CHARITY SCORECARD

Pat and Michael York, David Hockney, British Consul General Paul Dimond, Ginny Mancini and Gil Garcetti were among those organizing the Los Angeles Master Chorale’s Voices & Views VI fund-raiser May 16 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles. About $70,000 was raised at the event, which closed the chorale’s 35th anniversary season and honored retiring L.A. Opera General Director Peter Hemmings. A program of opera choruses and arias was followed by a gala in the pavilion’s Grand Hall and was attended by about 375 guests. Christine Kuyper and Dona Schultz chaired the event, which featured dinner, dancing to the Swing Kings and a performance by the Master Chorale under the direction of Master Chorale Music director Paul Salamunovich. Hemmings, who will retire in June 2000, was honored for his contributions to the arts in general and to the choral life of Los Angeles. Dinner committee co-chairs were Alice and Joe Coulombe, Claudia and Mark Foster and Carol and Warner Henry. Before the gala, mezzo-soprano Suzanna Guzman and tenor Charles Castronovo joined the chorale and its Sinfonia Orchestra for its final concert of the season. The gala was sponsored by Mellon Financial Group-West Coast.

* Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen and Sir John Browne, chief executive of BP Amoco, were honored at American Oceans Campaign’s Partner Award dinner May 14 at the Regent Beverly Wilshire in Beverly Hills. The AOC is a nonprofit environmental organization dedicated to the preservation of oceans. Danson founded the AOC in 1987 to alert Americans to the hazards created by oil spills, offshore development and other ocean abuses. Steenburgen has worked in support of oceans and other charitable causes. Browne was the first leader of a major international oil company to recognize his corporation’s responsibility in the problem of global warming. He established a corporate goal to reduce greenhouse emissions, develop and expand the use of renewable solar energy and lead his company in the production of cleaner gasolines. Howie Mandel emceed the evening and guests included Ashley Judd, Laura Dern, Beau Bridges, J.R. Richards (of the band Dishwalla), Marley Shelton, Mace Meufeld, Sen. Barbara Boxer, Catherine Hicks, Ed Begley Jr., Sally Kellerman, Sean Young, Callie Khouri, Tangi Miller and Hattie Winston. The 350 or so guests danced to the music of Prohibition after the dinner. The benefit raised about $300,000.

* About 700 motorcycle riders raised more than $85,000 in the Torrance Ride for Kids on May 16. Hosted by American Honda Motor Co., they rode for an hour from the Honda headquarters in Torrance through Palos Verdes Estates and back to raise money for the Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation of the United States. Actors Perry King and Mickey Jones and Team Honda racers Miguel Duhamel and Eric Bostrom participated in the ride, escorted by Torrance and Palos Verdes Estates police. Palos Verdes Estates Police Chief Timm Browne was a top fund-raiser at $5,270. The ride culminated in a celebration at the Honda headquarters at which five middle-school students from the Lutheran School in Escondido presented $3,257 they had raised washing cars, running errands and emptying their piggy banks to help kids with brain tumors.

Has your group held a charity fund-raiser recently? We will report on selected local benefit projects and events. Please tell us about your organization and the charity you support, how much you raised, how the charity uses your gift and the details of your event--what, when and where. Send a letter or news release to Charity Scorecard, Southern California Living, Los Angeles Times, Times Mirror Square, Los Angeles, CA 90053, or fax to (213) 237-4888. Submissions must reach us no more than two weeks after the benefit.