tions celebrated in her home, she
opted to give any spare time to practic-
ing rather than formal religious studies.
"Our group has done more work
with each year we've been together,
and-eighth blackbird brings in about
70 percent of our income," says
Kaplan, whose sextet has won the
Naumburg Chamber Music Award in
2000 and was featured in a segment of
Sunday Morning on CBS.

Multitude of Performers

Other Jewish artists invited to the
Great Lakes Festival are conductor
Philip Greenberg, a former Detroiter
who is music director of the
Savannah Symphony Orchestra;
pianist Ruth Laredo, a former
Detroiter whose engagements include
an annual series at New York's
Metropolitan Museum; violinist
Henry Meyer, a former member of
the LaSalle Quartet and professor
emeritus at the Cincinnati College
Conservatory of Music; and cellist
Paul Katz, a longtime member of the
Cleveland Quartet now heading a

training program at the New England
Conservatories.
Other visiting performers include cel-
list Andres Diaz, winner of the Avery
Fischer Career Grant and the Naumberg
International Cello Competition; pianist
Sandra Rivers, a concert artist who has
performed throughout the world; sopra-
no Linda Hohenfeld, a popular festival
singer; and the Elements String Quartet,
a group making many festival appear-
ances.
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Among the Detroit Symphony
Orchestra participants are clarinetist
Laurence Liberson, cellist Debra
Fayroian, oboist Donald Baker, horn
player Bryan Kennedy and horn player
Corbin Wagner.
John Harbison, a Pulitzer and
MacArthur prize-winning composer, is
this year's composer in residence.
"It's a very great privilege in these
times, when there is so much ugliness
[and violence] going on, to be so
closely in touch with the other side of
humankind," Ashkenasi says. "When I
play music, I see great creativity, soul,
depth and genius expressed by great
composers."

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St. Hugo of the Hills, 2215 Opdyke Road, Bloomfield Hills; Kirk in the Hills,
1340 W. Long Lake Road, Bloomfield Hills; Seligman Performing Arts Center,
22305 W. 13 Mile Road, Beverly Hills; St. Thomas Aquinas Church, 955
Alton, East Lansing; Grosse Pointe Memorial Church, 16 Lake Shore Road,
Grosse Pointe Farms; Kerrytown Concert House, 415 N. 4th Ave., Ann Arbor;
Detroit Institute of Arts and Detroit Zoological Park. (See schedule.)
Ashkenasi will perform June 19, 20, 21 and 23; eighth blackbird will
perform June 18, 19, 21 and 22.
Tickets are $7-$30 for individual concerts/$95-$110 for a five-concert
series/$115-$130 for a seven-concert series. For tickets and a complete
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June 19
Grosse Pointe Memorial
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June 21
Kerrytown Concert
House, Ann Arbor —
8 p.m. — (734) 769-2999
(Debussy, Rzewski,
Albert, Ravel)

June 23,
Detroit Institute of Arts
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June 24
Temple Beth El —
8 p.m. (Harbison)

June 28
Kerrytown Concert
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8 p.m. — (734) 769-2999
(Schubert, Grieg, Brahms)

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