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The Litt Family
Jewish Music Fund
presents
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a musical tribute to Regina Litt
featuring
Gerard Edery, Operatic Baritone Sephardic Balladeer
Cantor David Monteflore, Tenor
with
Erin Foster, percussionist
Regina Paplyants, pianist
Sephardic singer to highlight operatic skills
in Bizet duet with Beth Ahm cantor.
A program of Sephardic songs, opera arias, and duets
from Bizet's Carmen, the Pearl Fishers, and
La Jolie Fille de Perth
Sunday, November 4, 2001 at 3:30 RM.
The general public is cordially invited to attend this gala event.
FREE ADMISSION
Congregation Beth Ahm
5075 West Maple Road
between Inkster and Middlebelt, MI
248-851-6880
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DAVID SACHS
Senior Copy Editor
erard Edery is as versatile
in his musical repertoire as
he is diverse in his back-
ground.
Winner of the 1997 Sephardic
Musical Heritage Award, the
Casablanca, Morocco-born, Paris and
New York-raised Edery is as comfort-
able performing opera as he is singing
in an upbeat
Sephardic
rhythm.
Edery
will
exhibit
both
sides of
his tal-
ent 3
p.m. Sunday, Nov. 4, at Congregation
Beth Ahm in West Bloomfield. The
concert, sponsored by the Litt Family
Music Fund, will feature Sephardic
melodies in the first half. In the sec-
ond part, the classically trained Edery,
a low-voiced baritone, will perform
opera with Beth Ahm's cantor, tenor
David Montefiore, whose voice is
higher.
"We'll be
doing a cou-
ple of duets
together,"
said Edery.
I'm really
looking for-
ward to it.
"The Pearl
Fishers [by French
composer Bizet] has a
well-known duet
between baritone and
tenor," he said. "Most
duets are tenor-soprano —
the tenor always gets the
girl and the baritone is
crying in the wings that
he's missed his opportuni-
ty.
"There are relative-
ly few wonderful duets
for baritone and tenor.
This is one of them.
The tenor again gets
the girl, but there's a
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