throughout metro Detroit. A map is
available at the museum, where
Anderson will speak about his work
7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 1. 1221
North Woodward, Detroit. $5
adults/$3 students and
seniors. Museum
admission includes lec-
ture. (248) 645-3323.
Absolut Vodka
advertisement artist
Romero Britto brings a
show of his paintings,
serigraphs and drawings
to Galerie Blu with an
opening reception 7
p.m. Friday, Oct. 2.
Through Oct. 31. 568
North Old Woodward,

Birmingham. (248) 594-0472.
Detroit Artists Market welcomes
Detachable Music for a Collapsible
Culture, a group show which focuses
on artists who use music as a source

Showtime
presents
"The Island on
Bird Street,"
a story of
Holocaust
survival.

The Hilberry mounts a production of
"The Mousetrap."

Celebrating A Life

he music of Viktor Ull-
mann, who continued to
compose after being sent
to a concentration camp,
will be celebrated during a six-event
festival that marks the centennial
year of his birth.
The Viktor Ullmann Centennial
Celebration, which runs Sept. 27-
Oct. 7 with concerts and lectures,
features pianist Robert Kolben, a for-
mer Czechoslovakian now living in
Germany, where he premiered and
recorded Ullmann sonatas.
"The festival shows how culture
and art were created under the worst
circumstances," said Daniela
Wittmann, a social worker who
helped organize the program
planned by members of the Universi-
ty of Michigan (U-M) School of
Music and the Institute for the
Humanities. "The music is very con-
temporary with interesting themes."
Wittmann, whose mother was
held in the same camp as Ullmann,
has recordings of his music and espe-
cially appreciates his one-act opera
The Emperor of Atlantis, an anti-fas-
cist allegory about defying death. A
lecture about the piece and its corn-
poser, delivered by project coordina-
tor and musicologist Siglind Bruhn,
opens the festival at 8 p.m. Sunday,
Sept. 27, at the First Unitarian Uni-
versalist Church, 1917 Washtenaw,
Ann Arbor.
Ullmann, born in Bohemia, stud-
ied with Arnold Schoenberg, who

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Archive in Switzerland and Kolben,
recommended him as assistant 16n-
at 8 p.m. Monday, Oct. 5, Rudolf
ductor at the Prague opera house.
Steiner House, 1923 Geddes, Ann -
After winning prizes for his work,
Arbor.
Ullmann with-his family were
brought in 1942 to Theresienstadt,
• Lecture-demonstration, "The Sym-
where he lived with other renowned
phonic Ullmann: Symphony With-
artists and musicians from Central
out Orchestra," with Jim Leonard
Europe.
presenting a guide through an
"Theresienstadt was built as a
evening of recordings, at 8 p.m.
showpiece for the Red Cross,"
Tuesday, Oct. 6, SKR Classical, 539
Wittmann explained. "The Nazis
East Liberty, Ann Arbor.
encouraged work on art and music
• Concert of vocal music, featuring
so outsiders would think this was a
the Zamir Chorale conducted by
nice place to live."
The composer kept busy with his
work until 1944, when he, his wife
and their small children were taken
to Auschwitz in a major roundup
held just days before The Emperor of
the Atlantis was to have been staged
at Theresienstadt. The family were
murdered by the Nazis on Oct. 18,
1944.
Other events in the festival,
which is free and open to the pub-
lic, include:
• Concert performance of The
Benjamin Cohen will conduct the
Emperor of the Atlantis, at 8 p.m. Sat- Zamir Chorale in a concert featuring
urday, Oct. 3, McIntosh Theatre,
the vocal music of Viktor Ullmann.
E.V. Moore Building, U-M School
of Music.
Benjamin Cohen, at 8 p.m. Wednes-.
day, Oct. 7, Britton Recital Hall,
• Performance of Ullmann chamber
Moore Building.
music with Kolben, at 4 p.m. Sun-
day, Oct. 4, Britton Recital Hall,
Suzanne Ch. essler
Moore Building.
• A symposium titled "Viktor Ull-
For further information on the
mann: Composer, Jew, Anthro-
Viktor Ullmann Centennial Cel-
posophist, Humanist," featuring
ebration, call (734) 764-0594.
Marcus Gerhardts from the Ullmann

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material to produce
dynamic visual-based
works of art, and The
Wedding Reception, an
installation by Wei-In
Chen, with an artists
gallery talk 5:30-6 p.m.
and an opening recep-
tion 6-9 p.m. Friday,
Oct. 2. Through Oct.
30. 300 River Place,
Suite 1650, Detroit.
(313) 393-1770.
Hopes and Aspira-
tions: Decorative Paint-
ing of Korea, an exhibit organized by
the Asian Art Museum of San Francis-
co, includes paintings, screens and
scrolls of the late 16th-20th centuries.
Through Nov. 15 at the University
Museum of Art, 525 S. State St. Ann
Arbor. (734) 764-0395.
The Center for Creative Studies
hosts Michigan Ceramics: '98 Travel-
ing Exhibition, a juried show of works
in clay, through Oct. 30. 201 East
Kirby, Detroit. (313) 874-1955.

Whatnot

The Michigan Jewish Aids Coali-
tion (MJAC) joins the 1998 AIDS
Walk Michigan — Detroit 10 a.m.
Sunday, Sept. 27, in downtown Royal
Oak. Look for the MJAC banner.
The Volunteer Committee of the
DIA holds an orientation 12:30 p.m.
Sunday, Sept. 27, in the DLA. Lecture
Hall. (313) 833-0247.
Borders Rosh Chodesh Series espe-
cially for (but not limited to) women
hosts Daphna Feldman teaching the
The Book of Jonah and Yom Kippur 7
p.m. Sunday, Sept. 27. 30995
Orchard Lake Road, Farmington
Hills. (248) 737-0110.
The Ann Arbor District Library
presents From Rosie to Roosevelt: A
Film History of Americans in World
War II, a free film and discussion
series Thursday evenings, Oct. 1-Nov.
12. Call for times. 343 S. Fifth Ave.,
Ann Arbor. (734) 327-4200.
The Detroit Historical Society takes
a Sunday Stroll of Historic Indian
Village 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 4. $10
non-members/$5 members. Reserve
tickets by calling (313) 833-1405.
The Birmingham Temple seeks
artists in the media of clay and sculp-
ture for the Birmingham Temple Juried
Art Show, to be held Nov. 6, 7 and 8.
Call Toby Kiritsis, (248) 477-1890.

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1998

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