MISCELLANY (Continued from page 18) Sponsor Seth Streeter, CEO & founder Mission Wealth; Becky Kelber, Dexter Carpenter, Jim Crook, UBGC, president of board (photo by Priscilla)
Sponsors and patrons William Oswald, Ken Rife of Blue Star, Antoinette Charties with Allen and Anne Sides (photo by Priscilla)
Isabelle Abitia, executive director/co-founder C.A.R.E. 4 PAWS; hostess Gretchen Leiff, founder Davey’s Voice; Kristi Newton, UBGC, VP of advancement (photo by Priscilla)
by showing others they care about animals, and by inspiring empathy among friends and family members and the community as a whole,” says Isabelle Abitia, executive director. “It’s a big step forward.” Youngsters have the opportunity to earn badges and awards and set a positive example for others. The United Boys & Girls Club of SB County will help facilitate visits to its county locations, help C.A.R.E.4Paws measure program results, and assist with fundraising for the campaign,
Chris Erskine, board member C.A.R.E.4 PAWS; Lynn Shaw, Diana Basehart Foundation, Tom Mielko; Channing Soledar, and Cat Pollon, patrons (photo by Priscilla)
while Davey’s Voice will contribute funds annually and help with marketing and money raising. “We envision that this will be a model program that can be emulated nationally working in partnership
with Boys & Girls Clubs of America,” adds Abitia. Among the 65 guests going to the dogs, not to mention cats and other four-legged friends, were Allen and Anne Sides, Cat Pollon, Kerry and Geonine Moriarty, Nina Terzian, basketball’s Jamaal Wilkes, Ella Brittingham, Ted Baer, Diana Starr Langley, Ron Ziegler, Kristi Newton, and Tom Mielko. Music Makers As the action packed 69th annual Music Academy of the West summer festival continues apace, the Granada, Lobero, and Hahn Hall auditoriums all came into play. At the Lobero married string duo, violinist Glenn Dicterow, concert master for the New York Philharmonic for 34 years, and wife, violist Karen Dreyfus, played the world premiere of Paul Chihara’s Duo Lyrico, before quintet – flutist Timothy Day, oboist Cynthia Koledo DeAlmeida. clarinetist Richie Hawley, bassoonist Dennis Michel and horn player Julie Landsman – played Samuel Barber’s Summer Music, followed, appropriately enough, by Adam Schoenberg’s Winter Music. The entertaining concert concluded with Schubert’s Piano Trio in B-flat Major, with violinist Kathleen Winkler, cellist Alan Stepansky, and the veteran Warren Jones on keyboard. Four days later, it was the turn of the Academy Festival Orchestra to shine at the Granada under maestro Case Scaglione, associate conductor with the New York Philharmonic, with concerto competition winners – violist Ao Peng with York Bowen’s concerto in C Minor, and flutist Anthony Trio with Andre Jolivet’s concerto No. 1. Wagner ’s overture of Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg launched the sold-out event with Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite, a clear favorite having been played by the Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra in the fall and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra this spring, wrapping the show. And last, but certainly not least, was Grammy Award-winning cellist Lynn Harrell, accompanied by pianist Victor Asuncion, who played works by Debussy, Schubert, Faure, Ravel,
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Verdi, and Mendelssohn at an equally packed Hahn Hall on the Miraflores campus in the Mosher Guest Recital series. Last year, Los Angeles-based Harrell played in a memorable concert at the Granada with the Mutter Bronfman Harrell Trio. He was also a soloist with the Santa Barbara Symphony five years ago. Apple of Her Eye Montecito’s newest celebrity resident, Oscar-winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow, may seem to have everything, but like any mother she worries about her 12-year-old daughter Apple, by rocker Chris Martin, as she approaches adolescence. The 43-year-old thespian, daughter of actress Blythe Danner, says she finds it hard to strike a balance between wanting to allow Apple to “express herself” and feeling worried about her child wearing short skirts and make-up. She says she is concerned young girls are being brainwashed by “post-feminist imagery that portrays provocative behavior as empowerment.” Speaking at the China Exchange in London, Gwyneth says: “It is concerning, because I think there is a very denigrating set of imagery and behaviors happening. “Women are so powerful and so capable, and to have it inferred that you have to generate yourself in any way to be likable is abhorrent to me. With my daughter, I try to find a balance of being an example for her as a woman who works and tries not to go out in public naked. “I am her mom, but at the same time I want her to express herself. Sometimes it is hard when she is wearing something really, really short and a lot of make-up, and I have to resist the instinct, as I want her to experiment and find her own identity. “It is an interesting balance right now being a mother of a coming-ofage girl, as there are a lot of conflicting messages in our culture.” Glad Hatters A torrent of tony tête toppers swept the stands at the Santa Barbara Polo Club as the high goal season got into full swing at the impeccably mani-
The winning tony tête topping triumvirate – Nina Terzian, Kari LloydMarkowitz, and Nancy Seagal (photo by Jacqueline Pilar)
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30 MONTECITO JOURNAL
• The Voice of the Village •
14 – 21 July 2016