Fiona Breslin reports from Lenox. Close Encounters With Music closed its 20th season on Saturday, June 2, with a performance at Tanglewood’s Seiji Ozawa Hall called The Roaring Twenties: Berlin, Paris, and New York. This theme carried over into the evening as CEWM supporters gathered at the Gateways Inn for a celebration that harked back to the Gatsby era. Jackets and bowties were all the rage among performers, composers, and friends of CEWM (such as Amala Levine, cellist Yehuda Hanani, and Eric Levine left) who trickled in to the dimly-lit venue. Wine was poured from behind the old piano bar and guests either took their meal in the formal dining room, or lounged on velvet couches, where they toasted the night’s music, the performers, and the culmination of a successful 20th anniversary season for CEWM.
Rafel Rivera, mezzo-soprano Jennifer Rivera, Marty Schwartz, and Laurie Schwartz; Moisha Blechman, illustrator R.O. Blechman, Susan Hillel, and Pavel Hillel.
Lunde Asbjorn, CEWM board member Claudio Pincus, Yehuda Hanani, and producer Tim McHenry.
Roselle Chartock, WAMC's Alan Chartock, and Gateways Inn owner Eran Gazit; Paula Lustbader, tenor William Ferguson, and pianist Gerald Martin Moore.
Susan Hillel and board member Beverley Zabriskie; Harvey Rosenberg, CEWM board president Marcie Setlow, and the Berkshire Record's David Scribner.
Tony Patterson of Iredale Mineral Cosmetics, CEWM treasurer Reid White, Carolann Patterson, Jeannine Schoeffer, and Peter Schoeffer.
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Matteline deVries-Dilling, founder of Lite Brite Neon, one of the evening's honoree of this year's Upstate Benefit adresses the gala from the Caboose's caboose.
- Karen Pearson. Courtesy Art Omi.
Olana senior vice president and landscape curatorMark Prezorski, president Sean Sawyer, The evenings honoree Kristin Gamble and New York State Assemblymember Didi Barrett.
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