“A WINTER PERFORMANCE” BY THE BUDAPEST FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA Photos by Manny Inoa The Budapest Festival Orchestra, as directed and conducted by legendary Maestro Iván Fischer, played at the Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall on Feb. 5. The performance was followed by a gala dinner chaired by Sylvia Hemingway and Honorary Chair Daisy Soros, along with the board of directors of the Friends of the Budapest Festival Orchestra. Board Chairman Stephen E. Benko welcomed guests, including Consul General Dr. Ferenc Kumin, Ambassador Colleen Bell, Ambassador Donald Blinken, Vera Blinken, Cece Goldwater, Stanley H. Rumbough, and Gianluigi and Adrienne Vittadini, to hear a performance by the orchestra, which David Allen of The New York Times wrote might be “the best in the world.”
Ambassador Dr. Ferenc Kumin, Maestro Iván Julie Tobey, Stephen Benko, Stephanie Stokes Fischer, Sylvia Hemingway
Adrienne Vittadini, US Ambassador to Hungary Colleen Bell, Maestro Iván Fischer, Daisy Soros
Kathryn Livingston Forgan, Stanley Rumbough, Noel V. Lateef, Daisy Soros Colleen Bell
CC Goldwater, Christina Verger
Kristina Ratut, Nicholas Ratut, Cheri Kaufman, Ambassador Donald Blinken, Vera Blinken, Sylvia Sylvia Hemingway, Stephen Benko, Terez Rowley, George Ledes Hemingway, Ambassador Dr. Ferenc Kumin Christine Schott Ledes
Jane Scher, Shea Arender
Nicholas Ratut, Christine Schott Ledes, Stanley Rumbough
Christina Verger, Michele Busiri-Vici