ckVS" • Dinner Lowell Liebermann's Concerto for Flute and Orchestra with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. "I've only been doing recitals with my older daughter for a few years as her career is blossoming internationally," says Zukerman, whose younger daughter, Natalia, 25, is an artist and singer/song- writer in California. "I get to do a few things with Arianna each year, and ,ler father gets to do a fey ,: things with her each year. Mostly, she's our there on her own as an opera singer and recitalist." The flutist's first husband, Arianna's father, is famed violinist Pinchas Zukerman. The instrumentalist's sec- ond husband is screenwriter/director David Seltzer ( The Omen). Zukerman, who has been an arts correspondent for the CBS program Sunday Morning since 1980, has served as artistic director of the Vail Valley Music Festival in Colorado since 1998. She has published two novels, Deceptive Cadence and Tthing the Hear, but her most satisfying writing experi- ence has come with Coping With Prednisone, a project with her sister Dr. Julie Ingelfinger. It derails Zukerman's fight against lung disease and the side effects of the medicine she needed ro survive. (Zukerman has been disease free for the past five years.) "My priority every day is playing the flute," Zukerman SaVS. "First of. all, it's a physical thing, but, more than that, it is a spiritual connection. If I don't play the flute, I feel very empty. It's a Yen., demanding instrument, and I have, with very hard work, achieved a certain level of playing that I'm very tenacious about keeping." Zukerman describes her spiritual con- nection to Judaism as very private but also reflected in her work. She has played the flute in Israel and at the United Stares Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., where she has shared the stage with her daughter. "I'm a practicing Jew who practices at home," says the instrumentalist. "I have [passages] that I like to read, sometimes on Shabbat. -We [observe] Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Passover and Chanukah [at home], but I do not belong to a synagogue. If I'm travc.ng ar the time of the High Holy Days, I will go to a synagogue wherever I am so I've been to disparate places for worship." Zukerman and her husband, who are very encouraging about each other's careers, describe themselves as "geo- graphically challenged." She is in New York, while he is based in California. The couple delayed their marriage for five years because they believe it would have been an imposition on their chil- dren to live as part of a stepfamily. "I wanted to give my children struc- ture," says Zukerman, who salutes par- ents successful with blended families in one home. "I've encouraged them but also have ler them know when I am not pleased. I can't say I was a strict mother, but I certainly expected many things from them. I think children like to be honored by expectations." Zukerman's approach ro motherhood gets applause from her oldest daughter. "Ifs always a pleasure ro make music with my mother," says Arianna Zukerman, 27, whose operatic debut rook place in 1996 at the Chautauqua Institution. "Programming then becomes a pleasure also because it's fun to find things that we both like to do to showcase both the flute and voice. Nly mother is incredibly gracious, graceful and intelligent, and I can only hope that I have some of those qualities in myself." In the Zukerman household, both daughters were introduced to instru- mental instruction when they were very small. Their musical parents think that instrumental instruction expands the ability ro think on every level. It also was something we wanted to do, probably because Nye saw them [prac- ticing and performing] and it looked like fun," says the soprano, who studied the- ater at Brown University before deciding to go into opera and transferring to Juilliard for her bachelor's degree. Arianna Zukerman, who has per- formed in Israel and will be making her debut with the Israel Philharmonic in November, just returned from per- forming with the Moscow Chamber Orchestra. Besides accepting perform- ances with American opera companies and orchestras, she has appeared with the Bavarian State Opera in Germany, the English Symphony Orchestra in the United Kingdom and the Festival Internacional de Musica in Spain. "I'm very pleased to be able to share Mother's Day making music with my mother," says the soprano, who is engaged to New York photographer Peter Bussiam and is active with the American Friends of the Israel Philharmonic. "I hope that a little bit of the closeness that we share will be evident in the music that we make and that the closeness will bring joy to other mothers and daughters sit- ting in the audience." Eugenia and Arianna Zukerman will perform at 3 p.m. Sunday, May 13, at the Wharton Center for Performing Arts on the campus of Michigan Stare University in East Lansing. 524. (800) 942-7866. . ... .... .. 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