Jenna Bordelon
PASADENA -- When Paul Stein was a child, his grandmother asked him to
play the violin.
"I guess she must have been intuitive enough about me to know that I
would be interested in music," he said.
Stein will display his talents at an outdoor family concert to benefit
Temple Sinai at 6 p.m. Sunday at Villa Santa Lucia, a private home in the
mountains of Pasadena.
"He makes classical music fun," benefit chairwoman Cathy Gott said. "I
just think it's going to be so beautiful and warm and a nice diversion
from our everyday lives."
Stein teaches violin and viola at Glendale Community College and has
been a member of the Los Angeles Philharmonic since 1981. His first
concert for Temple Sinai was a piano trio performance.
"The whole inspiration is what the Temple brings to our family and our
community," Gott said.
Stein will be joined by violinist Ruth Bruegger Johnson, violist
Andrew Picken and cellist Dane Little. The gates will open at 4:45 p.m.
for picnicking.
"It's kind of a Hollywood Bowl-style, bring your own picnic, kind of
thing," Gott laughed.
