Best Bets Family Affair M ark Feldman has performed in Ann Arbor with a number of groups, but his upcoming performance is a family project. pn at the Edge," which merges Feldman's violin sounds with the piano style of wife Sylvie Courvoisier, begins 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 15, at the Kerrytown Concert House. "Sylvie and I are going to play our own composi- tions with some improvisations," says Feldman, 48, married for three years to the Swiss-born key- boardist. "We've done many concerts together in Europe and New York." The couple, who met while both were working for German radio, regularly appear as part of a trio, Abaton, which includes cellist Erik Friedlander. Their recent CD goes by the group name. "I like ja77 because its more about the player than the instrument," says the violinist, who has taken private instrumental lessons but considers himself mostly self-taught. Feldman brings a range of experience to record- ings, which number about 300. He has performed in various styles of jar" and country and worked with many stars, including Sheryl Crow, Diana Ross and Willie Nelson. He feels that his Jewish roots have been expressed through recordings with John Zorn on the Tzadik label and during an earlier Ann Arbor concert, when he performed klezmer as part of the quartet Charms of the Night Sky. "I favor the European concept of music, which has hybrid sounds," says Feldman, named several times as "Talent Deserving Wider Recognition" in the critics' polls of Down Beat magazine. "I also like to combine a high level of solo classical violin with improvisation." -- Suzanne Chessler NarEs Candida 8 p.m. Friday, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 14-16, Chamber Music Society of Detroit hosts at Riverside Arts Center, 76 N. Huron St., violinists Joel Smirnoff and Ronald in Ypsilanti. Kathryn Ruth Mayer of West Copes, violist Samuel Rhodes and cellist Bloomfield plays the title role. $12-$15. Joel Krosnik, the members of the (734) 477-0000 or vvwvv.mcrt.org. esteemed Juilliard String Quartet, playing The U-M Department of Theatre and works by Mozart, Webern and Dvorak, 8 Dance presents Alexander Ostrovsky's The p.m. Saturday, Nov. 15, at Seligman Diary of a Scroundel or, Too Clever By Performing Arts Center in Beverly Hills. Half, the tale of one man's mission to fina- GAIL ZIMMERMAN $30-$67. (248) 855-6070. gle his way into upper-class society, no Arts & Entertainment Principal guest conductor and violinist matter what it takes, 8 p.m. Thursday- Editor Itzhak Perlman performs Beethoven's Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 20-23, Romance No. 1 and Romance No. 2 and at the Mendelssohn Theatre in Ann Arbor. leads the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in Mozart's $8-$20. (734) 764-2538. Symphony No. 40 8 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, University Musical Society hosts Shakespeare's Nov. 19-20, and 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 22, at Globe Theatre in an authentic Elizabethan produc- Orchestra Hall. $19-$105 : (313) 576-5111. tion of the comedy Twelfth Night, with an all-male cast, 8 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday and 1 and 6 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 18, 20-23, in the Michigan Union Ballroom in Ann Arbor. $45-$55. (734) 764-2538. Jazz vocalist Kurt Filing and the Lawrence Ann Arbor's Performance Network presents the Hobgood Trio joins trumpeter Marcus Belgrave 8 Michigan premiere of local playwright Kim p.m. Friday, Nov. 21, in a Paradise Jazz Series concert Carney's The Home Team, a play set on the day of at Orchestra Hall. $18-$85. (313) 576-5111. the Michigan-Michigan State football game, Nov. Israeli musical group Reva E Sheva (Quarter to 20-Dec. 28. Call for show times. (734) 663-0681. Seven), comprised of native Israelis and American, East Indian and Argentinean immigrants, performs 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 22, at Congregation Shir THE BIG SCREEN Tikvah in Troy. The group's style combines the influ- The Detroit Film Theatre at the DIA screens ence of the late Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, Jewish Tycoon (Russia/France — 2002 — Pavel Lounguine), music and the Grateful Dead. The concert is co-spon- a fast-paced political thriller dealing with the meteoric sored by the Jewish Academy of Metropolitan Detroit. rise and fall of a New Russian businessman, 7:30 p.m. $10 CST or JAMD students (22 and under)/$15 Monday, Nov. 24. $5.50-$6.50. (313) 833-3237. non-CST member students or CST or JAMD adults/$20 nonmember adults. (586) 493-6835. CLASSICAL POP/ROCK/JAZZ/FOLK THE SMALL SCREEN ON THE STAGE Michigan Classical Repertory Theatre stages George Bernard Shaw's marital-triangle comedy Several shows commemorate the 40th anniversary of the JFK assassination: The History Channel presents the three-hour documentary JFK A Presidency Jews In The News B Mark Feldman Mark Feldman and Sylvie Courvoisier perform 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 15, at the Kerrytown Concert House, 415 N. Fourth Ave., in Ann Arbor. $10-$25. (734) 769-2999. 11/14 2003 66 rad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston top any list of Hollywood's "golden couples." Unlike some such couples, they are thoughtful, intelligent people who are anything but the stereotype of Hollywood "airheads." Perhaps not coinciden- tally, Pitt and Aniston, though not Jewish, were in the news in the last few weeks for their involvement in Jewish-related projects. The couple's production com- pany bought the film rights to MARIANNE PEARL's book about her murdered husband, Wall Street Journal reporter DANIEL PEARL. (Marianne is Jewish on her father's side.) The couple also announced they would support the work of the organization One Voice, which is trying to end the Arab-Israeli conflict by working out peace proposals among important Palestinians and Jews and bringing those proposals to "the grassroots" via TV and the Internet. Ultimately, One Voice wants to attract a groundswell of support from moderates on both sides and provide a mech- anism by which the bulk Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt: "The of the Israeli/Palestinian last few years of conflict mean that yet population can vote on another generation of sraelis and these proposals and give Palestinians will grow up in hatred. We their input. cannot allow that to happen," reads a Pitt and Aniston were statement from the couple. 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