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Rosendahl, Stryer Candidates Talk Priorities

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Pacific Palisades residents Jamie and Priscilla Halper hosted a fundraiser last Thursday for City Councilman Bill Rosendahl and Mike Stryer, who is seeking a spot on the LAUSD board. Left to right: Arline and Joe Halper (former president of the Pacific Palisades Democratic Club), Rosendahl, Jamie and Priscilla Halper and Stryer.
Pacific Palisades residents Jamie and Priscilla Halper hosted a fundraiser last Thursday for City Councilman Bill Rosendahl and Mike Stryer, who is seeking a spot on the LAUSD board. Left to right: Arline and Joe Halper (former president of the Pacific Palisades Democratic Club), Rosendahl, Jamie and Priscilla Halper and Stryer.
Photo by Rich Schmitt, Staff Photographer

‘Didn’t we just have an election?’ joked Jamie Halper last Thursday evening to a group of about 50 Pacific Palisades and Brentwood residents gathered at his home in the Huntington Palisades. Halper and his wife, Priscilla, were hosting a fundraising event for City Councilman Bill Rosendahl, who is running for reelection in District 11, and Pacific Palisades resident Mike Stryer, who is vying for the District 4 seat on the Los Angeles Unified School District Board. The election will take place March 3. Rosendahl, 63, told the crowd that he decided to run again because he now understands the job’s challenges. ‘I feel I can be more effective in another term,’ he said. Also, ‘I love it, and I have a lot of things that I want to get done.’ In Pacific Palisades, Rosendahl would like to see work resume on the long-delayed Potrero Canyon Park. He also plans to work on a view-protection ordinance since many homeowners are concerned about the impact of mansionization and tall, untrimmed trees. ‘I like the Palisades and respect its character,’ said Rosendahl, a Mar Vista resident and former talk show host and vice president of Adelphia Communications. In addition, Rosendahl also hopes to be named chairman of the City Council’s transportation committee, so that he can work on solutions to the Westside’s gridlock. Endorsed by the Los Angeles County Democratic Party, Rosendahl said he tries to honor the Pacific Palisades Community Council’s wishes. ‘It’s a sincere and engaged Council, and it’s one of the oldest in the city.’ He is running for reelection against Harry ‘Craig’ Wilson, 57, who said he became inspired to seek office during a rally for mayoral candidate Walter Moore. Wilson, who lives in Westchester, said his main campaign platform is cracking down on gangs. He supports Jamiel’s Law in honor of Jamiel Shaw, allegedly murdered by a known gang member who was an illegal immigrant. Jamiel’s Law, a proposed ballot measure, would require the city to develop and implement a plan to ‘identify, arrest, deport and/or prosecute and imprison gang members who are in the country illegally.’ ‘We need to make it really miserable for guys to commit crimes,’ said Wilson, a hydrographer for the L.A. Department of Water and Power. He earned his bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Cal State Northridge. In the LAUSD board election, Stryer, a social studies teacher at Fairfax High, is running against Steve Zimmer, a Marshall High teacher and counselor. The winner will replace Marlene Canter, who served two terms on the seven-member school board and was board president from 2005-07. At Thursday’s fundraiser, Stryer announced he would advocate for reduced class sizes, rigorous teacher evaluations and more mentor programs for new teachers. ‘When I started, I was thrown the keys and told ‘good luck,” said Stryer, a 47-year-old who left a 15-year career in finance about six years ago to become a teacher. In light of the state’s budget crisis, LAUSD is considering laying off about 2,300 teachers. ‘There are alternatives, and I don’t think the board has explored them thoroughly,’ Stryer said. He suggested the district could save money by eliminating its periodic testing, which is above and beyond the state requirements. The local district offices could also be reduced or eliminated and teacher-training programs could be more streamlined. Stryer, who has received endorsements from the Democratic Party of the San Fernando Valley and the Palisades Democratic Club, has opened a campaign office in West Hollywood with four paid staffers. ‘I’m passionate about changing L.A. Unified,’ said Stryer, a graduate of Stanford and Yale. He resides in Marquez with his wife, Barri, and their children Adam, 14 and Leah, 11, who attend Viewpoint School and Milken School, respectively. Zimmer told the Palisadian-Post on Monday that he decided to run for office because of his firsthand knowledge of the district. As a teacher, ‘I’ve gotten to see what works in LAUSD and what doesn’t work,’ he said. A Hollywood resident and graduate of Goucher College in Baltimore and Cal State L.A., Zimmer began teaching English as a second language at Marshall High in 1992. In 1995, he created the high school’s public service program, and in 1999, he helped found Marshall’s Comprehensive Student Support Center, which provides health and mental health services for students and their families. ‘We wanted school to be a place where problems are solved or where students at least receive support,’ Zimmer said. If elected to the board, Zimmer plans to advocate that every LAUSD school have a health clinic. The 38-year-old oversees Marshall’s mental health and intervention programs part-time and also teaches English, history and a training class for high school students interested in a teaching career. Zimmer, who is endorsed by the United Teachers of Los Angeles and the Los Angeles County Democratic Club, also wants the K-12 complexes (such as the Palisades Charter Complex) to have more control over their curriculum and instruction methods. ‘Teachers are much more effective when they are connected personally to what they teach rather than when it’s handed down [from the district],’ Zimmer said. Zimmer, with one paid staffer working on his campaign, also thinks complexes should be in charge of their own budgets because each complex has different priorities. ‘The people who are the most connected with the kids should have real power.’

Emerson-LaMay Cleaners Folds Operation into Regal

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By this stage in her career, Emerson-LaMay Cleaners owner Helen Campbell has become accustomed to moving, with haste.   Early last week, Campbell was told that the five-year lease on her space at 15333 Sunset was up and would not be renewed. Back in February 2003, she lost her lease at 1045 Swarthmore (where clothiers Andana and Tabitha are now located). On both occasions, she had to scramble to land on her feet.   While Campbell speculated that Wilshire Fireplace, Inc., which sublets from her in the same building, would take over her space, manager Patrick Maxwell told the Palisadian-Post there were no plans to do so. Wilshire will stay put, he said.   Meanwhile, Campbell was invited to move her Emerson-LaMay inventory of customer clothing to Regal Cleaners on Via de la Paz (corner of Antioch), where she will be employed ‘until further notice.’   Regal owners Antonio and Cira Flores have put Campbell on the payroll along with her longtime tailor Filemon Zamudio, who also makes home deliveries and pickups.   ’Customers have been so wonderful, there are no words to describe them,’ said a grateful Campbell, who added that when she moved from Swarthmore to Sunset, ‘We didn’t lose a day of work.’   Campbell worked for nearly 18 years as manager of Emerson-LaMay, which opened on Swarthmore in 1952. She bought the business in 1996 after Emerson and his wife died in a Topanga Canyon car crash while driving home from work.

Wild, Flaming, Explosive

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‘Zaum’ and Russian Avant-Garde Books

Nancy Perloff, a curator of Modern and Contemporary Collections at the Getty Research Institute, in front of an enlarged 1913 photograph of Natalia Goncharova with her face painted, inside the exhibition “Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde, 1910-1917.”
Photo by Rich Schmitt, Staff Photographer

While most of the Getty’s collections focus on art created before the dawn of Modernism, the Getty Research Institute collects and exhibits works from the 20th century with vigor. A new show, ‘Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde, 1910-1917,’ brings to light the birth of the modernist movement in pre-revolutionary Russia and showcases the breadth of the Getty’s holdings.   During a recent tour of the show for the Palisadian-Post, exhibition curator and Palisades resident Nancy Perloff began by explaining the title, illustrative of a quickly changing Russia: the agricultural, feudal landscape represented by the word ‘cow,’ and ‘tango,’ suggesting the new, the Western, the urban. Bring these two together and you enter the zany, quirky world of Russian poets and artists of the era, in which zaum or ‘beyonsense,’ experimental poetry with indeterminate meaning, was joined with drawing and printmaking to create an important chapter in the history of the book and of the avant-garde.   For many, the term Russian avant-garde might invoke the geometrical abstractions as evidenced in the Suprematist work of Kazimir Malevich and El Lissitsky, but the period of ‘Tango with Cows’ exhibits the artistic variety and eccentricity of a society dealing with political upheaval, famine and industrialization.   In the earliest books in the show, Perloff underscores the ‘presence of the Slavic past, both the secular and the sacred.’ The exhibition’s first section highlights the self-published book, ‘Worldbackwards,’ created by Alexei Kruchenykh, featuring the character Akhmet in drawings and described through nonsensical poetry rubber-stamped onto the pages. The book, staple-bound, exudes a handmade aesthetic, a quality that can be fully appreciated when holding the facsimile the Getty created for this exhibition.   Another figure of Russian culture, the devil, makes an appearance in ‘A Game in Hell,’ a narrative poem about a card game between devils and sinners. Every flip of the page (in an electronic copy perusable on a monitor in the show or online at www.getty.edu) reveals a slightly more absurd scene than the preceding, and playing with images of Russian icons and the mass media, an ironic clashing of the sacred and the secular.   Many of the books of this period focus on the sound of modernity and urbanism as expressed in zaum, or transrational poetry, which explodes on the page. For Kruchenykh, zaum was ‘wild, flaming, explosive,’ freeing the imagination from the narrow confines of daily speech. Fittingly, the part of the show featuring zaum poetry is called ‘Explodity,’ after a 1913 book by Kruchenykh, Goncharova, Malevich, Nikolai Kulbin and Olga Rozanova featuring nonsense words, valued for their sounds rather than their meaning.   Perloff studied Russian for two years while working on this exhibition with her research assistant Allison Pultz, a Ph.D. student in Slavic language and literature at USC. In the gallery, she played a recording of a poem and pointed to the translations, many by Pultz, of zaum poems. One page of ‘Explodity,’ for example, translates as ‘NONIES, THE DESTROYers.’   Vasily Kamensky’s 1914 book, ‘Tango with Cows,’ closes the show. It’s the first piece that resembles the work of the Italian Futurists, with its playful type and clean, streamlined look. The book is printed on wallpaper sections with the upper outside corner cut off, so as to disrupt a normal book page. The poetry is ‘ferro-concrete,’ comprising lists of objects and activities associated with modern life, from types of music to STDs. One page records the paintings and sculptures in the state art museum. After the Revolution, many of the Russian Futurists scattered, although a group, including Kruchenykh and Kamensky, continued their zaum experiments in an artists’ colony in Tbilisi. Of the group, Perloff notes the centrality of women, notably Goncharova and Rozanova. Rozanova, Kruchenykh’s wife, died from diphtheria in 1918, while Goncharova, commissioned to design stage sets by the Ballets Russes, moved to Paris in 1921 and lived there until her death in 1962.   For Perloff, the exhibition has been part of her journey into the Russian avant-garde, which she first studied as a graduate student at UCLA. In the 1990s, she curated an El Lissitzky exhibition at the Institute that included books from the late teens and 1920s. ‘I had always been aware that these earlier books were in our collection, but that nobody had done an exhibition on those pieces,’ she said.   The presentation of the materials was important because, Perloff noted, ‘the books feature extraordinary writing, drawing and imagery on every page.’ When the curators began the show three years ago they knew they would have both facsimiles and electronic versions of the books’ pages. The sounds came later.   ’This is the first exhibition of Russian avant-garde books to bring the issue of sound to the forefront,’ said Perloff, who has long been interested in the history of sound. She holds a Ph.D. in musicology, and has recently been writing on Russian sounds poetry, which she characterizes as ‘beautiful, striking and expressive. I want to open this world up to people.’   In addition to the recordings in the show and online, Perloff has organized a reading, ‘Explodity: An Evening of Transrational Sounds Poetry,’ on February 4, featuring contemporary sounds poets reading their own work as well as the zaum poetry of the Russian Futurists. The next day a symposium, ‘The Book as Such in the Russian Avant-Garde,’ will gather leading scholars and artists, many of whom visited the Getty and participated in working sessions with Perloff while the exhibition was taking shape. She notes that this interdisciplinary group will ‘find ways of reading these books through word, image and sound, and contextualizing them in different ways. One scholar reads these books in light of the popular press at the time; another examines the role of suicide in the books and in Russian society; a third looks at their reputation and reception in the book market. How did these books get into collections in this country?’   The Getty holdings were purchased from a private collector in Paris in the 1980s, before Perloff arrived at the Getty. Since then, she’s made choice purchases, including the ‘Tango with Cows,’ to give the Getty one of the strongest collections of Russian avant-garde books in the United States.   The works in the show, although nearly a century old, speak to our precarious position. Perloff said. ‘There’s something uncanny about seeing these books from the early 20th century evincing apocalyptic feelings, humorous but with a sense that everything is collapsing around us.’   ’Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde, 1910-1917′ is on view at the Getty Research Institute until April 19. Admission is free, but reservations are required for the poetry reading on the evening of February 4 and the daylong symposium on February 5. Visit www.getty.edu or call 310-440-7300.

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FAMILY FITNESS PROFESSIONALS. Providing fitness for the whole family—all ages! We come to you! Certified, local, w/ Palisadian refs. For more information call Joe Michel, (310) 467-4992

PERSONAL TRAINER 15c

PEAK PERFORMANCE Fitness Training • Ivan Baccarat, N.S.C.A., A.C.E. Cert. Personal Trainer • Body Shaping • Strength • Fat Loss • Prenatal/Post Partum • Cardio • Kickboxing • Stretch/Flexibility • Plyometrics • Endurance • Core Work • Individualized Program Design • Balance training for older adults • 20 yrs. experience • Insured • Excellent references • Call for a free consultation, (310) 829-4428

SCHOOLS, INSTRUCTION 15d

PIANO TEACHER. I have several years experience in teaching piano to children. Excellent references. Call Nadia at (323) 599-7677

TUTORS 15e

INDIVIDUALIZED INSTRUCTION. Children & adults. 20+ years teaching/tutoring exper. MATH, GRAMMAR, ESSAY WRITING & STUDY SKILLS. Formerly Sp. Ed. teacher. Call Gail, (310) 313-2530

MS. SCIENCE TUTOR. Ph.D., Experienced, Palisades resident. Tutor All Ages In Your Home, Marie, (310) 888-7145

PROFESSIONAL TUTOR. Stanford graduate (BA and MA, Class of 2000). Available for all subjects and test prep (SAT & ISEE). In-home tutoring at great rates. Call Jonathan, (310) 560-9134

CLEARLY MATH & MORE! Specializing in math & now offering chemistry & physics! Elementary thru college level. Test prep, algebra, trig, geom, calculus. Fun, caring, creative, individualized tutoring. Math anxiety. Call Jamie, (310) 459-4722

EXPERIENCED SPANISH TUTOR • All grade levels • Grammar • Conversational • • SAT/AP • Children, adults • Great references. Noelle, (310) 273-3593, (310) 980-6071

SCIENCE & MATH TUTOR. All levels (elementary to college). Ph.D., MIT graduate, 30 years experience. Ed Kanegsberg, (310) 459-3614

K-4 ELEMENTARY TUTOR. CA & AZ Cert. Elem Teacher • Qualified in all subjects but specialize in reading skills K-4 incl phonics, reading comprehension, spelling & writing • Will strengthen learning while building academic confidence & self-esteem • Motivational, creative, positive relationships w/ students • Will come to your home. Caroline, (424) 228-5744 or email cmiller16@gmail.com

SPANISH TUTORING. South American teacher, university degree, all levels: college and beyond. Learn, improve, get confident for studies, work & traveling. Call (310) 741-8422

SPANISH TUTOR, CERTIFIED TEACHER for all levels. Has finest education, qualifications, 21 yrs exper. Palisades resident, great references, amazing system, native speaker. Marietta, (310) 459-8180

MATH & SCIENCE TUTOR. Middle school-college level. BS LAUSD credentialed high school teacher. Test Prep. Flexible hours. AVAILABLE to help NOW! Seth Freedman, (310) 909-3049

CONCRETE, MASONRY, POOLS 16c

MASONRY, CONCRETE & POOL CONTRACTOR. 36 YEARS IN PACIFIC PALISADES. Custom masonry & concrete, stamped, driveways, pools, decks, patios, foundations, fireplace, drainage control, custom stone, block & brick, tile. Excellent local references. Lic. #309844. Bonded/insured/workmen’s comp. Family owned & operated. MIKE HORUSICKY CONSTRUCTION, INC. (310) 454-4385 • www.horusicky.com

CONSTRUCTION 16d

ALAN PINE, GENERAL CONTRACTOR • New homes • Remodeling • Additions • Kitchen & bath • Planning/architectural services • Insured • Local refs. Lic. #469435. (310) 457-5655 or (818) 203-8881

JOLYON COLLIER • CUSTOM FINISH CRAFTSMANSHIP • Specialty Construction • JolyonCollier.com • Non-lic. • (323) 493-3549

ELECTRICAL 16h

PALISADES ELECTRIC. ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR. All phases of electrical, new construction to service work. (310) 454-6994. Lic. #468437 Insured Professional Service

ELECTRICIAN HANDYMAN. Local service only. Non-lic. Please call (310) 454-6849 or (818) 317-8286

ELECTRICAL WORK. Call Dennis! 26 yrs experience, 24 hours, 7 day service. Lic. #728200. (310) 621-3905

FENCES, DECKS 16j

THE FENCE MAN • 18 years quality work • Wood fences • Decks • Gates • Chainlink & patio • Wrought iron • Lic. #663238, bonded. (818) 706-1996

INDEPENDENT SERVICE CARLOS FENCE: Wood & Picket Fences • Chain Link • Iron & Gates • Deck & Patio Covers. Ask for Carlos, (310) 677-2737 or fax (310) 677-8650. Non-lic.

DECK REPAIR, SEALING & STAINING. Local resident, local clientele. 1 day service. (See ad under handyman.) Marty, (310) 459-2692

FLOOR CARE 16m

GREG GARBER’S HARDWOOD FLOORS SINCE 1979 • Install, refinish. Fully insured. Local references (310) 230-4597 Lic. #455608

CENTURY HARDWOOD FLOOR • Refinishing, Installation, Repairs. Lic. #813778. www.centurycustomhardwoodfloorinc.com • centuryfloor@sbcglobal.net • (800) 608-6007 • (310) 276-6407

HANDYMAN 16o

HANDYMAN • HOOSHMAN • Most known name in the Palisades. Since 1975. Member Chamber of Commerce. Lic. #560299. Call for your free est. Local refs available. Hooshman, (310) 459-8009, 24 Hr.

LABOR OF LOVE carpentry, plumbing, tile, plaster, doors, windows, fencing & those special challenges. Work guaranteed. License #B767950. Ken at (310) 487-6464

LOCAL RESIDENT, LOCAL CLIENTELE. Make a list, call me. I specialize in repairing, replacing all those little nuisances. Not licensed; fully insured; always on time. 1 Call, 1 Guy: Marty, (310) 459-2692

HANDYMAN SERVING PALISADIANS for 14 years. Polite & on time. No job too small. Refs available. Non-lic. Ready for winter? (310) 454-4121 or cell, (310) 907-6169. djproservices@yahoo.com

HEATING & AIR CONDITIONING 16p

SANTA MONICA HEATING AND AIR CONDITIONING. INSTALLATION: New and old service and repairs. Lic. #324942 (310) 393-5686

PAINTING, PAPERHANGING 16r

PAUL HORST • Interior & Exterior PAINTING • 55 YEARS OF SERVICE • Our reputation is your safeguard. License No. 186825 • (310) 454-4630 • Bonded & Insured

TILO MARTIN PAINTING. For A Professional Job Call (310) 230-0202. Refs. Lic. #715099

SQUIRE PAINTING CO. Interior and Exterior. License #405049. 25 years. Local Service. (310) 454-8266. www.squirepainting.com

ZARKO PRTINA PAINTING. Interior/Exterior. Serving Palisades/Malibu over 35 years. Lic. #637882. Call (310) 454-6604

PAINTER, SMALL JOBS PREFERRED. Interiors only. 20 years experience. References available. Very reasonable rates. Excellent craftsmanship. Non-lic. Tim, (310) 433-9610

PAINT/PAPERHANGING by NANCY. Master craftsmanship in Palisades. Since 1988. Free estimates. Lic. #537105. (818) 883-4600

REMODELING 16v

KANAN CONSTRUCTION • References. BONDED • INSURED • St. Lic. #554451 • DANIEL J. KANAN, CONTRACTOR, (310) 451-3540 / (800) 585-4-DAN

LABOR OF LOVE HOME REPAIR & REMODEL. Kitchens, bathrooms, cabinetry, tile, doors, windows, decks, etc. Work guar. Ken Bass, General Contractor. Lic. #B767950. (310) 487-6464

HELP WANTED 17

WANTED: LIVE-IN CAREGIVER, at least 3 years experience, for one hospice patient. Pay commensurate w/ experience. FT or PT. Call (310) 454-1956. 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Good personal appearance a plus.

SATURDAY NANNY NEEDED. Family w/ 2 boys seeks Sat. help; approx 10+ hr. job incl. activity driving, homewk help, lt. errands & lt. meal prep. $15/hr. Car & refs a must. Call (310) 454-5450

AUTOS 18b

REDUCED! 1999 FORD F250 Super Duty V10 Supercab Longbed, black w/ lumber rack & Weatherguard tool box. Great work truck! $5,000 OBO. (310) 576-0622

2006 SUBARU TRIBECA B9. Gold, very good condition, almost fully loaded. 14,000 miles. $18,000. (310) 471-2423

GARAGE, ESTATE SALES 18d

MALIBU MOVING SALE! Contemp ‘60s furn/furnishgs/art/artifacts/silver plate/collectibles/linens/ kitch-hsehold goods. High-end & vintage jewelry. Fri.-Sat., Jan. 23-24, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. 31537 PCH (1 mile past Trancas at Broad Beach). TG 626 H-7. Photos/details/directions: www.bmdawson.com

MISCELLANEOUS 18g

PIANO SALE! Samick upright style. Beautiful ivory color. Great condition. Must see! $1,350 or best offer. Located in the Highlands. Call Kathryn anytime, (310) 874-1498

LANDRIDER BIKE, used once. Best offer. Inversion table “hang-ups” for the back. Brand new. Best offer. Moving out of state. Please call (310) 451-1394

THE SINGING MACHINE, KARAOKE SYSTEM. 13.5 inch color TV with DVD/CD and graphics. Built in video camera, video & audio jacks, 2 microphones, 2 microphones jacks. $100. Call Hilary, (310) 463-0873

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WANTED: Old tube guitar amplifiers, working or not. ‘50s, ‘60s, etc. Tommy, (310) 895-5057 • profeti2001@yahoo.com

Chatham Baroque to Perform Bohemian Rhapsodies Jan. 30

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The Chatham Baroque Ensemble
The Chatham Baroque Ensemble

Chatham Baroque Ensemble with guest trumpeter Barry Baugess and guest organist Webb Wiggins will appear on Friday, January 30, at 8 p.m. at St. Matthew’s Church, 1031 Bienveneda Ave. The music on the program comes from a part of the Old World that many Americans casually refer to today as ‘Eastern Europe”a thorny term employed to refer to practically any country that once was part of the former Soviet bloc, including Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and others. Yet well before the days of the Iron Curtain, some of these regions were also closely aligned with European areas such as Austria and parts of Germany, as well as under the control of such imperial powers as the Hapsburg dynasty of the Holy Roman Empire. Each region has a unique identity and a complex history of shifting allegiances to various emperors, princes, kings, electorates, and popes. It is useful and accurate to identify the music as coming from a region such as Bohemia, Moravia, or Austria, or from a specific city such as Kromeř’, Salzburg, or Vienna.’ The program will feature music by well-known exponents of the Central European Baroque such as Froberger, Biber and Schmelzer, along with that by lesser known composers such as Gottfried Finger and Pavel Vejvanovsky. Tickets ($25 for adults, $10 for students) will be available at the door, beginning at 7:30 p.m. Contact: 310-573-7422 or visit the Music Guild’s Web site, www.stmatthews.com/musicguild.

Clarinetist Ashkenazy Headlines Chamber Concert January 27

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Renowned clarinetist Dimitri Ashkenazy makes a rare West Coast appearance to perform with Chamber Music Palisades on Tuesday, January 27 at St. Matthew's.
Renowned clarinetist Dimitri Ashkenazy makes a rare West Coast appearance to perform with Chamber Music Palisades on Tuesday, January 27 at St. Matthew’s.

Chamber Music Palisades (CMP) presents a rare West Coast joint appearance by internationally renowned clarinetist Dimitri Ashkenazy, son of legendary pianist/conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy, and celebrated Boston-based violist Scott Woolweaver, on Tuesday, January 27, 8 p.m., at St. Matthew’s, 1031 Bienveneda.   CMP co-founders/co-artistic directors Susan Greenberg, long-time flutist with Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and noted pianist Delores Stevens also perform with Ashkenazy and Woolweaver in a program of works by Schumann, Schmitt, Villa-Lobos, Uhi, Bernstein and Bruch.   KUSC’s Alan Chapman will host the affair.   The program opens with the lighthearted M’rchenerz’hlungen (Fairy Tales), Op. 132, for clarinet, viola and piano, by German Romantic composer Robert Schumann (1810-1856). The Sonatine en Trio for flute, clarinet and piano by Florent Schmitt (1870-1958) reflects the sensibilities of the ‘French School.”Choros No. 2 for flute and clarinet, written in 1921 by Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959), embraces the indigenous music of the composer’s native Brazil, perched on the tip of the New World.   The unique and vibrant style of Austrian composer Alfred Uhl’s (1909-1992)’synthesizing neo-classicism, atonality, and serialism with traditional tonal and contrapuntal idioms”is captured in his Kleines Konzert (Little Concerto) for viola, clarinet and piano, which continues the program.’Adding another New World element is Sonata for Clarinet and Piano by multi-Emmy Award-winning conductor/composer Leonard Bernstein, who remains one of America’s most influential composers.’ Concluding the evening is German composer Max Bruch’s (1838-1920) Four Pieces, Op. 83 for clarinet, viola and piano, which, like the concert’s opening work, falls into the German Romantic musical tradition. Tickets are $25; students with ID are free. Contact: 310-459-2070 or visit www.cmpalisades.org.

Patrick McGoohan, 80; TV’s “The Prisoner”

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Patrick McGoohan, the Emmy Award-winning actor who in the late 1960s created, produced and starred in the cult-classic television series ‘The Prisoner,’ died on January 13. The longtime Pacific Palisades resident was 80. At the peak of James Bond’s popularity in 1965, the multi-talented McGoohan appeared as John Drake in the CBS series ‘Secret Agent’ (known in Britain as ‘Danger Man’). ”Secret Agent’ was the first British series ever filmed for American primetime,’ McGoohan’s widow, Joan Drummond McGoohan told the Palisadian-Post. ‘It was a huge hit. It gave him a lot of clout.’ Enter ‘The Prisoner,’ a British-produced program on CBS in 1968 and 1969. McGoohan played the enigmatic erstwhile secret agent, No. 6, who one day wakes up in his prison, an island with a manufactured township called The Village, teeming with surveillance equipment. The show resembled an Orwellian exercise of surreal paranoia. ‘Patrick wrote the first script,’ said Joan, his wife of 58 years. ‘He outlined the stories. Technically, there was a story editor, but it was rubbish. He wrote a lot of them, even under different names: Archibald Schwartz, Paddy Fitz.’ She singled out the penultimate episode, which McGoohan wrote, as having ‘some of the best acting I’ve ever seen on television.’ She remembered how unhappy viewers were with the final installment, which purposely left the show’s running MacGuffin unresolved. ‘People were furious,’ she said. ‘They thought they would find out who No. 1 was. It was too surreal for most people.’ ”The Prisoner’ summed up what he felt,’ Joan McGoohan continued. ‘He thought it was very contemporary. He was an independent thinker. He followed all world happenings, the Middle East. He was a brilliant mind. All sorts of people, when they met him, they listened. Where it came from, I have no idea.’ After only 17 episodes, ‘The Prisoner’ left the air. ‘In his mind, it was finished,’ Joan McGoohan said. ‘But then these fan clubs turned up.’ A cult following has since endured for decades. Later this year, American Movie Classics will air a remake of the series, starring James Caviezel and Sir Ian McKellan. ‘They wanted Patrick to have some part in it,’ McGoohan’s wife said, ‘but he adamantly didn’t want to be involved. He had already done it.’ McGoohan won two Emmys for acting in ‘Columbo’ in 1975 and 1990. He also directed episodes of the original 1970s version of Peter Falk’s program, and was very involved behind the scenes of the ‘Columbo’ TV movies that followed. Born in 1928 to Irish parents in Queens, New York, McGoohan grew up in Ireland until the age of 7, when his family moved to Sheffield, England. In the late 1940s, he became a stage manager at Sheffield Repertory Theatre, where he began acting and met actress Joan Drummond. In 1959, McGoohan received a London Drama Critics Award for his performance in Ibsen’s ‘Brand.’ ‘People who saw it had never forgot his performance, almost like some mythical thing,’ Joan McGoohan said. ‘My only regret is that he didn’t play King Lear. Laurence Olivier had called him to play at the National and he turned it down.’ But the role McGoohan treasured most can be seen in the 1991 PBS production ‘The Best of Friends,’ opposite John Gielgud, in which he portrayed a legendary Irish playwright. ‘He had his spirit,’ his wife said. ‘He was totally George Bernard Shaw, that was just transcendent. He related to Shaw’s irreverence, his humor, his underlying gravitas.’ Thanks to the 1960s’ ‘Danger Man’ series in Britain (the precursor of ‘Secret Agent’), McGoohan was offered the chance to be the original James Bond in feature films. He famously turned down the role, partly because he dreaded the level of fame it might trigger. ‘He never even thought twice about turning it down,’ Joan McGoohan said. ‘He was the obvious choice. But he thought the role was cheap. He wouldn’t carry a gun and he wouldn’t sleep with a different woman every week.’ The McGoohans moved to Pacific Palisades in the mid-1970s, with daughters Catherine, Anne and Frances; more recently, Joan has been an agent in the local Sotheby’s International Realty office. Of ‘The Prisoner”s enduring cult status, Patrick McGoohan, who played the villainous King Edward I in Mel Gibson’s 1995 film ‘Braveheart,’ once said: ‘Mel will always be Mad Max, and me, I will always be a number.’ McGoohan’s wife explained that he had clinched his role in ‘Braveheart’ by intimidating Gibson with a stare over lunch in Malibu. ‘Mel treated him beautifully as a director,’ Joan McGoohan said. Locally, the McGoohans frequented Sam’s at the Beach restaurant in Santa Monica Canyon. In the village, they dined at Modo Mio. Joan McGoohan enjoyed a laugh at the notion that, in a sense, No. 6 never left ‘the village.’ ‘He would get up at the crack of dawn, get the New York Times, and get some coffee at Mort’s or Starbucks,’ she said. ‘He wrote. Always, always.’ Although she usually sleeps in, McGoohan told the Post last Friday, ‘I got up very early today. I thought, ‘I’m doing Patrick’s routine.’ It’s just so precious, the start of the day. I’m going to try to change my routine a bit and try to enjoy those moments. ‘I feel we’ve had such wonderful times together. We were partners for life. I feel very lucky.’ In addition to his wife and daughters, McGoohan is survived by five grandchildren and a great-grandson. Private services were held on Monday.

Jeanne Ryan Fonda, 87; Raised Her Family Here

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Jeanne Ryan Fonda, a former resident of Pacific Palisades, passed away peacefully in her home in Pebble Beach on January 1, with her beloved husband of 65 years, Bill, at her side. She was 87. Born in Ashville, North Carolina, Fonda graduated from Stephen’s College for Women in Columbia, Missouri, and later was proud of being one of the original American Airlines stewardesses from World War II, during which time the airline ferried only dignitaries and military leaders. She continued her relationship with her airline colleagues in the Kiwi Club, within which she formed a dance troupe, staging performances for charity that included the famous Ebsen sisters, Helga and Vilma, sisters of Buddy Ebsen. Jeanne and Bill were wed shortly after his return from piloting 50 combat missions in the Mediterranean theater during World War II. They had three children: Lynne Fonda of Colorado Springs; Robert Fonda, M.D., of Newport Beach; and Laurie Fonda Gile, who predeceased her mother. After moving to Pacific Palisades in 1954 and raising their children, Jeanne and Bill relocated to Pebble Beach, where they opened a small business. Fonda found joy as an active member of the Jesters Club, the fundraising arm of the Monterey Museum of Art. Her charm, exquisite taste, and joie de vivre were blessings to everyone she met. Fonda loved and enjoyed her grandchildren, Zoe Dombrowski, Beka Chinery, Jeremy Caraway, Jason Caraway, Scott Gile, Jacob Gile, Zak Phillips, Clark Fonda and Emilia Fonda; and 13 great-grandchildren. A service will be held at 1 p.m. on January 24 at the El Carmello Chapel in Pacific Grove. Memorial donations can be made to Hospice of the Central Coast, P.O. Box HH, Monterey, CA 93942.

Max Gerchik, MD; Devoted to Family And Social Justice

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Max Gerchik, M.D., a physician whose life experiences included a brief stint in the Spanish Civil War, passed away on September 21, 2008 at his home in Pacific Palisades. He was 97.’ Born in Brooklyn, New York, on January 16, 1911, Max was the oldest of three children born to Russian immigrants Sophie and Harry Gerchik. He graduated with honors from New York University and began his medical studies at the University of Bonn, Germany.’With the rise of Nazism, he transferred to the University of Berne, Switzerland.’ In 1936, the Spanish Civil War broke out and Gerchik temporarily dropped out of medical school to join the anti-fascist forces of the Spanish Republic on the Zaragoza Front in their struggle against Franco and fascism. ‘Since I was a third-year medical student,’ Gerchik recalled in an interview with the Palisadian-Post in 2007, ‘I was put in charge of taking care of the wounded out on the front and in a truck, as we rambled back to the hospital in Barcelona. I wore a uniform and also had a rifle.’ ‘ After about five months in Spain, Gerchik sailed home to New York, then returned to Switzerland and received his medical degree in 1939”one month before World War II began,’ he later noted. Upon returning to the United States, he continued his commitment to social justice issues and involvement in liberal political activities until the final days of his life. The Gerchik family moved to Los Angeles soon after the United States joined World War II and Gerchik was assigned to the Pacific Fleet as a ship’s doctor.’A burst appendix forced him to return to shore. Subsequently, he became resident physician for McDonnell-Douglas, which was involved in the war effort. Gerchik later joined a medical practice in Vernon that specialized in industrial medicine and provided medical services to factory employees.’Eventually, he bought that clinic and two others. Gerchik loved his adopted city, especially after his adored Brooklyn Dodgers moved to Los Angeles six months after he arrived. He married his first wife, Marjorie, in 1950 and adopted her daughter, Ann, as his own.’He and Marge later had two children of their own, Dan and Lisa.’ He met and married his second wife, Reca, in 1967, and they moved to Pacific Palisades in 1974, where over the years they hosted numerous Democratic Club events and speakers. They had one child, their daughter Julie.’ Gerchik’s primary focus was always his family; that was what mattered most to him in the world.’After his family, however, Gerchik’s greatest passions were the Dodgers, politics, classical music and fine art. In fact, one of the reasons he chose to leave Brooklyn and attend medical school in Germany was because that was the birthplace of his favorite composers, Beethoven and Bach.   Gerchik lost his dearly loved brother and best friend, Los Angeles artist and gallery owner Paul Gerchik, in 1998, and his oldest daughter, Ann, in 2007.’He is survived by his beloved wife of 41 years, Reca, and his three children, Dan, Lisa, and Julie. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made on behalf of Max Gerchik to the American Lung Association, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, the Southern Poverty Law Center, or the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives (www.alba-valb.org), which was established by the veterans of the Bridgade when they returned from fighting Franco in the Spanish Civil War.

Richard Leshin, 77; Longtime Violinist in L.A. Philharmonic

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Richard Leshin, a resident of Pacific Palisades since 1969 and a prominent violinist, died on January 6, after a valiant struggle to survive these past few years. He was 77. Leshin began his violin studies in his native Los Angeles, where his mother played piano and his sister was a cellist. As a young man he won the Coleman Chamber Music Award and the UCLA Young Artists competition, He also played in the Tanglewood Music program under Leonard Bernstein. After graduating from Los Angeles High, Leshin attended Julliard School of Music on a full scholarship and, upon graduation, he won a Fulbright grant to study in Paris and subsequently toured Europe to perform. He was the leader of the Amati String Quartet which had a successful debut in New York City. After military service, Leshin joined the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra as one of the youngest members ever to be accepted. He also was an instructor of music at Duke University and concertmaster of the New Orleans Symphony Orchestra. In 1964, Leshin rejoined the L.A. Philharmonic with Zubin Mehta as conductor and remained with the orchestra in the first violin section until 1996, when he retired. He continued playing for numerous movie scores and in chamber music groups, and gave several concerts at the Pierson Playhouse with renowned Palisades pianist Delores Stevens. A true Renaissance man, Leshin was passionate about sailing, skin-diving, reading, gardening and nature. He introduced his children, Dyane and Marty, to the wonders of the wilderness and national parks. Leshin is survived by his wife, Phyllis, daughter Dyane Harwood (husband Craig) and son Marty (wife Tiffany), and cherished granddaughters Avonlea and Marilla Harwood. He is also survived by daughter Tammy O’Conner (husband John), granddaughters Kendall and Paige, and his sister Dorothy Buxbaum. Private services were held on Sunday at Hillside Memorial Park, with four of Leshin’s former colleagues in the L.A. Philharmoic playing beautiful chamber music in his memory. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to Harmony Project, 817 Vine Street, Los Angeles, CA 90038 and/or the American Cancer Society.

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