-: The concerts and the musicians,
and the relationships with the musicians.
I worked with wonderful people.
The first week that I got to Yale,
they had a meeting of the management of the school
and they announced that Isaac Stern, Yo-Yo Ma,
Jaime Laredo and Emanuel Ax,
were recording all the Brahm's Quartets,
and that they'd, Isaac Stern had come to the Dean
and said that he was offering us a concert
as a benefit concert so that they could do
warmup performance.
And the person who had my job before said,
"Well, you know" and this was in 1988,
so it was long time ago, money was different then,
he said "We did Benny Goodman's last public performance
as a benefit, and we made $15,000,
so you should make $25,000".
I said, if I do anything less than $100,000
with that cast of characters, it will be a total failure.
And we did.
And it was wonderful doing that, because Isaac Stern
really wanted this concert to be a success,
and he would do anything that we asked him to do,
to do that.
We had all kinds of events surrounding it, we formed,
that was another thing that was important,
they had no fundraising nucleus,
they had no friends of music at Yale,
there was nothing like that.
So, the man who was the, who kept the Yale bulldog,
became the chairman of my corporate committee for music
at Yale, and we had a series of luncheons.
Every two weeks, we'd have a luncheon at Mory's,
where everybody wanted to go anyway
because unless you were a Yale undergrad
you really couldn't go there.
And we put together a corporate committee for the
School of Music, who were wonderful,
who were really responsible for a great deal
of money that still to this day is being raised
for the Yale School of Music.