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Winter Landscape, The Symphony continues its bicentennial tribute Summer Romance to Felix Mendelssohn with his incidental music Livermore-Amador Symphony written for Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Family Illness Forces Liquidation Dream.” American-born composer Howard Hanson, Due to family illness - Murphy Auctioneers has been was influenced by the music of Jean Sibelius. The asked to sell at public auction a complete inventory Nordic symphony, composed in 1923, reflects his of western saddles and horse equipment from impressions of his Swedish heritage. LAS hosts Rocky Mountain saddle shop. This is a great business the Competition for Young Musicians in the fall of liquidating a very nice collection of high end and top every year. Winners of the 36th Competition, Annie quality saddlery. Including over 60 top quality saddles Sandholtz on violin and Bronwyn Hagerty on cello, - Billy Cook, SimCo, Big W, Texas Saddlery, Saddle will perform with the symphony. King, Silver Royal, King, Outback, Wintec, and more! Feb 14 ▪ 8pm $28/$24/$20/$18/$8 students Saddles from 12” to 18” in seat size. Over 100 Tri-Valley Repertory Theatre Wolf Creek and Yucca Flat wool saddle blankets, Guys and Dolls $36/$34/$26 Jan 30 – Feb 8 ▪ 2/8pm and Equip-Sport memory core saddle pads. Winter blankets: Canvas and StormBuster. Leather goods Formed by mandolin player Punch Brothers Top Shelf Acoustic Quintet of all kinds, over 100 brindles by Billy Cook, Billy Chris Thile of Nickel Creek fame, Martin, Silver Royal, McPherson, and others! Nylon the Punch Brothers serve up and leather halters, lots of nice roping breast bluegrass with modern classical collars, Cowboy Up bridle and breast collar show composition. These prodigiously sets, over 40 silver bits and spurs. This auction has gifted band-mates perform to about 400 lots making it impossible to list every item. sold-out audiences across the Lots and lots of new and used, plus many unique and U.S. playing selections from Punch 1 of a kind items! This is a very complete inventory. their latest album, . Feb 15 ▪ 8pm To be sold to the highest bidder, piece by piece. $55/$40/$35/$30/$12 students Tango Fire YOU BID, YOU SET THE PRICE!! Buenos Aires’ Electrifying Tango Company Buy one piece or a Truckload Featuring a quintet of brilliant young musicians, ten torrid dancers and one of Argentina’s finest singers, Tango Fire traces the history of Tango, Wednesday, Feb. 4th 7pm from its origins in the red light district of Buenos Viewing starts at 6pm Aires to the glamour of the Roaring Twenties, and its evolution to the world of contemporary Terms of sale: CA$H, ALL MAJOR CREDIT CARDS, ATM & DEBIT, SORRY NO CHECKS ballroom, accompanied by the music of Astor Piazzolla and many others. Feb 18 ▪ 8pm $55/$40/$35/$30/$12 students Schubert & Stravinsky The Vagina Monologues Livermore’s Got Talent Elks Lodge #2117 Pacific Chamber Performance Benefits Winners Take Home 940 Larkspur Dr., Livermore, CA 94551 Symphony Tri-Valley Haven $2500 Feb 19 ▪ 8pm Feb 27 & Mar 6,7 ▪ 2/8pm Feb 28 ▪ 7pm Auctioneer Shaun Murphy - ph. (541) 592-6292 $38/$32/$26/$7 $41/$31/$26 $125/$45/$25 Page 2ÊUÊ>Õ>ÀÞÊÎä]ÊÓääÊUÊ*i>Ã>ÌÊ7iiÞ Around Carden West School Pleasanton CARDEN by Jeb Bing WEST What Dr. King might SCHOOL Success for have said today every child, every day he Tri-Valley YMCA tradi- tion were in a section that 250,000 OPEN HOUSE tionally holds it community- others shared, but given the shoul- Feb. 11, 6:30pm T wide breakfast honoring the der-to-shoulder standing crowd of 2 late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. a million behind them, Tyson felt hon- School Tours Every Wed. & Sat. week after the national holiday so ored at being so close. It was indeed 10 am to 12 noon that more people will come. This a festive gathering with strangers or by appointment at year, last Monday’s ninth annual hugging, kissing, crying and scream- (925) 463-6060 or breakfast was even timelier, coming ing, Tyson said. Then, all at once www.cardenwest.org just six days after Barack Obama as Obama went to the rostrum to was sworn in as president and with receive the oath of office, there was sST TH'RADE a top Kaiser Permanente executive absolute silence. Two million people s&ULL $AY to talk about it. Bernard Tyson, who stood in complete silence, so quiet +INDERGARTEN as chief operating officer and also that they could hear birds chirping. s0RE +INDERGARTEN executive vice president for health Tyson said he’d never seen anything plan and hospital operations for the like it: Two million people crowded s0RESCHOOL Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and together in the 2-mile long National s4ODDLER0ROGRAM Hospitals is also the organization’s Mall with no arrests, no violence s%XTENDED#ARE senior African-American officer. and no disruptions, and then with s3UMMER#AMP He was active early on in Obama’s slow, rolling shouts of cheers, hand- presidential campaign. He saw clapping and high-fives as Barack Obama speak at the Democratic Obama became the country’s first National Convention in 2004 and African-American president. heard MSNBC commentator Chris What would Dr. King think of Matthews talk about how the America today if somehow he could Illinois politician just might become come back for a visit? He would say, America’s first black president. “Oh my God, this is what I’ve been The possibility spurred Tyson talking about,” Tyson said. “We have to become involved in that effort, placed this African-American in the working the California circuit when White House not because he’s black, he could to help the candidate. Up but because he was the better candi- to then, Tyson told us, he never date, because he had a better agenda, doubted that an African-American and because the American people could one day become president, voted for him.” but thought that wouldn’t happen If he had come to Monday’s in his lifetime. He saw generational breakfast, Dr. King would have been changes taking place with his own just as surprised and delighted to children growing up colorblind, see Tyson at the lectern—another inviting friends of all colors and African-American at the helm of nationalities to their home. For one of the country’s top health care sure times were changing, Tyson establishments, the chief operating Providing high academic added, only much faster than he officer with a $40-billion payroll. standards for over had predicted. “I think he’d look at me and 30 years in Pleasanton Tyson saw the change even more my job and say, ‘You have to be dramatically during his week in kidding,’” Tyson said. “He would UÊViÃi` Washington, D.C. for the inaugura- look over and see my beautiful UÊ ÃiVÌ>À> tion festivities. With front section fiancee, Denise Bradley (who was seats at various programs and the at the breakfast) and learn that she UÊ «ÀvÌ swearing-in ceremony as well, “this is a Harvard graduate, and say, 4576 Willow Road, Pleasanton was truly unbelievable,” he said. At ‘Harvard where?’ Then he would [email protected] a concert at the Lincoln Memorial, look at all of us in this room, peo- he was only a few rows down from ple of different races, and color Obama, although he joked that it and ethnic backgrounds, people was also a bit uncomfortable with who represent the fabric of this Check out six plain-clothed sharpshooters also great country, and see us breaking facing him. bread together in his honor, and he His special seats for the inaugura- would be elated and pleased.” N Town Square About the Cover An online forum to Taking a bite outta the Weekly: Jerry Pentin, who owns video production business Spring Street Studios downtown, captured this miraculous photo Discuss Community of himself underwater with the Weekly in a shark cage. Pentin was doing Issues a video shoot with great white sharks off of Isle Guadalupe near Mexico. We’re happy to report he returned to Pleasanton in one piece. 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