Paul Chihara News

The Florida Theatre announces the latest additions to the 2011-2012 season. All four of these shows go on sale this Friday, September 9th at 10am.

The Canadian Opera Company has announced their performances and events for this May. That month will see new productions, concerts and discussions on famous operas. COC has also begun registration for its summer programs for children.

Chamber Music Palisades (CMP), the Westside music series celebrated for its stellar artistic line up and juxtaposing works old and new, presents noted artists Sarah Thornblade, violin, Robert Brophy, viola, and Armen Ksajikian, cello, who join series Co-Artistic Directors Delores Stevens, piano, and Susan Greenberg, flute, to perform four mesmerizing chamber music gems on Tuesday, February 1, 2011, 8 p.m., at St. Matthews Parish in Pacific Palisades. The program includes the West Coast premiere of Jan Novák's Sonata Tribus for Flute, Violin and Piano, Quartet in D Major, K. 285 for Flute and Strings by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Schubert's Adagio & Rondo Concertante for Piano Quartet, in F Major, D. 487, and César Franck's Sonata in A Major.

Chamber Music Palisades (CMP), the Westside music series celebrated for its stellar artistic line up and juxtaposing works old and new, presents noted artists Sarah Thornblade, violin, Robert Brophy, viola, and Armen Ksajikian, cello, who join series Co-Artistic Directors Delores Stevens, piano, and Susan Greenberg, flute, to perform four mesmerizing chamber music gems on Tuesday, February 1, 2011, 8 p.m., at St. Matthews Parish in Pacific Palisades. The program includes the West Coast premiere of Jan Novák's Sonata Tribus for Flute, Violin and Piano, Quartet in D Major, K. 285 for Flute and Strings by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Schubert's Adagio & Rondo Concertante for Piano Quartet, in F Major, D. 487, and César Franck's Sonata in A Major.

Chamber Music Palisades (CMP), the Westside music series celebrated for its stellar artistic line up and juxtaposing works old and new, launches the 2010-11 season, its 14th, with the world premiere of Peter Golub's Quintet for Oboe, String Trio and Piano, dual birthday tributes to Robert Schumann and Samuel Barber, and Argentine composer Alberto GInastera's Impressiones de la Puna for Flute and Strings on Tuesday, October 19, 2010, 8 p.m., at St. Matthews Parish in Pacific Palisades.

Chamber Music Palisades (CMP), the Westside music series celebrated for its stellar artistic line up and juxtaposing works old and new, launches the 2010-11 season, its 14th, with the world premiere of Peter Golub's Quintet for Oboe, String Trio and Piano, dual birthday tributes to Robert Schumann and Samuel Barber, and Argentine composer Alberto GInastera's Impressiones de la Puna for Flute and Strings on Tuesday, October 19, 2010, 8 p.m., at St. Matthews Parish in Pacific Palisades.

Chamber Music Palisades (CMP) - the noted Pacific Palisades-based music series described as a "soaring crowd-pleaser," "a transcendent musical experience," "exquisite and breathtaking," and "music of the highest order" - presents nearly two dozen leading musicians in a compelling four-concert series during its 14th season at St. Matthews Parish in Pacific Palisades, with programs October 19, 2010, February 1, 2011, March 29, 2011, and May 3, 2011.

Violin and chamber music aficionados are among the most enthusiastic audiences of The Ahn Trio, performing on Friday, Jan. 22 at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall at 8pm. Tickets are $20-$45 (with a limited number of 'smart seats' priced at $10).

Violin and chamber music aficionados are among the most enthusiastic audiences of The Ahn Trio, performing on Friday, Jan. 22 at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall at 8pm. Tickets are $20-$45 (with a limited number of 'smart seats' priced at $10).

'Shekinah,' a new dark comedy by Charles Case, directed by Peter S. Case, peels open the world of post-WWI spiritualist con artists. 'Shekinah,' a new dark comedy by Charles Case, revolves around the tragic, humorous and desperate lives of early twentieth century spiritualists. People who lost loved-ones to WWI or a child to polio made especially easy prey for these practitioners of mystic bunkum, who would abuse the desperate and those whose desperation made them blind. La MaMa E.T.C. will present the play in its First Floor Theater March 5 to 22, directed by Peter S. Case.

'Shekinah,' a new dark comedy by Charles Case, directed by Peter S. Case, peels open the world of post-WWI spiritualist con artists. 'Shekinah,' a new dark comedy by Charles Case, revolves around the tragic, humorous and desperate lives of early twentieth century spiritualists. People who lost loved-ones to WWI or a child to polio made especially easy prey for these practitioners of mystic bunkum, who would abuse the desperate and those whose desperation made them blind. La MaMa E.T.C. will present the play in its First Floor Theater March 5 to 22, directed by Peter S. Case.