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the hit ballad "Maps." The group is now
touring with a new CD, Follow Your
Bones, which, intones Entertainment
Weekly, "picks up where 'Maps' left off."
Tickets are $23. (248) 399-2980 or
www.tickets.com .
Speaking of the Strokes, the garage-
rock band comes to town for a perfor-
mance Thursday, April 13, at the State
Theater in Detroit. Doors are at 6:30 p.m.
It is highly doubtful, then, that guitar-
ist Nick Valensi, son of a Tunisian Jew,
will be sitting down to a second-night
seder. Valensi met fellow Strokes Fabrizio
Moretti, Julian Casablancas and Nikolai
Fraiture at a private school in Manhattan
in 1998. Guitarist Albert Hammond Jr.
joined up later, and once joked that he
"informally converted to Judaism" to
keep Valensi company. The youngest
member of the Strokes, Valensi dropped
out of CUNY-Hunter College to pursue
his musical career full time.
Tickets are $29.50. (248) 645-6666 or
www.ticketmaster.com .

Forgotten
Composer

Ignatz Waghalter (1881-1949) was
among the most important "forgotten".
Jewish composers and conductors of
pre-Nazi Germany. Born in Warsaw, he

Eric Kandel

Memory, is an introduction to the lay
reader about the exploding field of the
. neuroscience of the mind. It is also an
autobiography of Kandel, a practicing
Jew, who had to flee Austria just ahead
of the Nazis.
Note: Kandel won his Nobel on Yom
Kippur day, and it took some time for
the Nobel committee to find him to
give him the good news — he was in
synagogue when they called.

immigrated at age 17 to Germany, where
his musical talent came to the attention
of the legendary Joseph Joachim, the
virtuoso violinist and close friend of
Brahms. His reputation as a major talent
was secured with his early Sonata in F
minor for Violin and Piano, for which he
received the coveted Mendelssohn Prize.
Waghalter's career was cut short by
the Nazi seizure of power. He fled to
Austria and Czechoslovakia, and then,
in 1938, came to the United States, his
music largely forgotten.
At 3 p.m. Sunday, April 9, the Windsor
Symphony Orchestra will present a
chamber music concert, with violin-
ist Lillian Scheirich, French horn
player Martin Limoges and pianist Mary
Siciliano, featuring Waghalter's afore-
mentioned sonata, as well as his Two
Pieces for Violin and Piano. Brahms' Trio
for Piano, Violin and Horn also is on the
program. At 2:35 p.m., David Waghalter
Green, grandson of Ignatz Waghalter,
will give a pre-concert talk. In addition,
the first-ever CD recorded of Waghalter's
music will be available for sale at the
concert.
The concert takes place at Mackenzie
Hall, 3277 Sandwich St., in Windsor.
Tickets are $24 (Canadian), $20 students.
For more information, call (519) 973-
1238.

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Commandments
Footnote
As noted in this week's Arts &
Entertainment cover story, ABC is
running The Ten Commandments,
a two-part miniseries, April 10-11.
The producers didn't cast many
Jews, but for the benefit of Jewish
actor spotters, here
is my list: English
Jewish actress
Claire Bloom as
Rani, South African/
English Jewish actor

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