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est Thanksgiving in 150 years. Although, growing up in New England, I don’t remember a Thanks that wasn’t cold. I spent the better part of the day as a guest of my friend Joy Ingham, who was hosting her family—son with wife and children, daughter with children now hitting the grownup stage—and another family friend of her daughter. All at the same table. Last year Joy’s other daughter, who lives in Chicago and has young sons, was there with her husband and their four boys. So there were two tables. Besides her menu and 22 QUEST
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its quality (i.e., you want more!), Joy always decorates the table, and includes all kinds of favors that the younger kids love to unwrap, unravel, and amuse themselves with. Joy’s table is impeccable at the outset and eventually takes on the down-home family bit thanks to all those favors unwrapped, unraveled, and having amused briefly. Real life with good vibes all around. A moment of good fortune for all. And gratitude. The Social Calendar in the last days of the year goes into overdrive getting all the cultural and philanthropic
events to finish up their year. One night, Kati Marton hosted a cocktail reception at her home for the Friends of the Budapest Festival Orchestra with their beloved Maestro, Iván Fischer, as guest of honor. There were more than 100 jubilant well-wishers who braved a rainy night to celebrate on Riverside Drive. Fischer was in the middle of conducting The New York Philharmonic in three remarkable concerts. Guests included F.B.F.O. board members and supporters, including Daisy Soros (chairman emeritus), Redka and Stephen Benko,
Sylvia Hemingway, Heidi Lee-Komaromi and Andrew Komaromi, Peter Thomas Roth, Tony Bechara, Mirjana Blokar, David Denby, Patricia Duff, Jaqueline Weld Drake, David Koranyi, Eva and Yoel Haller, Leana Kaplan, Kristina Allegra Kingston, Helen Marx, Sana H. Sabbagh, Kathy and Harvey Sloane, Adrienne and Gianluigi Vittadini, Sandra and Stanford Warshawsky, Hall J. Witt, and Victoria Wyman. The Budapest Festival Orchestra, founded by Maestro Fischer in 1983, is acknowledged as one of the finest orchestras in the world. On
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