Arts & Entertainment
Gail Zimmerman
Arts Editor
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famous 'singing family. They have per-
formed across the country and released
Orchestra Hall, home of the Detroit
Several albums.
Symphony Orchestra,
Among the
will come alive with
selections to
the sound of music
be performed
when the von Trapp
are songs
Children — the
from Rodgers'
grandchildren of the
most beloved
family made famous
collaborations
in the beloved stage
with lyricist
play and film The
Oscar
• Sound of Music —
Hammerstein
perform a Pops con-
II, including
The von Trapp Children
cert of works by Jewish
Oklahoma!,
AmeriCan theater composer Richard
South Pacific, Carousel, The King and I and,
Rodgers 10:45 a.m. and 8 p.m. Thursday,
of course, The Sound of Music.
8:30- p.m. Friday and Saturday and 3. p.m.
Tickets are $15-$66 (a limited number of
Sunday, Feb. 23-26.
box seats are available from $61-$99). (313)
The von Trapp children are Sofia (age
576-5111 or www.detroitsymphony.com .
16), Melanie (age 14), Amanda (age 13)
and Justin (age 10). Their grandfather was
Werner von Trapp, one of the seven chil-
dren of Captain and Maria von Trapp, the
In a modern interpretation of the classic
Electronic Opera
medieval play Everyman, University of
Michigan art and music professor-com-
poser Andy Kirshner has created The
Museum of Life and Death, a multimedia
music-theater performance merging live
and computer-generated singers and sets
that comes to the stage of the Duderstadt
Center Video Studio in Ann Arbor 8 p.m.
Thursday-Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday,
Feb. 16-19. • -
Kirshner blends a human ensemble --
performance artist Mark Anderson and a
duo of actors-dancers — with a comput-
er-generated android, "virtual" sets and a
traditional jazz quintet and chorus. The
ensemble explores the future and grapples
with the "coming of death" in the 26th
-
century — a time when advances in
biotechnology and information science
have made human suffering obsolete.
The Duderstadt Center is located at 2281
Bonisteel Blvd. at Murfin on the U-M's
North Campus. Admission is free, but space
is limited and tickets are required. They are
available on a first-come, first-served basis
at the door; to order in advance, e-mail
tickets@theater-as-music.com .
Say Cheese
We all have taken photographs and home
videos of our family members, but proba-.
bly not like thoSe featured in "Shoot the
Family," an exhibit running through April
2 at the CranbroOk Art Museum in
Bloomfield Hills.
"Emotionally incisive, conceptually
diverse and visually inventive, the photo-
graphs and videos in 'Shoot the Family'
transform that most familiar artifact —
the family photograph — into an illumi-
nating investigation of contemporary cul-
ture," says museum director Geoffrey
Wittkopp.
Harrowingly intimate, many of the
works link the family to a nexus of social
issues, including class-and financial sta-
tus, the transmission of gender and ethnic
e ws
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Nate Bloom
Special to the Jewish News
ern
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ha Jewish Olympians
Last week's Jewish News featured in-depth
111:1 profiles of Bloomfield Hills ice dancer
Jamie Silverstein and Detroit Red
Wings defenseman Mathieu Schneider,
(1) who will compete in ice dancing and
hockey, respectively, in the Olympic
Games in Turin, Italy.
In mini-profiles, meet some other
Jewish participants in this winter's
Olympic Games.
a)
Ice Dancing
The United States sends three ice-dancing
teams to the Olympics. Each of these
steams has a Jewish member.
In addition to Jamie Silverstein and her
partner Ryan O'Meara, look for Benjamin
Agosto, 24, and his partner, Tanith
Belbin, 22, the top-ranked American ice
dancing team. Agosto was born in
Chicago and raised in a Chicago suburb.
He and Belbin now live in the Detroit sub-
urbs in order to be near Igor Shpllband,
their Russian-American Jewish coach.
Agosto's father, Angel, is Puerto Rican
dancing team. Gregory grew up in
and Catholic. His mother, Miriam, is
Chicago and with her former. partner
Jewish; her family originally came from
won the 1998 U.S. Junior Ice Dancing
Romania and Russia. Ben's agent, when
competition.
asked to clarify Agosto's reli-
Like daters,
gious identity, said,"Ben was
skaters often turn to
not raised in any faith but is
the Internet to find
proud of being Puerto Rican
a new partner, and
and Jewish."
Gregory found one
Melissa Gregory, 24, and
in 2000 in Kirov,
her husband and partner,
Russia, where
Denis Petukhov, 27, are the
Ice dancers Melissa Gregory Petukhov was then
second-ranked American ice- and Denis Petukhov
living. They
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