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• n  a sponsor who books and stages public entertainments

• A show-biz guy who had worked at MTV and VH1 before spending two years at the helm of CBS Radio, Barnett had decided to become a Web-video impresario.
• An impresario, the late Sol Hurok used to say, "is a man who discovers talent, who promotes it, who presents it, and who puts up the money and takes the risk.
• No one has had more to do with Spain's emergence as the pacesetter in international haute cuisine than Ferran Adri, a stocky, friendly and constantly moving impresario of .

• showman
• promoter

News & Articles

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• DC Jazz Festival 2013: 'Don’t understand it, just enjoy it,' says founder
  When jazz impresario Charles Fishman settled in the District to care for his ailing parents, he was shocked by what he didn't find. Mr. Fishman, who had spent years on the road as manager and producer for legendary jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, noted that though Washington had a vibrant jazz ...
  June 6, 2013 - The Washington Times
• Food shows produced for PBS, WHYY and WBEZ cited for excellence
  The Restaurateur , a PBS documentary about New York restaurant impresario Danny Meyer, won as best TV special/documentary. It was produced by Roger Sherman of Florentine Films.
  June 6, 2013 - Current (Public Broadcasting)
• Wear This, Not That? Google Glass Kicks Off the Battle for New Tech Market
  P.T. Barnum would have fit in perfectly in Silicon Valley. Barnum, you'll remember, was the circus impresario who once famously said, "There's a sucker born every minute." Now, there is
  June 5, 2013 - Nasdaq