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M O N T H LY

12 MUSIC “Grant Gershon’s Ode to Joy”: LA Master Chorale’s exuberant conductor takes up the baton at LA Opera. —By Mandalit del Barco

16 PHILANTHROPY “Time to Take a Bow”: Pasadena residents Carol and Warner Henry reflect on more than 20 years of behind-the-scenes leadership in the ongoing success of LA Opera. —By Jenine Baines

43 COMMUNITY “Opera for a small planet”: Barbara Ebert and the rest of the Opera Pasadena troupe are ready for their biggest season yet. —By Carl Kozlowski

46 DESIGN “Putting the Fun into Function”: The California Design Biennial 2007 showcases the state’s playful approach to creating great-looking products for everyday living. —By Irene Lacher

12 Passion combined with experience results in perfection. For over three decades Dr. Dustin

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52 THE LIST “Boddy’s Big Back Yard” at Descanso Gardens, “50 Years in Space” at Caltech and more

56 FITNESS How Israel Estrada is vaulting hurdles to bring Pasadena’s new marathon to the finish line.

60 MERRIMENT The Truth of Champagnes and Sparkling Wines. 62 TABLE TALK Greg Bernhardt’s evolving menu keeps things interesting at South Pasadena’s 750 ml ARROYO ~ SEPTEMBER 2007 ~ 5

E D I TO R’ S N OT E

ne might not associate Pasadena with worldclass opera, but that would be a mistake. Certainly, Los Angeles Opera, down the road a piece, has risen to those rarefied ranks under the leadership of superstar tenor Placido Domingo, now its Eli and Edythe Broad General Manager. But there are also less renowned individuals who’ve been critical to the company’s success, and a number of them live in the Pasadena area. The opera’s primary support group, the Opera League of Los Angeles, was founded in 1982 by a group of Pasadena opera lovers led by Lorraine Saunders and Alice Coulombe, who are longtime members of the LA Opera board. Frequent LA Opera soloist, mezzosoprano Suzanna Guzman, lives in Pasadena. The company’s late founding general director, Peter Hemmings, lived here too, across the street from Judge Lance Ito. “Peter always said that one of the ways you build an audience is you bring in neighbors,” says Elizabeth Kennedy, the opera’s former director of administration. “So he would go to the car wash and the grocery store and All Saints [Episcopal Church] and work hard through the community to get people involved.” One of the league’s early recruits was Pasadena’s Carol Henry, who’s now president of the LA Opera board. In this issue, Jenine Baines talks to Henry and her husband and fellow board member, Warner, about their role in helping guide the young company to its premier status as well as the challenges that lie ahead. Mandalit del Barco looks at the new generation behind the baton with a profile of Grant Gershon, LA Master Chorale’s conductor, who joins LA Opera this season as chorus master of Verdi’s “Requiem.” Finally, Carl Kozlowski gives away one of Pasadena’s best-kept cultural secrets: its own homegrown opera company, Opera Pasadena. Doesn’t that say something about the city’s intimate relationship with this 400-year-old European art form? After all, how many places of comparable size can lay claim to its own opera company? –Irene Lacher

ARROYO MONTHLY • EDITOR IN CHIEF Irene Lacher • ART DIRECTOR Stephanie Piechowski • PRODUCTION MANAGER Yvonne Guerrero CONTROLLER Michael Nagami • HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGER Andrea Baker • OFFICE MANAGER Joe Beauvais CONTRIBUTORS Jenine Baines, Joe Beauvais, Steve Coulter. Mandalit del Barco, Noela Hueso, Carl Kozlowski, John Sollenberger • COPY EDITOR John Seeley PHOTOGRAPHERS Michael Germana, Christopher Rainone, Evans Vestal Ward ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES Fred Bankston, Dana Bonner, Hilary Chen, Gladys Campanile Andrea Fitzgerald, Elizabeth Guzman, Leslie Lamm, Rochelle Reiff, Cynthia Wagner, Noelle Watkins ADVERTISING DESIGNERS Maricela Estrada, Carla Marroquin, George Ozuna, Aaron Piña, Duke Raul TRAFFIC MANAGER Jake Belcher • jakeb@pasadenaweekly.com ACCOUNTING SUPERVISOR Angela Wang ACCOUNTING Tracy Lowe, Ginger Wang ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER Roylin Downs PUBLISHER Jon Guynn

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ABOUT 200 GUESTS TURNED OUT ON JULY 25 FOR ARROYO MONTHLY’S SECOND ANNUAL “JAZZ ON THE TERRACE” EVENT, benefiting the Pasadena-Foothills Association of Realtors Charitable Foundation. Revelers savored cocktails and edibles from P.F. Chang’s Restaurant, while Rickey “Titan of the Tenor Saxophone” Woodard performed with singer Cheryl D. Barnes, courtesy of the Pasadena Jazz Institute at the Paseo Colorado, where the event took place. The casual crowd included PFAR Chairman Chris Griffiths; David Comden, group publisher of Southland Publishing; Roylin Downs, the new associate publisher of Arroyo Monthly; Paul Lines, the jazz institute’s executive director, Sotheby’s Realtors May Gonzalez and Ray Wells; and Ed Afsharian, sales manager of Dickson Podley Realtors’ Pasadena office. PFAR’s foundation funds local charities and scholarships.

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SAN MARINO’S ANDY AND AVERY BARTH CO-CHAIRED A DINNER AND PERFORMANCE BENEFITING AMERICAN BALLET THEATER at Andy and Avery Barth Robin and Elliott Broidy’s Bel Air estate on July 24. The evening began with cocktail hour, which was followed by an outdoor performance by 14 ABT dancers on the heels of their appearance in “The Sleeping Beauty” at the Orange County Performing Arts Center. Afterward, guests sat down to a dinner en plein air, catered by Wolfgang Puck. They left with boxes of croissants for the next morning. The event drew 360 guests and raised $325,000.

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Grant Gershon’s Ode to Joy

LA Master Chorale’s exuberant conductor takes up the baton at LA Opera BY MANDALIT DEL B AR CO ~ PHOTOS BY STE VE COHN

RANT GERSHON STANDS BEFORE 50 MEN WITH sonorous voices who are gathered in Los Angeles Opera’s sparse practice room. The rehearsal pianist begins to play, and Gershon sets the tone by singing a phrase from Beethoven’s “Fidelio,” which will kick off this year’s opera season in Los Angeles on Sept. 8. “O welche Lust! In freier Luft den Atem leicht zu heben!” he sings in perfect pitch with his rich baritone voice. (Oh what joy! To be able to breathe with ease in the open air!) The chorus echoes in lush harmony, and Gershon beams with pleasure. Onstage, the men will sing the roles of tortured prisoners who’ve been briefly let out of their cells to see the sunlight. Gershon has carefully instructed his vocalists how to express joy over their their taste of freedom, then voice their fear of being overheard by their captors. He modulates the timbre and might of their voices by waving his arms and hands gracefully, while, as usual, he sings along. “I’d say it’s a very pure, very blended, very intense but at the same time very focused and unified sound,” Gershon says proudly of the resonance produced by both groups under his baton—this chorus and the Los Angeles Master Chorale, which he’s been leading for the past six years. “It’s the kind of sound where, when it comes together, you start to hear and feel a range of overtones popping out. You’re hearing a complexity. That’s the kind of sound in a choir I

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really respond to. And that’s what gets everybody freaking out and excited.” It wasn’t so long ago—a mere 13 years—that Gershon was the rehearsal pianist accompanying the LA Opera Chorus. With his new job as chorus master, he has now come full circle. And he has only to cross the street, from the Music Center to Disney Hall, for his other gig as music director of the Master Chorale. It’s highly unusual, if not unique, for one man to have simultaneous roles in two high-profile, big-city music companies. But Gershon seems completely at ease in taking on a task many conductors would find daunting—just as he has eagerly embraced music others might find too challenging. “There’s something about making music with a bunch of friends,” Gershon says over coffee at the SWORK cafe in Eagle Rock, not far from the home he shares with his wife soprano, Elissa Johnson, and their two children, Claire, 8, and Sam, 5. “Especially when it’s a really hot group, it’s so satisfying, that rush you get from a really great performance.” By all accounts, Gershon has brought a youthful, eclectic exuberance to the LA Master Chorale and now, the LA Opera Chorus. In fact, at 47, he looks and sounds at least a decade younger; and he seems to be enjoying his career and his life. Bottom line: Grant Gershon is a genuinely nice guy. So say singers, composers and other talented friends and collaborators.

“He’s open, accessible and egofree,” says LA Master Chorale Executive Director Terri Knowles. "And he's just so talented." Avant-garde theater director Peter Sellars, who first met Gershon when they collaborated with composer John Adams on the opera “Nixon in China,” cannot stop gushing about the man he calls one of the greatest musical talents of his generation. “So often conductors or music directors do it for power or because they want to impose themselves or they want to be seen,” Sellars says in a phone call from London. “Grant isn't interested in any of those things. He's even more interested in the music than you are.” Sellars says Gershon is the opposite of the temperamental musical diva. “He's coming to

you without hang-ups, complexes, psychological games or twisted agendas,” Sellars says. “He creates an incredibly shared space with no hierarchy, no pulling of rank. Suddenly, everybody is blazing with energy and light and feeling and joy. It's just amazing.” Johnson says her husband is so popular that other musicians broke tradition at this year’s annual music festival in the Berkshires by refusing to roast him. “He’s just always been so likeable, sweet, and fun,” says Johnson, who met him at the University of Southern California in the early 1980s. Their romance blossomed in the USC Chambers Singers when she was a sophomore and he, the superstar campus singer. Now music is a family affair: Their daughter, Claire, sings with the

LA Children’s Chorus. Gershon began playing music as a child in his native Alhambra. His mother was a piano teacher whose students included his older brother and sister. “My main motivation for wanting to start piano lessons when I was five was sibling rivalry,” he says. “Pure and simple, I just wanted to be like Phil and Marcia.” But fate intervened at Alhambra High School. By then, he was the piano accompanist for the freshman men’s chorus. The first day of gymnastics class, everything changed. “I lunged for the high bar and went down and broke my arm spectacularly,” he says. “I was a real klutz.” Instead of playing piano for the choir, Gershon started singing with it. — continued on page 14 ARROYO ~ SEPTEMBER 2007 ~ 13

GRANT GERSHON Continued from page 13

And while his arm was healing, he went to summer camp in Idyllwild (where he now serves as director of the Idyllwild Arts Festival Chorus). There, along with 120 other high school kids, he discovered the thrill of singing Mozart’s “Requiem.” “The music, the raging hormones, everything contributed to it being a completely life-changing experience,” he recalls. “And I knew at that point I was going to have a life in music. It was just really clear.” Gershon earned his way through USC by playing piano for various bands, ballet studios and churches. At the Verdi restaurant in Santa Monica, he would take the mike to sing opera arias—as well as cheesy requests like “Feelings.” At a Westside cocktail lounge, he wowed the crowd with tunes by George Gershwin and Cole Porter. (Marlon Brando once sent him a concise note with his seal of approval. It read: “Very nice. M Brando.”) Gershon still has faded color photos of his days as the top tenor in Dapper Dan’s Barbershop Quartet at Disneyland. Sporting straw hats, striped shirts and taps on their shoes, the group rode up and down Main Street on a bicycle built for four, waving and crooning 1920s tunes. “None of the four of us were any good at steering and, sure enough, one day we crashed the bike trying to avoid some little old lady,” he says with a laugh. In those days, most of his 21year-old peers were listening to new wave, punk, disco or hip hop. “The whole shtick of the barbershop quartet is just as hokey as you can get,” Gershon says. Flash forward 20 years, from Disneyland to Disney Hall, which boasts ideal acoustics that, Gershon says, “reward good singing.” Here, the still clean-cut Gershon has been introducing audiences to contemporary composers like Phillip Glass, John Adams, Elsa-Pekka Salonen and Steve Reich. His world premiere of Reich’s “You Are (Variations)” was released by Nonesuch in September 2005. Gershon mischievously compares Reich’s work to “Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride at Disneyland, where you’re constantly making a left turn where you think you’re about to take a right turn. Musically, that’s what it feels like. You just never know quite what’s going to happen next.” The conductor has been straddling the kind of repertoire classical music audiences expect and the new music he is equally passionate about, juxtaposing familiar and unfamiliar works. This 14 ~ SEPTEMBER 2007 ~ ARROYO

year with the Master Chorale, he began a project called “LA is the World” to spotlight musical traditions of the city’s prominent immigrant groups. As part of that series, the Master Chorale collaborated with Persian superstars Eve Beglarian, Peiman Hadadi and Manoochehr Sadeghi. On his to-do list: working with Mexican and Cambodian musicians. “In the end, it’s a matter of me wanting to do the music that I love and care about and am most passionate about,” says Gershon. “And that’s a pretty broad mix of new music and traditional choral masterpieces.” His own IPOD holds an eclectic blend: salsa classics, and Grateful Dead hits as well as tunes by Rufus Wainwright, Tom Waits, Bonnie Raitt, Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles. He calls them

“singers who have some gravel in the voice. Maybe it’s just the yin/yang of that. But in the end, it’s all just about expressing something really deep with the voice God gives you.” Sellars marvels at the breadth of Gershon‘s taste. “He's so funny, because in one way, he's really straight-laced and square, but then he’ll surprise you by getting down,” he says. Sellars notes that Gershon is unafraid to tackle difficult musical works that would prompt less brave souls to muse that the music is “brutal.” But, he adds, “Grant takes you through it, and all the secret chambers are unlocked. All of the tenderness that's hiding inside these daunting, brusque, corrosive forms. Suddenly the little pearls inside all those ugly oysters, are revealed, and you can never hear this music the same way again.” AM

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Time to

Take a Bow

Pasadena residents Carol and Warner Henry reflect on more than 20 years of behind-the-scenes leadership in the ongoing success of LA Opera BY JENINE BAINES ~ PHOTOS BY STE VE COHN

Warner and Carol Henry

t’s a gift any opera buff would envy: answering the phone to hear world-renowned tenor Placido Domingo sing “Happy Birthday.” “My husband, Warner, still keeps it on his voice mail,” says arts philanthropist Carol Henry, president of the board of directors of Los Angeles Opera. But it takes more than a seat on the LA Opera board to inspire an acclaimed artist like Domingo to deliver a singing birthday-gram. Ever since the company’s founding 21 years ago, the Pasadena couple has also demonstrated dedication, service and a willingness to ride like a Wagnerian Valkyrie to the company’s rescue in times of need. “It is hard to imagine what the history of LA Opera would have been like without Carol and Warner Henry,” says Domingo, the Eli and Edythe Broad General Director, who has known the Henrys since LA Opera’s inception. “They have been absolutely essential to the company’s ongoing success.” Fellow board member Rebecca Bowne says that success can be

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linked directly to the couple’s leadership skills. “Each is particularly astute when it comes to providing strategic and management direction for the company,” says Bowne, a past president of the Opera League of Los Angeles, the primary volunteer support group for LA Opera. Observers point to the couple’s acumen in helping to bring in Placido Domingo as general director in 2003, after the retirement of the founding general director, Peter Hemmings. “That decision has been a most important factor in bringing LA Opera to its status today,” says Warner Henry, the board’s vice chairman and chairman of its marketing committee. “We’ve become one of the top five national opera companies budget-wise and artistically.” Carol Henry is quick to note, however, that much of the credit goes to teamwork by longtime board members like board Chairman and CEO Marc I. Stern. “We are a working board, with a deep commitment to the art form and to the community,” she says. “No one is there merely to enhance their social resume.” —Continued on page 18

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TIME TO TA K E A B O W —Continued from page 16

That’s not to say that the board frowns on mixing pleasure with business. Indeed, one of Carol Henry’s goals is “to make the board feel like a family.” It’s a challenge – the group has 100 members – but Henry welcomes it. “It’s so much fun,” says Cathy Tosetti, wife of board member Paul Tosetti. “Because people who like opera really like it, we enjoy getting together, whether it’s during intermission at LA Opera or at a special event.” Carol Henry has expanded networking possibilities even further by initiating a “president’s lunch” program, where board members meet in small groups with Henry and a member of the company’s staff. Lunch discussions often center on Madame President’s determination to ensure that LA Opera “remains one of the top opera companies in the country.”

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One key strategy the board has employed involves reaching out to Hollywood for help in adding a 21st-century touch of excitement to a 400year-old art form. “We live in Hollywood,” explains Carol Henry, “so it’s a natural solution.” Still, Hollywood’s star power isn’t what drives the opera to bring film directors into the fold, the Henrys note. “We use these guys because they’re talented,” says Warner Henry. “They offer us a unique look at traditional works that are always engaging and often brilliantly interpreted.” Hollywood heavyweights who have helped shape past productions include Garry Marshall, Maximilian Schell, William Friedkin, Herbert Ross and Julie Taymor of “Lion King” fame. In 2008-2009, the season will open with a world premiere of “The Fly” by Oscar-winning composer Howard Shore, inspired by the 1986 horror film directed by David Cronenberg, who will direct the opera as well. Also that season, directors Woody Allen and William Friedkin will collaborate on Puccini’s “Il Trittico.” To counterbalance LA Opera’s embrace of the new, the Henrys support its policy of presenting standard works as well. These are the cherished yeomen of the repertoire, operas so much a part of the cultural mainstream that even the most vehement non-operagoer recognizes their titles. “I could see our ‘Magic Flute’ and our ‘Tristan’ over and over,” says

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Carol Henry. “I’m obviously not alone in feeling that way.” She’s alluding to the fact that LA Opera, unlike many companies nationwide, has seen its annual revenue increase by 85 percent since 2001. Also adding to its coffers are the board’s efforts to entice Angelenos from distant parts like West LA and Whittier. “Audience development is a critical responsibility,” Carol Henry says. “There’s no reason to work so hard if we don’t have an audience.” That’s particularly critical in light of concerns that opera loyalists are aging. Are new audiences arriving to take their place? “The audience is graying,” Carol Henry concedes. “But, interestingly, young people begin to move in after their children are raised and tuitions are paid. That’s when they have the discretionary time and income to become ticket buyers and volunteers.” Her husband has a slightly different perspective. “Opera has more success attracting younger audiences than other classical music forms,” says the music devotee who discovered what Leonard Bernstein called ‘the joy of music’ while in college at Stanford. “Perhaps it’s because younger generations tend to be more visual.” Nonetheless, LA Opera has been proactive in tackling the “graying” issue by mounting what Carol Henry, a former elementary school teacher, calls a “very sophisticated education program.” This includes: the “in-school opera” program, which dispatches artists to schools to coach students as chorus members; a medley of assembly programs such as mezzo soprano Suzanna Guzman’s “Don’t Be Afraid; It’s Just Opera!”; and free student matinees. “Studies have shown that if you were introduced to an art form as a child, you’ll be more likely to return to it one day as an adult,” says Henry. Audience development efforts also extend beyond the classroom. At LA Opera, various demographics have their own support group, such as Hispanics for Los Angeles Opera and ARIA for young professionals. African Americans for Los Angeles Opera is a chapter of the 25-year-old Opera League of Los Angeles, the umbrella organization for opera lovers. The Opera League provided Carol Henry’s intro- —Continued on page 20

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The Glabman Family has been bringing exquisite taste and expertise to the Home Furnishings field since 1900. Four generations of our family have proudly offered a unique complement of selection, service and satisfaction. We expect to spoil you for every other furniture store with our quality, selection and price. The family has built its relationships with craftsmen from around the world for one purpose; to help our clients create engaging spaces that add beauty, comfort and joy to their lives. Please join us for our special sale event for a limited time, we are offering all furniture at “below designer wholesale prices” including special orders on all furniture lines, select floor samples for immediate delivery, art, lamps mirrors and accessories. Don’t miss out on this unusual opportunity. Glabman Furniture - 525 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena 626-683-3660

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Whites Art, Framing & Restoration — We are pleased to announce the opening of "Trio: Landscapes, Still Lifes, & Figures", a show of watercolor paintings, Sunday, September 9th at 4 pm at the White Gallery in Montrose. Featuring three local professional artists: Sid Bingham, Anne Marie Hecht-Brown and Gary Pantiskas, the show will continue through the month of September. Sid Bingham is a teacher at Art Center College of Design, and a professional illustrator with clients such as Disney, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, Universal Studios, Sony, and the Los Angeles Dodgers to name a few. Anne Marie Hecht-Brown, a native southern Californian, has worked with a variety of media – most recently with watercolors, which Sid Bingham introduced her to at Art Center College of Design. She has studied both at Art Center and Loyola Marymount University. Gary Pantiskas, a Pasadena resident, works in water colors, pen and ink, and oils. Gary has studied at the University of California at Davis, the University of San Francisco, and the Art Center College of Design. Whites offers custom finishing and the gilding of frames, elaborate frame design, stretching and mounting of fabric art (canvas, needlepoint, etc.), along with the restoration of fine art and antiques. You can also experience an exquisite collection of fine art on display. 2414 Honolulu Ave., Montrose. Call (818) 957-4071. Tirage Gallery — Located in the heart of Pasadena’s art and antique district, Tirage Gallery features one of the largest selections of plein air paintings and representational fine art in the

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Barbara Ebert and the rest of the Opera Pasadena troupe are ready for their biggest season yet

hen was the last time you settled in for a night of Puccini without making a trek to downtown Los Angeles? Save your gas money, because the Crown City’s most unusual cultural offering might also be its best-kept secret: Opera Pasadena. “We operate on a limited scale and very limited budget,” says co-founder Barbara Ebert, “Most of Pasadena doesn’t even know we’re around.” “They didn’t know there was another opera company in town, but we’re fighting to bring great entertainment to the community at affordable prices.” Co-founded by lifelong opera aficionados Ebert and Ella Lee in 1999, the local troupe has staged several full-length productions – including such classics as Verdi’s “La Traviata” and Mozart’s “The Magic Flute.” Opera Pasadena has also performed dozens of opera highlights concerts (for instance, mixing a nice chunk of “La Traviata” with a smaller taste of Puccini’s “La Bohème”).

This fall, they bring new life to the Bard’s greatest works in two special shows at the Pacific Asia Museum: “Shakespeare at the Opera House” on Sept. 16, and “Shakespeare Visits Broadway & Carnegie Hall” on Nov. 18. Next year brings their biggest challenge yet, as the Opera Pasadena prepares to perform “Red Azalea,” a new opera by renowned local composer William Kraft, which takes place amid the social upheaval of 1970s mainland China. “We’re very honored that he’s asked us to present its debut in 2008,” says Ebert. Ebert’s involvement in music stretches back to piano lessons in early childhood. The first time she saw an opera, she was only eight years old. Even as a young girl, Ebert was “quite intrigued by it” and went on to launch her career as the music director of the opera work—continued on page 44 shop at Cal State LA from 1970 to ARROYO ~ SEPTEMBER 2007 ~ 43

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—continued from page 43 1975. She also worked with several small opera companies as well as the women’s music organization Tuesday Musicale. Then, in 1990, she met Lee. Lee had just returned to Pasadena after years of performing in Europe, where she had sung the role of Aida more than 500 times. Other mainstays of her repertoire included “Tosca,” “Il Trovatore” and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. The two fell in and out of touch until 1999, when they formed Opera Pasadena. Their first public collaboration came that spring, when a college friend of Lee’s invited the fledgling company to produce an opera program for the Pacific Asia Museum’s “meet the artists” series. “We managed to garner extensive newspaper publicity for it and ended up turning people away, which was really gratifying,” Ebert recalls. Opera Pasadena returned to the museum for several highlights concerts and mounted its first full production the following spring with Mozart’s ‘Cosi fan Tutte.’” Performances at larger venues followed, including Westminster Presbyterian and Wilson Middle School in east Pasadena. This year, the company is moving to the McKinley School, the 44 ~ SEPTEMBER 2007 ~ ARROYO

performing-arts magnet school for the Pasadena school district. Also on the schedule are five highlights shows at local museums. Lee, the company’s artistic director, and Ebert, its music director, know it’s important to keep their performance schedules diverse, but, Ebert notes, “We try to do as much Mozart as possible.” Ebert is also an aficionado of Gilbert and Sullivan and has not only produced the full operetta “HMS Pinafore.” but also highlights programs. Opera Pasadena’s popular touch has also extended to the Great White Way: A program titled “The Best of Broadway” featured songs from “Carousel,” “The Music Man” and “Oklahoma!” “We stay away from mega-productions like ‘Aida,’ but in the coming year we’re going to branch out and do ‘Don Pasquale’ (Jan. 26 and 27, Feb. 2 and 3), and an English version of ‘Hansel and Gretel’ (May 9 and 10, 17 and 18), which is perfect for children to enjoy,” explains Ebert. The company has been growing despite several challenges, including finding stage directors “who understand the needs and limitations of the singing art,” she adds. Another ongoing struggle is

the need to keep the coffers full enough to fund the company’s dreams. Opera Pasadena has a modest grant from the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, and the company augments that with ticket sales and donations. To further stretch their resources, singers (unlike orchestra members) perform for free in return for invaluable exposure. Yet despite all the hard work, Ebert believes that Opera Pasadena has stayed true to the company’s initial goals. “Opera is a combination of music and drama, not to mention the visual arts of sets and costuming and dance where it’s appropriate,” says Ebert. “It’s an overall coming together of many elements in the world of art. We’re trying to give an opportunity to the many fine singers in the area, to keep working on their craft and learn complete performances and perform them with an orchestra, instead of just a piano. A lot of these singers are on a career path, and they’ll have to meet the challenge of singing with an orchestra. That’s one of the most important things we can give them.” AM

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ALIFORNIA HAS MADE ITS DISTINCTIVE mark on architecture (mid-century modern, anyone?) and food (calling Alice Waters). So is it any wonder that California designers say their their work deserves its own special niche in West Coast culture? A broad range of great-looking products from the Golden State is filtering into homes and businesses around the world. What informs the made-in-California aesthetic that ties them together? One word: playfulness. “In some ways, it’s not as corporate [as its East Coast counterpart], and that has to do with the kinds of industries that exist on each coast,” says Michael Worthington, co-director of the graphic design program at CalArts. “The West Coast is more about manufacturing culture and images. New York is a little more serious. Product design [here] has a sense of humor.” The California Design Biennial 2007, which runs through Sept. 30 at the Pasadena Museum of California Art, showcases the state’s witty take on five categories of

design: fashion, furniture, transportation, consumer products and graphic design. As the juried show of 200 eclectic objects reveals, Californians are increasingly putting the fun into function. “There’s a joy of life infused into the product,” says Gadi Amit, president of the San Francisco-based New Deal Design, LLC. Amit and Worthington sat on the biennial’s five-member jury of design professionals, which also included Vogue’s West Coast editor, Lisa Love, and two faculty members of the Art Center College of Design--Stewart Reed, chair of transportation design, and Laura Dye, brand and design strategist and instructor. Among the products by such companies as Apple,

Belkin and Pasadena’s Rodarte, which are showcased in the exhibit, some trends emerged: Styles of decades past are being resurrected with more advanced materials and technology.

“A lot of work is referencing previous periods, but without necessarily doing it in an ironic way or in a way that glorifies it,” Worthington says. “It’s furthering what direction that movement was headed in when it ended prematurely.” An example is the Suede Coasting bicycle, which recalls messenger bikes of the 1930s but is re-imagined with new materials. The museum’s description touts its “holistic design approach that

combines clean, beautiful lines…mated to Shimano’s automatic shifting.” Not surprisingly, there’s a greater emphasis on environmentally friendly materials.

Judges were particularly impressed with the hand-made surfboard built by designer Danny Hess as an alternative to mass-produced foam boards. Hess’s board is constructed with sustainably harvested wood, cork and recycled EPS foam, and it’s engineered to be faster, more responsive and longer lasting than traditional boards. “That’s definitely something very local and quite unique and definitely represents the attraction to better quality,” says Amir. Indeed, the museum was launched in 2002 to call attention to the special charms of California art and design. Creating the biennial was one of the first orders of business; then-Executive

Director Wesley Jessup mounted the first one the following year. This year marks the third juried design show, and organizers hope it will highlight notable West Coast work that may get short shrift in New York-based exhibits. “California is one of the world’s leading environments for design,” Amir says. “The Bay Area in San Francisco is a mecca for industrial design and product design. LA has a lot of transportation design, and in between, there’s a lot of fashion and furniture. “But design is a profession that’s somewhat underrated. People appreciate beautiful cars or furniture, but generally they glorify the product and not the people behind it. They admire BMWs, but they don’t know they’re designed by people in Orange County. So with that said, I would say designers love to be recognized by other designers. Emotionally, that’s very important.” AM ARROYO ~ SEPTEMBER 2007 ~ 47

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FAREWELL TO SUMMER AT DESCANSO Sept. 3 - Descanso Gardens marks the end of summer with a festive Labor Day tradition started by its founder: Manchester Boddy was renowned for hosting grand events in the 1930s and ‘40s, and his hospitable spirit lives on in “Boddy’s Big Back Yard,” as his signature fete was known. From 4 to 7 p.m., families can gather on the lawn for a picnic, either homemade or supplied by Patina. The restaurant offers sandwiches, hot dogs, hamburgers, side dishes, chips, light beverages, beer and desserts. From 4 to 7 p.m., children have a choice of actiivities: Kids (18 months and older and weighing less than 125 pounds) can ride hand-led ponies through Descanso’s rose gardens for $5 a pop. They can also jitterbug to the music of the 1930s and ‘40s. Kids of all ages can ride the Enchanted Railroad around the venue for $2 per ticket. From 4:30 to 5:30 p.m., visitors can gather at the Center Circle for a Descanso history walk and talk. From 5 to 7 p.m., the Verdugo Swing Society will play music of the 1930s and ‘40s at the Under the Oaks Theater near the main lawn. Descanso Gardens is located at 1418 Descanso Drive in La Cañada Flintridge. Call (818) 949-4200 or visit www.DescansoGardens.org.

TOURS AND LECTURES AT NORTON SIMON Here are some events of note at Pasadena’s cultural jewel box, the Norton Simon Museum: Sept. 5 - The lecture “When I grow up” introduces youth to notable careers in the arts against a backdrop of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres’ “Portrait of Baron Joseph Vialetes de Mortarieu.” The talk starts at 4 p.m. Sept. 7, 14, 21 and 28 - A “spotlight talk” at 2 p.m. explores the dark side of human behavior with Jan Steen’s “Wine is a Mocker” as inspiration. Sept. 7 - At 7 p.m., a sculpture and nature tour examines the relationship between modern sculpture and the natural world. Sept. 15 - “Let’s Design an Art Gallery” explains what elements make an art gallery pleasing to the eye and offers visitors an opportunity to design a miniature gallery complete with mini-masterpieces. The event starts at 1 p.m. Sept. 15 - Learn about what fueled Norton Simon’s love of Indian art at a 2 p.m. talk on “The Art of Collecting,” which explores the collector’s acquisition of an ivory and ebony chess set. Sept. 15 - At 4 p.m., Burton Fredericksen, former director of the Getty Provenance Index, gives a lecture titled “Norton Simon and Paul Getty: Two Los Angeles Collectors Compared.” Sept. 23 - Edgar Peters Bowron, curator of European Art at Houston’s Museum of Fine Arts, discusses “The Artist’s Best Friend: 500 Years of the Dog in Art” at 4:30 p.m. The Norton Simon Museum is located at 411 W. Colorado Blvd. in Pasadena. Call (626) 449-6840 or visit www.nortonsimon.org.

TERRIFIC TWOSOMES, TALENTED KIDS END POPS SEASON Sept. 7, 8 and 9 – The Pasadena POPS Orchestra and Music Director Rachael Worby salute dynamic duos as they close the Descanso Gardens season with a concert series titled “Aren’t We a Pair?” The orchestra performs works associated with notable duos enshrined in music history, such as Romeo and Juliet, Lerner and Loewe, Simon and Garfunkel, Puccini’s Mimi and Rodolfo and Harry Woods and Stephen Sondheim. The 52 ~ SEPTEMBER 2007 ~ ARROYO

concerts feature lyric tenor Mark T. Panuccio and soprano Kearstin Piper Brown singing duets and solos; duets include Woods and Sondheim’s “Side by Side” and Puccini’s “Osoave Fanciulla” from “La Bohème.” Also joining the orchestra are 28 student musicians performing Ellington’s “Take the A Train,” Tchaikovsky’s “Overture Fantasy: Romeo and Juliet,” Simon and Garfunkel’s “Vol. 1 & 2 Medley,” the “Katschei” and “Finale” from Stravinsky’s “Firebird Suite” and other selections. Gates open at 5:30 p.m.; concerts begin at 7:30 pm on Friday and Saturday and at 7 p.m. on Sunday. Descanso Gardens is located at 1418 Descanso Drive, La Cañada Flintridge. Call (626) 792-7677, ext. 217, or visit www.pasadenapops.org.

SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK Sept. 7, 8, 9, 14, 15 and 16 - The Crown City Theatre Company performs “Henry V” during its annual Shakespeare Festival at the Levitt Pavilion Pasadena. The play examines the king’s leadership in a time of war as well as his keen sense of justice, moral judgment and understanding of the common man. The free performances start at 7:30 p.m. The Levitt Pavilion is located in Memorial Park at the corner of Walnut Street and Raymond Avenue in Pasadena. Call (818) 430-7872 or visit www.crowncitytheatre.com.

FOCUSING ON NATIVE AMERICANS Sept. 7 through Jan. 27, 2008 - The Autry National Center in Griffith Park presents “Picturing the People,” an exhibition of photos of and by indigenous people of the American West. The show marks the centennial of the Autry’s sister facility, the Southwest Museum of the American Indian, with a display of photos from its Braun Research Library Collections. The images span the mid-1800s to the present and include work by a trailblazing generation of Native American photographers. The show incorporates the touring exhibition “Our People, Our Land, Our Images: International Indigenous Photographers,” organized by photographer Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie and Veronica Passalacqua, curator of the C.N. Gorman Museum of the University of California, —continued on page 54

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CELEBRATING A HALF-CENTURY IN SPACE Sept. 19 through 21 - For those old enough to remember, it may be difficult to believe that 50 years have passed since mankind first ventured into outer space. A three-day conference at California Institute of Technology will celebrate the milestone in an event titled “50 Years in Space: An International Aerospace Conference Celebrating 50 Years of Space Technology.” The event is co-hosted by the Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories at Caltech (GALCIT), Northrop Grumman Corp. and Pasadena’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Topics to be explored include: Where is space flight’s next destination? What constitutes sensible space investment? How did the space pioneers accomplish their goals? Luminaries in attendance will include Nobel Laureate John Mather, astronaut and Caltech alumnus Harrison “Jack” Schmitt, NASA Administrator Michael Griffin, GALCIT Professor Ares Rosakis, Northrop Grumman’s Dr. Dwight Streit and others. The opening keynote speaker will be Northrop Grumman Chairman Ronald Sugar. The event opens with a reception at 6 p.m. Wednesday at Caltech’s Athenaeum and ends at 12:30 p.m. Friday. The registration deadline is Sept. 1, and the all-inclusive fee is $550. Caltech is located at 1200 E. California Blvd. in Pasadena. For the full schedule and registration, call (626) 395-4514 or visit www.galcit.caltech.edu/space50.

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Sept. 8 - One of summer’s bright spots is the opportunity to savor a California Philharmonic concert under the stars at the Los Angeles County Arboretum. The season’s final installment is titled “Movie Adventures”: The Philharmonic, joined by the California Philharmonic Chorale, will perform selections from “Gladiator,” “Saving Private Ryan,” “The Lord of the Rings” and “A Clockwork Orange.” The evening begins with live jazz and dining at 5:30 p.m., and the concert starts at 7:30 p.m. Pack a picnic and dine at your leisure on the landscaped lawn or buy a gourmet meal on site. Tickets range from $10 to $98. The Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Gardens are located at 301 N. Baldwin Ave. in Arcadia. Call (626) 300-8200 or visit www.calphil.org.

RUNNING FOR GIRLS AT RISK Sept. 15 - The LA County Run for Health Ninth Annual 5K Run/Walk & Wellness Expo (formerly Girls at Risk) takes place at the Rose Bowl. Proceeds from the event, sponsored by the LA County Commission for Women, provide $1,000 college scholarships for at-risk girls. The top male and female runners will score a trophy and free entry into the 2008 Los Angeles Marathon; the top finishers of both sexes in each age group will take home a $25 gift certificate from Pasadena’s Snail’s Pace Running Shop. At 6:30 am., doors open for registration and the Wellness Expo, which features 50 vendors offering information and giveaways until 11 a.m. Registered runners are eligible for door prizes, a goodie bag and an event T-shirt. Also free are music, food, drinks and parking. Dr. Eloisa Gonzalez, physical activity program director for LA County’s Public Health Department, will lead an aerobics warm-up at 7:30 a.m.; the race begins at 8:30 a.m. Pre-registration by mail or online costs $18 through Sept. 8. Late registration on site is $23 from Sept. 9. Call (213) 974-1455 or visit www.laccw.info. The Rose Bowl Stadium is located at 1001 Rose Bowl Drive in Pasadena.

A MUSICAL MYSTERY AT THE ALEX Sept. 17 - The Musical Theatre Guild presents a one-night-only performance of “The Mystery of Edwin Drood” at 7:30 p.m. at Glendale’s Alex Theatre. Rupert Holmes wrote the show’s book, music and the lyrics, based on the unfinished novel by Charles Dickens. Holmes suspends the action midway through Act II (the point at which Dickens’ book stops) and invites the audience to vote on the identity of Drood’s murderer. The production has another twist: Drood’s character is played by a woman. Tickets cost $38. 54 ~ SEPTEMBER 2007 ~ ARROYO

Sept. 18 - John Moran Antique and Fine Art Auctioneers presents an auction at the Pasadena Convention Center with more than 250 lots of jewelry, fine furnishings, antiques and more from the R.S.H. Trust of San Marino, the Mary D. Osgood Estate of Pasadena and other local estates. Previews begin at 1 p.m.; the auction starts at 6:30 p.m. Admission is free. The Pasadena Convention Center is located at 300 E. Green St., Pasadena. Call (626) 793-1833 or visit www.johnmoran.com.

CAMERATA PACIFICA SEASON OPENS Sept. 18 - For its 18th season, Camerata Pacifica travels from Santa Barbara and Ventura to Los Angeles and the Huntington Library in San Marino. The Sept. 18 performance at the Huntington features guest artist and pianist Barry Douglas, violinist Catherine Leonard, violist Richard O’Neill, cellist Ani Aznavoorian and bassist Tim Eckert. The program includes Mozart’s Concerto for Piano and String Quintet in A Major, K 414; Beethoven’s Sonata No. 21 in C Major, Op. 53, known as “Waldstein”; and Lizst’s Piano Sonata in B Minor. The performance starts at 8 p.m. Also Sept. 19 at 8 pm at the Herbert Zipper Concert Hall, located at 200 S. Grand Ave., Los Angeles. The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens is located at 1151 Oxford Road in San Marino. Call (800) 557-2224 or visit www.CamerataPacifica.org.

TASTING UNDER THE TREES Sept. 24 - Food, wine and song kick off the Taste of Arcadia at the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden. More than 30 local restaurants participate in the event, which runs from 5 to 9 p.m. Guests will also be serenaded by the Cheap Sax band. Tickets cost $35 and benefit Arcadia Assistance League’s Operation School Bell Project. The Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden is located at 301 N. Baldwin Ave. in Arcadia. For tickets call (626) 447-2159 or visit www.tasteofarcadia.com.

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Marathon Man How Israel Estrada is vaulting hurdles to bring Pasadena’s new marathon to the finish line STORY AND PHOTO BY NOELA HUESO

hen Israel Estrada first approached the city of Pasadena in 2005 with his plan to start a marathon, he was greeted with a measure of skepticism. After all, he was just one man, representing a fledgling nonprofit that hadn’t even officially opened its doors — and whose success would rest largely on the would-be marathon funding it. But in the end, Estrada won over the city. It was difficult to ignore his sincerity and unflagging enthusiasm, as well as the upsurge of community support he attracted for bringing a potentially huge — and culturally significant — fundraising event to Pasadena. In June, the city approved the Pasadena Marathon and Bike Tour, which will be held in October 2008. It’s still a work in progress, with plenty of details to be finalized and logistics to be hammered out, but one thing is certain — the marathon is a coup for Estrada, who has been devoting nearly every waking hour for the past year to

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making this a reality. A quiet and thoughtful man, Estrada told supporters that he launched the campaign to make a positive impact on Pasadena, where he has lived most of his life. Making a mark came easily to the former Marine, who had led scores of soldiers as a military police training chief during an eight-year career in California and overseas.

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— ISRAEL ESTRADA

The 31-year-old Estrada liked being in charge. Spearheading and organizing projects were second nature to him, so it was only natural that he would want to do it again when he returned to civilian life in 2003. But after he enrolled at Pasadena City College, the opportunity to do so didn’t

present itself, and life as a college student didn’t hold the same level of satisfaction for him. Estrada soon became restless. “I was looking for a higher purpose,” says the single athlete. “I felt small being just a student. I knew I could do more, and I was looking for something meaningful to do as an extracurricular activity. I had held responsibilities [in the military] and [now] felt bored, unchallenged and in need of applying my talents.” Hoping to recapture some of the fulfillment he’d experienced in the military, he started volunteering his time on behalf of several local nonprofits, including the Council of the Navy League of the United States, Pasadena City College's Student Council and the Latino History Parade. Estrada soon discovered they all lacked sufficient help in accounting, website design and operational support, and the germ of an idea began to take shape: Why not create a nonprofit that would help other nonprofits in these areas? Estrada started Pasadena Forward in November 2004 with just two seeds — —continued on page 58 $100 and

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—continued from page 56 the idea of a marathon. He knew he needed a long-term financial plan to keep Pasadena Forward solvent, and a marathon struck him as an intriguing fundraising opportunity. (The Pasadena Marathon will join another big event for area runners: the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Race [Walk] for the Cure at the Rose Bowl, which is held during the winter.) The idea of it was huge, the possibilities exciting. He envisioned the marathon benefiting not only Pasadena Forward, but also other local nonprofits. Bringing an elite running event to the city would be a massive undertaking, requiring an enormous commitment on Estrada’s part. He couldn’t wait to get started. Despite the city’s experience with the Tournament of Roses parade, Estrada’s early conversations with Pasadena’s Special Events Department revealed that both he and city staff had a lot to learn before they could pull off such a complex event: It would have a major impact on neighborhoods, businesses and traffic flow for half a day and require coordination among various city departments. “I went to the city looking for guidelines to create a marathon plan that I could present them, and the first thing they asked me was, ‘What’s your plan?’” Estrada recalls. “There was no precedent and they were looking to me as much I was looking to them for answers. Ongoing conversations got us all on the same page and together we figured out what it would 58 ~ SEPTEMBER 2007 ~ ARROYO

take to make the marathon happen.” Pasadena spokeswoman Anne Erdman says the city has high hope for the event. “It is a very ambitious plan. We wish him well as he moves through the process,” she says. At the outset, the city asked Estrada to prove he had community support before it would back the project. So he created the Founders Club to get people excited about the marathon and prove he had just that. An $80 membership fee guaranteed registrants access to various member-only events planned in the months leading up to the race, a free race entry, a “Coolmax” T-shirt with the Pasadena Marathon logo, a special finisher’s medal and discounts at local retailers Run with Us and Pasadena Cyclery, among others. In return, Estrada would have the resources he needed to further his marathon campaign. (This writer joined the club in January.) The community response surpassed everyone’s expectations. Estrada estimated that 100 individuals would sign up; instead, by the time he closed registration in June, there were nearly 500. To date, $35,000 has been raised through the Founders Club. (That got him past the starting line, but Estrada says he’s still working to reach his goal of $250,000.) At the same time, the L.A. Futbol Club, which promotes youth soccer, stepped up to help with a donation, and many other businesses and organizations wrote letters of support. The marathon now

boasts 90 corporate and nonprofit supporters, both local and national, including Brooks Running, Charles Schwab, the American Heart Association and the Pasadena Educational Foundation. Others, such as the Pasadena Senior Center and the Madison Heights Neighborhood Association, have offered to supply manpower on the day of the event. Even before the city gave the marathon a green light, planning it had become a full-time gig for Estrada. From a small office on North Lake Avenue, he took on two part-time employees, invested $10,000 of his own money and embarked on a search for a title sponsor. All along, he continued with his studies: He graduated from PCC in 2005 and last year enrolled at the University of La Verne where, inspired by his collaboration with the city, he’s studying public administration. Juggling school assignments with marathon planning would be stressful for anyone. For Estrada, there’s another pressure as well: the need to get it all right. “Because I know the marathon carries the storied name of Pasadena, I have a high standard to live up to,” he says. “I want to make sure we put on the very best event we can. I don’t want to disappoint thousands of Pasadenans.” AM For more information visit www.pasadenamarathon.org or call (626) 797-7238.

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ily Bollinger was asked "When do you drink Champagne?" and replied: “I only drink Champagne when I'm happy, and when I'm sad. Sometimes I drink it when I'm alone. When I have company, I consider it obligatory. I trifle with it if I am not hungry and drink it when I am. Otherwise I never touch it—unless I'm thirsty.” Champagne has a great history and romantic connotations. It stars in the movies (James Bond’s favorite was a ’53 Dom Perignon) and is a joy to consume. Even opening a bottle is fun. (Did you know that each bottle contains some 56 million bubbles?) Still, Champagnes and sparkling wines are meant to be enjoyed, not idolized. And it shouldn’t break the bank to buy a bottle. No one knows exactly who created the first sparkling wine, but some showed up in the Limoux area of France about 1535. Later, Pierre “Dom” Perignon, who became a Benedictine monk at the Abbey of Hautville near Reims, experimented with sparkling wines in the latter part of the seventeenth century. Dom Perignon's vital achievement was to establish a standard

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and effective process for the production of Champagne. Most of his techniques are still used today, including riddling, adding dosage for secondary fermentation, and using corks to seal bottles. Fullscale commercial production began in the Champagne region around 1700. Today this region sells over 20 million cases of sparkling wine annually. Only sparkling wines produced in the Champagne region of France are properly called “Champagne.” Sparkling wines are given different names in other regions, such as cava, (Spain) and spumante (Italy), or simply sparkling wine in the US. The Méthode Champenoise is how most Champagne and sparkling wines are made. These wines begin their lives like any other, but then there is a definite change from the still wine method. After grapes have been harvested, crushed, and fermented for a few weeks, extra sugar and yeasts are added to induce a second fermentation process. The wine is put into bottles and capped with a soda-cap to preserve carbonation. This process can take many years, depending on various factors. The wines are then put into a riddling rack, which very slowly rotates the bottles, allowing sediment to collect in the neck of the bottle. Then the bottles are put into a disgorgement machine to quickly freeze the sediment, which promptly falls out. A tiny amount of “dosage” of Champagne is added, and the bottles are then corked. In days of yore, a host would pour a bit of his guest's wine into his own glass and drink it first, to prove it was safe. If the guest trusted his

host, however, he would merely clink the host’s glass as a symbol of trust. Okay, now which ones to order, try, and drink? Good question, and not easy to answer because presuppositions often prove incorrect. You can’t necessarily go by price, name, or vintage. Many wonderful bottles, such as a crisp, shining Mumm Napa Valley DVX, come from the US, and some French Champagnes are eminently ordinary. My new personal favorite is the Grand Cuvée from Krug. Toasty, elegant, with a long, languorous finish—this is gorgeous, quintessential full-bodied Champagne. Not surprisingly, California produces some of the best from this country, with Schramsberg, Mumm Napa, Roederer Estate, Domaine Carneros, and J Wine leading the way. Domaine Chandon has produced a new wine called Étoile that comes sans cork, with crown caps used in bottling. It wouldn’t happen in France, but this is a new day, and the wines, both a brut and a rose, are quite good. Other states, such as New York, Massachusetts, Washington, and Texas are producing some fine reasonably priced sparklers. You really don’t need to spend $300 at a club or restaurant to enjoy a bottle of sparkling wine. Best to ask around, compare, and try them yourself. Don’t stick to only one brand — you only hurt yourself, and it’s boring anyway. Remember, you can’t taste image, but you can taste wine. When you inquire of your friendly bartender or sommelier about what’s good or different, he or she might steer you of one that ends up being your new favorite. The only thing bad about Champagne is that it goes down way too easily. Try ’em all, if you can. For as John Maynard Keynes said on his deathbed: “My only regret is that I did not drink more Champagne.” AM

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Greg Bernhardt’s evolving menu keeps things interesting at South Pasadena’s 750ml BY STEVE COULTER ~ PHOTO BY CHRISTOPHER RAINONE

Food often seems like little more than a palate cleanser at even the most popular wine bars. So when a restaurant is named for the amount of vino in an average bottle, it’s only natural to scale back your expectations of the menu. That is precisely why 750ml in South Pasadena is such a pleasant surprise. Brainchild of chef Greg Bernhardt and Cobras & Matadors’ impresario Steven Arroyo, 750ml is a modern French wine bistro with a small, evolving menu that emphasizes seasonal and locally farmed ingredients. Bernhardt deliberately designed the kitchen to limit storage space “so I know what I serve is at its freshest,” he says. That approach is paying off in a growing reputation for imaginative creations that change with almost alarming frequency. An art school graduate from Montana who got his start in the kitchen as a dishwasher, Bernhardt lived a bohemian painter’s life in Prague for two years before moving to California in 2000. It was then that he set about seriously pursuing a career in culinary arts, a whirlwind education that took him through the kitchens of some of Los Angeles’s best-known restaurants, including Grace, Le Dome and Vida. Along the way, he picked up the technique and skills he’d need for his biggest, most intricate work of art yet. How does your background in art inform your cooking?

I see all of the arts in the same way. I learned in painting that once I had a certain fluidity of technique, I could leave it all behind and just see the final product. It’s the same with food for me now. I’m not actually thinking, “I’m going to braise this and freeze it, and then I’m going to smoke it”; the whole thing unfolds before me and I see the final plate in my mind. 62 ~ SEPTEMBER 2007 ~ ARROYO

What about texture and presentation?

Contrast is something that’s really important in all the arts as well, like contrasting beats or octaves in music, and clashing or complementary colors in painting. In painting, they call it “rhythmic vitality,” which is the idea that something carries its own breath once the phenomenon itself has occurred, and it goes on to live a life of its own.

750ml 966 Mission St. South Pasadena (626) 799-0711 Daily 5 to 11 p.m. This concept is not only a challenge for the chef, but for the diners as well. How has the response been?

I change the menu every single day, and that could mean one dish or 75 percent of the dishes. The whole idea is that if there are two fish dishes on the menu and you like halibut better than snapper, you should get the halibut because the preparation will astound you.

The people in South Pasadena have been really complimentary, and they’ve come out to support me night after night, which is just amazing. We have a really accomplished sommelier, so you can come for the wine, which is great, but ultimately the reason why we built this restaurant was to have a seasonal menu with crazy new ingredients, fascinating techniques and really exciting food.

How much of a challenge is it to change the menu daily?

What are some of the most exciting ingredients you have worked with at 750ml?

It is an insane challenge and certainly not for the meek, but it’s something I do for the integrity of the food. For example, I only have two pork farmers that I work with here in California, and one beef farmer. The meat I work with is all natural and free range, and that’s something I really want to live up to. I speak with the farmers and find out what they’re butchering, and then I create a weeklong schedule. Another challenge I work with is that I don’t have a walk-in [refrigerator], and I don’t have any storage. It’s an absolute necessity for me to keep ingredients fresh and to keep ordering because I really have no place to put things.

I have definitely run through a batch of truffles. I do a lot of squab, which is basically baby pigeon, and rabbit is generally on the menu. I would say the most exciting thing is the absolute quality of the organic, small-farm meat I use.

Are there specific dishes at 750ml that you can point to as an example of “rhythmic vitality”?

What dishes would you recommend for somebody who is stopping by for dinner before a night at the opera? Think light. You certainly aren’t going to want to go with the heavier, starchier foods. Stick to the dishes that are going to have more instant benefits to your energy, like fish. Keep it simple. AM

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