HANUKAH GREETINGS

FROM

Renee and Ron Forman
and Staff

Sedaka's star seemed to fade.
When the United States was
hit with what he refers to as
the "Beatle Invasion," he
retired back to the piano to
write songs for other per-
formers. By the end of the
'60s, Mr. Sedaka took himself,
his wife and two small
children to England.
He performed a concert at
London's Royal Albert Hall
that combined his "oldies"
with a crop of new material
he had composed. The au-
dience approved overwhelm-
ingly of the "new -Sedaka,"
and his career once again
took off.
"The '50s and '60s encom-
passed one particular style of
writing for me," Mr. Sedaka
says. "Then, I had an extraor-
dinary comeback in 1975
with another style of song,
something that was right for
the times."
"Musically, I hope I've
grown through the years," he
continues. "I hope I've
become more sophisticated,
freer, written things that I
take a chance with more
courageously musically,
lyrically. I'm trying to keep
on track by writing contem-
porary music."
Not one to rest on past
laurels, Mr. Sedaka also
began playing with sym-
phony orchestras across the
country, singing his own
music but also playing
classical pieces on the piano.
"I do miss that feeling of in-
volvement with the great
music," he admits, "but I also
have to continue to sing and
write the kind of music that
I do because that's just as
much a part of me. I find im-
mediate gratification. I love
to perform. I find it the most
exciting, addictive thing one
can do. For me, getting a stan-
ding ovation in front of a live
audience is still one of the
greatest highs of all time. It
never, ever goes away." ❑

Readers Theater
Closes Series

The final performance of
the 1991 fall series of Readers
Theater will take place 3:30
p.m. Nov. 24 at the Aaron
DeRoy Theatre of the Maple-
Drake Building.
The production will include
stories by Yona Zeldis
McDonough, Leo Haber,
Chaim Grade and a
Chanukah story read by
David Fox, Mirjana Urosev,
Elizabeth Weiss and Shirley
Benyas.
There is a charge; the per-
formance will be preceded at
3 p.m. by a complimentary
wine bar.
For information, call
Readers Theater, 967-4030.

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