Casita Maria Center for Arts and Education hosted its annual Musicale 2017 at a Private Club in New York City, an intimate, elegant evening of performance and conversation featuring a performance by renowned baritone Marcelo Guzzo alongside the chorus students of The Gaetana Enders Music Program.
Musicale celebrated the students of Casita Maria while raising crucial funds for the Gaetana Enders Music Program.
Speakers included Jacqueline Weld Drake (Chairman, Casita Maria Center for Arts and Education); Haydee Morales (Executive Director, Casita Maria Center for Arts and Education); Anabelle Mariaca (Honorary Chair, Musicale); Elise Thoron (Co-Chair Musicale), Esmeralda Pedroni Spinola (Co-Chair, Musicale) and Tom Enders, son of the late Gaetana Enders. Other Co-Chairs included: Enrica Arengi Bentivoglio, Isabel Tonelli and Maria Celis Wirth.
Notable guests included: Martha Bograd; Alvaro and Rene Domingo with their children Alvaro and Placido; Paola Fendi; Edward P. Gallagher (President, American Scandinavian Foundation); Joumana Rizk; Paola Bacchini Rosenshein and Arthur and Denise Rubenstein (he is the former Dean of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine).
Casita Maria Center for Arts and Education has provided youth and their families high quality education, arts and social programming in East Harlem and the South Bronx for over 80 years.
Pictured:
Rainer Armbrust, Marcelo Guzzo
Jacqueline Weld Drake, Haydee Morales