The orchestra accompanies Steamboat
Bill, starring Buster Keaton, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, April 24, and Sergei
Eisenstein's Strike 7 p.m. Sunday, April
25. All at the Detroit Film Theatre at
the Detroit Institute of Arts. $10 per
performance. (313) 833-2323.

The Small Screen

Tune in to the 31st annual Detroit
Public TV Auction 6 p.m.-midnight
Fridays, noon-1 a.m. Saturdays, and
noon-9 p.m. Sundays, April 23-25 and
April 30-May 2, when Channel 56
hosts a six-day fund-raiser that places
thousands of donated items up for bid
to generate operating funds for Detroit's
local PBS station. To make a donation
to the auction, call (313) 876-8350. To
volunteer, call (313) 876-8368.

Laugh Lines

Comedian Stanley Ullman, fre-
quently seen on Comedy Central, pays
a visit to Mark Ridley's Comedy
Castle 8:30 p.m. Wednesday and
Thursday, April 28-29. 269 E. Fourth
St., Royal Oak. $6. (248) 542-9900.

The Art Scene

One of the top shows of its kind in
the country featuring 20th-century
design, the Michigan Modernism
Exposition returns to the Southfield
Civic Center 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Saturday,

April 24, and 12-5 p.m. Sunday, April
25. $8/ages 12 and under free. Special
events include a gala preview, 7-10
p.m. Friday, April 23, with hors d'oeu-
vres, wine and entertainment by Kathy
Kosins, to benefit the Detroit Area Art
Deco Society; $70 at the door. A lec-
ture by Carolyn Ashleigh on "The Art
of Fashion: 1925-1945" is scheduled
for 11 a.m. Sunday, April 25, prior
to show opening. $10. For reserva-
tions, call (248) 582-DECO.
Pewabic Pottery opens an exhib-
it including ceramic works by
Kathy Dambach, Anat Shiftan
and Arnold Zimmerman with a
reception 6-8 p.m. Friday, April
23. Through June 5. 10125 E.
Jefferson, Detroit. (313) 822-0954.
Celebrity photographer Paul
Elledge of Chicago speaks 7 p.m.
Wednesday, April 28, in the Lila
Jones-Johnson Theater on the
Royal Oak campus of Oakland
Community College in a program
called "Follow Your Heart and Get
Paid for It." The lecture will fea-
ture slides of his award-winning
work. (248) 544-5582.
In artist Jane Hammond's latest
body of work, "Game Show," on dis-
play at Lemberg Gallery through May
28, significant images from art history
share the canvas with images drawn
from popular culture, and she incor-
porates them all within the structure
of games. An artist's reception will be

Baseball ... The Great American
Experience, a program featuring leg-
endary player portrayals by David
Martin of Birmingham, photographs
and artifacts, visits the Detroit Historical
Museum 2 p.m. Saturday, April 24. Free
with museum admission. Call for reser-
vations, (313) 833-9721.
Benjamin Gampel, associate pro-
fessor of Jewish history at the Jewish
Theological Seminary, speaks 2 p.m.
Sunday, April 25, in the Lecture
Hall at the Detroit Institute of Arts
on "Judaism, Christianity and Islam:
Confrontation and Cooperation."
Free with museum admission. (313)
833-7900.
Award-winning poet Patty
Seyburn, a former Detroiter, reads
from Diasporadic 8-10 p.m.
Thursday, April 29, at Shaman
Drum, 311 S. State, Ann Arbor.
(734) 662-7407.
Jane Hammond: "The Soapstone Factory";
oil and mixed media on canvas; 1999;
at the Lemberg Gallery.
Don't forget to make your reser-
vations for the 'Magic of Alyn" fund-
raising event to benefit Alyn
Exhibition of student work through
Hospital, Israel's only orthopaedic hos-
May 9. 480 W. Hancock, on the
pital and rehabilitation center for hand-
Wayne State University campus.
icapped children. Following a Sorcerer's
(313) 577-2423.
Supper at 6 p.m. Tuesday, May 4, at
New works in oil by Michigan
Congregation Beth Shalom, master
are
on
landscape painter Rick Stevens
magician and Houdini-like illusionist
display at the David Klein Gallery
Michael Jacobson will perform at 7:30
through May 8. 163 Townsend,
p.m. For information and reservations,
Birmingham. (248) 433-3700.
call Doris Blechman, (248) 737-6954.

On The Horizon

.

Musical %elude'

! 'hen Fred Raimi tours as
' cellist with the Ciompi
Quartet, he often meets
up with stellar musi-
cians whose professional roots, like
his, reach back to Detroit. Paul
Schoenfield, a composer settled in
Israel, for instance, has written cello
pieces Raimi soon will record.
Before going into the studio, Raimi
returns to the temple of his childhood
to present an evening of chamber
music planned with his wife, pianist
Jane Hawkins. They will do a Bach
suite, Beethoven sonata, operettas
arranged for cello and piano and a folk
song,
0, "The Wreck of the Old 97."
The performance, which is part of
the Schmier Chapel Chamber Series,
is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Sunday,
April 25, at Temple Israel.

held at the gallery 6-8 p.m. Saturday,
April 24. 538 N. Old Woodward,
Birmingham. (248) 642-6623.
The Elaine L. Jacob Gallery hosts
an exhibition of portraits by
Susanna Coffey, Susan Hauptman
and Daniel Leary through June 4,
and the Community Arts Gallery
hosts its 1999 Undergraduate

i

"We're basically playing music we
like, and I feel very proud to be
among the tremendous number of
classical musicians raised in this city,"
says Raimi, 51, who also teaches at
Duke University.
Raimi's early music less.ons were in
Detroit Public Schools, and his
resolve to become a professional
instrumentalistoccurred after two
years at Johns Hopkins University
and a transfer to Juilliard.
Raimi's brother Max, eight years

younger, also went to Juilliard and
into the concert arena. His instrument
is viola, and composing became an
important part of his work. A member
of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra,
Max Raimi wrote a cantata to corn-
memorate Israel's 25th anniversary
when he was 16; it was performed by
members of the Detroit Symphony.
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra
performed Elegy, a recent piece. •
"The earliest performances we did
together had to do with playing the
seder songs," Fred Raimi recalls. "We
wrote variations on them."
The Raimi brothers, the sons of
Abraham and Rosalie Raimi, are the
first professional musicians in their
family. Brother Charles is a lawyer,
and sister Gail Dreyfuss has taught
English as a second language and
focuses her professional interests on
immigration law.

Fred Raimi, who performed in
Israel last year, also tours outside the
country and soon will take his music
to South America, Germany and Italy.
"Duke is opening a Center for
Jewish Life in October, and I will be
playing at the opening ceremony," says
the musician-teacher, who has per-
formed with Pablo Casals. "Last month,
I played a new work, Elijah's Chariot,
by Judith Shatan, who combined live
strings with a tape of ishofars."
—Suzanne Chessler

Fred Raimi and Jane Hawkins
will perform at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, April 25, at Temple
Israel. For complimentary tick-
ets, which also will be available at
the door on a first-come, first
served basis, call (248) 661-5700.

4/23
1999

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