Middle East Melody Israel musical ensemble enchants Detroit students. DIANA LIEBERMAN Staff Writer El Darma's musical tour included Israeli, Middle Eastern and Balkan music, along with improvisation and contemporary styles. Sponsoring Sela and his ensemble was the Mid East/West Festival, under the direction of Sylvia Kaufman of Muskegon. Local sponsors of the festi- val include Bank One and the Jewish Community Council of Metropolitan Detroit. This school year, the festival fea- tured three musical ensembles, while also providing schools with a detailed classroom curriculum on Israel and Turkey. D e looked like the Pied Piper, a thin eccentrically dressed fellow, closing his eyes in ecstasy as he played a haunting melody. And when he called the young peo- ple of Detroit up to the stage, they came in droves. However, that's where the resem- blance between Eyal Sela and the Pied Piper ends. While the fictional charac- ter led his young followers into obliv- ion inside a mountain, Sela, the Israeli master of the clarinet and ethnic wind instru- The clarinet takes ments, wanted only to Sela to another place. introduce the students to new horizons in music. Sela and his ensemble of highly trained musi- cians, Darma, appeared in Detroit April 25-27. They performed and conducted workshops at three middle schools and two elementary schools, all in the Detroit Public School system. In addition, the five-member ensemble performed twice for Detroit student groups at the Detroit Opera House. Granholm Addresses Bonds Dinner Volunteers Recognized Michigan Attorney General Jennifer Granholm will be the speaker at the 2001 State of Israel Bonds Attorney Division Tribute Dinner hon- oring Judge Martin Doctoroff and Judge Michael D. Schwartz. The dinner will be 6 p.m. Jennifer Wednesday, May 16, Granholm at Congregation Shaarev Zedek. Judges Doctoroff and Schwartz will receive the Eleanor Roosevelt Humanities Award in recognition of their contributions to the legal profes- sion and for their years of dedicated public service. For dinner information, call the Detroit Israel Bonds office, (248) 342- 6555 or (888) 352-6556. In honor of National Volunteer Week, the Jewish Home and Aging Services hosted its annual Volunteer Recognition Party at the Fleischman Residence / Blumberg Plaza in West Bloomfield. The speaker was Ellen Labes, co-chair, Commission on Jewish Elderly Services. Recipients of special volunteer awards included: Volunteer of the year, Howard and Sheldon Green; Auxilian of the Year, Rose Cooper; Community Group of the Year, Temple Israel's Caring Committee; Young Adult of the Year, Rachel Jacobson; Youth of the Year, Jacob and Emily Rossberg; Religious Volunteer of the Year, David Hauer; JHAS Guardianship Program Volunteer of the Year, Molly Diamond and Anna Mickel; Jewish Community Chaplaincy Program Volunteer of the Year, Paul Lefkowitz and Yeshivas Darchei Torah; Dorothy and Peter Brown Center Volunteer of the Year, Mae Moss; Auxiliary President's Award, Mary Tarnow. The Golden Hearts Award recognizes outstanding volunteers over 80 years of age at the Jewish Home and Aging Services. They are Florence Aaron, Rosalie Bassin, Beatrice Cohen, Molly Diamond, Gretl Frank, Andrew Gawronsky, Marian Goldman, Bessie Kutnick, Israel Landa, Eve Lieberman, Eva Maister, Sadie Maltzman, Ethel Marks, Anna Mickel, Muriel Robbins, Merry Silber, Leo Weber, Ida Wright. BBYO Directors Meet May 24 The Michigan BBYO Board of Directors will hold its annual meeting 7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 24, at the Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield. The speaker will be Allan Gonsher of Omaha, Neb. Gorisher is presi- dent of Kids Inc., a professional counsel- ing agency. Allan Gonsher The meeting will feature the election and installation of the Michigan BBYO Board of Directors for the 2001-2002 program year. A dessert reception will follow. For reservations, call BBYO by May 20, (248) 788-0700. JCC Hosts Art Show Eyal Sela and Darma are accompanied by Detroit Public School students at the Detroit Opera House. 5/11 2001 46 Jeff Johnson, a kinetic artist, will have his art works on display at the Jewish Community Center in Oak Park May 13-20. On Tuesday, May 15, at 7:30 p.m., Johnson will discuss his work. A reception will follow. The public is invited to attend, free of charge. For information, call the JPM building, (248) 967-4030. Volunteers Needed For 'Greening' Women are needed to help turn an urban park green Wednesday, May 16. Volunteers will meet for breakfast at 8:15 a.m. at the Max M. Fisher Federation Building in Bloomfield Township and then spend the morning planting trees at the Elisabeth Gordon Sachs Park on Jefferson Avenue, east of the Renaissance Center in downtown Detroit. Carpools will return to the Federation building at 1 p.m. The event is a com- bined effort ofTikkun Olam Volunteers (TOV), a program of the Jewish Federation Women's Campaign and Education Department and Greening Detroit. Judy Rubin is chair of TOV; Arlene Selik is associate chair. Paula Glazier is president of the Federation Women's Campaign and Education Department; Susie Pappas is vice president. For information, call Alaine Waldshan, (248) 203-1486.