Broken Glass

by Arthur Miller

Directed by Evelyn Orbach

class with Dr. Judith Becker [director
certs scheduled Thursday and Friday
of the U-M ensemble], who had us
before the adult program. A native of
learn a simple gamelan piece. I was
Israel, he performed with orchestras
familiar with it through reading and
while still a youngster himself.
listening, but I had never played it. I
Currently the resident conductor of
was hooked right off the bat, and
the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra,
there was no going back."
he began his career playing the flute
Gould says he enjoys the music
and cello.
becaUse of its spiritual, meditative
"Youth concerts are my favorite,
quality. He also likes that it is a com-
and I've done many of them in
munal approach without any solos.
Buffalo," says Lipsky, 45, who also has
"Javanese gamelan is a combination
been guest conductor for many
of indigent and
imported instru-
ments," explains
Gould, whose ensem-
ble has 15 members.
"Most of the instru-
ments are made out
of bronze and they're
struck with a mallet.
Each one has its own
shape because it's
hammered metal.
"Westerners are
pretty familiar with
the gong, and that
originally came from
Indonesia. `Gong' is
one of the only
Indonesian words we
Arie Lipsky
have in English."
This is Gould's
second commission
from a major sym-
phony orchestra. His
" work Watercolors, for English horn
orchestras across the country, includ-
and chamber orchestra, was commis-
ing the Charleston, Indianapolis and
sioned and recorded by the Albany
New Jersey symphonies and the
Symphony Orchestra. An earlier
Cleveland Philharmonic Orchestra.
piece, Puja, draws on influences
"We'll be doing small pieces of great
from Hindi music, and Bollywood,
worth."
movies from India.
The program includes Copland's
Gould, who was raised in upstate
Fanfare for the Common Man,
New York, never completed high
Beethoven's Turkish March and Prince
school. Instead, he went to Simon's
Igor Overture by Aleksandr Borodin.
Rock, a school to develop special abili-
These will be Lipsky's first concerts
ties, where he was encouraged to com-
in Ann Arbor. In 1981, while a stu-
pose, then on to Bard College. He
dent at the Cleveland Institute of
chose U-M because of the caliber of
Music, he was artist in residence for
its music studies.
the Monroe Public Schools and per-
"About five years ago, I got really
formed. there on a regular basis.
interested in klezmer [eastern
In his present position in Buffalo, -
European Jewish bluesy-jazz], and that
Lipsky shares the administrative and
led me to be interested in sacred
programming responsibilities with
music as well," says Gould, who was
music director JoAnn Fallett and Doc
brought up in a non-observant home.
Severinsen, the principal pops conduc-
"I listened to a lot of klezmer and
tor who used to be the band leader on
cantorial music, and I did a piece, The
The Tonight Show with Johnny
Devil's Tail, that was klezmer-inspired
Carson.
in 1995. The next year, I did another
Although he had not heard Gould's
piece, Meditation, which was largely
piece before his trip to Michigan,
inspired by Jewish sacred music, for a
Lipsky was looking forward to per-
chamber orchestra in New York."
forming the new, exotic work.
A very different background comes
"I just like good music," he says.
to the program as Lipsky conducts
"Sometimes it's classical. Sometimes
Lokananta for the sold-out youth con-
it's chamber. Sometimes it's pops." ❑

"I just like good music ---
Sometimes
it's classical.
Sometimes
it's chamber.
Sometimes
it's pops."

It is 1938 Brooklyn in Arthur Miller's new
play about sexual awakening, the
consequences of denial, and the toll that social
injustice takes on an individual.

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