Paula Zahn To Play Cello At Carnegie Hall

Paula Zahn spent the election cycle on the sidelines for the first time in three decades. That was an unusual position for a journalist who said she's got a news gene embedded in her soul.

"I got to be a viewer for the first time in many years," Zahn told the Daily News. "It's an entirely different experience. When you're in the trenches and covering the daily campaign, you're privy to information you don't have on the sidelines."

The experience, she said, gave her a "healthy perspective" on what it's like to be a viewer and to have to wade through the daily dose of contradictory messages from both sides.

It's not that Zahn has been away from the business completely, but her visibility on TV in the past year has been diminished since she left CNN in July 2007. Since then, she has done a retirement special for PBS and she has a cancer series for PBS on the way.

Her visibility increased a bit recently when Zahn was named co-host of WNET/ Ch. 13's "Sunday Arts," where she's paired with Philippe de Montebello on the weekly look at arts and culture. The pair replaced Ch. 13 President Neal Shapiro, who had been host and, as Zahn said, fired himself.

"Neal has always known of my longtime interest in the arts," said Zahn, an accomplished cellist, who will play Carnegie Hall on Dec. 2 with the Sejong Soloists

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Comments

[YeahDonkey]

Hey, something your good at!

[bmwracer]

Wow, an accomplised cellist?

Awesome. *thumbs up*

[SlappHappy]

MIka and Paula are both smoking hot MILFs.

[mediamarv]

Her nose and Bush's.. separated at birth???

[darthdarcy]

She is a top notch first rate Cellist, and total babe...

[timmmahhhh]

It figgers this here lib'ral media goes off n gits culterd. Cello, hell that looks like one big-assed fiddle to me. Figgers it'll be on that media elite snooty New York lib'ral socialist PBS channel. Keep practicin' honey and maybe you'll be good enuf fer CMT. Maybe y'all could duet with that flute playin' Saruh Palin and baluns thangs out.

[darthdarcy]

She's played with Yo Yo Ma, he's a famous Cellist, that's a person that plays those big-assed fiddles..

[TommyJohn]

Next week, she plays with Yo Yo Dad.

[3fingerbrown]

One of the worst of the media war whores. Who can forget her saying about U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter that he had "drunk Saddam Hussein's Kool-Aid" when he dared to question Bush's justification for war? She richly deserves to wander for eternity in the desolate wasteland that is Sunday on PBS.

[Chavez08]

You'd figure the Repugs would give her a cushy job for carrying their water all these years.

[notb observer]

I don't know about Cello, but she can play my organ any time ;)

[LiberalUnderYourBed]

Wot's up with her nose?
Is it 'natural' or a bad nosejob?

[1dogs2]

I hope she plays the cello better than she delivered the "news." He jingoistic reporting on the Iraq war was disgraceful.

[Dr Independents Day]

zip. I get all hot when I see her. Must be Pavlovian ;)

[mingusman]

I wonder why such a beautiful woman--yet another in a long line--felt she needed a nose job. What drag.

[Tubalcain]

I don't know, but have you ever watched Univision?, Now those ladies are hot, even the weather lady is hot!

[SoonerThought]

She's certainly an accomplished, attractive person.

[repugnicansfearme]

Paula is probably the sexiest woman to ever do the news. wowsa

[Chavez08]

Has nothing on Mika.