The Smaall Screen

Children's Recording category. The
album also was named one of the year's
10 Best Children's Albums in North
America by Child magazine. Judy &
David's Web site at
http://JudyandDavid.com is one of the
largest children's music
sites on the Internet.
Tickets for the program at
the JCC are $4 member
adults/$5 nonmember
adults; $3 member chil-
dren/$4 nonmember chil-
dren. (248) 967-4030.

Detroit Public Television-Channel 56
presents two programs of interest on
Sunday afternoon, March 7. Itzhak
Perlman: Fiddling for the Future, at
1:40 p.m., follows the legendary violinist
as he teaches young
music students.
Reaching beyond
the concert stage to
Perlman's Long
Island music camp,
Juilliard and the
recording studio,
the maestro energet-
ically shares his tal-
ents and enthusiasm
with young music
Marc Chagall: The
practitioners. Then,
Complete Painted Bible,
at 3:15 p.m.,
a set of 105 hand-painted
Broadway actor and
etchings illustrating scenes
singer Theodore
from the Bible that
Bikel hosts A Taste
Columbia University
of Passover, a musi-
Professor Meyer Schapiro
cal celebration that
calls "the greatest print-
also features New
making accomplishment
York Cantor David
of the 20th century," fills
Levine, Yiddishisi
Southfield's Park West
Harriet Chasia
Gallery March 5-April 8.
Segal and more
Special preview receptions,
than 150 musicians
with
music composed by
from Boston's New
Rabbi Craig Allen, will be
England
held 8-10 p.m. Friday and
Conservatory. The
2-4 p.m. Saturday and
program, crafted by
Top: Children's recording
Sunday, March 5-7, at the
Klezmer
artists Judy 6- David perform gallery, 29469 North-
Conservatory Band
at the Oak Park JCC
western Highway.
founder and direc-
on Sunday.
(248) 354-2343.
tor Hankus Netsky,
Paintings by Sam
also includes witty
Above: Louise Kruger's
Gillian and Adele Duck
commentary by
"Weightlifter" is on display
and sculpture by Louise
Moshe Waldoks and
at the Robert Kidd Gallery.
Kruger are on display at
a demonstration of
the Robert Kidd Gallery,
how to make the
107
Townsend
St., Birmingham,
perfect matzah ball. Check your local
through
March
27. (248) 642-3909.
listings.
The fifth annual Screen Actors Guild
Awards, honoring outstanding perfor-
mances in film and television, comes to
Writer, editor and activist Gloria
TNT 8 p.m. Sunday, March 7. This
Steinem speaks 7:30 p.m. Thursday,
year's recipient of the guild's Life
March 11, at the Michigan Theater, 603
Achievement Award is actor Kirk
E. Liberty, Ann Arbor. Co-sponsored by
Douglas. Check your local cabre listings.
U-M Hillel, the program is free and
open to the public. For more informa-
tion, (-nil Hillel, (734) 769-0500.
Norah Labiner reads from her
Canadian recording artists Judy &
debut novel, Our Sometime Sister, 7
David perform 4 p.m. Sunday, March 7,
p.m. Thursday, March 11, at
at the Jimmy Prentis Morris Building of
Cranbrook Schools' Kingswood
the Jewish Community Center in Oak
Auditorium,
1221 N. Woodward Ave.,
Park in a program featuring songs from
Bloomfield
Hills.
Free and open to the
which
won
top
honors
Livin' in a Shoe,
public. (248) 645-3142.
at the 1998 Juno Awards in the

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Family Fun.

n any given night, if you happen to be on New York's Lower East
Side, stop into Tonic, a former kosher winery, and groove to some
jazz or world music, a little klezmer, even some beat poetry.
Although the venue doesn't necessarily consider itself a harbinger
of radical Jewish culture, it has attracted a diverse group of musicians who have
migrated there from downtown's Knitting Factory, a favorite of jazz musician
John Zorn and his Masada projects, which combine jazz and Yiddish music.
"The Knitting Factory used to be the place to play," says Erik Friedlander,
a cellist and composer whose quartet, Topaz, will appear at Ann Arbor's
Kerrytown Concert House on March 25.
However, "The Knit" has become "more mainstream and less friendly,"
says Friedlander. "Tonic is curated by musicians. The people who run it are
great and they allow individuals to define themselves musically," he says.
A major force on the New York jazz and creative music scene, Friedlander's
original compositions, which
will be performed at Kerrytown,
are inspired by the music of
Miles Davis, Oscar Pettiford,
Henry Mancini, Herbie
Hancock and Earth Wind &
Fire.
His Topaz ensemble features
Friedlander on cello, former U-
M student Andy Laster on alto
sax and the Takeishi brothers
from Japan on electric bass and
percussion.
Married to a choreographer,
Friedlander and his wife are par-
ents of 5-month-old Ava.
Erik Friedlander, on cello, performs with his
Originally from New York, the
group Topaz on Thursday, March 25.
musician was influenced by the
creativity of his photographer
father, who shot record covers for Atlantic.
"I have been a cellist since third grade," says Friedlander, "but for a while I
thought I wanted only to write movie scores and commercials. Finally, I real-
ized I needed a more creative outlet, so I wrote my own music and formed
my own group.
Trumpeter Dave Douglas, Friedlander's friend and colleague, appears with
his group Tiny Bell Trio tonight at Kerrytown. Douglas also plays in a num-
ber of Zorn-related projects, including the quartet Masada. He describes his
creative music as a genre that escapes all labels. "I blaze my own trail," says
Douglas, with influences from jazz, contemporary classical, East European
folk music and electronic music."
Douglas started Tiny Bell eight years ago — with Jim Black on drums and
Brad Shepik on guitar — in Soho's Bell Cafe. "We began improvising rendi-
tions of East European folk music, and in the cabaret setting we were able to
subvert and write original compositions," he says. The trio's newest record,
Songs for Wandering Souls, will debut in May, and Douglas plans to perform
music from that CD at tonight's show. P1

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— Linda Bachrack

The Jazz at the Edge Series at the Kerrytown Concert House, 415 N.
Fourth Ave., Ann Arbor, features the following performances: Dave
Douglas and Tiny Bell Trio perform 8 p.m. Friday, March 5; $15/rows 3-
5, $10/general. Erik Friedlander's Topaz performs 8 p.m. Thursday, March
25; $15/rows 3-5, $10/general. For reservations, call (734) 769-2999.

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