REMEMBERING
BABI YAR

the program at both
venues.
Tickets at Orchestra
Hall are $19-$66; call
(313) 576-5111. Tickets
in Ann Arbor are $14-
$46; call (734) 764-2538.

The fair, featuring a chil-
dren's art area, a Pewabic
Pottery tile-making area
and a showcase of artwork
from disabled students of
the Kennedy Center
School, also offers a silent
auction, live entertainment
at three venues and refresh-
CELEBRATING
ments by local restaurants
GAIL ZIMMERMAN
and food vendors.
COMNION
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Proceeds from the fair bene-
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fit the 24-hour telephone
crisis
line and other com-
One hundred seventy-
munity and shelter service programs of
two artists from 32 states and Canada
the Common Ground Sanctuary.
chosen from a field of 950 entries will
Fair hours are 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
converge on Shain Park in Birmingham
Saturday and 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday,
this weekend during the 25th annual
Sept. 25-26. Admission is free. For more
Common Ground Sanctuary Art in the
information,
call (248) 456-8150.
Park. Mediums include basketry, ceram-
ics, drawing, general and wearable fibers,
blown and flat glass, handmade paper,
MOVIE MAMA
jewelry, leather, metals, mixed media,
The sisterhood and brotherhood of
painting, photography, printmaking,
Temple Beth El open their 1999-
sculpture and wood.

2000 Classic Film Series Sunday,
Sept. 26, with A Price Above Rubies.
The 1998 film, set in New York
City's Orthodox Jewish community,
tells the story of a young woman who
marries the "right" man, moves to the
"right" community and has a beauti-
ful baby. But her discovery of an
exciting world beyond her tightly
knit world sparks a desire for inde-
pendence that threatens the security
of what those around her deem a per-
fect life.
The movie, starring Renee
Zellweger and Julianna Margulies,
will be shown at 6:30 p.m. in the
temple's Handleman Hall. Following
the screening, Poonam Arora , a U-
M-Dearborn film studies instructor
and Ann Arbor Observer film critic,
will lead a discussion about the film.
The series is open to the commu-
nity at no charge. Refreshments will
be available. Reservations are not
necessary. (248) 851 9212.

Russian composer Dmitri
Shostakovich's Symphony No. 13
("Babi Yar") emerged in 1962 as the
choral symphony he had long planned
to compose. Lack of a suitable text
delayed the project until September
1961, when a new poem by the bril-
liant and bold Soviet poet Yevgeny
Yevtushenko was published.
The outspoken poem condemned
anti-Semitism in Russia and the mas-
sacre of 150,000 people, including
80,000 Jews, at Kiev by the Nazis
during World War II. Shostakovich
selected "Babi Yar" as the inspiration
for his first movement, and chose
four other poems by Yevtushenko to
complete the text for a five-move-
ment symphony.
Soviet officialdom discouraged
Shostakovich and Yevtushenko from
mounting a public performance of the
work. Nevertheless, it pre-
miered on Dec. 18, 1962, at
the Moscow Conservatory. The
TOUT TRUFIq'AlYr
capacity crowd burst into
spontaneous applause after the
Forty years ago, film director Francois
the Detroit Institute of Arts has sched-
Sundays and 7:30 p.m. Mondays. The
first movement and gave the
Truffaut's debut feature, The 400 Blows,
uled four weeks of Truffaut films, all in
scheduled films include The 400 Ifimdred
entire piece a lengthy standing
ushered in the cinematic phenomenon
new 35 mm prints.
Blows, Sept. 24; Shoot the Piano Player,
ovation. The next morning,
which came to be known as the French
Films will be screened 7 and 9:30 p.m.
Sept. 25; Jules and Jinn, Sept. 26; The Se
there was no review in Pravda.
Nev Wave, A former film crkic, Tmffaut
Fridays and Saturdays, 4 and 7 p.m.
Skin, Sept. 27; Stoien Kisses, Oct, 1; Bed
The work made its way to
made the film, a somber auto-
and Board, Oct. 2; Love on the
the United States five years
biographical account of an
Run, Oct. 3; Day for Night,
later via recording, and had its
alienated boy named Antoine
Oct. 4; The Last Metto, Oct.
U.S. premiere in January 1970
Doinel, in a veritable attempt
8; Two English Girls, Oct. 9;
by the Philadelphia Orchestra
to revolutioniz.e cinema. Upon
The 'aware' Door Oct
and Eugene Ormandy.
its release, Truffaut was imme-
10;
del, Oct 15;
"Babi Yar" will be performed
diately hailed as one of the
le H., Oct. 16;
by the Detroit Symphony
world's most promising film-
Oct. 17;
Orchestra under Conductor
makers.
ct 18.
Neeme Jarvi, with baritone
He went on to make 21
Sergei Lieferkus, the Estonian
features of remarkable ch
National Male Choir and the
sity, all of which displayed
University Musical Society
his belief that simplicity and
Choral Union, 8 p.m. Thursday
honesty in film best serve to
and Friday, Sept. 30-Oct 1, and
illuminate and enrich the
8:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 2, at
human soul, Truffaut died in
Orchestra Hall. The program
1984 at age 53.
travels to Ann Arbor's Hill
In a special treat for the
Auditorium for a University
of Francois Truffaut — and for A scene from Francois Tru aut's The Story of Adele H.," one of
Musical Society concert at 4
film goers who are unfamiliar
I5 films by the acclaimed director being shown by the Detroit
p.m. Sunday, Oct. 3.
with his work but should be
Film Theatre during the next four weeks. Pictured are.Isabelle
Kapp's Nordic Coast and
— the 'Detroit Film, Theatre at Adjani and Tiuffaut, who also acted in the film.
Grieg's Holberg Suite round out

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9/24
1999

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