28 Friday, June 13, 1986 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS *LIBERTY'S PROMISE* n July 4th weekend — dubbed "Liberty Week-end '86" — up to 13 million revelers are expected to attend perhaps the biggest party ever held in New York, a city justly famous for its fetes. A State of Michigan party, at the Roostertail on Monday, with all proceeds going toward Statue of Liberty restoration, will kick off Detroit's celebration of the Statue's 100th birthday. Guests will dance to the music of the Peter Duchin orchestra at the black-tie affair, which will feature red-white-and-blue buntings, flags, and a 31-foot high replica of the Statue. Chrysler CEO and Statue of Liberty Foundation chairman Lee Iacocca will attend. Tickets are $500 per couple. For further information, call 822-1234. In addition, the Detroit/ Windsor International Freedom Festival, being held this year from June 20-July 6, will have "A Salute to Liberty" as its theme. Special events incorporating the theme will include: * Many activities on Children's Day, June 27, starting off at the Detroit Public Library with two family-oriented films, "One Hundred Years of Liberty" and "All About the Statue," shown at 10 and 11 a.m. An all-day cut and paste-a-picture workshop, "Liberty Suggests . ." will be part of the fun for kids at the Detroit Institute of Arts. • Stroh's Run For Liberty, scheduled for June 28 at 10 a.m.,the five-mile race will begin and end at Woodward and West Grand Blvd. A second race, 1 1/4 miles in length, will starts at 11:15 a.m. Part of the proceeds from the run will go to the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation. Entry fee is $10. * &New Citizens Swearing-in Ceremony at the Westin Hotel on July 3 at 9:30 p.m.; a portion of the Ceremony will be telecast live on ABC. Following current activities, the Detroit Historical Museum early next year will host an exhibit of approximately 80 works of sculpture, engravings, drawings, and paintings depicting representational female images of America, done by artists in the years before the Statue of Liberty stood in New York harbor. Along with other events commemorating the Statue's centennial, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Gunther Herbig, has recorded Richard Adler's "The Lady Remembers" on RCA Red Seal. Recorded in Washington, D.C. after its world premiere by the DSO at Kennedy Center, "The Lady Remembers" chronicles the history of the Statue and the immigrant experience in the U.S. All royalties from the sale of the recording, produced with support from the Chrysler Corp., will go to the Statue of Liberty Foundation. Celebrating Liberty New York won't be throwing the only big bash next month. Detioit and Windsor's annual Freedom Festival will have several events for Lady Liberty. The statue in 1909 celebrations: A small preview of the $2 million pyrotechnics show on the Fourth. Whether you decide to experience it in the flesh or just sit back with an ice-cold drink and watch it on TV, the extravaganza planned for the New York area promises to be the blow-out of the century. The bash in New York officially kicks off on July 3 at 8:30 p.m. On Governor's Island, President Reagan will award the Medal of Liberty to 12 naturalized citizens who have made significant contributions to the United States. Included will be Irving Berlin, Henry Kissinger, Itzhak Perlman and Elie Wiesel. On Ellis Island, ballet star Mikhail Baryshnikov will join 500 immigrants to be sworn in as U.S. citizens by Chief Justice Warren Burger. They will join a 40,000-voice choir singing "God Bless America." At about 9:20 p.m., President Reagan will "unveil" the statue. About 90 minutes later, the darkened torch will be relit, accompanied by fireworks, cannon salutes and a choir singing "America The Beautiful." Also on July 3, more than 100 small ships (those with masts short enough to fit under the 127-foot clearance of Brooklyn Bridge) will parade down the East River from Throg's Neck Bridge at about 8 a.m. They will anchor in Brooklyn's Gravesend Bay off Coney Island. About 250 wind-powered ships — including 17 ships that soar to 175 feet or more — will rendezvous for the July 4th run up the Hudson River. The celebration begins in earnest on July 4th, when the international flotilla begins its parade up the Hudson River at about 10 a.m. Officials estimate that it will take about three hours to review the entire procession. Simultaneously, lower Manhattan will be transformed into Harbor Festival '86. Street parades, dancing and entertainment with an ethnic theme will alternate with such events as participants discussing their families' immigrant histories. In Liberty State Park on the New Jersey side of the Hudson River, the Boston Pops, Barry Manilow, Johnny Cash, John Denver, Melissa Manchester and other superstars will present a concert of American music for 20,000 people. The show will be telecast from 8 to 10 p.m. At 9:30 p.m. the biggest display of fireworks ever seen over New York — $2 million worth — will shower the Hudson River with a brilliant lightshow. With a ribbon-cutting at 10:15 a.m. on July 5, the Statue of Liberty will be open to the public for the first time since mid-1985. Another free concert, this time the New York Philharmonic in Central Park, will be televised from 8 to 10 p.m. July 6th's highlight begins at 6:30 p.m. with a Sports Salute at the Meadowlands Sports Complex in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Featured will be exhibitions by Olympic gold medalists, the Harlem Globe Trotters vs. N.B.A. all-stars, and a tug-of-war between pro football players. The closing ceremonies, starting at 8 p.m., will be sheer glitz with the giants of the entertainment industry (Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly, Lionel Richie, Elizabeth Taylor and others) backed up by thousands of tap dancers, fiddlers, guitarists and marching bands. David Wolper, who produced the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles and is the brain behind Liberty Weekend '86, has promised that there will be some surprises during the three-day gala in New York. But surprises or not, what is already scheduled will probably be the party-going experience of a lifetime for anyone daring enough to brave it in person. And of the more than 97 million TV viewers who will watch it from a safe — and comfortable — distance.