Ray and Vivian Chew took a leaping start to winter, Christmas and holiday gift-giving during Black Music Month. The couple acclaimed for marrying music with culture — with help from Clive Gillinson, Executive and Artistic Direc-tor of Carnegie Hall –recently introduced a diverse group of tri-state residents to the world’s most iconic performance stage in America – the Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall.
Constructed inside the Stern Hall, the 42 feet deep wooden structure has been the site of many famous lectures, in-cluding the Tuskegee Institute Silver Anniversary Lecture by Booker T. Washington. On an evening when the lights to the showplace dimmed in darkness, preachers, publishers and prestigious VIPs were privileged to stand where legends stood.