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Twenty-eight-year-
old Gil Shaham
was born in
Champaign-
Urbana, Ill., but at
age 2 moved with
GAIL
his parents to
ZIMMERMAN Israel, where at age
Arts 6.
7 he began violin
Entertainment
studies with
Editor
Samuel Bernstein
of the Rubin
Academy of Music. In 1981, while
studying with Haim Taub in
Jerusalem, he made debuts with the
Jerusalem Symphony and the Israel
Philharmonic. The
next year, after taking
first prize in Israel's
Claremont
Competition, he
began studies at
Juilliard, where he
worked with Dorothy
Delay and Hyo Kang.
Shaham was awarded
the prestigious Avery
Fisher Career Grant
in 1990. He plays the
1699 "Countess
Polignac Stradivarius,"
which reputedly once
belonged to the
French mistress of
Benjamin Franklin
while he was U.S.
Ambassador to France. The musician
has enjoyed a stellar concert career
Frith orchestras across the world,
including two dramatic, highly praised
appearances in 1989 with the London
Symphony under the direction of
Michael Tilson Thomas, where he
substituted —on one day's notice — for
an ailing Itzhak Perlman. Shaham
recently recorded the violin concertos
of Tchaikovsky and Sibelius with the
Philharmonia Orchestra and the
Paganini and Saint-Saens violin con-
certos with the New York
Philharmonic. His recent best-sellers
include the pairing of Barber and
Korngold concertos, with Andre Previn
leading the London Symphony, on a
disc nominated for a Grammy Award

in 1995. Shaham will perform Bela
Bartok's Violin Concerto No. 2 with
the Detroit Symphony Orchestra at
Orchestra Hall 8 p.m. Thursday and
Friday, May 20-21; and 8:30 p.m.
Saturday, May 22. The program for
these concerts also includes Claude
Debussy's Nocturnes and Sergei
Rachmaninoff's The Bells. $13-$63.
(313) 576-1111.
Author Elmore
"Dutch" Leonard
reads from his lat-
est novel, Be Cool,
with musical per-
formances by the
Stone Coyotes and
Detroit's own Jill
Jack, Saturday,

$25 per person/tickets also available at
the door. (248) 967-4020.
Chamber Music Ann Arbor,
under the direction of Yizhak
Schotten, celebrates the work of
great composers who have drawn
upon folk traditions for their inspi-
ration in SpringFest '99: Folk
Themes in Chamber Music, 7:30
p.m. Sundays, May 16 and 23, at
the University of Michigan Museum
of Art. $20 per con-
cert/$ 10 students/fam-
ily rates available.
(734) 930-1960.
The Motor City Brass
Band, a 30-member
ensemble in the British
tradition, performs

Left to right:

Alice Cooper signs copies of
his new box set Saturday at
Harmony House in
Farmington Hills.

Nancy Gurwin performs in a
cabaret concert Sunday at
Temple Emanu-El.

Violinist Gil Shaham per-
forms with the DSO May 20-
22 at Orchestra Hall.

Natalie Merchant opens the Pine
Knob season Friday, May 21.

May 15, at The Magic Bag, 22920
Woodward Ave., in Ferndale. During his
research for Be Cool, a novel about the
music business, Leonard heard and was
inspired by the Stone Coyotes, a
Massachusetts-based trio whose sound he
describes as "AC-DC meets Patsy Cline."
Doors at 8. $10. (248) 544-3030.
The Music Committee of Temple
Emanu-El presents Come to the
Cabaret, starring Nancy Gurwin, 7
p.m. Sundays May 16, at the temple in
Oak Park. Gurwin is a graduate of
New York's Neighborhood Playhouse
School of Drama in New York and has
performed in numerous productions
around town. This fund-raiser includes
hors d'oeuvres and desserts in addition
to Gurivin's one-woman musical show.

Brass Roots:
Getting to the
Bottom of the
Brass Band, a
program
emphasizing
tuba and the
sounds of the
low brass sec-
tion, 3 p.m.
Sunday, May
16, at Southfield Centre for the Arts.
$10/$8 students and seniors/$25 for
families. To reserve tickets, call (248)
424-9022 or (248) 616-9725.
Conductor Charles Burke leads the
Detroit Symphony Civic Orchestra 8
p.m. Sunday, May 16, at Orchestra
Hall in a concert featuring

Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 4
(known as the "Italian Symphony")
and works by Glinka, Rachmaninoff,
and Respighi. Preceding the concert,
at 7 p.m., will be a "Civic Family
Hour," which highlights small ensem-
bles made up of orchestra siblings and
parents. $6 general admission/ $25
reserved box seats. (313) 576-1111.
The Metropolitan Singers offer a
potpourri of musical sounds in their
33rd annual spring concert, 7 p.m.
Sunday, May 16, at Southfield Centre
for the Arts. $8 adults/$6 students and
seniors/children under 12 free. (248)
559-5074 or (248) 424-9022.
The Cantata Academy presents An
Opera Gala: Great Opera Choruses and
Arias, favorites from the world's greatest
operas, 8:30 p.m. Friday, May 21, at
Southfield Centre for the Arts.
$15/$12 seniors and students; tick-
ets available at the door. For reserva-
t, tions, call (248) 358-9868.
The legendary Neil Young
performs 8 p.m. Wednesday and
Thursday, May 19-20, at the
Fox Theatre. $75/$50/$37.50.
(248) 433-1515.
Al Green bring his sweet soul
sound to Motown in an 8 p.m.
Sunday, May 16, concert at
Masonic Temple. $42.50/32.50.
(313) 983-6611.
Michigan band The Verve Pipe
scored a platinum hit with "The
Freshman." They
return to their
t roots Wednesday,
May 19, at 7th
House, 7 N.
Saginaw, in
Pontiac. Doors at
8. $12.50. (248)
335-3540.
Veteran rock 'n'
roll giants
Aerosmith play
the Palace of
Auburn Hills 8
p.m. Thursday,
May 20. $29.50.
(248) 645-6666.
Alternative rocker Natalie
Merchant performs 7:30 p.m. Friday,
May 21, at Pine Knob. $32 pavil-
ion/$15 lawn. (248) 645-6666.
Shock rocker Alice Cooper visits
Harmony House, 30830 Orchard
Lake Road, in Farmington Hills, to
sign copies of his new Rhino Records

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5/14
1999

76 Detroit Jewish News