He brings his orchestra to Carnegie Hall for a gala concert to open the season.
Is this a time for a gala celebration, fund-raiser or not?
The program is repeated on Tuesday for a gala honoring James D. Wolfensohn.
"Variations Sérieuses," danced to Mendelssohn's music, is a crowd-pleaser, a pièce d'occasion for a gala.
It would be a record for a gala held by Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts; it would not be a record for a gala held at Lincoln Center.
Now, instead of going shirtless on the dance floor, they are putting on a black tie for a gala.
A tuxedo hangs in a corner for a gala fundraising event of an Hispanic organization that evening.
Gone, it seems, are the days where towns such as Perth and Motherwell would empty for a gala game in Glasgow.
Talk story about Sol Hurok, the eighty-five year old impresario, supervising the rehearsal for a gala benefit in his honor at the Metropolitan Opera.
It's daring, especially for a gala, to alter a work so as to end on an anticlimax, but it's right for the piece as a whole.
In December, the famous chanteuse, the so-called Muse of Saint-Germain, returned to the Lutetia for a gala celebration of the hotel's 100th anniversary.
