D’Oyly Carte Foundation Hosts Spring Champagne Luncheon At The Harvard Club Of New York
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New York, NY — April 21, 2024 The D'Oyly Carte Foundation, in collaboration with American Industrial Acquisition Corporation (www.aiac.com) and the AIAC Foundation, sponsored a Spring Champagne Luncheon Banquet at the Harvard Club of New York. The event celebrated the Foundation’s recent co-sponsored performance of The Gondoliers or the King of Barataria, produced by the LaGuardia High School of Art and Music and the Performing Arts.
The D’Oyly Carte luncheon event, which took place from 12 noon to 3 pm, commenced with a reception in the Great Hall, then proceeded to the main dining room for the luncheon celebration, which included an opulent seafood bar, salad bar, carving station, and desert area. Following the luncheon, guests were treated to a guided tour of the history, art, and architecture of the Harvard Club, including the portraits of six US Presidents, John Adams, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Geoge W. Bush, and Barack Obama. The tour included commentary on the collection of 18th century tapestries and mounted moose, bison, elk, water buffalo, and African elephant, and large marble turtle-mounted iron lamps bestride a fireplace, and framed correspondence with President John F. Kennedy.
The D’Oyly Carte Foundation’s distinguished guests included:
Hon. Philip Lader, Senior Advisor, Morgan Stanley, Former Chairman, WPP plc, Former Ambassador, Court of St. James.
Dr. Joel N. Meyers, Founder and Chairman of AccuWeather.
Philip Palumbo, Founder and CEO, the Walbrook Club of London.
Setsu Goto, Violinist, Teacher, Visual Art Director, Director of Midori & Friends.
J. Dennis Jean-Jacques, Founder and CEO, Ocean Park Investments, Former Senior Portfolio Manager, Olayam Investments.
Jeffrey Houle, Esq., Partner, Co-Chair, Aerospace, Defense, and Government Services Transactional Practice, DLA Piper.
Dr. Yoram Kinberg, Senior Vice , AIAC, Former Senior Vice President, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Inc., Member of the D’Oyly Carte Foundation Board of Advisors.
Dr. Silvan Kinberg, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition and the Director of the Pediatric Intestinal Rehabilitation Center of Columbia University.
Shirley Hon, AIAC Senior Advisor, Member of the D’Oyly Carte Foundation Board of Advisors.
Jim Hurd, CEO, The Hurd Family Office, Member of the D’Oyly Carte Foundation Board of Advisors.
Shira White, Best-selling author, President, SPWI.
Dr. Margaret I. Chustecki, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Yale Medical School.
Michael William Wilson, Associate, AIAC.
L.M. Levie, Chairman of the D’Oyly Carte Foundation, AIAC, and the AIAC Foundation, noted, “Next year marks a milestone, the 125th anniversary of the founding of the D’Oyly Carte Opera. While strained at times, the prolific partnership forged by Richard D’Oyly Carte between W. S. Gilbert, lyricist, and Arthur Sullivan, composer, produced the most melodic and hilarious comic operas of all time. We sincerely thank our Board of Trustees, Board of Advisors, and dear friends for their continued support and encouragement.”
About The D’Oyly Carte Foundation
The D'Oyly Carte Foundation is the American affiliate of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Trust Limited, which supports the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company. Since 1875, the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company has professionally produced the 14 Savoy operas of Sir W. S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan in the UK, Europe, US, Canada, and Australia, spreading mirth and merriment to millions.
The D’Oyly Carte Foundation’s mission is to support and promote the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company’s UK and international touring, to support regional performance companies, schools, colleges, and universities dedicated to the staging of Gilbert & Sullivan operas, and to generally encourage the popular appreciation of the works of Gilbert & Sullivan.
In 2021 and 2022, the D’Oyly Carte Opera Trust, in collaboration with the Scottish Opera and the State Opera South Australia, produced The Gondoliers and also Utopia, Limited in Glasgow, Inverness, Edinburgh, and London. These performances were greeted by rave reviews. Their lavish performance of the Gondoliers was broadcast throughout the UK on BBC-4 on Easter Sunday, April 17, 2022, and is available on BBC iPlayer and BBC America On Demand. The video trailer is found at https://youtu.be/0hO-Z-za2Vc.
For further information on the work of the D’Oyly Carte Foundation and the D’Oyly Carte Opera Trust Limited, please visit us at:
About AIAC
American Industrial Acquisition Corporation (AIAC) is a diversified industrial group with manufacturing and distribution sites in 24 countries in North America, Europe, and Asia. AIAC has acquired and grown non-core subsidiaries and divisions of Boeing, Siemens, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Johnson Controls, Merck, Pfizer, Astellas, Visteon, Carlyle, Ahlstrom, Tolko, Groupe Suez, Groupe Rexel, and many other leading multinational corporations.
AIAC Corporation manufacturing companies serve companies and governmental entities worldwide in all major sectors, including aviation, space, defense, automotive, truck, rail, marine, petrochemical, solar, nuclear, food, confectionary, beverage, civil engineering and infrastructure, commercial construction, mining, dredging, disaster relief, education, medical devices, and pharmaceuticals. AIAC companies manufacture materials, components, assemblies, packaging, equipment, and finished products. In addition, AIAC companies are exclusive, authorized distributors of leading branded wire and cable, electrical devices, lighting products, plumbing supplies, construction equipment, indoor and outdoor cooking appliances and fixtures, electronics, cameras, and watches throughout Southeast Asia, Australia, and New Zealand.
Of note, AIAC purchased Boeing Canada in 2005, and has produced over 10,000 unique components for every Boeing jet plane ever since, reliably serving Boeing from manufacturing facilities in Canada, the US, and Mexico. A leader in ultra high precision jet engine component manufacturing, AIAC companies also produce 2,200 fan blades and blisks for each jet engine produced by GE, Pratt & Whitney, Rolls Royce, and Honeywell. AIAC companies produce the critical automotive wire and cable for Tesla, GM, Ford, Chysler-Fiat, Toyota, and Honda. In connection with its paper manufacturing interests, AIAC controls and sustainably manages 22 million acres of Manitoba, Canada forestland, an area equivalent in size to the nation of Hungary. AIAC’s pharmaceutical contract manufacturing companies serve Merck, Pfizer, AbbVie, Bausch & Lomb, Genentech-Roche, Astellas, Organon, SK Life, Aspen, Cumberland, Sagent and other multinational pharmaceutical firms.
For more information about American Industrial Acquisition Corporation, please visit www.aiac.com.
About AIAC Philanthropy
AIAC and the AIAC Foundation support a wide range of nonprofit, nonsectarian, bipartisan organizations which promote international conflict resolution, disaster relief, economic development, environmental sustainability, and the arts. The nonprofit organizations supported by AIAC and its affiliates which focus on the visual arts include the following: the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Chateau of Versailles, the Louvre Museum, the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Morgan Library & Museum, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation, the Frick Collection, the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, the National Gallery of Ireland, the Fred Jones Jr. Art Museum of the University of Oklahoma, Venizia per Sempre of Save Venice, the Venice International Foundation, and the World Monuments Fund. AIAC’s beneficiaries among performing arts organizations include the D’Oyly Carte Foundation, the International Gilbert & Sullivan Festival, Carnegie Hall, the Metropolitan Opera of New York, l’Opera National de Paris, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the Royal Academy of Music.
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