Surprise Element Dept: “There are always going to be a few surprises,” says the soft-spoken 51-year-old chief executive officer of St. Joseph Communications, a man whose instinct on voicing the s-word is to look around for some knockable wood. “But on the whole, it’s going well.”, according to Globe And Mail. But as the ultimate overseer of Toronto’s artistic impulse, Mr. Gagliano likes things to go according to plan; the last thing he wants is for reality to fall short of his boundless promises and dreams and mr. Gagliano has just come to the Art Gallery of Ontario, where he serves as president of the board, from a two-hour meeting in the Luminato offices, where he’s been informed of some last-minute changes to the festival programming, the result of a late $2.5-million grant from the federal government. Though the news is good, the surprise element still unnerves him. The ever-calm and optimistic Mr. Gagliano helped create Luminato, but not necessarily in his own image, even if Luminato CEO Janice Price sometimes refers to him as “the messiah.” The 10-day arts festival now filling Toronto’s theatres, concert halls, parks, squares and atria prides itself on being unpredictable: You don’t invite the willfully opinionated Rufus Wainwright to be a headliner if you like to everything to go according to plan. As
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