Word: golan
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When milling around outside his Wigglesworth Hall entryway one spring afternoon in 1975, first-year Jay E. Golan ’78 caught a glimpse of the activity that would become central to his career...
...Golan, now senior director and one of the top fundraisers at New York’s renowned Carnegie Hall, describes this as his first exposure to “creating a little event to recognize a donor for a particular enhancement.” He says this, of course, with a slightly joking air, noting that neither he nor his roommates had much respect for the tactic at the time...
...working at Carnegie Hall, which draws many of the world’s top classical musicians, could not be a better fit. Born to a pianist mother and into a family which he estimates is approximately half professional musicians, Golan says he has been “knocking around with instruments since I can remember...
...minute that Carnegie [Hall] called me to see if I was interested in a position there, I remember a thrill that went through me,” says Golan. “It seemed like a wonderful circling back of my personal interests...
That call came in 1989, asking Golan if he wanted to become director of development for the 57th Street concert hall. Golan, having worked in a similar capacity for the New York Public Library, New York Public Radio and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, knew that he enjoyed this line of work...