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Page 16 Palisades News November 18, 2015 Conductor Stoyanovich Joins PaliHi By LAUREL BUSBY Staff Writer Ayear ago, Elizabeth Stoyanovich and her husband happened to drive by Palisades Charter High School while on vacation. Stoyanovich was immediately taken with the campus and thought the school probably had “a great music department.” This summer, while back at home on Bainbridge Island, Washington, she saw a PaliHi job posting for an orchestra/jazz band director and applied. She interviewed via Skype and felt an “immediate connection with the music staff.” Then “when I came here and saw them teach, I knew I was in the right place. Mr. [Joshua] Elson and Ms. [Arwen] Hernandez were amazing,” Stoyanovich said. “This place is exciting to work at and teach in—the kids and the area . . . They’re just really, really good sweet kids. They want to learn. You want to share that excitement of education.” Stoyanovich now leads two orchestras at PaliHi—one with about 50 experienced players—plus a jazz band that has about 18 Blood Drive November 22 Dr. Mike Martini is organizing a community blood drive, sponsored by Providence St. John’s Health Center. The event will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Sunday, November 22, at the American Legion Hall, 15427 La Cruz Dr. For an appointment, call (310) 829-8886 or e-mail sherry.arroyo@providence.org. Donors are reminded to eat a nutritious meal beforehand, drink plenty of fluids and bring a photo identification. Donors will receive a coupon for a pint of Baskin-Robbins ice cream. Elizabeth Stoyanovich is the new orchestra/jazz band instructor at Palisades High School. members, including a jazz singer. In addition, she is teaching music to two classes of ninth graders who are learning the basics of notation and rhythm. “My days here are so full and rich working with the kids,” she said. An experienced conductor and former oboeist who has spent much of her life immersed in music, Stoyanovich has enjoyed a vast array of musical positions, ranging from guest conducting the Paris Conservatory Orchestra and Atlanta Symphony Orchestra to spending nine years as the music/artistic director of the Orchestra of Saint Cecilia. She has also taught at both CSU Fullerton and UCLA and studied under Leonard Bernstein at the Tanglewood Music Center. “Some people like to do the same thing for 20 years,” Stoyanovich said. “I like to build programs and take on challenges.” Like Bernstein, teaching and conducting have always called to Stoyanovich, and she found her time with Bernstein inspiring. He was a “natural teacher—a great performer—but he loved teaching. You could see that in him, every part of him.” Stoyanovich has numerous plans to help PaliHi’s music program and its students. She aims to raise money to hire coaches to work with the kids and intends to enter them in competitions. “I don’t care if we come in last place. It’s vital to listen to other kids your age and see what’s what. That’s how they really learn—going into those situations.” Stoyanovich is also working to connect to the students at Paul Revere Middle School, “so they know they have a home here. I want them to know we care about them, and if they want to continue, there’s a place for them here.” She added that she is seeking out local music teachers, musical families in the area, and people who support the arts to help the program grow and flourish, but she noted, “nothing will grow a program faster than the kids being happy about it.” As a conductor, she toils with the kids to “break things down and clean things up— 99 percent of our time together is refining a work.” She describes it as visiting “dingy, dark places. It’s like going to the coal mines to turn on electricity. It takes time and effort, and that’s okay. We’re all doing it together. We’re growing together.” A long-term goal for her and the department in general involves building a visual and performing arts center for the school to house the cramped music, arts, dance, photography and ceramics programs. “I’m looking forward to being part of the team that is going to help realize that in this area,” said Stoyanovich, who noted that there are about 400 students enrolled in the music program. A passion for music and the arts runs in her family. Her husband, Patrick, is a composer and pianist, while one daughter, Antonia, studies photography at Cooper Union, and the other, Sophia, is a violinist at Juilliard. “We eat and breathe it 24/7,” Stoyanovich said. She added, “I think music is a really honorable profession. I love music. I think it’s natural that I would want to share my love of music with others.” BOOST YOUR SCORE BETTER GRADES! ACT: 12+ points SAT: 500+ points TUTORING (K-12) • TEST PREP • READING • HOMESCHOOL SCHOOL SAT ACT 881 ALMA REAL #115 PACIFIC PALISADES 310/454.3731 GRADES PREP PREP
November 18, 2015 Palisades News Page 17 Kalea Power: To Russia with Love By LAURIE ROSENTHAL Staff Writer Palisades High School alumna Kalea Power is in her junior year at Princeton, studying Slavic languages and literature. Through Princeton’s International Internship Program, the 20-year-old spent this past summer doing an internship for the Russian International Affairs Council in Moscow. She is interested in possibly pursuing a career in international relations, and felt the summer program gave her an introduction to what that path would look like. “My main responsibility as an intern was to conduct my own research, working closely with my supervisor,” Power told the Palisades News. “I focused on the current trends in Russia’s foreign energy policy and presented my research in two articles: ‘On Both Sides of Turkish Stream’ and ‘Russia- China Energy Relations: A Long-Awaited Partnership Develops.’” This was Power’s third time in Russia. She is enthralled with the country’s language, literature and culture. Her interest in Russia stems from her childhood ballet teacher, Yuri Grigoriev, who hails from Moscow. Power began danc - ing when she was about five, and is currently in two student-run dance companies at Princeton, one ballet and one modern. In 2013, sponsored by the State Department’s National Security Language Initiative for Youth, Power’s trip to Russia included training at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Moscow. In 2014, she finished her second year studying the Russian language in St. Petersburg, through Princeton’s Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. She is now nearly fluent. “I have a natural affinity for the language,” she said. “I love studying it and practicing it.” Previously, she took Spanish at PaliHi. When in Russia, Power enjoys conversing with locals, and discussing Russia’s role in the world, as well as America’s. “It’s interesting to share opinions about what is happening right now,” she said. “It’s nice to have disagreements. All conversations in Russian are good for my practice. “This summer was different in that I received varying reactions when I told people I was from America. Most of my conversations after this question would turn into a political discussion about the Ukraine crisis and the role of the U.S. government,” Power said. “Many of these conversations also led to cultural questions. Russians I spoke with were very curious about what Americans Palisades High graduate Kalea Power spent her summer interning at the Russian International Affairs Council in Moscow. Photo: Shelby Pascoe thought of Russia, the Russian people and of Putin. They always asked me in Russian, ‘What do they say about us there?’” Though there is less variety in food choices than Power is used to at home in Pacific Palisades, and the supermarkets are smaller than here, she considers the meals “really, really yummy.” During her first summer, she ate a lot of potatoes, even though she tried to get fresher and healthier fare. In the mornings, her “Russian mom” would cook blini (pancakes), which, she says, “all Russian families make for breakfast.” While observing the typical Russian lifestyle, Power realized that grandparents are a truly important part of the family system, and often take the children over the summer so the parents can have some time off from parenting. Her parents, Terry and Virginia, have grown to understand and encourage Pow - er’s love of Russian culture. Terry hails from New Jersey, while Virginia grew up in the Philippines. They don’t speak much with their daughter when she is abroad, as communication is difficult. “They were initially shocked that I was so serious and taken by this culture, which was so distant from us ethnically and culturally,” Power said. “When I’m back home, I teach my parents and siblings about Russia so they can be more aware about what I’m passionate about.” Her sister, Erin, is a senior at Pali, while her brother, Robert, is an eighth grader at Corpus Christi. Power remains enthusiastic about traveling overseas. “After I graduate, I may look for any sort of scholarship to study abroad for a year.” Need someone who speaks fluent insurance? Trish Bowe CLU, Agent Insurance Lic#: 0606059 860 Via de la Paz, D-1 I can help you get the right coverage at the right price. Don’t pay for unnecessary extras. I’m here e to help make sure you understand your options so you can choose the right coverage without getting lost in translation. Get to a better State ® . Get State Farm ® . 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