vivien Duffield,
Monty Hackett, Camilla McGrath, Sam Reed with Elizabeth
Smith, Joan Didion, Elaine Kaufman, Paige Rense and Kenneth Noland,
Jean
Doumanian, Abe and Shirley Lord Rosenthal, Brigitte Restivo, Bernard
and Irene Schwartz, Nathan Bernstein and Katharina Otto-Bernstein,
Sir Evelyn and Lady de Rothschild, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Kravis, Gerry
and Pat Schoenfeld, Elizabeth and Felix Rohatyn, Beatrix and Julio
Mario Santo Domingo, Bob Hormats, Barbara Walters, Don and Marilyn
Hewitt, Prince and Princess Osman, Jane Holzer, Mr. and Mrs. Ed
Ney, Cornelia and Marty Bregman, Constance and Theodore Roosevelt
IV, Martin van Hasselburg, Charles and Elizabeth Byron, Virginia
Coleman, Doug Cramer with Lee Radziwill, Patricia
Duff, Mort Zuckerman, Alexis Gregory, Werner and Nurit Haase, Drue
Heinz with Tom Stoppard,
Heidi Holterbosch, Barry Humphries (whose friend Dame
Edna had the night off), Iris Love,
Seniha Halman, and that’s
not all, but, please forgive, about as far I can go with identification
and memory.
Although, at the Erteguns’ tables were Tony
Bennett and Susan Crow, Lale
Cander, Lyor and Amy Cohen, Ms. Walters, Tapert, and Duff, Ambassador
Baki Ilkin,
Mr. and Mrs. Erkan Mumcu, Tarkan Tevetoglu, Princess Firyal, Mr. Hackford, Mr.
Krens, Judy and Alfred Taubman, Ms. Sawyer, Ms. Love.
Was everybody happy? I hope so. Wouldn’t you be? A great and memorable
evening in New York, thanks to the Erteguns and our Turkish friends. |
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Gerry Schoenfeld,
Tony Bennett, and Ron Weintraub
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Abe
Rosenthal and Shirley Lord Rosenthal with Arlene and
Alan Alda
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Gale
Hayman, Kenny Lane, and Nan Kempner
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Pat
Patteron and Peter Schub
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Iris
Love, Sean Driscoll, and Emily Rafferty
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Barbara
Walters and Dominick Dunne
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Mary
McFadden
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Katharina
Otto and Nathan Bernstein
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Sid
Bass and Liz Mezzacappa
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Reinaldo
Herrera
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Sam
Reed
and Carolina Herrera
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The
scene during the fashion show
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Dominick
Dunne and Doug Cramer
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Bobby
Short and Lynn Wyatt
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Gil
Shiva and Mercedes Bass
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L.
to r: Lyn Nesbit, Barry Humphries, Princess Firyal,
and Lionel Pincus; Liz Mezzacappa and Barbara Liberman;
Charles Byron and Elizabeth de Cuevas.
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Entering
the
Temple of Dendur
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Dinner
guests settling in at
the Temple of Dendur
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Francine
LeFrak, Rick Friedberg, and friend
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Duane
Hampton
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Dilek
Hanif and Sebnem Balkan
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Lyn
Nesbit and Louise Grunwald
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Tom
Stoppard, Hannah Pakula, and Joan Didion
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Lucio
Bamaccorsi and Luisa Beccaria
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Bill
Cunningham
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Iris
Love and Seniha Halman
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Sir
Evelyn de Rothschild
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Paul
Beirne and DPC
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Lisa
and David Schiff
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Katharina
Otto and Pamela Gross
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Leonel
Piraino and Nina Griscom
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Tony
Bennett
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Judy
Taubman and Jimmy Finkelstein
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Annette
de la Renta and Elizabeth Rohatyn
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Sami
Goz and his orchestra
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Patricia
Duff
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A
refill
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The
goody bags
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The
ground floor of the Met post cocktails
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Kim
Cermak Garfunkel’s New York nightclub debut in
a one-night-only performance was the place to be
last week. The place being Au Bar. Kim
first performed as a back-up singer before being given her own
solo spots in husband Art
Garfunkel’s
concert tour and has performed all over the world — including
at Carnegie Hall and London’s Palladium and has sung with
the New York Philharmonic.
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James
Garfunkel and Kim Garfunkel
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Kim was backed
up by a great quartet—bass,
guitar, piano and drums—with special guest Juilliard violist
Rozanna Weinberger and two vocalists.
Her repertoire included Billy Joel's "And So
it Goes," Bob
Dylan's "You Gotta Serve Somebody", Paul
Simon's "Bleecker
Street," Stephen Sondheim's "Another Hundred
People" and
Frank Loesser's "If I were a Bell" (from Guys
and Dolls)
among others.
Fabian Basabe, Justin Rockefeller, Ann Slater, Mark Newhouse,
Peter Beard, Cornelia and Martin Bregman, "Premier Magazine" editor
Peter Herbst, Amy Lumet, Ann Jones, "Entertainment
Tonight's" Michelle
Becker, Nicole Hambrow (who flew in from London), and Kim's 14-year
old son James and husband Art Garfunkel were all in attendance. She
received a standing ovation from the sold out crowd. |
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Sylvia
Miles and Helen Glasser
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Paige
Bluhdorn
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Jane
Klaris and Diana Cannon
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Kim
Garfunkel
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Howard
Stein and Ann Jones
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Justin
Rockefeller and Indre Vengris
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Nejma
Beard and Peter Beard
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Art
Garfunkel and Justin Rockefeller
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Justin
Rockefeller, Ann Slater, James Garfunkel, and John Cahill
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Edgar
Abalos, Vincent Brady, and Marjorie Brady
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Ron
Orbach and Kathleen Orbach
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Sandy
Greenberg, Jane Levy, James Greenberg, Judy Levy, Sid
Levy, and Sue Greenberg
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Justin
Rockefeller and James Garfunkel
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