Kindred Spirits

Sunday, June 23, 2013 at 7:30 PM
Walt Disney Concert Hall

Co-presented by KindredSPIRITS
a flyer for the LAJS concert "A World of Jewish Music"

The LAJS partnered with KindredSPIRITS in their 6th annual benefit concert. This year’s beneficiary was Cancer Support Community.

Honorees

Dr. Susan Love

Founder and Chief Visionary of Dr. Susan Love Foundation for Breast Cancer Research

Melissa Manchester

Singer, Actress, and Supporter of Breast Cancer Research

FEATURED SOLOISTS

Melissa Manchester

Following her time as a Harlette, Melissa Manchester’s tremendously successful solo career brought her critical and commercial acclaim. The “Midnight Blue” singer received her first Grammy nomination for Best Pop Female Vocal Performance in 1979 for the Peter Allen/Carole Bayer Sager-penned “Don’t Cry Out Loud,” winning the Grammy in that category four years later for “You Should Hear How She Talks About You.”

In 1980, Melissa became the first recording artist in the history of the Academy Awards to have two nominated movie themes in a single year, “Through The Eyes Of Love” from Ice Castles and “I’ll Never Say Goodbye” from The Promise, and to perform them both on the Oscar telecast.

Ilysia Pierce has led Shabbat and High Holy Day services for Temple of the Arts since 1999. Prior to her tenure at the temple, Ilysia enjoyed a successful career entertaining audiences on stage, television (she originated the role of Miss Oops-A-Daisy in PBS, The Huggabug Club), and concert halls. Some of her theatrical highlights include: Janina (Irena’s Mother) in a reading of a new musical, Irena Sendler, Disney’s King David, an oratorio concert sparking the reopening of the New Amsterdam Theatre in New York (the original home of the Ziegfeld Follies), Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, playing the Narrator in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Hodel in Fiddler on the Roof, Frumah-Sara in Fiddler on the Roof with Theodore Bikel and Lainie Kazan, Eva Peron in Evita, for which she received a Dramalogue Critics’ Choice Award for outstanding performance, Johanna in Sweeney Todd, to name only a few.

Cantor Ilan Davidson has served Temple Beth El since 1995. The youngest in a long familial line of cantors, he began his training at the age of five with his mentor, Hazzan Philip Model z”l. With a strong performing arts background from the University of California, he is also a talented secular musician and contemporary Jewish singer and songwriter. He released his first album, Stained Glass, in 1995.

A native of Washington, DC, Diane White-Clayton holds Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in music composition from the University of California at Santa Barbara and a B.A. degree in music from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri with emphases in composition, voice, and piano. As a rotary scholar, she studied classical piano at the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris, performing solo gospel concerts throughout Europe as an Ambassador of Goodwill.

 

OUR CONCERT SPONSORS

Cigna Healthcare

Cigna is a global health services company focused on helping people improve their health, well-being and peace of mind. Established more than 200 years ago, Cigna has over 165 million customer relationships in more than 30 countries and jurisdictions. We are changing lives for the better by putting the customer at the center of health care transformation.

Kindred Healthcare
At Kindred Healthcare, our transitional care hospitals and rehabilitation service locations are like incubators for hope and healing. We take a team approach to our patients — working together to meet their needs through clinical care and rehabilitation therapy as we help them along their journey to recovery.
Jewish Community Foundation
Established in 1954, the Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles manages charitable assets of more than $1 billion entrusted to it by over 1,300 families. The Foundation partners with donors to shape meaningful philanthropic strategies, magnify the impact of giving, and build enduring charitable legacies. Over the past 15 years, it has distributed more than $1 billion to thousands of nonprofits across a diverse spectrum.
Michael and Lori Milken Family Foundation

Founded by Michael and Lowell Milken in 1982, the Milken Family Foundation strives to discover and advance inventive, effective ways of helping people help themselves and those around them lead productive and satisfying lives. The means most conducive to achieving these goals is through education.

OUR PARTNERS