FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE

Featured performers include Cantor Stephen
Dubov; singer Marsha Rofel; Beth El's own Boogie
Woogie Girls, Susan Abramson, Emily Eichenhorn
and Sandra Jacobovitz; and the Fabulous Swing
Dancers, led by Christine Dubov.
The program is open to the entire community;
tickets are $10 per person. For more information,
call the temple, (248) 865-0617.

WELSH WONDER

In 1988, the Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
was given permission to start the Moscow Cantorial
Academy, with the goal of reviving the art of cantori-
al and choral synagogue music in Russia.. Two years
later, some of the academy's best singers, along with
vocalists from other Russian conservatories, formed
the Moscow Chamber Jewish Choir as an interna-
tional touring ensemble.
GAIL ZIM MERMAN
JEFFERSON'S AMERICA
Celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, the
Arts 6. Ente rtainment
Twenry-one-year-old Shannon Lanier, a seventh-
' Edi for
choir has appeared on many well-known stages
generation
grandson of President Thomas Jefferson
around the world, and at 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 26,
and his enslaved mistress Sally Hemings, has known about his
will perform a concert at Temple Beth El in
heritage all his life.
Bloomfield Township.
Jane Feldman, a photojournalist whose work centers on fam-
The choir's repertoire includes liturgical masterpieces, various
ily and confronting racism, met Lanier in 1999 at the
secular Jewish compositions in Hebrew and Yiddish, melodies
Monticello Association's annual reunion, the first year the
from American musical theater, arias from operatic classics, tra-
Hemingses were invited.
ditional Russian and other European musical hits, and jazz
It was Feldman's goal to photograph this "extraordinary
compositions.
American family" standing as one for the first time on the steps
Tickets are $20-$30. For more information, call (248) 967-2146.
of Monticello.
Realizing there was more to this story than one photograph,
Lanier and Feldman traveled around the country for 12
BIG BAND BONANZA
months, interviewing and photographing the descendants of
The Big Band Express, with leader Stu Sanders and vocal-
Thomas,
his wife Martha and Sally for their book, Jefferson's
ist Denise Stevens, plays the music made famous by Benny
Children:
The Story of One American Family.
Goodman, Harry James, Duke Ellington and the Dorsey
Lanier will give a lecture and slide presentation 1 p.m.
Brothers.
Saturday, Oct. 21, at the Charles H. Wright Museum of
At 7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 23, they'll return to Temple Beth
African-American
History, followed by a book signing with co-
El in Bloomfield Township for an encore performance of
author/photographer
Feldman. Free with museum admission:
"Sentimental Journey," the July concert that drew a standing-
$5
adults/$3
children.
(313) 494-5800, Ext. 0.
room-only crowd and had the audience dancing in the aisles.

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Pianist Louis Nagel performs "Liszt: A
Concert with Commentary," 4 p.m.
Sunday, Oct. 22, at Kerrytown
Concert House in Ann Arbor. $10-
$25. (734) 769-2999.
The Emerald Sinfionetta, under
conductor Felix Resnick, presents
"Musical Milestones - Going for
Baroque," featuring the Detroit pre-
miere of the late Carmine Coppola's
Concerto for Accordeon with guest artist
Peter Soave, 7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 22,
at the Grosse Pointe War Memorial.
$15-$20. (313) 438-0780.
Detroit Oratorio Society, along with
Detroit Chamber Winds, performs
Bach, Handel and Haydn 8 p.m.
Wednesday, Oct. 25, at Kirk in the
Hills Church in Bloomfield Hills.
$10-$28. (248) 650-2655.
Scotland's bagpipe band Black
Watch headlines an afternoon cele-

brating the music of Scotland,
England, Ireland and Wales 2 p.m.
Sunday, Oct. 22, at Joe Louis Arena.
$18.50-$37.50. (248) 645-6666.
The Maxwell Street Klezmer Band
takes the stage 7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 22,
at Macomb Center for the Performing
Arts. $23-$26. (810) 286-2222.
Jazz-fusion drummer Dave Wecid visits
Ferndale's Magic Bag Tuesday, Oct. 24.
Doors at 8 p.m. $15. (248) 544 3030.
The Detroit Symphony Pops presents
Halloween Horrors, with special guests
the Magic Circle Mime Company,
10:45 a.m. and 8 p.m. Thursday, 8:30
p.m. Friday and Saturday and 3 p.m.
Sunday, Oct. 26-29, at Orchestra Hall.
$15-$70. (313) 576-5111.
The Bonstelle Theatre opens its sea-
son with The Song of Jacob Zulu, a
play by South African playwright Tug
Yourgrau that asks the question
whether violence is ever justified, Oct.
27-29 and Nov. 3-5. Call for show

times. $8-$10. (313) 577-2960.
Henry Ford Museum's IMAX Theatre
introduces CyberWorld 3D, a 3D adven-
ture with special appearances by comput-
er-animated characters from The Simpsons
and AIVTZ, to its lineup through spring
2001. Call for show times. $8.50-$10.
(313) 271-1620/www.hfmgv.org .
Jeff Daniel's film version of Escanaba
in Da Moonlight premieres 3 p.m.
Sunday, Oct. 22, at the Fox Theatre.
Festivities begin at 2, with a reception
following the screening at Comerica
Park. $15-$50. (313) 433-1515.
Youtheatre presents the musical revue
Reading Rainbow 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.
Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 21-22,
at the Millenium Center in Southfield.
$10/$8 advance. (248) 557-7529.
Royal Oak's Ariana Gallery presents its
12th annual contemporary teapot show
Oct. 21-Nov 21. Opening reception: 5-7
p.m. Saturday, Oct. 21. (248) 546-8810.
Ferndale's Revolution Gallery pres-

Welsh-born bass-baritone
Bryn Terfel has said that
being born Welsh "is not
to be born with a silver
spoon in your mouth but
with music in your heart."
Winning the Lieder Prize at
the 1989 Cardiff Singer of
the World contest catapult-
ed the opera singer's career,
and the
past
decade has
been filled
with
impressive
debuts
and col-
Brian Terfel
labora-
tions. The
35-year-old Terfel makes
his first Michigan appear-
ance 8 p.m. Wednesday,
Oct. 25, in a University
Musical Society-sponsored
concert at Hill Auditorium
in Ann Arbor. Tickets are
$20-$55. (734) 764-2538.

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ents the sculpture, drawing and pho-
tography of Cranbrook Academy of
Art head of ceramics and artist-in-resi-
dence Tony Hepburn Oct. 21-Nov.
25. Opening reception: 5-7 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 21. (248) 541-3444.
The Woods Gallery in the
Huntington Woods Library presents
the work of the Michigan Weavers
Guild through Nov. 28. "Meet the
Artists" reception: 7-9 p.m. Thursday,
Oct. 26. (248) 543-9720.
The Detroit Zoo's seventh annual
Zoo Boo, where children can trick-
or-treat through the zoo, will be held
6-9 p.m. Oct. 20-22, 26-29 and 31.
$7.50 adults/$5.50 children under
12/under 2 free. Information: (248)
541-5835; tickets available at
Ticketmaster locations only.
The Motor City Comic Con visits
the Novi Expo Center 11 a.m.-7 p.m.
Saturday and 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday,
Oct. 21-22. (248) 426-8059.

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