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October 14, 1988 - Image 15

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The Detroit Jewish News, 1988-10-14

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poll the country with a
survey, and the coaches vote
with their teams on the topics
they like. The national office
announces the winning pro-
posal in April.
In-
Michigan
The
terscholastic Forensic
Association(MIFA) is the
state league to which all com-
petitive high school teams
belong. The most active form
of debate in the state is two-
person debate. Two students
represent their school at a
tournament. They debate the
affirmative side for one round
and the negative for the next.
The affirmative side proposes
a policy change.
The negative team must
always deny the reasons for
the change, poking holes in
the affirmative's plan. Each
debate is judged by a critic or
authority chosen by the host
school. The tournaments last
two days.
They begin on Friday at 4

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p.m. and last until 9:30 that
evening. The debate con-
tinues from 8 a.m. until 1
p.m. on Saturday. Usually,
there are quarterfinals and
sometimes even octofinals.
The finals may last until 8
p.m.
"The most important
reason to take debate is
critical thinking," adds
Voisin. "The students are
literally thinking machines
during every second of a
debate. Of course, our society
needs people who can think
that well!'
West Bloomfield and An-
dover high schools have
created a competitive debate
program and will begin to
debate this year along with
over 200 schools in Michigan.
Birmingham Groves is also a
somewhat new team and ac-
cording to Voisin, "will be
another strong team for
Oakland County within a few
years!'

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nn Arbor — Critics
are hired to write re-
views, not get them.
But during the past week,
Ann Arbor News music critic
Gerald Brennan has been
receiving some negative
reviews for a story he wrote
about a recent concert given
by violinist Itzhak Perlman.
Both the language and the
seeming intent of the review
upset Ann Arborites who felt
it was insensitive and "skir-
ting the edge of bigotry" as
one reader put it.
Critics say they objected to
Brennan's emphasis on seem-
ingly non-musical
phenomena, more particular-
ly on his repeated references
to Perlman's "ethnic style"
and his use of the phrase
"natural tendencies!" .
In his review, Brennan
wrote: "The heavy ethnic
quality of Perlman's style was
most evident in the heavy-
handed romantic approach
with enormous vibrato. This
is a characteristic of the great
Jewish violinists of this cen-
tury and Perlman is at the
head of that school . . . The se-
cond half opened with Ernest
Bloch's Sonata No. 2. This is
a one-movement Hebrew
rhapsody that allowed
Perlman's natural tendencies
full reign . . . Perlman suc-
ceeds best in the works which
are the legacy of the great
Jewish composers and
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much of the entire romantic
repertoire!'
Ann Arbor News Om-
budsman David Bishop said
the paper received two phone
calls and five leters complain-
ing about Brennan's review.
"That's a fair number," he
said.
Some concertgoers, like
Howard Shevrin, said they
were disappointed by
Perlman's performance. But
Shevrin thought Brennan
was out of line with his
discussion about a Jewish
school of violinists.



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Richard Malvin, a Univer-
sity of Michigan physiologist,
said he "had the feeling that
Brennan was saying that a
Jew can play Jewish music
but can't play music by non-
Jews. If this isn't what he
meant to say, then he wasn't
communicating. If he really
meant what he said, he's a
disgrace to the paper!' _

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Bishop responded to the
complaints Sunday in his
weekly column.
"The review was indeed
careless and insensitive about
issues that demanded care
and sensitivity," Bishop
wrote. "I do not, however,
think it fair to brand the
review as an expression of
bigotry!'

Brennan said if he had to do
the piece over again he would
have made it longer and ex-
plained the origin of the
traditions he was talking
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