When it comes to a changing of the guard, change naturally is ever-present. Some changes are for the better; some are snafus to learn from en route to growth. Such was the case with the 2024 Dallas Symphony Orchestra League Presentation Ball at the Meyerson Symphony Center on Saturday, February 10. With veteran presentation producer Jan Strimple having bowed out after the … [Read more...] about 44 Debutantes Texas Dipped At The 2024 Dallas Symphony Orchestra League Presentation Ball
Katherine Downing
Grovel Alert: 2024 Callier Cares Luncheon And Solar Eclipse Watch After-Party
After seeing her youngest daughter Kennedy Downing bowing on stage at Saturday’s Dallas Symphony Orchestra League Presentation Ball, 2024 Callier Cares Luncheon Chair Laura Downing is taking a bow, too. It seems that the luncheon benefiting the Callier Care Fund on Monday, April 8, is down to just a few tickets. No wonder, since this year’s event includes Honorary … [Read more...] about Grovel Alert: 2024 Callier Cares Luncheon And Solar Eclipse Watch After-Party
2022 Dallas Symphony Orchestra League’s 48 Debs Bowed In A Return To Elegant Fundraising
The Dallas Symphony Orchestra League organizers’ timing had waltzed around the pandemic. In 2020 the Presentation Ball’s final deb had scarcely taken her bow on the Meyerson stage when the pandemic more or less shut down major in-person fundraising. A year later and, despite the arrival of vaccinations, it was still too soon for the next Ball to take place. But this year, … [Read more...] about 2022 Dallas Symphony Orchestra League’s 48 Debs Bowed In A Return To Elegant Fundraising
Dallas Symphony Orchestra League Debs And Moms Tea-ed Up At Hall Arts Hotel
After winding through the Hall Arts Hotel via elevator, taking turns through the Ellie's Restaurant and Lounge and then traipsing down stairways and hallways, guests of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra League 2022 Symphony Debutantes Holiday Tea found it was well worth the journey on Thursday, December 16. In the Grand Hall overlooking the Dallas Arts District, Event … [Read more...] about Dallas Symphony Orchestra League Debs And Moms Tea-ed Up At Hall Arts Hotel
2022 DSOL Debutante Announcement Was Streamlined And So Were Hemlines
2022 Dallas Symphony Orchestra League Presentation Ball Chair Elizabeth Gambrell had quite a challenge the evening of Thursday, May 27. With 49 gals making up the 2022 class of DSOL debs, the reveal gathering at Stanley Korshak had all the chances of being an all-nighter rollout. But then Elizabeth was an old hand at presentations, having co-chaired La Fiesta des las Seis … [Read more...] about 2022 DSOL Debutante Announcement Was Streamlined And So Were Hemlines
Dallas Symphony Orchestra League Debs (Texas) Dipped And Danced The Night Away
Like the swallows returning to Mission San Juan Capistrano, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra League Presentation Gala debutantes in their billowing white gowns were presented on stage at the Morton Meyerson before family and friends on Saturday, February 8. While the Gittings portraits were lined up at the lobby entrance, the Renaissance Foyer and the upper level Loge Terrace were … [Read more...] about Dallas Symphony Orchestra League Debs (Texas) Dipped And Danced The Night Away