Be careful what you wish for

September 16, 2010 by Amanda Ameer

All classical music publicists try really hard to place their clients
in different sections of the paper, but I nearly passed out when I
clicked on a Google Alert and saw this last night:

Sex & Dating…Great dates…Hilary Hahn. Private and quiet Hilary, right there under Sex & Dating.

It turns out, they were listing this:

String date
Classical
music never seems less old and musty than when violinist Hilary Hahn
shows up. The virtuoso will chat about her Pulitzer Prize-winning album
at Housing Works Bookstore Café. FREE 126 Crosby St between Broadway and Lafayette St (212-334-3324, housingworks.org). Mon 20 at 7pm.–Melanie Wallner

So
now I’ve had my celebrity publicist moment wherein for a hot second I
thought a magazine was telling its readers that my client was a “great
date.”

If you are planning on coming to the event, please note the disclaimer Housing Works has put on their Tumblr: “Disclaimer: Hilary Hahn will not *be* your great date. You need to BYO.”

Comments

Steve Layton says

September 16, 2010 at 11:20 pm

Aww, and I even bought the flowers already…
Chris McGovern says

September 19, 2010 at 3:51 am

Would have been less controversial if they just put “Things to do on your date” as the headline.

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