PHOTO BY GLENN TRIEST
Committee members Betsy Appleton, Debbie Siegel, Sandi Reitelman,Linda Sircus and Carla Lamphere.
University and member of the
voice faculty at the University of
Michigan All-State program at
Interlochen Arts Camp.
Baritone Timothy Jones is
pursuing doctoral studies at the
University of Michigan and reg-
ularly has appeared at the Aspen
Summer Music Festival.
The Cantata Academy, under
the direction of Frederick
Bellinger, has invited members
of the Temple Beth El Chorale to
join them for the performance.
Temple member Sara Tatchio,
in her second appearance with
the Cantata Academy, gets to
sing parts of the Bernstein and
Beethoven works — the first in
Hebrew and the second in Ger-
man.
"This has been a great oppor-
tunity to sing pieces that are fa-
mous and different," Ms. Tatchio
said. "I really enjoy singing, and
I've been with the Beth El
Chorale for five years."
A managing editor with the
Ford Motor Co. television net-
work, she met a German pro-
ducer on a recent business trip
and enlisted his help with her
German pronunciation.
"The concert is our responsi-
bility, and the afterglow is the
temple's responsibility," said Car-
la Lamphere, executive director
Working Together
or Temple Beth El, it's
the fourth annual pre-
sentation of "Music in
the Sanctuary." For the
Birmingham-Bloomfield
Symphony Orchestra
(BBSO), it's the first concert
of the '94-'95 season.
Working around the theme of
brotherhood, the temple and the
orchestra are devising an equa-
tion for a festive evening of reli-
gious and secular music.
The program, 7:30 p.m. Sun-
day, Oct. 23, will include Bern-
stein's Chichester Psalms,
Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 and
Berlioz's Le Corsaire Overture.
"Cultural activities are very
much a part of this temple's life,"
said Sandi Reitelman, co-chair of
last year's concert. "Culture and
Judaism really go hand-in-hand,
and it seemed very natural to
reach beyond our membership for
this event."
Featured artists are drawn
from both temple members and
non- members.
Fil
Temple Beth-El and the Birmingham-Bloomfield
Symphony have a major presentation Oct. 23.
SUZANNE CHESSLER SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS
Cantor Gail Hirschenfang,
who suggested the religious piece,
is the featured soprano, bringing
non-religious performance expe-
rience to the event. Most recent-
ly, she soloed with the Detroit
Symphony Orchestra and sang
the role of High Priestess in the
Michigan Opera Theatre's pro-
duction of Aida.
The Psalms, originally com-
missioned by the dean of the
Chichester Cathedral for the
1965 Chichester Festival, will be
performed with countertenor
Paul Moran as guest soloist. He
is a vocal music-education senior
at Oakland University and has
many musical theater credits.
"Leonard Bernstein set these
psalms, in Hebrew, in Chichester,
England, and they remain one of
his most moving and stunning
choral selections," Cantor
Hirschenfang said. "The psalms
Bernstein chose focus on broth-
erhood and spirituality, similar
to the themes in Beethoven's
of the 75-member orchestra,
which is celebrating its 20th an-
niversary season.
The temple sponsors the af-
terglow as its fund-raiser, invit-
ing the audience to meet the
singers and the musicians while
enjoying gourmet desserts. Pro-
ceeds are used for future cultur-
al events.
"Our desire is to open our sanc-
tuary to the community and re-
ally make this a community
event," explained Debbie Siegel,
music committee co-chair. "That's
why we've involved our concerts
with the BBSO. We've brought
this closer to home and taken it,
in effect, outside the walls of the
Symphony No. 9."
Beethoven's work provides mu-
sic for Friedrich van Schiller's
poem "To Joy."
Among those featured in the
symphony choral presentation is
mezzo-soprano Susan Stott, who
teaches voice at Schoolcraft Col-
lege as well as the University of
Michigan-Dearborn and has per-
formed with local orchestras.
The tenor will be Robert
Bracey, an assistant professor of
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