United States and Canada.
Tickets, available at the
door, are $12 adults/$10
seniors/$7 children. For
more information, call
(248) 569-8514.

CHANUKA

RUSSIAN SOUL

CELEBRATION

Internationally known
singer Grisha Tsatskes will
be the guest entertainer at
a Chanuka concert 7:30
p.m. Saturday, Dec. 4, at
Akiva Hebrew Day
DANCING
School, 21100 West 12
Mile Road, in Southfield.
QUEEN
GAIL ZININIERNIAN
Sponsored by Friends
Arts
Entertainment
of Refugees of Eastern
Dance instructor Harriet
1.:Witor
Europe, the concert pro-
Berg will celebrate her
gram his been planned to
40th anniversary of teach-
appeal to all segments of the commu-
ing, dancing and directing at the
nity. Tsatske's repertoire includes songs
Jewish Community Center of
in English, Yiddish, Italian, Russian
Metropolitan Detroit, and the 35th
and Hebrew.
anniversary of the Festival Dancers, 4
The lyric tenor first appeared in
p.m. Sunday, Dec. 5. The event will
Detroit 25 years ago at Ford Auditorium, take place in the Marion and David
shortly after his arrival in the United
Handleman Hall in the Kahn Building
States. In the former Soviet Union, he
on the Applebaum Jewish Community
studied at the Tchaikovsky Moscow
Campus in West Bloomfield.
Conservatory, and went on to become a
In honor of the occasion, the
popular concert singer. He has sung at
Festival Dancers will perform two new
the Moscow Synagogue, Carnegie Hall
works: "Becoming American Women,"
and many other venues throughout the
recalling the immigrant experience, and

Airing at 3:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 5,
on Detroit Public Television-Channel
56 is a one-hour special devoted to
Chanuka and hosted by Broadway and
film star Theodore Bikel. A Taste of
Chanuka, taped before a live audience
in the New England Conservatory of
Music's Jordan Hall, was directed by
Hankus Netsky, founder and director
of the Klezmer Conservatory Band.
The concert portion of the program
features more than 150 musicians and
soloists from the New England
Conservatory, as well as gospel and chil-
dren's choruses. Humorist Chasia Segal,
an 83-year-old Yiddishist, demonstrates
the preparation of perfect potato latices.
Bikel relates several brief stories about
Chanuka and its traditions.
A Taste of Chanuka is presented as
part of Detroit Public Television's
December pledge drive. Individual
giving accounts for 66 percent of the
station's annual budget.

LOVE STORY

a newly commissioned work based on
the Eastern European folk tale "Skotsl
Kumt," choreographed by Jessica Fogel.
Former dance students and dance
artists from throughout the United
States will perform, including Peter
Sparling, Christopher Pilafian, and Beth
and Hughthir White. Films of past
events and performances will be shown,
and a special 75th birthday cake-cutting
will complete the festivities.
For reservations, call (248) 661-7649.

FACE

To

FACE

In June of 1890, during his conva-
lescence in Auvers and just one month
before his suicide, Vincent van Gogh
(1853-1890) wrote: "What fascinates
me much, much more than does any-
thing else in my metier is the portrait,
the modern portrait. ... I should like to
do portraits which will appear as reve-
lations to people in 100 years time."
Taking this famous passage as a point
of departure, the Detroit Institute of
Arts will premier "Van Gogh: Face to
Face," a major exhibition featuring 60
paintings and drawings from an interna-
tional array of public and private collec-
tions, March 12 June 4, 2000.
Tickets are required for the exhi-
bition, which is sure to be a sell-out.
Tickets are free for DIA members and
may be ordered now. Timed tickets go
on sale to the general public on Dec.
10: $16 adults Monday-Friday/$18
adults Saturday and Sunday/$8 ages 6-
17/free children 5 and under. To order
tickets, call (248) 433-8444; a $5.50
handling charge will be applied to
each phone order. There is no han-
dling charge if tickets are purchased at
the DIA box office.
For information about the
exhibit and group tours, call the Van
Gogh hotline at (313) 833-8499. To
join or renew membership to the
DIA, call the Membership hotline at
(313) 833-7971.
Detroit Public Television airs
the 90-minute documentary Van
Gogh's Van Goghs, which takes
viewers on a guided tour of the
1998-99 blockbuster Van Gogh
exhibition at the National Gallery
of Art in Washington, D.C., 5
p.m. Sunday, Dec. 5.

-

If you loved Shakespeare in Love,
which fictionalized the playwright's
writing of the classic tale of the
Montagues and Capulets, you won't
want to miss the opportunity to see
the full-blown version of what is sure-
ly one of the most passionate and trag-
ic love stories of all time.
Lavinia Moyer, award-winning
artistic director of the Attic Theatre
from 1976-1994, returns to metro
Detroit to direct Shakespeare's Romeo
and Juliet for Wayne State University's
Bonstelle Theatre. The play will be
performed 8 p.m. Fridays and
Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays, Dec.
3-5 and 10-12.
For this production, Moyer con-
sulted with her design team to create a
Verona that is contemporary and
familiar to today's audience yet also
retains a feel of Old-World beauty and
mystery. The costumes evoke a con-
temporary line of clothing from the
1920s.
Tickets are $8-$10. Group rates are
available. Call (313) 577-2960.

Clockwise fi•om top left:

Theodore Bikel hosts `A. Taste
of Chanuka” on Sunday.

Kavita Matani and Dean Cechvala are
the star-crossed lovers in the Bonstelle
*Theatre production of "Romeo and

Grisha Tsatskes performs Saturday at
Akiva Hebrew Dig School,

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