JCC '97-'98

Encore
and
Chales
Concert
Series
presents:

Atehad
getntei ►

ing about healing. We need to reach
the world and touch the world with
the beauty that we experience inside
ourselves. If we don't experience that
beauty, we need a way to access it.

JN: What keeps you optimistic?
DF: Life. I think that we all live on
the edge a little bit. It's not possible
to be optimistic all the time; that
would be like breathing pure oxygen
all the time. It just doesn't work. I
think that being optimistic is a
JN: What did you experience at your
promise, a goal. I think
Carnegie Hall appearance
Debbie Friedman: "In
it's not separate from
last September?
looking at the world
DF: I did mixed things, and the face of whatever
and seeing it with a
people were up in the aisles struggles we have to
confront, we can main- sense of wonder, know-
dancing and clapping.
tain a level of spiritual- ing that there's all this
Toward the end, I did the
ity and confidence as we
glory around us and
"Avinu Malkenu." I felt
recognize there are gifts,
that there's incredible
that this was not just
promises and hope to
richness that's ours for
Carnegie Hall; it was a
enrich our lives."
the taking. It's up to us
community of Jews banding
to embrace it and incor-
together — 2,800 people
standing up arm in arm chanting away porate it into our lives. Once we've
done that, it's our obligation to give
in traditional melody.
it away.
JN: Any other new projects you soon
Debbie Frie man wi
will be working on?
DF: I'm always doing new things —
p, m. SundaY; ian. 18, at t
writing new music, getting ready to
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record a new album. I've got a couple
9.
of things in the works. I just take it a
day at a time.

Jewish Community Center
West Bloomfield

Tickets:
$20 for members
$25 for non-members

For tickets and information call:

(248) 661-7649 West Bloomfield
or (248) 967-4030 Oak Park

Funded in part by the Manny and Natalie Charach Endowment
for the Cultural Arts, the Irwin and Sadie Cohn Fund, the DeRoy
Testamentary Foundation and the Boaz Siegel Culture Fund.

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