For the first official concert at the...
For the first official concert at the newly built, $2-million Duarte Performing Arts Center, city officials picked a sure draw.
It’s “An Evening With Ross Haws.”
Who?
Well, the 494 kids at Beardslee Elementary School in Duarte know who Ross Haws is. He’s their principal.
And audiences in Arizona, Texas, Mexico, Costa Rica and Guatemala know who Ross Haws is. He’s a pianist with a Victor Borge-like sense of humor.
Friday, San Gabriel Valley residents will be able to discover Haws for themselves when he performs a program ranging from the jazz ragtime of Scott Joplin to the Broadway tunes of Stephen Sondheim to classical works by Franz Liszt and Robert Schumann.
The concert also includes choral and trumpet works with Haws as accompanist.
Proceeds from the concert will be used to buy the center a $20,000 grand piano, toward
which the Duarte Education Foundation has already contributed $4,000.
The concert begins at 7:30 p.m. at 1401 S. Highland Ave., Duarte. Admission is $10 per person.
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