Paris Alumnae/i Network

Jazz Club Etoile
Paris 17

Why not join the group of PAN members for this trip back to the rock and roll years. Matthew Lee sings and plays piano with his 6-member jive band, in the tradition of Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry. You can take a look at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EJL3h85A8w . PAN has reserved a stage-side table. The concert and a first drink costs 27€.

Gaumont Cinema
Paris 8

The Enchanted Island is an 1864 ballet by Arthur Sullivan written as a divertissement at the end of Vincenzo Bellini's La Sonnambula at Covent Garden. The story centers around a shipwrecked sailor and his fairy queen, with nymphs and satyrs to test love’s ardour. This 2012 live performance by the Metropolitan Opera is directed by William Christie, with Danielle de Niese, Joyce DiDonato, and Lisette Oropesa. 28€

Art History Lecture by David Reckford

Paris 7
In his second talk for PAN members, David will be focusing on some works that are less well known in the world's largest museum but that are still very well worth seeing. After you've already set eyes on the masterpieces that everyone rushes to see, such as the Mona Lisa, the Winged Victory, and the Venus de Milo, he takes us on a detour off the beaten track, to the less crowded rooms. Free for PAN members, 5€ for non-members.

Paris 10

Let’s discover together the secrets behind chocolate and its 4,000-year history, as well as the modern techniques of fabrication and the enticing aromas of the different cocoa varieties. The museum visit will end with a demonstration of chocolate-making and a tasting. In English, 1½ hour visit. 14€ for PAN members, 16€ for non-members.

Salle Pleyel, Paris 8

If you haven't yet seen and heard the great Russian pianist Mikhail Rudy, seize this chance during the Paris stop of his international tours and recordings with famous orchestras from St Petersburg to San Francisco. You'll experience Tchaikovsky's 1st Piano Concerto like you never have before, with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France directed by Alexander Vedernikov. From his first concert after escaping to the west (with Stern and Rostropovich in honor of the 90th birthday of Chagall, who became his good friend), Rudy, age 57, as in his recent aptly titled box of 5 CDs, "Le Piano Romantic," masters a repertory from Rachmaninov, Prokofiev and Stravinsky to Brahms, Chopin and Liszt up through Janacek. After his script for the film and play "The Pianist," the BBC made a movie of his autobiography "Le Roman d’un Pianiste ou L’Impatience de Vivre." Tonight's program ends with extracts from Prokofiev's ballet Cendrillon, so lyrical and enchanting, you'll want to dance your way home. 30€ tickets – Cat 2, group price.

The broad scope of PAN activities underscores PAN's fundamental vocation to enrich our lives collectively and as individuals.

Many PAN events have been so successful that they have become annual landmarks on the calendar: among them, the PAN Artists' Exhibition, and, on a lighter note, the Christmas Carolling Party.

Equally popular are the New Member/Old Member soirées and other parties organized to enable PAN members to get to know one another.

PAN also varies its agenda yearly to reflect important changes in the world in which we live and work, with special programs on work-related matters or current affairs, or to commemorate an historical moment or celebrate a major cultural event.

Members have the opportunity to get together in smaller groups as well, to pursue activities such as reading and discussing books within the framework of our Book Club. Artists, journalists and psychologists have, likewise, joined forces with fellow colleagues in PAN for a variety of reasons, both social and professional.

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