By SARAH SHMERLING | Editor-in-Chief
Chamber Music Palisades will host a free community concert on Sunday, November 19, beginning at 3 p.m. at Pacific Palisades United Methodist Church, located at 801 Via De La Paz.
“This program includes several ever-popular pieces, as part of our outreach efforts to help people become familiar with and appreciate classical music,” according to the CMP website.
The concert will feature a “world-class, professional” woodwind quintet—comprised of Susan Greenberg (flute), Jennifer Cullinan (oboe), Michele Zukovsky (clarinet), Lieza Hansen Kallin (bassoon) and Jason Beaumont (French horn)—as well as KUSC-FM host Alan Chapman, who will narrate Sergei Prokofiev’s “Peter and the Wolf.”
“Well known as a pre-concert lecturer, Dr. Chapman has been commentator for Chamber Music Palisades since the series began, and he has been a regular speaker on the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Upbeat Live series since its inception in 1984,” according to CMP. “He also works closely with the Los Angeles Master Chorale and Pacific Symphony.”
Chapman—also an educator, composer/lyricist and pianist—is currently a music theory faculty member at Colburn Conservatory.
“Other works on the program are ‘Carmen Variations’ by Georges Bizet, ‘Animalogy’ by local composer Adrienne Albert, ‘The Entertainer’ by Scott Joplin, ‘The Pink Panther’ by Henry Mancini and excerpts from ‘Quintet’ by Jacques Ibert,” the CMP website continued.
The special concert is sponsored in part by Pacific Palisades Woman’s Club. It has been designed especially for those who cannot attend the CMP regular series at night.
The all-ages concert is free to attend, but donations will be accepted at the door as well as online at cmpalisades.org.
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