String music concert supports high school

The Calabasas High School Music Boosters will host a benefit recital with the New Hollywood String Quartet at 4 p.m. Sun., Sept. 23 at a private home in Calabasas.

The quartet consists of Roberto Cani on first violin, Rafael Rishnik on second violin, Robert Brophy playing viola and Andrew Shulman on cello. Janet Crouch Shulman is the guest cellist.

The program will be the String Quartet in F by Ravel and the String Quintet by Schubert, examples of chamber music from the 1700s and 1800s.

Andrew Shulman was the former first chair cellist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic from 1999 to 2000. His daughter Jesse graduated from Calabasas High last spring and is studying voice at Cal State Long Beach.

Shulman's son is a student in the music program at CHS.

Tickets are $85. Refreshments will be served.

For tickets, call (818) 2220271 or (818) 591-1026.