Pianist and composer Ruth Shyu of Burbank will perform a free concert
as an act of friendship at 3 p.m. Sunday at Brand Library and Art
Center in Glendale.
She received the 2002 Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Music
Intern honor. On the internship, she worked with Alf Clausen,
composer for "The Simpsons," and Jonathan Wolff, composer for "Will &
Grace."
She is a graduate of Berklee College of Music, where she majored
in film scoring with an instrumental specialization in piano.
Shyu moved here from Boston a year ago and is starting her own
Burbank Piano School offering private lessons in classical piano
performance, jazz piano performance, improvisation and composition.
"I want to introduce myself to new people," she said. "Music is a
way for me to extend my friendship."
She will play original works as well as those by Chopin,
Rachmaninoff and Schubert.
One of her original works, "The Red Vineyard," was inspired by a
Van Gogh painting, she said. People are working in a vineyard at
sunset.
"It gives me such a warm feeling about work, life, the Earth and
abundance," she said, "because it looks like a family who is working
in the vineyard. The ordinariness of it is so extraordinary."
Seating at the concert is limited to 150 on a first-come,
first-served basis. Brand Library and Art Galleries is in Brand Park,
1601 W. Mountain St., Glendale. For more information, call 846-7968.
SPECIAL EVENTS
NATURE DEPICTED IN DESCANSO EXHIBIT
Descanso Gardens' Boddy House Gallery features depictions of
nature from four artists through Sept. 25.
Trish Kertes returns to the gallery with "Flowers and Fields,
Mountains and Streams -- The Painted Landscape," a collection of
landscapes and still lifes in oil. Kertes is an award-winning
plein-air painter whose works recall Impressionist painters and the
world of early California artists.
In addition to her art, Kertes is a licensed marriage and family
therapist who specializes in working with young children with
disabilities.
As an artist and therapist, she tries to foster positive emotions
in her clients. Collectors have told her they hang her paintings in
places where they are seen first thing in the morning, setting a
positive mood for their day. Other clients have said they use them as
an image for meditation.
Leona Sanderson, who taught art in La Canada public schools for 37
years, exhibits watercolors featuring floral renderings with
still-life objects including antiques.
Jim Heuston is exhibiting ceramics. Heuston has taught for four
