They Told Me Not to Take that Job: Tumult, Betrayal, Heroics, and the Transformation of Lincoln Center (63 page)
Authors: Reynold Levy
accountability of,
21–22
,
149
,
161
,
224
,
267
assessment of,
224
responsibilities of,
230–231
,
259–260
suggested oath for,
149–150
Tully, Alice,
76
Unterberg, Ann,
295
Urban Land Use Review Planning (ULURP),
74
,
101
Urbont, Carl,
226
Van DerCook, Marjorie,
78
,
105
,
160
VanBesien, Matthew,
135–137
,
249
Vance, Cyrus,
231
Vanity Fair,
on Metropolitan Opera’s financial condition,
182–183
Vanska, Osmo,
44
Varèse, Edgard,
108
Vera List Art Project,
60
Vienna Symphony,
52
Vilar, Alberto,
69
Virginia, University of,
257
Visual art
Alexander Calder sculpture,
59
Big Pleasure Point
(Rubens),
61
The Clock
(Marclay),
63
Henry Moore sculpture,
59
Nightsphere-Light
(Nevelson),
60
“Numbers” (Johns),
59
Slow Dancing
(Michalek),
62
The Tangle
(Polyglot Theatre),
51
Zig IV
(Smith),
60
Vogelstein, John,
158
Volpe, Joe
artistic productivity,
178
Crawford, friendship with,
103
garage access, negotiations about,
103–104
Metropolitan Opera’s financial difficulties,
68–69
resistance to redevelopment of Lincoln Center,
15–16
,
84–85
,
88
,
103
similarity to Gelb,
188–189
Von Furstenberg, Diane,
167
,
174
Von Stada, Frederica,
153
Wakin, Daniel,
182
Waleson, Heidi,
145
Wall Street Journal
on Metropolitan Opera’s financial plight,
193
on Midsummer Night Swing,
50
on New York City Opera,
145
Warhol, Andy,
60
Warner, Deborah,
57
Washington Post,
on Lincoln Center redevelopment,
114
Weilerstein, Alisa,
44
Weinberg, Mieczyslaw,
55
Welch, Jack,
276
Welser-Möst, Franz,
58
West, Franz,
60
Wet Design,
91
Wexner, Les,
56
Whelan, Wendy,
62
Whirling Dervishes,
52
Whyte, William H.,
100
Winfrey, Oprah,
38
Winters, Terry,
60
Wintour, Anna,
168–170
Wolfe, Zachary,
46
Wolkoff, Stephanie Winston,
170–171
World Trade Center site, performance space at,
15
,
67
Wren, Christopher,
243
Written on Skin
(Benjamin and Crimp),
108
Wu, Jason,
167
Yang Lan,
296
Yeshiva University,
257
Yours for the Asking: An Indispensable Guide to Fundraising and Management
(Levy),
93–94
Zambello, Francesca,
147
Zeckendorf, Arthur,
112
Zimmermann, Bernd Alois,
53
Zirato, Bruno,
132
Zitofsky, Bonnie,
216
R
EYNOLD
L
EVY
was most recently the president of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, from March 1, 2002 to January 31, 2014. Before that he was president of the International Rescue Committee, a senior officer at AT&T and the president of the AT&T Foundation, executive director of the 92nd Street Y, and staff director of the Task Force on the New York City Fiscal Crisis.
A frequent recipient of awards and honorary degrees, Levy maintains a busy schedule of public speaking, university teaching, and consulting. Currently he is an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s School of International Public Affairs and a special advisor to the private equity firm General Atlantic.
Levy is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the chairman of the Charles H. Revson Foundation, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the Tony Awards Nominating Committee. He also serves as a director of First Republic Bank.
A graduate of Hobart College, Phi Beta Kappa, Levy earned a PhD in government and foreign affairs from the University of Virginia and a law degree from Columbia University.
They Told Me Not to Take That Job
is his fourth book.
PublicAffairs is a publishing house founded in 1997. It is a tribute to the standards, values, and flair of three persons who have served as mentors to countless reporters, writers, editors, and book people of all kinds, including me.
I. F. S
TONE
, proprietor of
I. F. Stone’s Weekly
, combined a commitment to the First Amendment with entrepreneurial zeal and reporting skill and became one of the great independent journalists in American history. At the age of eighty, Izzy published
The Trial of Socrates,
which was a national bestseller. He wrote the book after he taught himself ancient Greek.
B
ENJAMIN
C. B
RADLEE
was for nearly thirty years the charismatic editorial leader of
The Washington Post.
It was Ben who gave the
Post
the range and courage to pursue such historic issues as Watergate. He supported his reporters with a tenacity that made them fearless and it is no accident that so many became authors of influential, best-selling books.
R
OBERT
L. B
ERNSTEIN
, the chief executive of Random House for more than a quarter century, guided one of the nation’s premier publishing houses. Bob was personally responsible for many books of political dissent and argument that challenged tyranny around the globe. He is also the founder and longtime chair of Human Rights Watch, one of the most respected human rights organizations in the world.
For fifty years, the banner of Public Affairs Press was carried by its owner Morris B. Schnapper, who published Gandhi, Nasser, Toynbee, Truman, and about 1,500 other authors. In 1983, Schnapper was described by
The Washington Post
as “a redoubtable gadfly.” His legacy will endure in the books to come.
Peter Osnos,
Founder and Editor-at-Large