Arts & Entertainment Best Bets PoP/RocK/JAzz/FoLK DANCE FEVER DTE Energy Music Theatre presents Rock Never Stops, featuring hard rockers Festival Dancers, the dance company Whitesnake, Warrant and more, 6:30 in residence at the Jewish Community p.m. Saturday, Aug. 23, $23-$38; and Center of Metropolitan Detroit whose Canadian singer-songwriter Bryan Adams, members perform modern interpretive 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 28, $19.50- dance as well as traditional Israeli and $38.50. (248) 645-6666. Yemenite folk dance highlighting their Meadow Brook Music Festival welcomes Jewish heritage, hosts an open house for GAIL ZIMMERMAN the tribute stage presentation Get Back! interested dancers Thursday, Aug. 28, at Arts c Entertainment The Cast of Beatlemania, 8 p.m. Saturday, the Jewish Community Center in West Editor Aug. 23, $10-$20; and jazz artists David Bloomfield. The open house includes an Sanborn and The Crusaders, 8 p.m. intermediate technique class from 9:30- Sunday, Aug. 24, $18.50-$34.50. (248) 645-6666. 1 1 a.m. and a meet-the-company and see-the-reper- Sterling Heights' Freedom Hill Amphitheatre tory session from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. For more informa- presents the Beach Boys 7:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 29. tion, contact group founder Harriet Berg, (313) $25-$45. (248) 645-6666. 875-6354. The Ark in Ann Arbor presents "country and crab- grass" band the Austin Lounge Lizards, 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 23, $11; and L.A. rock band Little Feat, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 24, $25. (734) 761-1451. Directed by Richard Benjamin, Marci X, rated R Singer/songwriter Liz Phair performs Monday, and opening in area theaters Friday, Aug. 22, stars Aug. 25, at Detroit's St. -Andrew's Hall. Doors at 7 Lisa Kudrow of Friends fame as a pampered Jewish p.m. $20. (248) 645-6666. American Princess who takes over her father Ben Re-creating Grateful Dead set lists, the Dark Star Feld's rapper record label — despite no experience Orchestra takes the stage at Magic Bag in Ferndale in the business world — when he is felled by a heart Friday, Aug. 29. Doors at 8 p.m. $20. (248) 544 3030. attack. Benjamin, Damon Wayans, Jane Krakowski THE BIG SCREEN . esley and Jay Kutinsky like to talk about Rosalyn Tureck's piano performance at the Meadow Brook Music Festival many years ago, but the performances that have the most meaning were in their Farmington Hills home. Tureck, an international musician known for her mastery of the Bach repertoire, was a cousin and stayed with the Kutinsky family when she appeared in Michigan concerts. Recollections are important now as Tureck relatives plan to attend a memorial service at Temple Emanu- El in New York City on Sept. 9. The pianist, born in Chic.ago but living most of her life in England, died July 17 of cancer. She was 88. "Rosalyn really was a presence," says Jay Kutinksy, whose late mother, Elsi Torreck Kutinsky, was a first cousin of the renowned artist. "She got a standing ovation at Meadow Brook, where she also conducted master classes, and she brought tears to everyone's eyes when she played in our home." Tureck, who performed the works of Bach for more than 60 years in L 8/22 and Christine Baranski also appear. (The fact that there are no advance screenings of the film doesn't bode well for this movie!) FAMILY FUN The Saline Pro Rodeo, featuring bareback riding, steer wrestling, tie down roping, saddle bronc rid- ing, women's barrel racing and bull riding, comes to the Washtenaw Farm Council grounds in Saline 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 7 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 22-24. (734) 429-3145. THE ART SCENE The Creative Arts Center in Pontiac presents The Art of Labor, an exhibit of paintings, photos, posters and memorabilia with a labor theme, Aug. 23-Sept. 27. An opening reception for the show, coordinated by labor union activist Jerry Lubin, takes place 6-9 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 23; there will be a closing reception 6-9 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 20, featuring Michigan State AFL-CIO President Mark Gaffney, poetry by M.L. Liebler and the Magic Poetry Band and music by Detroit Wobbly folkie Bruce Liles. (248) 333-7849. The Michigan Guild of Artists and Artisans presents a new fair, the Village Art Fair, 10 a.m.- addition to presenting pieces by clas- orchestra. She also founded the sical and contemporary composers, International Bach Society and the also taught and wrote about Bach Tureck Bach Institute. She began her focus at age 16 after "Rosalyn and my mother had taken entering the Juilliard School. piano lessons together when they were "My technique was grounded, young, and they always kept in touch," from nay earliest years of study, in Jay Kutinsky recalls. "Rosalyn sent us the school of Mendelssohn as passed her recordings and clippings, and my on by Anton Rubinstein and many mother would go to I\Tew York to hear of his pupils, one of her in person." whom, Sophia Brilliant During a two-week Liven, was my teacher, visit years ago, Lesley Tureck, also a harpsi- Kutinksy escorted the chordist and conductor, musician on long walks wrote of her keyboard around the Franklin Hills style. "It's essentially a Golf Course and enjoyed finger technique." listening to her daily Tureck traveled the rounds of piano practice. world to perform and Visitors to the Kutinsky The late R osalyn teach, and although she home got to see movies Tureck was not very religious, the pianist took on a she kept Israel on her then recent trip to India. itinerary. The pianist-conductor "We went to see her when she was worked with the Israel Philharmonic dying," Jay Kutinsky says. "She had as well as the Tel Aviv, Haifa and moved back to New York for medical Kol Israel orchestras. She taught at care, and her mind was perfect. We the Hebrew University. all had a great time talking together. In London, Tureck extended her She sent us a letter after our visit, and commitment to Bach by forming the we'll always treasure that." Tureck Bach Players, a chamber ---Suzanne Chessler 130, like NBC, needs to move quickly to get some- thing on the air to attract viewers now that Sex and The like Friends, has plans to end its successful run. A possible replacement for HBO is Good in Bed based on the best-selling 2001 novel by Jennifer Weiner, 33. Last January, Emmy-winning Sex and the City executive producer/writer Jenny Bicks was brought on board to produce a pilot from the novel. Weiner is writing the script, and after it is completed, the network brass will decide if a zaftig, young Jewish woman will be the next Carrie Bradshaw. Good in Bed despite its title, is actually less about sexual relation- ships than is Sex and the City. The book is a semi-autobiographi- cal adventure that was inspired by Weiner's dumping by a "nice" Jewish boyfriend, In the novel, the nice boyfriend describes his ex-girlfriend as "fat," but "good in bed" in the column he writes for a very popular women's magazine. (Fortunately, this part did not happen to Weiner.) FYI: For Arts and Entertainment related events that you wish to have considered for Out & About, please send the item, with a detailed description of the event, times, dates, place, ticket prices and publishable phone number, 2003 to: Gail Zimmerman, JN Out & About, The Jewish News, 29200 Northwestern Highway, Suite 110, Southfield, MI 48034; fax us at (248) 304-8885; or e-mail to gzimmerman@thejewishnews.com Notice must be received at 60 least three weeks before the scheduled event. Photos are appreciated but cannot be returned. 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