Schaech, comes to televi-
sion in the TNT special
Houdini, airing 8 p.m.
Sunday, Dec. 6. Born in
1874 in Budapest as Erich
Weiss, one of seven children
of Rabbi Mayer Samuel
Weiss and his wife, Cecilia
Steiner Weiss, Houdini
grew up in Appleton, Wis.,
and died in Detroit on Oct.
31, 1926. Check your local listings.
Burt Bacharach - One Amazing
Night is a musical retrospective of the
pop music composer whose hits are
now enjoying a renaissance. Taped ear-
lier this year at the Hammerstein Ball-
room in New York City, it airs 8 p.m.
Monday, Dec. 7, on Detroit Public
Television, Channel 56.

Family Eun

Hans Christian Andersen's classic
fairytale The Snow Queen, featuring
Ferndale's Emily Friedman in the title
role, will be presented by Stagecrafters
Youth Theatre 7 p.m. Thursday-Fri-
day, Dec. 10-1 1; 11 a.m. and 3 p.m.
Saturday, Dec. 12; and 1 p.m. Sunday,
Dec. 13, at the Baldwin Theatre, 415
S. Lafayette, in Royal Oak. Reserved
seats are S5. (248) 541-6430.

Stephen Hansen.s' "Oh
What a Tangled Bed
11''e Weave," at
Galerie

To open his first
local show in three
years, artist Stephen
Hansen makes a
rare Michigan
appearance 7 p.m.
Friday, Dec. 11, at Galerie Blu, 568
N. Old Woodward in Birmingham.
Hansen labels his whimsical papier
mache sculptures "distilled observa-
tions of the world around [him]."
(248) 594-0472.
The invitational Menorah Art
Show, in celebration of the organized
Jewish community's 100-year celebra-
tion, continues at the Somerset Col-
lection South through Dec. 13.
Admission to the show, which is open
during mall hours, is free.

Whatnot

Polish-born architect Daniel Libe-
skind, who designed the recently
completed Jewish Museum in Berlin,
gives a lecture titled "The Future of
Memory" 6 p.m. Monday, Dec. 7, at
Rackham Auditorium, 915 E. Wash-
ington, Ann Arbor, and participates
in a Museum + Memory forum led
by U-M President Lee Bollinger, 4
p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 8, at the Universi-
Bonita Fike, DIA associate curator
ty of Michigan Museum of Art, State
of decorative arts, leads a gallery tour
Street
at South University. Both
of A Passion for Glass: The Aviva and
events
are free and open to the public.
Jack A. Robinson Stu-
For more information,
dio Glass Collection, 2
call
(734) 615-0609.
p.m. Sunday, Dec. 6.
The annual Historic
Meet in Gallery N250
Boston-Edison Home
at the Detroit Institute
Tour takes place Sun-
of Arts. Free with
day, Dec. 13. Combina-
museum admission.
tion walking and bus
(313) 833-7900.
tours leave every 20
To celebrate its
minutes
between 10
opening at Troy's Som-
a.m.
and
4 p.m. from
erset Collection South,
Sacred Heart Seminary,
Cartier hosts an exhibi-
located on Chicago
tion of 42 famous
The Duchess of Windsor's
pieces made for Cartier
drapery necklace will be on Boulevard at Linwood.
Ample free parking will
display in "Art of Cartier
clients. Art of Cartier
be provided. Tickets are
Collection: Memories," at
Collection: Memories,
S12.50
and must be
Somerset
Collection
South.
opening Dec. 8 and
purchased
in advance.
running throughout the
For
more
information,
month, includes King
call (313) 883-4360.
Farouk's mystery clock (1926), Bar-

The Art Scene

bara Hutton's tiger jewelry (1957),
Randolph Churchill's cigarette case
(1932) and the Duchess of Windsor's
drapery necklace (1947).

For more Arts and Entertainment
listings, see the Community Calendar:

The Price
Of Puppets

Anyone who makes a puppet in Mar-
ilyn Price's workshop at 2:30 p.m.
gets to be in her Chanukah show at 4
p.m. Sunday, Dec. 6, at the Jimmy
Prentis Morris Jewish Community
Center in Oak Park.
While Price's program is about the
holiday, it has nothing to do with the
traditional holiday story.
"My program is centered around

the theme of religious freedom,"
explains Price, who has been putting
on puppet shows since 1972 and
tours around the country. "I like to
do programs with the symbols of
Chanukah and will present The Year
the Candles Went on Strike, which is
about candles concerned that the hol-
iday is not being celebrated as it
should be."
Price, who writes children's books

with Jewish
themes, has
made 300
puppets to
use in both
religious
and secular
shows.
cc i

stretch my
imagina-
tion to
make the

puppets,
Marilyn Price and friend.
and I like
to use odd
things," says the puppeteer. "If I do
stories about food, the puppets are
made out of kitchen utensils. None of
my puppets are simply made for the
sake of being puppets. They're made
for the sake of the story and have
something to do with it."

— Suzanne Chessler

Marilyn Price will conduct her puppet workshop at 2:30 p.m. and pre-
sent her show at 4 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 6, at the JPM Jewish Commu-
nity Center in Oak Park. For more information, call (248) 967-4030.

Making The
Connection

range of music," says Owens, who
had a similar band in California for
12 years and has performed the music
for 30 years. "Klezmer has a long and
Only one member of the
compelling histo-
Ethnic Connection is Jew-
ry that speaks to a
ish, but all the music
lot of people."
played by the quartet is
The band will
authentic Jewish music
be joined by guest
from Eastern Europe.
artists Bruce
Ralph Katz, David
Sagan on violin
Owens, Nan Nelson and
and trombonist
Carol Palms switch
Daniel Peisach.
instruments — clarinet,
"We do nostalgic
violin, accordion, bass,
Yiddish songs like
The Ethnic Connection
mandolin, guitar, dumbek
Selz,' which is the
— while staying steadfast
name of an imagi-
to the original sounds associated with
nary town, and we do Serbian and Bulgari-
the style that did not become known
an dance tunes," says Owens, who learned
as klezmer until its revival in the
klezmer and Yiddish while working with
1970s.
an ethnic dance and music troupe. He later
The 10-year-old Ann Arbor band
studied Yiddish at the University of Califor-
performs a holiday concert at 2 p.m.
nia at Los Angeles. "Klezmer became my
Sunday, Dec. 6, at the Kerrytown
favorite folk music," said Owens, who adds
Concert House in Ann Arbor.
that "a lot of our audience is not Jewish."
"We're going to be playing a wide
— Suzanne Chessler

.

The Ethnic Connection performs 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 6, at the Kerry-
town Concert House, 415 N. Fourth Ave., Ann Arbor. Tickets: $8/$5
students. (734) 769-2999.

12/4
1998

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