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Warren Symphony Orchestra
Concertmaster Liz Rowin:
"What some of the players
lack in experience, thei make
up for in exuberance.

Wednesday, flouember 3, 1999 • 7 p.m.

D. Dan and Betty Kahn Building
6600 W. Maple, West Bloomfield

Pontiac-Oakland's music
director and conductor Greg
Cunningham "We all share
a limited pool of musicians."

Hear about the latest children's books, cookbooks,
fiction, non-fiction and Jewish books,

There's still time to reserve your place
for the Opening .flight Patron Reception.

Patrons will receive reserved seating and an
autographed copy of opening night speaker
Alan Dershowitz's book, Just Revenge.

Patron reception Saturday, nouember 6, 1999 • 7:15 p.m.

The JCC's D. Dan and Betty Kahn Building

Opening flight co-sponsored by:

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Opening Right Patron Reception co-sponsored by:

Honigman, Miller, Schwartz and Cohn;
Select Enterprise and Weight Watchers

To RSVP for the patron reception or for Book Fair information,
call Amy Brode at (248) 661-7649.

10/S
1999

76 Detroit Jewish News

Leonov, is rehearsing, but the perfor-
mance schedule will depend upon
funding. It takes about $10,000 to put
on a concert. An Oct. 24 concert fea-
turing music by Schubert,
Tchaikovsky, Nicolai and Elgar will
kick-start the orchestra's 47th season.
As we move into the next millenni-
um, orchestras like the Plymouth
Symphony continue to grow and
thrive. In 1945, local residents Evelyn
and Carl Groschke invited a group of
friends to gather at their home for the
enjoyment of playing instrumental
music. From that gathering, an
orchestra was born.
The first public performance was
given in 1947 and, 52 years later,
one of the original orchestra mem-
bers, Edith Schutze, just retired this
season. The Plymouth orchestra
relies on the combined efforts of
concerned citizens who serve on the
Symphony Society Board of
Directors and in the Symphony
League, as well as community volun-
teers. Longtime musicians include
violinist Janet Friedman, principal
viola Barbara Weiss and cellist Mary
Ann Marks.
The Pontiac-Oakland Symphony,
founded in 1954 as the Pontiac
Symphony, enters its 45th season. The
orchestra is unique in that it is part-
nered with Oakland University. "The
concert schedule is part of my teach-
ing load," says its director, Greg
Cunningham, who seeks to balance
the repertoire with a mix of new

IVan Washburn is the newly appointed
music director of the Plymouth Symphony

Detroit-area resident Lawrence Raphael
Singer premieres his Musique pour la
Sinfometta on Oct. 10 at the Grosse
Pointe War Memorial. Felix Resnick
will conduct the Emerald Sinfonietta.

music of our time and the old stan-
dards.
"We have to play what people want
to hear, but we don't want just to play
dead people's music," he says. The
university's Varner Recital Hall draws
a diverse audience which allows
Cunningham to debut works from the
composition faculty, while nurturing
the next generation with a hands-on
Instrument Petting Zoo program
before concerts.
Last year's Symphony of Sorrowful
Psalms, a work that framed texts of
Holocaust-related issues, attracted
audiences from throughout the metro
area, and Cunningham hopes to do
the same with this season's compelling
concerts featuring guest artists Flavio
Varani, Victoria Haltom and Nadine
Deleury, and Detroit soprano Betty
Lane.
As the region's maestro patriarch,
Felix Resnick proclaims, "The more
music, the better." Resnick joined the
DSO in 1943 and continues to play
violin for the orchestra. He earned a
master's degree in music from Wayne
State in 1946 and a conducting degree