My two nights with David Koch

Last Tuesday the New York City Ballet held its annual Fall Gala on the Opening Night of their 2014 Season. After a performance by the NYCB in their home at the David H. Koch Theater in Lincoln Center, a gala dinner followed in a tent next door in Damrosch Park.

I was not there. I was across the plaza at Avery Fisher Hall attending another opening night, this one for the subscription season of the New York Philharmonic.

The ballet opening was a star-studded affair presided over by 2014 NYCB Gala Chair Sarah Jessica Parker.

It was also attended by philanthropists David and Julia Koch. Here they are being whisked away inside the theater endowed by and named for him. (As an aside, the theater was renamed the David H. Koch Theater at the New York City Ballet Winter Gala in 2008 at which I was in attendance!)

And here he is again on Wednesday night at The Explorers Club for the African Parks fundraising event. He is second from the right talking to AP Foundation of America's Chairman of the Board Ron Ulrich.

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