Harvard Club of Southern California

Piano Recital: Great Bs Through the Ages

You are cordially invited to Dr. Alan Shewmon’s piano recital in Santa Monica. An accomplished pianist and pediatric neurologist, Dr. Shewmon will treat us to an all “B” program, featuring composers such as Bach, Beethoven and Brahms.

Sunday, November 11, 2018 @ 4:00pm

Santa Monica Public Library, 601 Santa Monica Blvd, Santa Monica, CA 90401

Register: RSVP below. Seating is limited.

Parking: There's an underground parking garage right under the library, with entrance off 7th Street, between Santa Monica Blvd. and Arizona Ave.

Cost: Free - registration necessary since seating is limited

Contact: Ethel Laczko, etheledu@yahoo.com or German Enciso, enciso@uci.edu

About the pianist:
D. Alan Shewmon, MD received his BA from Harvard in 1971 as a music major. (Originally in the class of 1970, he took a year off to study piano intensively in Europe.) He went on to medical school at NYU. After a fellowship at UCLA in 1980, he has remained on the UCLA Medical School faculty, with joint appointments in the departments of Pediatrics and Neurology. From 1983 to 1999 Dr. Shewmon was director of UCLA’s Pediatric Clinical Neurophysiology Laboratory and played a key role in the emergence of UCLA as one of the preeminent centers in the world for pediatric epilepsy surgery. In 2011 he became Clinical Professor Emeritus at UCLA while continuing as Chief of Neurology at Olive View-UCLA Medical Center. He retired from there in the fall of 2014 and now consults at various hospitals while focusing more on family and music.

The program for this concert is as follows:

Bach-Busoni: three chorale preludes

Beethoven: Sonata, Op. 31, No. 3

Bartok: Lullaby

 --Intermission --

Brahms: Concerto #1, Op. 15

In addition the program features Dr. Shewmon’s own composition "Lullaby" for soprano, tenor and piano, performed by Tamara Bevard, Timothy Gonzales (both members of the LA Master Chorale), and Steinway Artist Rufus Choi.