Leeann is "always on the guest lists of the very best parties and openings and private lectures and dinners with exceptional people".
The Kahala Mandarin Oriental Hotel, 5000 Kahala Avenue, (808) 739-8888, www.kahalamandarinoriental.com, will hold a food and wine festival Oct. 10 to 19, with tastings, lectures, workshops and dinners.
His day in the sun has come complete with so many phone calls, appearances, lectures, lunches and dinners that, master social juggler that he is, he can barely catch his breath.
Reservations are required for the lectures and the dinner and auction.
Students and orchestra members will spend time getting to know one another at a lecture-demonstration, rehearsal and dinner.
The event begins at 6 with drinks, with the lecture and a buffet dinner to follow at 7. Tickets, $150, or $100 for those 25 and under, from (212) 371-5212.
Five two-hour lectures, conducted over wine and dinner in his kitchen, are followed by five nights of stargazing.
Park 75, the restaurant at the nearby Atlanta Four Seasons Hotel, is offering a dinner, lecture and private tour package.
On the contrary, she said that she felt cured, even charged up, by the lecture and the arguments over dinner.
