Management
See also: Michael KaiserMichael Kaiser, who came to the Center from the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London with a reputation for major fundraising is the current President. Earlier he headed the American Ballet Theatre, and founded a successful consulting firm called Kaiser Associates. He oversees all the artistic activities at the Kennedy Center, has increased the Center's already broad educational efforts, established cross-disciplinary programming with opera, symphony and dance, established an Institute for Arts Management, created theater festivals celebrating the works of Stephen Sondheim and Tennessee Williams, and August Wilson, produced major international arts festivals, and arranged for continuing visits by Saint Petersburg's Mariinsky Theatre Opera, Ballet, and Orchestra, and the Royal Shakespeare Company.
David M. Rubenstein is the Chairman of the Kennedy Center.
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Famous quotes containing the word management:
“The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood.”
—Germaine Greer (b. 1939)
“People have described me as a “management bishop” but I say to my critics, “Jesus was a management expert too.””
—George Carey (b. 1935)
“Why not draft executive and management brains to prepare and produce the equipment the $21-a-month draftee must use and forget this dollar-a-year tommyrot? Would we send an army into the field under a dollar-a-year General who had to be home Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays?”
—Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)