Arts & Entertainment Around Town Broza Concert Aids Academy a urger-guitarist David Broza has a new album to introduce as he comes to Michigan for a concert benefiting the Jewish Academy of Metropolitan Detroit. All Or Nothing, also available in Hebrew and Spanish, captures his multicultural approach to entertainment. "All of my albums are personal albums as far as the subjects I pick," says Broza, 46, who will be appearing at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 8, at the Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield. "They don't necessarily follow a theme. They are anything my emotions and mind get attached to." Broza, who has recorded 23 albums, often turns to famous poets for lyrical adaptations that mix fla- menco and salsa sounds with folk-rock melodies. This approach has made him a popular seminar leader at colleges, including Bennington, where he has been artist-in-residence. Broza, born in Spain and relocated to Israel before setting up residence in America, has volunteered for humanitarian causes, such as UNICEF, and entertained troops, both Israeli and American, during the fir s t Gulf War. He also has written an Israeli peace anthem, "YihveTove," based on a poem by Yehonaton Geffen and adapted by American lyric writer Terry Cox. Besides appearing before local religious groups, Broza has performed at the Ann Arbor Folk Festival. "I look for a short vignette in a lyric that inspires me to compose," says Broza, whose first two albums included his own lyrics. "I go by what captures my eye and captures me personally. "It has to have a story and a great opening line for me to go on reading it. I direct my songs toward audiences that have an acquired taste for story telling. A lot of rock 'n' roll is the move, the vibes, the feel, but I like to look for a little bit more depth." — Suzanne Chessler David Broza will perform 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 8, at the Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield. $25. (248) 592-5263. `Reflections' In The Water a usan Friedman's "Reflections "shows her attrac- tion to water. Her paintings of wetlands, ponds and streams — some 20 of them exhibited with the title "Reflections"— will be on view through May 13 in the Woods Gallery at the Huntington Woods Library. Susan "I like the play of light on water," Friedman: says Friedman, a Huntington Woods "Swamp resident who teaches art in the Hazel Lace." Park school district. "I also like the way the wind causes different effects on water." Friedman, who also will be showing one still life, has occasional animals in some of her water scenes. Friedman says she always has been interested in art, earning her bachelor's degree at Wayne State University and her master's degree at Hunter College in New York. She has been represented in many group shows and sells her work through Marshall Fields' interior designers and the Gruen Gallery in Chicago. "I consider my work very Midwestern," says Friedman, who is not Jewish but has raised her grown twin daughters in the Jewish faith. "My paintings are in the tradition of the American painters of the heartland." — Suzanne Chessler "Reflections "will be on view through May 13 at the Huntington Woods Library, 26415 Scotia. Gallery hours are 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Mondays-Thursdays, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturdays and 1-5 p.m. Sundays. (248) 543-9720. • -,10 4/ 4 2003 74 W0V,, " "Fs'agrF7' Darker Side Of Romance T hree one-act plays by Kitty Dubin join with three one-act plays by Kim Carney for the production Could This Be Love? running April 10-May 11 at the Trinity Theatre in Livonia. The comic vignettes are being presented by the Flanders Theater Company. "Our theme has to do with looking for love in all the wrong places," explains Dubin, who was hon- ored last year with a Jewish Women in the Arts Award. "It's about the darker side of romance." Dubin, whose plays have been performed by the Jewish Ensemble Theatre as well as other companies inside and outside Michigan, will be showcasing Skin Deep, which is about a woman seeking to make her- self more eligible through plastic surgery; Joy of Sex, which has a couple sparring in the company of an inept marriage counselor; and Bye Bye Love, which follows two women who meet at a funeral home. Carney's plays include Alone Together, which looks at two strangers in a restaurant; Messages, which chronicles a relationship through answering machines; and Meltdown, which explores motives. "I came up with the idea of pooling these plays because Kim and I know and read each other's works, hold respect for one another and have become very close friends," explains Dubin, who brings her experi- ence as a former marriage counselor into her writing. "Kim's also acted in a number of plays I've written." Appearing in this production are Mark Barrera, Lise Lacasse, Annie Palmer and Timothy McKernan. They play 13 different roles under the direction of Nancy Elizabeth Kammer. — Suzanne Chessler Could This Be Love? will be presented April 10- May 11 at the Trinity House Theatre, 38840 Six Mile, Livonia. Performances are 8 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays and 6 and 9 p.m. Saturdays. There is no show on May 2, but there will be a 2 p.m. matinee on May 11. $14/$12 seniors. (313) 538-5739 or (734) 464-6302. Ann Arbor `Yiddish' Symphony symphony performance will be part of the dou- A ble-chaff (36th) anniversary celebration of an Ann Arbor congregation at the same time it launch- es a concert series in the city. The Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra will per- form Yiddish selections Sunday evening, April 6, at Temple Beth Emeth as the musicians begin their "Stained Glass Series." Cantor Annie Rose and the Temple Beth Emeth Adult Choir will be featured. "The 'Stained Glass Series' was something I started when I was with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra," says maestro Arie Lipsky. "The idea was to pair up the Philharmonic with talented local church and temple choirs to perform unique reper- toire in a more intimate setting than - a great big hall." The program includes Khalutsim Lider, a song cycle featuring "Oifn Pripetschik," "Rozhinkes Mit Mandlen," "Tschiribim" and "Gey Ich Mir Shpatsiren." Also on the program are Mozart's Symphony No. 29 and excerpts from Handel's Solomon. The collaboration serves as the third concert of four marking the temple's anniversary. The next will be a children's program presented May 4 by Gemini. Rose, who has worked in Maryland and Massachusetts, is one of the first women in the United States to hold a major cantorial pulpit. The choir, which has 50 members, has just completed a three-year cycle of concerts exploring Jewish music and is preparing for its first European tour. "The result of knitting together the symphony and [religious] choirs is the presentation of music that can't be heard anywhere else by community members," Lipsky says. "The program integrates the symphony and the community in the best of ways." — Suzanne Chessler The first concert in the "Stained Glass Series" begins 7 p.m. Sunday, April 6, at Temple Beth Emeth, 2309 Packard, Ann Arbor. $36. (734) 665-4744.