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Renaissance Man

Yale Strom's strong sense
of Jewish identity
is mirrored in his
many talents

HEIDI PRESS

Local News Editor

ale Strom is the
contempOrary version of a Renais-
sance man. He is a musician, com-
poser, photographer, author and
filmmaker.
In addition, he's got a very
strong sense of Jewish identity, and
it shows in all of his activities, ex-
cept, perhaps, in his long-distance
running.
A former Detroiter living in San
Diego, Calif., Strom will be in De-
troit Nov. 15 to appear 'in the
English-Yiddish Theater Night for
the annual Jewish Book Fair at the
main Jewish Community Center. He
will perform with his klezmer band,
Zmiros, in a program with the YIVO

Institute for Jewish Research's Gol-
den Peacock Players. He also will
promote his book and calendar, both
entitled A Tree Still Stands: The
Last Jews of Eastern Europe
(Philosophical Library), which he
compiled with a non-Jewish friend,
photographer Brian Blue.
The book, calendar and a forth-
coming film document the remnant
of East European Jewry. Strom and
Blue undertook a five-Month trip to
Russia and other Soviet Bloc coun-
tries' where they took more than
6,000 photographs. About 200 of the
photos have been collected for a
traveling exhibit' sponsored by the

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MUSIC

JEWISH COMMUNITY CEN-
TER: Aaron DeRoy Studio
Theater, Julius Chajes Music
Fund concert, featuring sop-

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rano Maria Cimarelli, oboist
Robert Sorton, cellist Be-
nedicta Gray and pianist
David Wilson; 3:30 p.m. Sun-
day; admission, 661-1000, ext.
335.

JEWISH COMMUNITY CEN-
TER (MORRIS BRANCH):
15110 W. Ten Mile, Oak Park,
Song Sister, 2 p.m. today,
admission, 967-4030.

TEMPLE ISRAEL: 5725 Walnut
Lake Rd., West Bloomfield,
Ha-Le-Lu-Yah musical, 8 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday, af-
terglow, admission; 661-5700.

ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF
AMERICA: Ford Auditorium,
Balfour Celebration, featuring
Ofra Haza, Gadi Elon and
Jeffrey Biegel, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, admission, 569-1515.

SOMERSET MALL: Big Beaver
and Coolidge Rds., Troy,
pianist Paul Burns, 2 p.m.
Sunday, free.

METROPOLITAN
YOUTH
SYMPHONY:
Southfield-

P L A

Lathrup High School, open re-
hearsal, celebrating fifth an-
niversary; 9:30 a.m. Saturday;
free, 477-2894.

NEW AMERICAN CHAMBER
ORCHESTRA: Pontiac Art
Center, Music Today series,
3 p.m. Sunday, admission,
62-MUSIC.

CONCERTS-IN-THE-GARDEN:
First Center Office Plaza,
Southfield, Trinidad Tripoli
Steel Band, 10:30 a.m. Sun-
day, admission (includes
brunch), 354-4717.

FOLKTOWN: Southfield Parks
and Recreation Building, Max-
ton Bay and Carla Sciaky, 8
p.m. Saturday, admission,
855-9848.

CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY:
Orchestra Hall, Beaux Arts
Trio, 8 p.m. Wednesday; ad-
mission, 833-3700.

BALALAIKA ORCHESTRA:
Orchestra Hall, 60th anniver-
sary concert, 8 p.m. Saturday,
admission, 833-3700.

PRO MUSICA: Detroit Institute
of Arts recital hall, Vienna
Schubert Trio, 8:30 p.m. to-
day; admission, 222-1543 or
885-0793. -

BIRMINGHAM-BLOOMFIELD
SYMPHONY: West Bloomfield
High School, all-Russian con-
cert, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, ad-
mission, 643-7288.

MUSIC HALL CENTER: 350
Madison, Detroit, "Country
Evening,"
with
Claudia
Schmidt, O.J. Anderson,
Mark "Mr. B" Braun, the
Chenille Sisters, Ramblin'
Jack Elliott and Jim Post, 8
p.m. Saturday, admission,
963-7680.

BRUNCH WITH BACH: Kresge
Court, Detroit Institute of Arts,
pianist Louis Nagel, 10 and
11:30 a.m. Sunday, admission,
832-2730.

DETROIT SYMPHONY OR-
CHESTRA: Ford Auditorium:
music of Mozart and
Wagner, 8:30 p.m. Saturday;

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conductor Sixten Ehrling
and cellist David Geringas, 8
p.m. Thursday; admission,
567-1400.

THEATER

BIRMINGHAM THEATER: 211
S. Woodward, Birmingham,
The Odd Couple, featuring Jo
Anne Worley and Sandy De-
nnis, 8 p.m. today, through
Nov. 30; admission, 644-3533. -

HYATT REGENCY - DEAR-
BORN: Second Level, The
Club, original Neil Simon
classic, The Odd Couple, by
Jimmy Launce Productions,
8:30 p.m. now through Jan. 10,
admission, reservations, 593-
1234, ext. 2323.

ATTIC THEATER: 7339 Third,
Detroit, The Real Thing,
now through Monday, 8 p.m.
Friday, 5:30 and 9 p.m. Satur-
day, 2:30 and 6:30 p.m. Sun-
day, admission, 875-8284.
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