Out & About
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A Younger View on Music
The 400 men and women attending the Young New Yorkers for the Philharmonic dinner Thursday mirrored the orchestra for which they helped raise $120,000: There were the gentle sounds of introductions, the deep bass of laughter after a welltold story, and the high notes of women being dipped and twirled on the dance floor. Performances earlier in the evening of Ravel’s “Le tombeau De Couperin,” Esa-Pekka Salonen’s piano concerto —a world premiere — and Musorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition” clearly had inspired the guests.
“It’s so much fun to be able to sit and watch them,” one of the event’s chairwomen, Blair Endresen Metrailler, said, adding that her favorite part of the concert was the final piece, the Musorgsky.
Chairwoman Paige Betz recalled her own experience with an instrument. She played the violin between the ages of 6 and 9 “very poorly,” she said. She credits her husband, Lee Potter, for cultivating her interest in classical music: “He played the violin for the North Carolina Symphony before law school,” she said.
