Scene Last Night: Adam Sender in Hamptons, Michael Gordon
Adam Sender, general partner and founder of Exis Capital Management Inc., threw a birthday party for his daughter on Saturday.
“It was low-key,” Sender reported that night from his table at the Parrish Art Museum Midsummer Party.
Nearby, Doug Polley, portfolio manager at P Schoenfeld Asset Management LP, said he too had spent the day playing with his kids.
Sender and Polley represent new talent on the museum’s board. Both are helping the museum prepare for its new home designed by Herzog & de Meuron.
“It’s an easy pitch,” Polley said of his fundraising efforts as board co-chairman. “We have a big building going up to go look at.”
This new complex, on 14 acres in Watermill, New York, is set to be finished in 2012.
Until then, the Parrish remains in its old digs in downtown Southampton, which is just fine by artist Dorothea Rockburne.
“I chose to be the closing exhibition in the old space rather than the opening exhibition in the new space,” said Rockburne of her retrospective on view through Aug. 14. “The old is big and yet it’s intimate.”
The party had an intimate feel, with lots of people willing to share what they’d done earlier in the day.
Dorothy Lichtenstein, widow of the artist Roy Lichtenstein, said she left her houseguest, Christy MacLear, head of the Rauschenberg Foundation, to visit her sick dog Peanut, a Bouvier with black curly hair.
Pia Lindstrom said she taught a little girl how to swim. Her husband, attorney Jack Carley, played tennis, weeded and watched Yankee Derek Jeter take his 3,000th hit.
Rockburne spent the day with her hostess, Barbara Grodd, whose family owns Paul Stuart.
“We sat around and swam and we ate marvelous corn and fresh asparagus,” Grodd said. “We laughed a lot.”
Bella in Berkshires
The Boston Symphony Orchestra arrived at Tanglewood Friday with an Italian program (Bellini, Rossini, Verdi, Respighi) and supper (frittata, bistecca, ravioli, cannoli).
Gathered in the Berkshire hills of Lenox, Massachusetts, were 400 gala guests who weren’t speaking Italian.
They included the orchestra’s co-chairman, Stephen B. Kay, a senior director at Goldman Sachs Group Inc.; Robert Grien, managing director of TM Capital Corp.; Michael Judlowe, managing director at Jefferies & Co. Inc. and trustee Michael Gordon, chief investment officer at Angelo Gordon & Co.
Gordon and his wife, Sally, made a $25,000 contribution to the gala, which raised $330,000 in total.
Tuscan Sunflowers
“Here’s the thing,” Gordon said at his dinner table, decorated with very Tuscan sunflowers, artichokes, lemons and rosemary. “When you give money to an organization you want to make sure they’re spending it wisely.”
Gordon gives “to the BSO because it is really well run,” he said. “It all comes down to management and people. The people here are smarter than most.”
They were smart enough not to get grumpy about the evening’s rainstorms, humidity and mud.
“We’re used to it,” Boston Symphony Orchestra cellist Owen Young said. “We play with whatever we’re given.”
“I don’t wish it were something other than what it is,” said choreographer Mark Morris after dinner on his way to the concert.
In the Koussevitzky Shed, the Tuscan sun came out. Soprano Angela Meade and tenor Roberto De Biasio were wonderful, expressive singers. Conductor Charles Dutoit led the orchestra though Respighi’s “Pines of Rome” accompanied by a recording of a nightingale. It was a bella “La Prima di Tanglewood.” The season runs through Aug. 28.
(Amanda Gordon is a writer and photographer for Muse, the arts and leisure section of Bloomberg News. Any opinions expressed are her own.)
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Parrish Art Museum Midsummer Party
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Adam Sender, general partner and founder, Exis Capital Management and trustee, Parrish Art Museum with museum director Terri Sultan.
Adam Sender, general partner and founder, Exis Capital Management and trustee, Parrish Art Museum with museum director Terri Sultan. Photographer: Amanda Gordon/Bloomberg
Parrish Art Museum Midsummer Party
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Douglas Polley, portfolio manager, P Schoenfeld Asset Management LP and co-chairman of the Parrish Art Museum, with Jennifer Radigan and Lief Neubauer.
Douglas Polley, portfolio manager, P Schoenfeld Asset Management LP and co-chairman of the Parrish Art Museum, with Jennifer Radigan and Lief Neubauer. Photographer: Amanda Gordon/Bloomberg
Parrish Art Museum Midsummer Party
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Dorothea Rockburne, artist.
Dorothea Rockburne, artist. Photographer: Amanda Gordon/Bloomberg
Parrish Art Museum Midsummer Party
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Carolina Portago, David Wassong of Soros Fund Management, Theodora Portago and developer Ira Drukier, founding partners of the Parrish Art Museum.
Carolina Portago, David Wassong of Soros Fund Management, Theodora Portago and developer Ira Drukier, founding partners of the Parrish Art Museum. Photographer: Amanda Gordon/Bloomberg
Parrish Art Museum Midsummer Party
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Eric Fischl, artist, on the dance floor.
Eric Fischl, artist, on the dance floor. Photographer: Amanda Gordon/Bloomberg
Parrish Art Museum Midsummer Party
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Kyle DeWoody, founder of the website Grey Area, and Suzanna Lee, a film marketer.
Kyle DeWoody, founder of the website Grey Area, and Suzanna Lee, a film marketer. Photographer: Amanda Gordon/Bloomberg
Tanglewood Opening Night
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Ellen Highstein, director of Tanglewood Music Center, the Boston Symphony Orchestra's summer institute of advanced training, with Michael Gordon, BSO trustee and chief investment officer, Angelo Gordon & Co. LP.
Ellen Highstein, director of Tanglewood Music Center, the Boston Symphony Orchestra's summer institute of advanced training, with Michael Gordon, BSO trustee and chief investment officer, Angelo Gordon & Co. LP. Photographer: Amanda Gordon/Bloomberg
Tanglewood Opening Night
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Michael Judlowe, managing director, Jefferies & Co., and Jane Mayer, chairman of the art program at Dana Farber Cancer Institute.
Michael Judlowe, managing director, Jefferies & Co., and Jane Mayer, chairman of the art program at Dana Farber Cancer Institute. Photographer: Amanda Gordon/Bloomberg
Tanglewood Opening Night
Philip Auerbach, associate principal, McKinsey & Co., Ania Auerbach, consultant, Bridgespan Group, and Jake Peters, CTO, PayPerks.
Philip Auerbach, associate principal, McKinsey & Co., Ania Auerbach, consultant, Bridgespan Group, and Jake Peters, CTO, PayPerks.
Tanglewood Opening Night
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Diane Patrick, a lawyer, and Governor Deval Patrick of Massachusetts.
Diane Patrick, a lawyer, and Governor Deval Patrick of Massachusetts. Photographer: Amanda Gordon/Bloomberg
Tanglewood Opening Night
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Jan and Robert Grien, managing partner, TM Capital Corp.
Jan and Robert Grien, managing partner, TM Capital Corp. Photographer: Amanda Gordon/Bloomberg
Tanglewood Opening Night
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Kristine Jepson, Roberto De Biasio, Angela Meade, Matthew DiBattista and James Morris with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, after performing excerpts of Bellini's "Norma."
Kristine Jepson, Roberto De Biasio, Angela Meade, Matthew DiBattista and James Morris with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, after performing excerpts of Bellini's "Norma." Photographer: Amanda Gordon/Bloomberg
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