PUBLISHER
In 2001, Circles International published its first book, called Virgil Fox (The Dish).
In 2002, the company published its second book, called Acting Well.
In 2002, the company published the second edition of Acting Well, called Acting Well to Age Well.
In 2003, Circles International published a "Special Edition" of Virgil Fox (The Dish), which included "Heavy Organ: Tribute to Virgil Fox," a DVD-CD album.
On October 25, 2005 (25th anniversary of the death of Virgil Fox), Circles International released the Second Edition (Fourth Printing) of Virgil Fox (The Dish), including a CD performance of Ted Alan Worth.
Producer of DVDs and CDs
In 2003, Circles International published its first DVD/CD album, called "Sonic Bloom."
In 2003, Circles International published its second DVD/CD album, called "Heavy Organ: Tribute to Virgil Fox."
In 2003, Circles International published its third DVD/CD album, called "Virgil Fox: The Bach Gamut" (Volume I).
In 2004, Circles International published its fourth DVD/CD album, called "Virgil Fox Plays the Wanamaker Grand Court Organ - Philadelphia"
In 2005, Circles International published its fifth DVD/CD album, called "Opus 1," and its sixth DVD/CD album, called "The Bach Gamut II (Virgil Fox, Organ)."
In 2006, Circles International published its seventh DVD/CD album, called "Pictures at an Exhibition" (Cameron Carpenter, Organ; Marshall Yaeger, documentary and visuals).
1989-2002: Special Events Producer
Circles International, a New York State corporation, was founded in 1989 to supply expertise for events featuring high profile individuals in order to achieve corporate marketing and non-profit fund raising goals.
In 1989, the company worked with The Society for Russian Art and Culture on the exhibit One Hundred Years of Russian Ballet, 1830-1930, and conceived of and was benefit producer for the American Foundation for AIDS Research (AmFAR's) 1989 observance of World AIDS Day, Masquerade, in the Winter Garden of the World Financial Center.
In 1990, the firm (originally called "Coleman Special Events Incorporated," and currently legally named "Coleman Special Events Incorporated d/b/a Circles International") was the ticket and special events coordinator for all elements of Night of 100 Stars III at Radio City Music Hall, which benefited The Actors Fund of America; and the New York City Opera presentation of the Opening Night Gala of the Bolshoi Ballet at the New York State Theater. It was once again the benefit producer and organized all elements of AmFAR's observance of World AIDS Day with a Masquerade held in the Grand Ballroom of The Waldorf-Astoria.
In 1991, the firm was benefit producer for events raising funds for the National Center for Health Education; Women USA Fund (Bella the Ball, Bella Abzug's 70th Birthday Celebration); Affiliate Artists (Music & Remembrance at Carnegie Hall starring Leontyne Price, Itzhak Perlman, and Barbara Cook); a third Masquerade for AmFAR (starring Harry Connick, Jr.) at the World Financial Center Winter Garden; and the AmFAR Fine Jewelry Auction (Glitter & Be Giving) in Beverly Hills (honoring Madonna and featuring Arsenio Hall, k.d. lang, and Barry Manilow).
In 1992, the firm produced the AmFAR Fine Jewelry Auction Glitter & Be Giving) in New York at The Pierre with Georgette Mosbacher as Chairman, and a fund raising event for The Society for Russian Art and Culture on Fisher Island, Miami, Florida, attended by Yuri Luzhkov (currently Mayor of Moscow) and honoring Eduard Schevardnadze, former President of the Council of the Republic of Georgia.
In 1993, Circles International organized the benefit portion of the Jackson Family Honors, which was to be broadcast by NBC from the Atlantic City Convention Center in December. Co-Chairmen of the event were Mai Hallingby and John Kluge.
In 1994, Circles was in charge of corporate sponsorship for Foxwoods Casino's Louisiana Cookin' and Cajun Music Festival, featuring Chef Paul Prudhomme and five noted New Orleans chefs organized by Bryan Miller, food critic of The New York Times.
In 1995 and 1996, Circles International was executive producer of the St. Petersburg Festival of American Films under the honorary co-chairmanship of Mike Medavoy and Anatoly A. Sobchak, then Mayor of St. Petersburg; and executive producer of the 1996 Albert Schweitzer Music Award, which was presented to The Three Tenors under the chairmanship of Bianca Jagger.
In 1999, Circles was in charge of the Children's Advocacy Center of Manhattan's Bowling Ball; and in 2001, Circles produced, for Anchor-International Foundation and the Stella Adler Studio of Acting, the Studio's first fund-raising event, "Stella by Starlight," at Rockefeller Center's Rainbow Room, featuring Benicio del Toro and Bette Midler.
The St. Petersburg Partnership
From 1992 until 1996, Circles International was the international agency for the St. Petersburg Partnership, a commercial co-venture and large-scale investment and development project founded under the direction of former Mayor Anatoly A. Sobchak of St. Petersburg, Russia. Circles' partner, which benefited financially from the collaboration, was the International Charitable Foundation for the Renaissance of Petersburg-Leningrad, the first public charity established in Russia since the Revolution.
Clients with which the Partnership worked (in the office of, and under the legal direction of Vladimir Putin, First Deputy Mayor of St. Petersburg) as a facilitator to improve the quality of life in St. Petersburg included: Americom, Arthur Andersen, Cardiovascular Consultants of Louisville, ED&F Man Sugar, Holiday Inn Worldwide, ICN Pharmaceuticals, Littlewoods, Merck Pharmaceuticals, Northern Trust of Chicago, the Parkwood Group of Atlanta, and the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company of Chicago as an expediter for their $70 million factory development which the Partnership, under its General Director, Richard Torrence, helped bring to St. Petersburg.
