Benefitting whom?

A March 21 concert at Carnegie Hall, featuring pianist Lang Lang, conductor Christoph Eschenbach and the Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra, staged as benefit for victims of the Haiti earthquake, would bring in just $8,000 more from ticket-buyers than it pays out in production and marketing expenses – and that's assuming it sells out. Daniel J. Wakin reports in The New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/18/arts/music/18benefit.html?ref=music

UPDATE: The Times' Kate Taylor reports that $100,000 was raised; but it appears that the charitable proceeds did not come from ticket sales:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/26/arts/music/26lang.html?ref=music