Business of fine arts.Davis raises nearly $300 million toward his $1.5 billion project With less than a year under his belt as president of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, in central Manhattan, New York City, between 62d and 66th streets W of Broadway. Lincoln Center is a complex of many buildings, including the Metropolitan Opera, Avery Fisher Hall, the New York State Theater, the Juilliard in New York, Gordon J. Davis has already raised $260 million toward the $1.5 billion reconstruction of the world-renowned center. "Most of the money raised comes from the city of New York and we have our sights set on another $30 million to $40 million," says Davis on behalf of the entire fundraising committee. Recognizing the Center's importance to New York culture and commerce, the city has committed $240 million to the renovation project--the largest single amount Gotham has ever awarded a cultural institution. Lincoln Center is home to 12 of the world's leading cultural institutions, including the Juilliard School, the Juilliard School, The (j  l`yärd), in New York City; school of music, drama, and dance; coeducational; est. Metropolitan Opera, and New York Philharmonic The New York Philharmonic is the oldest active symphony orchestra in the United States, organized during 1842. Based in New York City, the Philharmonic performs most of its concerts at Avery Fisher Hall and has long been considered one of the best orchestras in the world. . Davis, a Harvard-trained attorney and partner at the international firm LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae, manages a $70 million budget to run the 18-acre campus. Appointed in January, Davis is the center's first African American president. A 17-year-veteran of the board of trustees board of trustees Politics The posse of thugs who oversee an institution's administration. See Board of directors. , he is also the founding chairman of Jazz at Lincoln Center Jazz at Lincoln Center is a constituent company of the Lincoln Center performing arts organization, whose performing arts complex, Frederick P. Rose Hall, is located at 60th Street and Broadway in New York City, slightly south of the main Lincoln Center campus and directly and helped to raise $115 million for the group's performance space under construction at Columbus Circle, in Manhattan. |
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