educational outreach programs. The
gala includes cocktails, dinner and an
afterglow in a party tent adjacent to
Music Hall.
"I have heard it said that we have a
style of our own," says David about
his collaboration with Bacharach. "If
we do, it is never consciously con-
trived. Certainly, 'What the World
Needs Now Is Love' and 'What's New,
Pussycat?' are as far apart as the North
Pole and the South Pole. The same
thing can be said of Alfie' and 'Wives
and Lovers.' They are poles apart.
"The main thing we try to do is
find an original approach to whatever
song we are writing. Being different
just to be different is plain foolish-
ness. Anything that takes away from
the emotion we are trying to express,
we discard. When we achieve the
freshness we are looking for, it's a
wonderful thing."

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— Suzanne Chessler

Burt Bacharach will perform many
of his greatest hits in a benefit ball
for Music Hall Center for the
Performing Arts 7 p.m. Friday, June
28, at Music Hall in Detroit. $300
includes gala; $45-$75 concert
only. (313) 963-2366.

her artistry is for herself and some
unknown person who was killed by
the Nazis.
"My earliest memory is sitting on
the floor listening to the radio when
the United Nations voted to partition
[Palestine] for Israeli statehood," she
recalls.
"I went to Israel last December with
six other American artists in a program
that paired us with Israeli artists. All of
our work was presented to a govern-
ment hospital."
The wallcloth completed for the
hospital has an outdoor scene and is
directed at the various ethnic groups
that are treated there. She planned a
river of red in the center of her
image to symbolize that bloodshed
leads nowhere.
"It's a political statement for
peace," she says.

— Suzanne Chessler

Fine Art at Meadow Brook
Music Festival runs 10 a.m.-6
p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m.-5
p.m._ Sunday, June 22-23. $1
donation to Literacy Volunteers
of America. (248) 377-0100.

30005 ORCHARD LAKE ROAD
South of 14 Mile Rd.
Farmington Hills

248.932.9999

43080 GARFIELD ROAD
North of 19 Mile Rd.

51195 SCHOENHERR
North of 23 Mile Rd.

Clinton Township
588.263.9999

Shelby Township
586.731.6161

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