Friday, Docemt;er 17, 1943

THE JEWISH NEWS

Page Twelve

M USIC

Program Announced for List
Recital on Sunday Evening

Center, Council
Sponsor Hanukah
Concert Dec. 25

`Hansel and GreteI'
To Open Friday
At the Masonic

day evening, Dec. 25, at the audi-
torium of the Jewish Community
Center. It will be a Folk Festival,
and the program includes lighting
of the Hanukah candles and ap-
propriate musical numbers by
Cantor Sonenklar, recitations by
pupils of the Jewish schools,
readings from Jewish authors,
violin numbers by Henry Siegl,
an interpretation of the holiday
by A. Meyerowitz, and commun-
ity singing of Yiddish and He-
brew songs led by Louis Levine,
accompanied by L. Rosenthal. Jo-
seph Bernstein will preside.

will descend into the pit at Ma-
sonic Auditorium tonight and
Saturday at the presentation of
Humperdinck's "Hansel and Gre-
tel."
Karl Krueger will direct three
performances—Friday night and
Saturday matinee and evening.
Philip Fein is stage manager of
the production.
Maria Matyas and Louise Mol-
ler are to be the Hansel and
Gretel of the piece; May Barron
undertakes the dual role of
Mother and Witch, and Reinhold
Schmidt that of the convival, lov-
ing father.
Olga Fricker will present 14
students in the Dream Panto-
mime scene, and 70 young people
from the Cooley and Estabrook
Schools will provide off-stage
chorus and appear as the Ginger-
bread Children.
Maria Kurenko, Russian so-
prano who was heard as guest
soloist with the Symphony
Thursday night, will replace
Licia Albanese on the Treasury
Hour of Song at 8 p. m. Saturday
over Station CKLW.

Krueger Directs Symphony
The second affair in the series
at 3 Performances;
500 Patrons Enlisted for Concert at Jewish Community of seven, sponsored-jointly by the
Matinee Saturday
Jewish Community Center and
Center; Committees Chosen for Reception;
Jewish Community Council, will
Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Also Select Ushers
be a Hanukah concert on Satur-

Over 500 patrons have already
enrolled for the recital by Eman-
uel List, famous Metropolitan
Opera Company basso, to be pre-
sented at the Jewish Community
Center this Sunday.
List will be the fourth world
famous artist to make his debut
under Center auspices. The late
Emanuel Feuerman, cellist, Her-
tha Glaz and Kurt Baum were
the other three artists whom the
Center music department brought
to Detroit for initial perform-
ances.
The artists have made these
concerts possible by accepting a
fee which covers only their ex-:
penses. Proceeds go toward main-
tenance of the Center's music de-
pa rt ment.
Select Committees
A short reception will honor
List following the concert. Mrs.
H. J. L. Frank and Mrs. Lewis
C. Frank, co-chairmen of the host-
ess committee, will have Mrs.
J. H. Ehrlich, Mrs. Blanche Gil-
bert, Mrs. Benjamin Lambert,
Miss Henrietta Robinson, Mrs. I.
Shetzer, Milford Stern, Mrs.
Henry Wineman and Mrs. David
Wilkus working with them on the
reception committee.
Ivies. Seymour Simons and Mrs.
William H. Frank, co-chairmen of
the ushers committee, announce
the following ushers: Mrs. Eugene
Arnfeld, Mrs. Paul Broder, Mrs.
Alan Grossman, Mrs. Wallace
Roberts, Miss Marjorie Rosenthal,
Mrs. Samuel Rubiner, Miss Louise
Shiffman, Mrs. Jules Shubot, Mrs.
James L. Stein and Mrs. Oscar
Zemon.
List's Program
List left the Berlin State Opera'
when Hitler came into power in
1933. He also refused an engage-
ment for the Salzburg Festival
in the spring of 1938, at a time
when Bruno Walter was urging
Toscanini and List not to cancel
their appearances.
Leading Basso of the Met, List
is a master of vocal expression.
He has selected operatic arias of
songs by Schubert, Schumann,
and Moussogorsky. He will close

MRS. SEYMOUR SIMONS

the program with a group of
Negro , spirituals and Viennese
folk songs. Paul Berl will accom-
pany him at the piano.
Tickets for the List recital may
still be obtained, at the Jewish
Community Center office.
Additional patrons for the List
concert are:

Mr. and Mrs. Edward Atlas, Mr. and
Mrs. Chas. Agree. Dr. and Mrs. Jack
Agins. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Arnield.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Barnett, Dr.
and Mrs. Perry M.• Bernstein, Mr. and
Mrs. Abraham Brasch, Mr. Fred M.
Butel, Mr. and Mrs. Burton Clamage.
Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Cooper,
Mrs. Aaron DeRoy. Mr. • and Mrs.
Harry Frank, Mr. and Mrs. Seymour
Frank, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Hamburg-
er, Mr. and Mrs. David Idzal, Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Janeway, Mr. and
Mrs. Albert M. Jordon. Mrs. Moritz
Kahn. Mr. and Mrs. Max Kogan, Dr.
and Mrs. I. Jesser Kurtz, Mr. and
Mrs. Theodore Levin. Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Levitt. Mr. and Mrs. Isadore
Lewis. Mr. and Mrs. Herman Marks,
Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Morse, Mr. and
Mrs. David Newman.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Newman, Mr.
and Mrs. Herman Osnos, Mr. and
Mrs. Wallace Roberts, Ir. and Mrs.
Alvin Rodecker. Mr. and Mrs. Meyer
Rosenbaum. Mrs. Jos. S. Rosenberg.
Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Shapiro. Mrs.
Ralph Schiller. Mr. and Mrs. Nathan
Schreiber. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard
Weiner, Mr. and Mrs. Melville Welt,
Mr. and Mrs. Leon Winkelman. Mr.
and Mrs. Lew Wisper. Dr. and Mrs.
S. S. Wittenberg. Mr. and Mrs. Julian
Wolfner, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Zemon,
and Dr. I. T. Kurtz.

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Henri Goldberg, who recently
gave his all-Russian song recital
at the Detroit Art Institute, has
Halevy Accompanist
been invited by the Jewish Corn-
When the Halevy Singing munity Center and the Music
Society makes its concert appear- Study Club to participate in their
ance in Masonic Temple on Jan. Russian programs:
On Sunday, Dec. 26, Mr. Gold-
16, it will present as one of its
accompanists a pianist who has berg will be the guest artist at
been with the Halevy only since the Jewish National Fund's an-
nual Hanukah event in Flint.
the beginning of this season.

Shirley Subar New

The new Halevy accompanist is
Shirley Subar, who, with Rebecca
Frohman, will provide the piano
music for the first half of the
19th annual concert. Because the
second half of the program will
consist of the oratorio "Di Tzvei
Brider" with orchestral accom-
paniment, Miss Subar will join
the alto section of the chorus for
that work.

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LIBERTY SINGING SOCIETY
HANUKAH PARTY DEC. 25

Liberty Singing Society will
sponsor a Hanukah party at Jer-
icho Temple on Saturday night,
Dec. 25. There will be a musi-
cal program and a full-length
movie, "This Is the Enemy," will
be shown. A buffet supper will
be served.

The Menorah, symbol of Hanu-
kah, was created by the Israel-
Tickets for the Ballet Russe
ites after their exodus from
here are now on sale at Grin- Egypt and their emblem of na-
nell's.
tionhood.

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Goldberg in Detroit
And Flint Concerts

SIDOR BELARSKY

Frederic Franklin is a member
of this famous cast.

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The third affair will be a con-
cert by the famous singer, Sarah
Gorby, and the great interpreter
of the Jewish Dance, Benjamin
Zemach. This program will take
place Jan. 23 at the Jewish Corn-
munity Center.

The war efforts education com-
mittee of the Jewish Community
Council, under the chairmanship
of Mrs. Edward Robbins, will
present to the community a play
prepared by the United States
Department of Agriculture, en-
titled "It's Up to You." It will be
performed by Pisgah Women
Players on Wednesday evening,
Dec. 29, in the Brown Memorial
Chapel of Temple Beth El. There
will be no admission charge and
all are invited.
"It's Up to You" presents in
dramatic form the how and why
of national rationing and conser-
vation program. Its timely mes-
sage fits into the educational pro-
gram of war efforts education
committee of the Jewish Commu-
nity Council.
The Pisgah 'Women Players is
under the direction of Mrs. Saul
Rosenman and Mrs. David Shaw.
A previous performance present-
ed to members of Pisgah Women
Bnai Brith No. 122 proved enter-
taining and instructive.
Only persons possessing tickets
will be admitted. Tickets can be
obtained from the office of the
Jewish Community Council, 803
Washington Blvd. Bldg.

STOKOWSKI CONDUCTS THE
GM PROGRAM ON SUNDAY
The important world premiere
of a new musical work by Rich-
ard Mohaupt; a first New York
performance of Roy Harris' "Folk
Rythms of Today" and a wealth
Over 53 Years of Service
of Christmas music will be Leo-
Detroit
pold Stokowski's offering on the
General Motors Symphony of the
Birmingham Grosse Pointe
Air concert Sunday, 5 to 6 p.
Miss Subar has studied at the EWT.
Netzorg School of Piano and is
a graduate of the Wayne Uni-
"The Shoe Shine Boy"
versity music department where
she specialized in musical edu-
Staged at Littman's
cation. She is now teaching in
Littman's Yiddish People's the Detroit schools and the
World famous bass-baritone, accompanied by
Theater, 12th and Seward, will Shaarey Zedek religious school.
Mrs. Dan Frohman in a program of Hebrew,
stage "The Shoe Shine Boy," a She is active in Zionist Youth
circles.
Yiddish and Russian songs.
fascinating musical production in
two acts, by Fryman, music by
The kindling of Hanukah lights
Ely Zwilling, on Sunday matinee
SPEAKER
and evening and Tuesday eve- was prohibited in the third cen-
tury
of
the
Christian
era
in
Per-
ning.
sia because the fire-worshipping
Headlining the cast of promin-
Magians, to whom fire was sa-
ent artists are Peisachke Bur- cred, were in power.
stein and Lillian Lux.
National Leader of Young Israel
Abraham Littman announces
that a new cast of headliners are
Once during the year, Young Israel of Detroit comes before
LITTMAN'S PEOPLE'S THEATRE
coming here for new productions
the general Jewish community with a function designed to
TWELFTH AND SEWARD
next week.

Alexandra Danilova
Appears in Ballet Here

The foremost ballerina in the
Russian tradition, Alexandra Dan-
ilova, the leading feminine artist
of the Ballet Russe de Monte
Carlo, which
makes its ap-
pearance at Ma-
sonic Auditor-
ium, on Dec. 31
and Jan. 1, is
making her 11th
consecuti v e
American t our
with this famous
company, giving
her yet another
uniquen e s s
among baller-
F. Franklin
inas. She is the
only ballerina on the stage today
to have been with the epoch-
making Diaghileff ballet in that
capacity, just before its activities
came to an end with the death
of the great impresario in 1929.

Free tickets to this concert were
given to all who came to the J.
L. Peretz evening on Dec. 12.
More are available at the Jewish
Community Council office and at
the Center. The audience of over
600 at the Peretz affair last
Sunday demonstrated the desire
of the Jewish public for more
cultural programs and assured
the success of coming affairs.

Council Sponsors
Government Play

NOW
PLAYING

First Pictures of
Sevestopol's Heroic Defense

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"Silent Village of Lidice"
and "Red Army Chorus"

New Series of Outstanding
Attractions

Sunday Matinee and Evening, Dec.
19, and Tuesday Evening, Dec. 21.

The Shoe Shine Boy

Operetta in Two Acts

Libretta by Fryman
Music by Eli Zwiling

present its program to the public. This annual affair also
helps to provide the funds necessary to finance the various
activities. This year's affair will be held in celebration of
Chanukah and the 21st Anniversary of the organization.

Sunday, Dec. 26 at 8:15 P. M.

At The Detroit Institute Of Art

Last Performance of:

Peisachke Boorsfein
Lillian Lux

Supported by

Rachel Rosenfeld
Morris Novikoff
Misha Fishzon.
Sarah Gingold

Bertha Guttentag
Annie Erber
Leon Whiteman

Felix Fogelnest
Isidore Elgard

New Headliners Coming Next Week

Organizations Are Urged to Reserve
Dates for Special Performances

Prices: Sunday evening: 55c, 85c,
$1.10, $1.65, $2.20. Matinee and
week-day evenings: 55c, 85c, $1.10,
$1.65.

KINDLING OF CHANUKAH LIGHTS and tra-
ditional holiday numbers by Junior-Intermediate
groups of Detroit Young Israel

Support Young Israel and Safeguard The
Future of Judaism In Our Community

In the Jewish communities, we need have no fear of a
juvenile delinquency problem as long as such youth activities
as conducted by Young Israel of Detroit in the religious,
social, and recreational field, are being carried out.

Patrons Admission By Reservation Only

PHONE:

Charles T. Gellman
TO. 5-0547

David I. Berris
CA. 8783

