{"id":265053,"date":"2025-09-29T23:39:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T23:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/265053\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T23:39:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T23:39:23","slug":"new-york-philharmonic-opening-gala-and-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/265053\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Philharmonic | Opening Gala and Concert"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"\/Photographed by Julie Skarratt Photography. Dinner tables at the New York Philharmonic\u2019s 2025 Opening Gala at David Geffen Hall.<\/p>\n

For over 180 years, the New York Philharmonic<\/a> has housed some of the most transcendent musicians known to humankind and cemented itself as a legendary symphony orchestra, showing the world the essential role that the arts play in our society. A longstanding tradition, they held their opening gala and concert this past week at David Geffen Hall<\/a> in the upper west side of Manhattan in New York City to celebrate the start of their 2025-2026 season. In addition, and perhaps more importantly, this year\u2019s event stood to honor the legacy of NY Phil Director Vera Blinken<\/a>, as well as the memory of longtime board member and United States Ambassador to Hungary, Donald Blinken<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"\/Photographed by Chris Lee. New York Philharmonic Board Co-Chair Peter W. May, Opening Gala Honoree Vera Blinken, and Leni May.\"\"\/Anthony Parnther conducted the New York Philharmonic’s Opening Night Gala with C\u00e9cile McLorin Salvant as soloist at David Geffen Hall.<\/p>\n

It was a night of utter elegance, complete with a red carpet, cocktail reception, and a three-course dinner in the hall\u2019s Grand Promenade<\/a>, which sparkled of an exuberant lighting display hung from above designed by Robert Bloom<\/a>. The main event, the Philharmonic\u2019s opening concert, was led by conductor Anthony Parnther<\/a> and featured a premier guest: Grammy Award-winning jazz artist C\u00e9cile McLorin Salvant<\/a> as the lead vocalist. <\/p>\n

The rich history of the organization, as well as the admirable pursuits of both of the night\u2019s guests of honor, were not lost on attendees: the gala raised over $3.3 million for the non-profit\u2019s upcoming endeavors. Few things are as famously and distinctively representative of its kind as the NY Phil, and year after year, they prove that legends never die.<\/p>\n

\"\"\/(L-R) Vocalist C\u00e9cile McLorin Salvant; Mercedes Ellington, granddaughter of Duke Ellington; Nina Bernstein Simmons and Jamie Bernstein, daughters of Leonard Bernstein; and conductor Anthony Parnther.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photographed by Julie Skarratt Photography. Dinner tables at the New York Philharmonic\u2019s 2025 Opening Gala at David Geffen…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":265054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-265053","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-newyork","12":"tag-newyorkcity","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115290227755840837","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}