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AFFILIATES NEWS
Inside this issue:
Membership 2
Strategic Plan 2
Music Mobile 3
Philharmonic Friends 3
Hollywood Bowl 4
Esa-Pekka Salonen 5
Committee Reports 6
Published by
Los Angeles
Philharmonic
Affiliates
P.O. Box 1951
Los Angeles 90078
Telephone
323-850-2165
Email Address
Elizabeth Shafer
Affiliates Online
Communications Center:
www.laphil.com/support
Renée Mitchell
See story on
page 4. * * *
LA Philharmonic Music
and Conductor
Esa-Pekka Salonen, who
announced that he will
end his tenure as Music
Director at the conclu-
sion of the 2008-09
season, will conduct his
last concerts at the Hol-
lywood Bowl on Septem-
ber 9th and 11th. He
will conduct Mahler’s
Symphony No. 8.
See story on page 5.
Page 2 AFFILIATES NEWS
“Affiliates
membership
currently stands at
932 active persons,
a drop from 1,200
(22%) in two years.”
Affiliate Chair Renee Mitchell intro-
duces LA Philharmonic Director of
Community and Government Affairs
Leni Boorstin at a recent Presidents
and Coordinators Board meeting.
Leni Boorstin is one member of the
LA Philharmonic staff who will speak
at the Membership Symposium.
Listening intently to a Strategic Plan presentation at a Presidents and
Coordinators board meeting, the attendees had an opportunity to offer
their own ideas for incorporation into the Plan. During the two-year
development process, the Presidents took the messages to their Com-
mittees’ boards. The members suggestions were incorporated into the
Strategic Plan, which is now finalized.
Page 3 Summer 2008
“Interested in
joining the Music
Mobile docents?
Contact Shirley
Farley or
Margo Penney.”
Philharmonic Friends winning Committees and their representatives for 2006-
07 were: DeAnne Hayes, Speakers Bureau; Mary Ann Surprenant, Westside
Committee; and Marie Kashmer-Stiebing, Santa Monica-Westside Committee.
Music Mobile Co-Chair Margo Penney instructs a fascinated child.
Page 4 AFFILIATES NEWS
Pianist Andre Watts began his career in a storybook fashion more
than 45 years ago. When he was 16 years old, Conductor Leonard
Bernstein chose him to make his debut with the New York Philhar-
monic in their Young People’s Concerts, which was broadcast
nationwide on CBS-TV.
Celebrating the
Los Angeles Dodg-
ers 50th anniver-
sary with classic
baseball music and
a fireworks display
at the Hollywood
Bowl are Affiliate
Ceci Rauch, her
husband Dudley
(foreground) with
their friends from
Claremont, Martha
and Gus Boesch.
“YOLA is
committed to
providing music
and orchestral
instruction for
students
through high
school.”
Page 5 Summer 2008
“Season ticket sales by
Affiliate Committees for
2007-08 season totaled
$608,668 plus $12,425
in Affiliate donations for
tickets to students.”
Velma McKelvey
Season Tickets Coordinator
Esa-Pekka Salonen is the recipient
of the Siena Prize in 1993; the Royal
Philharmonic Society’s Opera Award
in 1995 and their Conductor Award
in 1997, a French government award
in 1998, and Musical America
magazine named Esa-Pekka Salonen
2006 Musician of the Year.
After his piano performance at Spring Celebration, Isaac Tetenbaum
(center) sits flanked by his mother, Manager of Volunteers Liz Shafer, and
his father and surrounded by admiring Affiliates.
Page 6 AFFILIATES NEWS
“Interested in
volunteering at
the Grand Avenue
Festival?
Contact Manager
of Volunteers
Liz Shafer.”
The League of American Or-
chestras combined its con-
ference with the National
Performing Arts Convention,
which brought together over
3,600 delegates from the
performing arts world for a
week of learning and net-
working in Denver.
Yvonne Hessler, hostess, Vickie Pushee, and President Michael
Skolnick welcome new members Leslie Einstein and Inez Lopez.
Page 7 Summer 2008
String Trio with Encore members: Timothy Braun, violin; Margie Baker; Silu
Fei, viola; Margaret Lulejian; Indira Rahmatulla, cello; and Margo Penny.
Glendale Committee poses by its poster at Spring Celebration.
Seated: Louise Peebles, President Stella Balesh, Darlene Hubanks; and
Standing: Juanita O’Marah, Joan Callanan, Barbara Washington, and
Marie Chaplar.
Paula Pitzer and Nora Butler stand with the Jung Trio—
sisters Jennie, violin; Ellen, piano; and Julie, cello.
Page 8 AFFILIATES NEWS
International Committee’s La Vie en Rose Ball receiving
line on May 10th at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion for the
fundraiser benefiting the LA Philharmonic includes:
Claude Bobin; Ball Chair Janine Bobin; Ricardo Gaona,
President Aida Gaona; MC Adele Jacques; Mrs. Phillipe
Larrieu and Consul General of France Phillipe Larrieu.
The benefit was organized by French-born Janine Bobin
and Armenian-born, French-speaking Cynthia Hajjar.
Book reviewer Marcia Gordon
with member Anne S. Graves
An Evening in Venice Benefit Chair
Putter Pence and President Sydney
Tanner work out details at the
La Louver Gallery in Venice Beach for
the event benefitting the En-
dowment Fund for the LA Phil.
Suzanne Olsen, Linda Olson, and Ruth Eisen enjoy
dinner at The Canal Club, located next door to the La
Louver Gallery. Dinner with live music followed the
art exhibition, reception, and silent auction for
An Evening in Venice benefit.
Page 9 AFFILIATES NEWS
”Music Center
Spotlight Awards is
one of the nation’s
most acclaimed
performing and visual
arts education
programs for teens.
It has launched
numerous professional
careers”
Melinda Goodall, Andrew Cunningham, III; and
Committee President Hansonia Caldwell
Hostess Carolyn Elliott
Page 10 AFFILIATES NEWS
”The Valley
Committee and West
Valley Committee
look forward with
enthusiasm to
collaborating on
meetings and
projects in the 2008
-09 season.”
Jackie Shin, pianist; Han Bin Yoon, cellist; Valeria Morgovskaya, accompanist
Page 11 AFFILIATES NEWS
”The Women’s
Committee became an
Honorary Committee
this year. They will
continue to support
students for Toyota
Symphonies for
Youth.”
At Spring Celebration, Gizella Green-
lee accepts a plaque from the County
of Los Angeles to the Women’s Com-
mittee for 85 years of service to the
LA Philharmonic.
By August Renoir
By Paul Cezanne
Charla Janecek, Chair, and Norma Rae
Sorianello, Co-Chair served for the 2007-
08 season. For the 2008-09 season,
Charla Janecek will be Chair with Ursula
Krummel as Assistant Chair.
