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Douglas Durst, Ming Cho Lee, Merce Cunningham (seated), Governor Eliot
Spitzer, Jessye Norman and Thomas J. Schwarz.
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Purchase
College honored opera singer Jessye
Norman, artist
Helen Frankenthaler, choreographer Merce
Cunningham,
theater set designer Ming Cho
Lee and arts philanthropist
and environmentalist Douglas Durst and the Durst
Organization with the Nelson A. Rockefeller Award at a gala on November
12 at the Millennium Broadway Hotel/The Hudson Theatre
in New York City. The event marked the 40th anniversary
of the founding of the College and the establishment
of the School of the Arts Endowment Fund to provide
scholarships and support for student productions and
exhibitions. The gala raised $1.3 million for the Fund.
The evening included a cocktail reception and dinner
followed by the presentation of the awards by Purchase
president Thomas J. Schwarz and performances by outstanding
students from the Purchase Conservatories of Dance,
Music and Theatre Arts & Film in tribute to each
honoree.
Among the distinguished guests attending the gala
were New York State Governor Eliot
Spitzer, actor and
Purchase alumnus Jay O. Sanders, currently
appearing on Broadway in Pygmalion; Congresswoman
Nita Lowey, former general manager of the Metropolitan
Opera Joseph Volpe, Academy Award-winning director
and Purchase alumnus Chris Wedge, choreographer and
dancer Carmen DeLavallade, State
Senator Suzi Oppenheimer,
composer and conductor Tania Léon, former Martha
Graham artistic director and Purchase alumnus Teresa
Capucilli, and Jim and Helen
Stambler Neuberger.
The Nelson A. Rockefeller Award honors the achievements
and contributions of artists, arts patrons and those
committed to the environment. The award is named
for the former Governor of New York, with the permission
of his family, who was a preeminent supporter of the
arts and the environment. His vision and commitment
to the arts in a liberal arts setting inspired the
founding of Purchase College. The artists were recognized
in the fields of music, dance, theater arts and film,
and art and design, corresponding to the four professional
training programs within the School of the Arts.
The funds raised will provide opportunities for exceptionally
talented students, some of whom may be the first in
their families to attend college, to study at a premier
professional training institution.
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Chris Wedge and Jeanne Markel.
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Carmen DeLavallade and Keith Sabado.
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