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SUZANNE CHESSLER
Special to the Jewish News
S
oprano Nadia Weinberg
grew up in Michigan, in a
house rich with both
Jewish and Greek tradi-
tions, and it shows in her music.
"Most of my concerts have an
international repertoire because I
believe that music doesn't have bor-
ders and barriers," says Weinberg,
31, who divides her time between
homes in Bloomfield Hills and
Greece.
She has performed for Prince
Charles and President and Mrs.
Clinton, but soon will bring her tal-
ents back to Michigan in a concert
sponsored by the Hellenic Heritage
Society and the American Hellenic
Congress.
The program, "Beyond the Seas,"
which begins at 8 p.m. Tuesday,
March 20, at the Detroit Institute
of Arts, will benefit Greek studies at Nadia Weinberg: Combining her Jewish and
the University of Michigan. She will Greek heritages.
perform with the 14-piece Soloists
of the Symphony Orchestra of
Summers and secular holidays were in
Athens.
"I sing [20th-century] numbers that
Greece, where she moved after high
I love in English, Greek, Yiddish,
school for more voice training and to
Ladino, French, Italian, Spanish and
earn a degree in English literature at
Hebrew," says Weinberg. "I started
the American College in Athens.
singing Ladino because I live in a
"My parents helped raise money for
Sephardic community in Greece."
the families of political prisoners in
The vocalist's interest in many cul-
Greece during the '70s, and they came
tures grew out of her home environ-
in contact with Mikis Theodorakis,
ment, where she celebrated the Jewish
who composed the music for Zorba
traditions of her father, David
the Greek," recalls Weinberg.
Weinberg, and the Greek traditions of
"Many years later, my mother intro-
her mother, Effie Weinberg.
duced me to him. After hearing me
Her parents met in Greece, where
sing, he put me under his wing and
her American-born father taught
took me with him on some concerts
English before moving on to compara-
that he had in the States."
tive literature teaching positions at
Weinberg and Theodorakis recorded
Oakland University and Michigan
The Ballad of Mauthausen, which com-
State University. After a traditional
bined his music with poetry written
Greek marriage ceremony, the couple
by Jacob Kambanelis, who had been at
came to the United States for a Jewish
the Mauthausen concentration camp
wedding.
in Austria.
When Nadia Weinberg was young,
Other recordings featuring
the High Holidays generally were spent Weinberg include Crucifixion by
in Connecticut with her father's sister..
Yannis Boufidis, Limenarhis Evripou
by Panos Steliou and Nadia on
Tour.
The CDs will be available for sale
at her Detroit concert.
As Weinberg reached out to have a
more independent career, she
appeared with many orchestras, book-
ing concerts in Israel, Europe and
Australia. In the United States, she
has performed at Carnegie Hall and
Lincoln Center in New York and the
Kennedy Center for the Performing
Arts in Washington, D.C.
Effie Weinberg manages her
daughter's career.
"I am extremely proud of Nadia's
singing, but I am more proud that
she has remained down to earth,
has a tremendous feeling for peo-
ple and integrated two cultures
[into her life]," Effie Weinberg
says. "Each year, she does five ben-
efit concerts for the Jewish Greek
community and five for the
Christian Greek community"
The soprano, who sang at the
unveiling of the National
Holocaust Memorial in Greece
about three years ago, has an
annual Christmas program on
Greek television. While steeped in
her singing commitments, Weinberg
also is excited about being part of a
new film as singer and actress.
"I'm going to be making a docu-
mentary about a Greek island where
every Jewish person was saved [during
World War II]," explains Weinberg.
"It's going to be filmed on the island,
in Athens and in Israel. We start in
2_,
May" 7
Nadia Weinberg will perform 8
p.m. Tuesday, March 20, in the
Auditorium of the Detroit Institute
of Arts with Soloists of the
Symphony Orchestra of Athens.
The program benefits Greek stud-
ies at the University of Michigan.
Tickets, at S100, 550 and S25, are
tax deductible. (734) 459-3000.