MISCELLANY (Continued from page 33) Joe Buttitta, Kelsey Gerckens, Tracy Lehr, Kacey Drescher, and Mike Klan at the Golden Mike awards in Los Angeles
Danish String Quartet giving an outreach concert at Monroe Elementary School (photo by David Bazemore)
Quartet Kills Grammy Award nominees the Danish String Quartet, visiting our Eden by the Beach for the fourth time, gave two very different performances for their UCSB Arts & Lectures appearances. The fab four – violinists Frederik Oland and Rune Tonsgaard Sorensen, cellist Fredrik Schoyen Sjolin and violist Asbjorn Norgaard – kicked off their latest visit at the intimate Rockwood Woman’s Club with Last Leaf: A Nordic Folk Program, an informal salon-style event. Just 24 hours later they were at the university’s 900-seat Campbell Hall playing string quartets from Haydn, Abrahamsen, and Nielsen. They can’t come back soon enough... Light Chasers It was back to the future when the Santa Barbara Symphony under veteran maestro Nir Kabaretti returned to a work it co-commissioned more than a decade earlier, acclaimed Chicago composer Joseph Schwantner’s “Chasing Light” at the Granada. The enchanting evening continued with Beethoven’s Triple Concerto, featuring three stellar local musicians – cellist Ani Aznavoorian and violinist Paul Huang, both members of the Camerata Pacifica, and regular guest Swiss-born pianist Gilles Vonsattel. The sold-out concert closed with Robert Schumann’s popular Symphony No.3 in E-flat Major, inspired by the history and spirit of Europe’s mighty River Rhine.
Everybody was going with the flow... Ritzy Residence It will come as absolutely no surprise that Montecito is one of the richest enclaves in America. In the latest Richest Places list, issued by Bloomberg, our tony town has jumped four places in the rankings from 32 to 28, with an average household income of $276,564. Atherton near San Francisco with an average of $450,696 and Scarsdale, New York, with $417,335 top the list, along with Hillsborough, Bronxville, New York, Darien, Old Greenwich and Westport, Connecticut, with Palm Beach, Florida, trailing at number 35 with an average income of $268,695 and Malibu, just south of us, at 43 with an income level of $261,237. Golden Mike Winners It wasn’t quite the Olympics, but KEYT-TV reporters Mike Klan, Kelsey Gerckens, Joe Buttitta, Kacey Drescher, and Tracy Lehr were definitely going for gold at the 69th annual Golden Mike awards in Los Angeles. The ABC affiliate broadcaster won the coveted trophies at a glittering Radio and Television News Association of Southern California gala at the Universal Hilton, with Kelsey – who won the Amazing Race and $1 million three years ago with her now husband, KEYT morning news anchor Joe Buttitta – getting the accolade for best weather segment for the second consecutive year. Montecito resident Mike won for
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Best Sports Reporting, his third consecutive year, and Best Sports segment, Joe for the Best Live Coverage of a News Story with the Thomas Fire, Kacey for Best News Reporting, and Tracy for Best Light Feature Reporting. Bravo! Birthday Bash Our rarefied enclave was well represented when actress Jennifer Aniston celebrated her half-century at the achingly trendy Sunset Tower Hotel in West Hollywood. The bustling bash for 200 guests, included her ex-husband Brad Pitt, his former squeeze Gwyneth Paltrow, singer Katy Perry with beau Orlando Bloom, TV talk show host Ellen DeGeneres, Oscar winner Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert Downey Jr., George Clooney, Sandra Bullock, rocker John Mayer, Demi Moore, and Reese Witherspoon. Invitees noshed on mini burgers, tacos, and a giant towering layered vanilla cake with cream and berries. He Put a Ring on It How appropriate! Santa Barbara warbler Katy Perry and her longtime beau, British actor Orlando Bloom, got engaged on Valentine’s Day. The tony twosome shared a delightful Instagram featuring the former Dos Pueblos High student’s vintage ruby flower shaped engagement ring. Katy, 34, captioned the photo “full bloom,” while The Lord of the Rings star, 42, posted the same picture, writing “lifetimes.” Her mother, Mary Hudson, couldn’t contain her excitement, sharing several photos from what appears to be the couple’s engagement party. “Look who got engaged on Valentine’s Day!” she beamed. The pair started their romance in 2016, but broke up in March, 2017. They rekindled their relationship in early 2018 with a trip to the Maldives. Katy was previously married to British comedian Russell Brand from 2010 to 2012, while Orlando was hitched to Miranda Kerr from 2010 to 2013, sharing an eight-year old son, Flynn.
“A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.” – Bob Dylan
Deneuve’s Duds French actress Catherine Deneuve, even at the age of 75, is still raking it in. A live auction at Christie’s in Paris of her wardrobe, with each of the 120 pieces designed by the late couturier Yves Saint-Laurent, raised more than $1 million, with most lots selling for multiple times their pre-sale estimate. Deneuve, who I had the pleasure of dining with at a jet set party for 550 guests in the Uruguayan resort of Punta del Este in 1996 thrown by Brazilian billionaire Gilberto Scarpa, is selling her 18th century Normandy chateau and decided to downsize her considerable wardrobe. The film star first met the talented Algerian in 1965 at the age of 20 with her then husband, British fashion photographer David Bailey, when he designed an evening gown she wore to meet Queen Elizabeth. Remembering Radziwill On a personal note, I remember Lee Radziwill, sister of the late Jackie Kennedy Onassis, who has died in New York at the age of 85. I would often see her at Manhattan social events, including society watering holes like Le Relais and Mortimer’s, where she was escorted by author Truman Capote or dashing Lord Edward Somerset, brother of the now Duke of Beaufort. I particularly remember sitting next to her at La Goulue, a popular Eurofuff eatery on Madison Avenue, the day her sister had died in 1994. I expressed my sympathies, but was rather surprised that she laughed and joked throughout lunch with her French female friend on what should have been an occasion of great sadness for herself and America. New Director Hillside House has appointed Rosemary Rice as new program director of its Veronica Springs Residence, which caters for 59 adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. She succeeds Jessica Thumm, who has been in the position for the past two years. 21 – 28 February 2019