WELCOME to Chamber Music Palisades' 11th annual season, 2007-08!

Many of you will remember the photograph of Harry Truman, the winner, smiling broadly as he held up the front page headline in a national newspaper that read "Dewey Defeats Truman!"

The demise of chamber music, as predicted in a recent New York Times feature article (June 24, 2007), falls into this category. We respectfully disagree. Chamber music concerts in the Los Angeles area have been steadily growing, not diminishing, and have also been changing.

For CMP, for example, there is fascinating new music, new and exciting players, new concerts for children, and new scholarships for talented young artists. However, there are things we will not change. We will continue to present the finest players in Los Angeles, including artists from the LA Philharmonic and the LA Chamber Orchestra. We will present them, as always, in the beauty and intimacy of our home at St. Matthew's Parish with verbal program notes from KUSC/91.5FM's always entertaining afternoon host, Alan Chapman.

Highlights of our 11th season include the redoubtable chamber music icon, Schubert's "Trout" Quintet; a newly commissioned flute quartet by Adrienne Albert; the thrilling Spanish music of Joaquin Turina; the breathtaking beauty of Debussy's Afternoon of a Faun for flute and piano; a rarely performed cello sonata by Frank Bridge; Prokofiev's dramatic Sonata for Flute and Piano; and Elgar's classic Piano Quintet. What a season!

We look forward to our second decade of performing the finest chamber music possible right in Pacific Palisades, all of which is made possible by the generous, consistent support we continue to receive from Westside music lovers (are you listening, NY Times?).

For that, we thank you, all of you.

Delores “Dee” Stevens • Susan Greenberg