Entertainment briefs

Joyce Rudolph

Students organize benefit

concert for victims of attacks

PASADENA -- Four high school students have organized a piano concert

of works by Chopin and Liszt on Saturday to raise funds for the New York

Police and Fire Widows and Children’s Benefit Fund.

Titled “An Evening of Music” the event is dedicated to the American

heroes who perished on Sept. 11. It is organized by Janice Lee of Burbank

High School, Joanne Lim of La Canada High School and Suzie Kim and Lena

Song both of Crescenta Valley High School.

It will be at 7 p.m. in Harbeson Hall at Pasadena City College, 1570

E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena. Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for

students, and can be reserved by calling 249-2481. Donations will also be

accepted. Refreshments will be served after the concert.

All are students of La Crescenta piano teacher Juli Kim, who is

serving as a sponsor along with the Music Teachers Assn. of California

and Ahn’s Piano. The students are paying for the hall rental, ticket

printing and reception so all funds raised will go to the New York fund.

Talent search begins

for Holiday in the Park

BURBANK -- Organizers of the Magnolia Park Holiday in the Park are

seeking all types of live performance acts for the event from 5 to 9 p.m.

Friday, Nov. 16.

Deadline to apply is Nov. 9. For information, call Mark Anton Vocal

Arts Studios at 763-6515 or Mary Christensen at Bell Cottage at 841-8415.

Titled “Coming Together in Unity,” the annual event is an open house

of many merchants along Magnolia Boulevard from Buena Vista Street to

Pass Avenue and Hollywood Way from Clark Avenue to Chandler Boulevard.

There will be in-store specials, refreshments, Santa and his sleigh and

artists Marty Bell and Bear artist Sherri Creamer.

Entertainers planned are the Active Praise English Hand Bell Choir

from First Baptist Church of North Hollywood, John Burroughs High School

Vocal Ensemble and Pet Adoptions Strolling Models.

Los Angeles Philharmonic

gives neighborhood concert

BURBANK -- The Los Angeles Philharmonic will perform a free

neighborhood concert at 7 p.m. Friday at John Muir Middle School, 1111 N.

Kenneth Road.

Assistant Conductor Yasuo Shinozaki will conduct the orchestra in a

program including The Toy Symphony by Leopold Mozart and Symphony No. 1

(“Classical”) by Prokofiev. Alan Chapman of KUSC Radio is the host.

For seating information, call 558-5320.

Brand Library Music series

dedicated to world peace

GLENDALE -- The Brand Library Music Series will be dedicated to world

peace in light of the attack on the United States’ freedom and democratic

values.

The library’s new schedule of free concerts begins at 3 p.m. Sunday in

the Brand auditorium.

The ensemble of Australian harpist Carolyn Sykes, cellist Janice Foy

and special guest violinist Leola Wagner, will perform tangos, gypsy

music and jazz.

Funding for the concert is by Friends of the Brand Library along with

the Recording Industries’ Music Performance Trust Funds of the

Professional Musicians Local 47.

For more information, check out the Web site www.bravo-la.com. Brand

Library is at 1601 W. Mountain St., Glendale.

Colony presents benefit

performance ‘Incorruptible’

BURBANK -- The Colony Theatre Company will present a special benefit

performance at 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 1, of “Incorruptible” the comedy by

Michael Hollinger, having its California premiere at the Burbank Center

Stage.

Tickets are $25 and all proceeds go to the L.A. Times/KTLA Disaster

Relief Fund.

“All of us have donated individually to disaster relief, but that

seems so little when the need is so great,” said Colony Producing

Director Barbara Beckley. “The actors wanted to do more to help and came

up with the idea of the benefit.”

For the show, food and drinks are being donated by California Pizza

Kitchen, Anheuser-Busch, Champagne Roederer and Timmy Nolan’s.

“Incorruptible” is an irreverent farce about a desperately poor French

monastery in 1250 A.D. and the monks who come up with a sure-fire, if

thoroughly unethical, fund-raising scheme.

Spaghetti Serenade

benefits music program

BURBANK -- John Burroughs High School Vocal Music Department will

present a Spaghetti Serenade from 4 to 8 p.m. Saturday at McCambridge

Park in Room 4, 1515 N. Glenoaks Blvd.

Entertainment will be provided by Burroughs’ award-winning choir

students and their parents. Proceeds go to choir competition expenses.

Tickets are $6 and $3 for children under 3. For tickets, call 558-4777

ext. 451 or 843-3699.

Award-winner filmmaker

and artist opens gallery

BURBANK -- Academy Award-winning filmmaker and artist Fred Wolf has

opened an art gallery to be dedicated during a reception for the artists

from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. on Thursday.

Wolf’s works are in the first show at the Aries Gallery as are those

of Victor Haboush, Nola Figen Perla and Robert Reagan.

President and founder of one of Hollywood’s leading animation

development and production studios, Wolf’s film experience can be found

in a number of his paintings. The gallery is at 4222 Burbank Blvd.,

Burbank.

Kiwanis Club is host

for Travelog Series

LA CANADA FLINTRIDGE -- The La Canada Kiwanis Club is presenting its

41st annual Travelog Series beginning with “Mozart in Italy,” at 7 p.m.

Saturday at the Flintridge Preparatory School auditorium, 4543 Crown

Ave., La Canada Flintridge.

The films are narrated in person by their producers. Programs are

preceded by barbershop singers.

Other topics are Switzerland Nov. 10; The Bavarian Black Forest, Jan

26; The Great Trans-America Train Ride, Feb. 9; Jerusalem, March 16 and

The Misty Isles of Scotland, April 6.

Single admission is $7. Series tickets are $35. Tickets can be ordered

from Kiwanis, Box 112, La Canada, CA., 91012.

Proceeds go to sponsoring the two Key clubs in the local high schools

and other youth activities. For information, call 957-4260.