Noted musical expert and composer Alan Chapman has composed a musical piece Peter and Mr. Wolf, which will be played in concert on September 22.
Introduce your children to classical music with Composer Alan Chapman’s original piece Peter and Mr. Wolf at 3 p.m. on Sunday, September 22. The family-friendly event is Chamber Music Palisades’ first free matinee concert of the season.
Peter and Mr. Wolf is the musical story of an eighth-grader in search of a science project and his somewhat scary science teacher.
You don’t have to have children or teens, to come and enjoy the music in the beautiful sanctuary of the Palisades Community United Methodist Church. The concert is sponsored in part by the Pacific Palisades Woman’s Club and the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, is held in the Methodist Church, 801 Via de la Paz.
Composer and Narrator Alan Chapman will lead audience members through the story, as a woodwind quartet and piano play the music, that supplements and tells the story through instrumentation.
Chapman is heard weekdays on Classical KUSC (91.5 FM). He also produces and hosts “Modern Times” on Saturday nights and “A Musical Offering,” a program of Baroque music Sunday mornings.
He was a longtime Professor of Music at Occidental College and served as a Visiting Professor at UCLA and UC Santa Barbara. In recent years he has been a member of the music theory faculty of the Colburn Conservatory. Well known as a pre-concert lecturer, he has been a regular speaker on the Upbeat Live series since its inception in 1984. He also works closely with the Los Angeles Master Chorale and Pacific Symphony
Well-known musicians Susan Greenberg (flute), Zack Borrowiec (oboe), Michele Zukovsky (Clarinet), Alex Burns-Chay (Bassoon), Sarah Bach (French horn) and Pierre Long-Tao Tang (piano) will perform.
In addition to Peter and the Wolf, Quintet for Winds (Jacques Ibert), Ritual Fire Dance (Manual de Falla) and Trio for flute, clarinet and piano (Adrienne Albert) are on the program.
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Susan Greenberg, co-founder of Chamber Music Palisades, is also long-time flutist at Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and principal flute at Santa Monica Symphony.