Arts

Beethoven at the bowling alley

Good story by Dana Bartholomew in the Daily News: the cocktail lounge at the Canoga Park Bowl features classical music on Wednesday nights. The other night you would have seen the maestro of the San Fernando Valley Symphony dishing out some Johann Sebastian Bach.

"The bowling alley is icing on the cake," said Miriam Altschuler, 83, of West Hills, who had recently attended a Los Angeles Philharmonic concert of a Tchaikovsky piano concerto. "Everyone lets their hair down. I snap my fingers and stomp my feet to whatever they're playing."

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