Howard Palefsky
Howard Palefsky is a 73-year-old New York City native. He has a B.S. from the City College of New York and his M.B.A. from Stanford University....
When mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves sang a parody of "La Habanera" from Bizet's Carmen to one of Sesame Street’s most beloved residents, it was light’s out for Elmo in three minutes flat. But as the fuzzy, red monster grew more and more heavy-lidded under Graves’s spell, something was awakened inside a two-year-old viewer named Layla Felder....
