“The extras that make a music program special all come from parent support,” she said. Band director for middle and high school Andria Mullan agrees. CHIME has helped her a lot, from helping fund an after school program to prep students aspiring to join the jazz band to buying a set of timpani for the school. “Those nice working instruments are so important to the program,” she said. One of the most important things CHIME does, according to Mullan, is bringing in an outside specialist to give more specialized teaching.
Cypress String Quartet Salon Series, 3 p.m, Feb, 8, Woman’s Club of Palo Alto, 475 Homer Ave., Palo Alto, $50, 415-500-2150 or www.cypressquartet.com/special-projects/cypress-salon-series, West Bay Opera, Mozart’s “Abduction from the Seraglio.” Feb, 13, 15, 21, 22, Lucie Stern Theatre, 1305 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, Featuring Kevin Thompson as Osmin, Nikki Einfeld as Konstanze, Chelsea ballet slippers ornament Hollow as Blonde, Tapan Bhat as Pedrillo and Michael Desnoyers as Belmonte, Sung in German with English titles, Eugene Brancoveanu directs, West Bay Opera orchestra and chorus, Bruce Olstad chorus master, José Luis Moscovich, conductor, $40-75, www.wbopera.org or 650-424-9999..
Last Thursday of month, 7 p.m., Pacifica Community Center. 355-4956. New members welcome. Monday and Thursday at Starbucks, Linda Mar Shopping Center 7 p.m. Info: www. groups.yahoo,com/group/pacifica_snb. First Friday of the month, 10:30 a.m., Good Shepherd Church , Oceana Blvd. 355-3795. Second Wednesday of month, 7:30 p.m., Linda Mar Fire Station. First Wednesday of month, 7-8:30 p.m., Ingrid B. Lacy school cafeteria. Boys and girls, ages 5-19, welcome to join. Robin Stice at pacifica4h@gmail.com or 359-2695.
“I am still in the shock and denial phase, For me personally, I am still waiting for her to come home,” Corpuz said, “I just tell my family you see things on TV or on TV shows, but you never think that it would happen to you, It hits hard.”, Corpuz said that as much as family and community members had stepped in to provide support, the family is ballet slippers ornament at a loss at how to act and what to say, “What do you say to my aunt and uncle? We have never experienced something like this and it wasn’t due to a health issue or a tragic accident that happened like a vehicle, This is someone who deliberately committed this crime and took her away from us and I am still in shock and denial, it still doesn’t feel real for me,” Corpuz said..
British-born animator and producer John David Wilson, famed for the “Grease” and “Lady and the Tramp” films, has died at the age of 93, his wife told Reuters on Wednesday. The World War Two veteran animated the opening sequence for the 1978 high school musical film “Grease” that starred John Travolta, and in a long career at Disney worked on much-loved characters Mickey Mouse, Goofy and Donald Duck. Wilson, who honed his talent for cartoons while recovering from wounds sustained during the African campaign in 1941 with the London Rifle Brigade, joined the art department of Pinewood Studios after the war.
