Carnegie Hall has named Jeremy Geffen, 32, its director of artistic planning, effective March 1.

Newman continued to work in the artistic planning of these promenade concerts until his sudden death in November 1926.

"The hall opened before it was ready," Simon Woods, the orchestra's director of artistic planning and operations, said recently.

According to the orchestra, Christopher Hogwood will act as its music director and be responsible for programming, guest artists and overall artistic planning.

The orchestra's current head of artistic planning is Geoffrey Owen.

We've been racing against time to get the artistic planning for the South Bank ready, and it's a very fast learning curve.

In the third departure in a week of a top executive from Carnegie Hall, the director of artistic planning resigned yesterday.

To be driven by an opportunity isn't the way we want to look at artistic planning.

Both directors said they would collaborate on artistic planning.

There, as director of artistic planning, I was No. 2, in a vice presidential role.