GEORGE & LENNY
This Sunday's Detroit Symphony
Orchestra Summer Pops concert at
Meadow Brook Music Festival, under
the baton of Neeme Jarvi and titled a
"Gershwin Gala," features Gershwin's
Rhapsody in Blue and music from Porgy
and Bess as well as "Symphonic Dances"
from Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story.
Guest artists for the 7:30 p.m. July
18 program include soprano
Geraldine McMillian, baritone Peter
Lightfoot, the Brazeal Dennard
Chorale and pianist Matt Herskovitz.
Doors open 90 minutes before the
concert begins.
Herskovitz, who will play Rhapsody
in Blue, is a native of New York who
performs as both a classical and jazz
pianist. He is an active composer in
both idioms as well, and frequently is
featured with his trio on National
Public Radio.
Tickets are $8-$50, with special
discounts for those under 18.
Tickets can be purchased at the
Orchestra Hall box office, (313)
576-1111; the Palace box office,
(248) 377-0100; or through
Ticketmaster, (248) 645-6666. The
Meadow Brook box office is open 12-
5 p.m. Monday-Friday and on con-
cert days noon through the end of
the performance. Tickets also are
available online 24 hours a day at
www.detroitsymphony.com .
SON OF A BEATLE
When Julian Lennon was born 36
years ago at the height of Beatlemania,
legend has it that his father, John
Lennon, picked him up and welcomed
him to the world with these words:
"Who's going to be a famous little
rocker like his dad?"
For a while — with his debut
album Valotte a critical and audience
success — the younger Lennon
seemed to be headed in the direction
of his slain dad's earlier prognostica-
tion. But then, the young man for
whom Paul McCartney wrote "Hey
Jude" flopped with his second release,
and seemed to virtually disappear.
Earlier this year Julian Lennon put
out to generally more favorable reviews
his latest CD, Photograph
Smile. He makes a stop
Tuesday, July 20, with spe-
cial guests the Push Stars, at
7th House, 7 N. Saginaw,
in Pontiac on the Detroit
leg of his U.S. tour.
Doors are at 8 p.m.
Tickets are $20 and available
at all Ticketmaster outlets, or
by phone at (248) 645-
6666. For more informa-
tion, call (734) 996-8742.
FABULOUS FAIENCE
Splashes of turquoise, purple, red
and yellow decorate the pottery of
Joseph-Theodore Deck (1823-91), one
of the most influential potters of the
19th century. Working in Paris from
the early 1850s to 1891, Deck special-
ized in decorative earthenware (faience)
in a wide variety of styles, including
French and Italian Renaissance,
Chinese, Japanese and Islamic.
Deck, a master chemist,
had an encyclopedic knowl-
edge of the history of
ceramics, and his develop-
ment of new glazes, bril-
liant colors and styles of
decoration set him apart
from his contemporaries.
He borrowed motifs from
mediums such as metal-
work, textiles and porcelain.
In 1887, Deck pub-
lished La Faience, which
summarizes his 30 years
of scientific research on ceramics
and was one of the earliest scholarly
surveys of Western pottery.
Currently on display and running
through Nov. 7 at the Detroit Institute
of Arts is an exhibition tided "Joseph-
Theodore Deck The Art of Ceramics in
19th-Century France." The 22 ceramic
works, primarily on loan from the collec-
tion of Donald and Marilyn Ross, fea-
ture Deck's East Asian and Islamic styles.
Ceramics collector and specialist
PICTURE THIS
Since 1942, the Pulitzer Prize has
been one of the most distinguished
awards in journalism. The TNT
cable network special Moment of
Impact: Stories of the Pulitzer Prize
Photographs, produced and directed
by Cyma Rubin, tells the stories
behind six unforgettable Pulitzer
Prize-winning photographs as told
from the perspective of the photog-
raphers who took them. It premieres
8 p.m. Sunday, July 18.
Hosted by Sam Waterston, the
program features The Attack on
Johnny Bright, a sequence of six
photographs from John Robinson
and Don Ultang in 1951; Ruby
Shoots Oswald, by Robert H.
Jackson in 1963; Returning POW,
from Slava Veder in 1973; The
Stanley J. Forman: "The Boston Fire,"
Boston Fire, as captured by Stanley J.
Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography
Forman in 1975; Tragedy on Saratoga
1976 Forman's work paved the way for
Boston and other states to mandate
Road, from Thomas J. Kelly III in
tougher fire safety codes.
1978; and Rescue at Mantanzas Creek,
by Annie Wells in 1996.
The program encores at 9:30 and 1 1 p.m. Sunday, July 18, and 1 a.m.
Wednesday, July 21. Check your local cable listings.
Marilyn Ross will discuss her collec-
tion 2 p.m. Sunday, July 18, and 2
p.m. Sunday, Oct. 24, in Gallery
W104 of the DIA. Tracey Albainy,
associate curator of European
Sculpture and Decorative Arts, will
give a talk 2 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 15,
also in Gallery W104.
For more information, call the DIA
at (313) 833-7900; or access the Web
site at www.dia.org .
KLEZMER
SOUTHERN STYLE
The New Orleans Klezmer All-
Stars' (NOKAS) emotional repertoire
was born centuries ago, on roads trav-
eled by itinerant Eastern European
Jewish musicians. These days, their
music is made on the paths to punk
rock clubs and the world's folk stages.
The Village Voice called them "easily
the funniest and wildest of the klezmer
new wave" — and their appeal extends
across generational lines.
Out with a new CD, Fresh Out the
Past on the Shanachie label, the band
will perform Thursday, July 22, at the
Magic Bag, 22920 Woodward, in
Ferndale. The group is comprised of
Ben Ellman on baritone, alto and
soprano sax; Jonathan Freilich on
guitars; Glenn Hartman on accor-
dion, piano and organ; Arthur
Kastler on bass; Kevin O'Day on
drums; and Robert Wagner on clar-
inet and alto sax. "There are a lot of
emotions, parts of life you can't really
express in words," says Hartman. "All
you can do is just throw your hands
up in the air and dance.
With new songs like "Not Too Eggy'
(how Hartman likes his chopped chicken
liver) and "The Unholy Chazir" (one of
the first Yiddish words Freilich learned at
his grandmother's knee), NOKAS's latest
work is sure to inspire as much fun for
the audience as the group's previous
Detroit-area appearances.
Doors at 8. Tickets are $10. For more
information, call the Magic Bag event
hotline at (248) 544 3030 or access the
Web site at vvww.magicbag.com . Tickets '_/
are available at the Magic Bag box office
and all Ticketmaster locations or by
phone at (248) 645-6666.
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7/16
1999
76 Detroit Jewish News