• Gift Baskets • Sweet Trays • Muffins • Soups • Cookies Everything Made Fresh Daily MOVEABLE FEAST Voted Best Challah Bread! s1.00 Off Any Bread Order coupon per order 1 Expires 06/30/04 Not good with any other discount or special offer. Not valid on holiday orders 24-hour notice please on specialty items (some exceptions) 6879 Orchard Lake Rd. in the Boardwalk Plaza 248-626-9110 84 , 3510 from page 35 String Quartet, along with cellist Andres Diaz, violinist Ian Swenson, baritone Chris Trakas and pianist James Tocco. Tocco also serves as the series' artistic director. Concert-goers can learn more about Ives on Friday, June 18, ar the first of two daytime lecture/concert experiences titled "Beyond the Program Notes," both held at Temple Beth El. The June 18 event begins at 10 a.m. with a session featuring writer/radio per- sonality Jamie Bernstein, daughter of musical polymath Leonard Bernstein. The Detroit Chamber Winds and Strings, with Bernstein as narrator, will perform William Walton's Facade, a suite of poems by eccentric British liter- ary figure Edith Sitwell (1887-1964). The morning program will include a discussion of humor in music, as well as a question-and-answer session with Bernstein. Following lunch, the program contin- ues with a 1 p.m. performance of several Ives works and a discussion of the com- poser's music and life. A second "Beyond the Program Notes," scheduled for Friday, June 25, begins with a 10 a.m. session examining Felix Mendelssohn's Octet for Strings, Op. 20. The 1 p.m. session features Martin Goldsmith, classical music direc- tor for XM Satellite Radio, discussing "Whither Classical Radio?" Goldsmith, a Peabody Award-win- ning broadcaster, is the author of The • " The Jerusalem-based Ariel String Quartet will perform the music of composer Charles Ives. First Daughter Jamie Bernstein narrates — and fields questions at the 11th annual Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival. DIANA LIEBERMAN Special to the Jewish News 33 Relax! I'll come to you! Look fabulous in one hour for that special occasion. Call Camille 248 321. 4646 6/ 4 2004 38 ere's a sobering thought for the baby-boom generation: Jamie Bernstein, daughter of classical music hero Leonard Bernstein, is herself old enough to be a member of AARP. With more than 50 years as first daughter, Bernstein is used to questions about her illustrious father. And she expects to hear a lot more of them when she appears Friday, June 18, at the 2004 Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival, which runs from June 12-27 at various sites in southeast Michigan. Bernstein, writer, radio personality and the mother of two teenagers, will be heard as narrator of William Walton's quirky song cycle Facade. She'll perform the work at two of the festival's eight venues — first appearing at 10 a.m. for the "Beyond the Program Notes" lecture/concert event at Temple Beth El in Bloomfield Township and then traveling to Ann Arbor's Kerrytown Concert House for an 8 p.m. concert. A native New Yorker, Bernstein grad- uated from the city's Brierly School and went on to Harvard University, followed by writing courses at Columbia University. She still lives in the city's Chelsea sec- tion "next to a hospital, police station and fire station. Fortunately we have very thick windows," she said in a recent interview. In the tradition of her father's popular Young Peoples' Concerts, which introduced millions to the excitement of music, Bernstein co-wrote What Makes Music Dance, bet- ter known as The Bernstein Beat. "In a rare burst of modesty, Leonard Bernstein with his wife Felicia and two my father never programmed eldest children, Jamie, left, and. Alexander: his own works in any of the He was "the most all-around musician there Young Peoples' Concerts," was, says Jamie Bernstein. Bernstein said. "So I got together with Michael Barrett, "There's nothing like hearing a room- one of my father's most talented stu- ful of teenagers shout out 'mambo!' dents, to do this piece that includes a from the dance scene in West Side lot of his most rhythmic stuff" Story," she said. "The show is all about Bernstein has narrated the work rhythm. They don't think they will like throughout the United States and as far it — but they do. It leaves everybody a field as Havana and Beijing. Not yet bouncing in the aisles." in Detroit," she said.