"At the Upper East Sides Cosmopolitan Clubthose discreet, patrician rooms built for conversation and convictionsound did more than travel; it testified. The Denyce Graves Foundation's Harvest Moon Gala announcement landed like a silk gavel: art is not ornament, it is guardianship. In a season when public life rewards the echo, this evening insisted on chorustrained, rigorous, plural, and on the lineage that has always sung the city into its better self."
"These honorees do more than dazzle. They build the scaffolding that lets the next voice climb. Honorary chairs Barbara Tober and Suzi Cordish, with Gala Chair Ann Gottlieb, framed the night with a welcome that felt like an assignment. Besides the luminous Denyce, Tober praised the incredible talent announcing itself one by one, while Cordish marked the milestone: October 6 will be the Foundation's first New York City gala. The message beneath the pleasantries was plainlegacy is not an accident. Denyce spoke with the candor of a maestro who has earned every inch of her stage."
The Denyce Graves Foundation will hold a Harvest Moon Gala in New York that positions opera as guardianship and legacy-building. The Gala will salute tenor Andrea Bocelli, Francesca Zambello, philanthropist and singer Chandrika Tandon, and Dr. Louise Toppin. Honorary chairs Barbara Tober and Suzi Cordish, with Gala Chair Ann Gottlieb, announced October 6 as the Foundation's first New York City gala. Denyce Graves emphasizes that performing is a love and teaching has become a life, and she operates an atelier where rigor and generosity shape excellence. The evening foregrounds choral rigor, lineage, and the scaffolding that allows new voices to climb.
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