But Jonathan Levi, one of Mr. Levy's top aides and his cultural impresario, was on hand to make sure the lesson went semi-smoothly.

His next incarnation as a teacher and cultural impresario suited him far better, though it led to no greater financial security.

As a result these profiles of painters, writers, taste makers and cultural impresarios have an unusual intimacy, heightened by Mr. Richardson's forthright willingness to declare his allegiances, prejudices and crotchets.

More accurate ways of describing Brockman would be to say that he is a "cultural impresario" or, as his friend Stewart Brand puts it, an "intellectual enzyme".

John Naughton I see you've been variously described as a "cultural impresario" and an "intellectual enzyme".

Yet India "has traditionally had a very strong design handwriting," according to Rajeev Sethi, a designer and local cultural impresario who heads the preservationist Asian Heritage Foundation.

By the time he retired in 1999, Lichtenstein had become a monstre sacre - a father figure of the new art and one of the great cultural impresarios of Joseph Papp's generation.

Moe Foner, who played a major role in building New York City's largest union of health care workers and later was the labor movement's unofficial cultural impresario, staging art shows, plays and concerts, died yesterday at his home in Manhattan.

Though her career as "cultural impresario" flourished, her behavior grew inexplicably erratic.

The Forward Association mourns the death of one of the pre-eminent Yiddish educators and cultural impresarios of the past half century.