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Israel To Host
!Abraham and Hannah'
Temple Israel will host the new
musical drama, Abraham and
Hannah, a love story, at 2:30 p.m.
Sunday, May 16.
"Out of the deepest darkness of
our time
comes courage
in a dramatic
revelation of a
singular revolt
by the prison-
ers of a
German death
camp, says
Cantor Harold
Orbach.
The new
work appears
under the aus-
Joshua Major
pices of
Temple Israel,
the Holocaust Memorial Center in
West Bloomfield, the Jackson
Symphony conducted by Steve
Osmond and the University of
Michigan Opera Department direct-
ed by Joshua Major.
Using details from diaries and
reports, from interviews and pho-
tographs, Jack LaZebnik has create a
libretto that composer David Finko's
music "makes into a grand mainfesto
of freedom and love," Orbach said.
Although an abbreviated version,
the one-hour performance is an
extended musical form with full
orchestra and chorus with a cast of
principals, all under professional
direction.
The audience will hear and see
the whole story with narration and
major dramatic scenes.
LeZebnik — poet, novelist, edi-
tor, playwright — is an Avery
Hopwood winner and the author of
24 plays with productions in New
York, Los Angeles and Detroit.
Finko studied at the Leningrad
Conservatory of Music but left
Russia because of artistic and reli-
gious persecution. The composer,
conductor, pianist and violinist
became professor at Combs College
of Music, adjunct associate professor
of music at the University of
Pennsylvania and visiting professor
at Yale.
Complimentary tickets are avail-
able by calling the Holocaust
Memorial Center, (248) 661-0840,
or
Temple Israel, (248) 661-5700.
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