Arts & Entertainment About 4•1 Gail Zimmerman Arts Editor The Gerard Edery Ensemble East Meets West The Gerard Edery Ensemble and Cantor Alberto Mizrahi perform pieces from the Sephardic and Ashkenaz oral tradi- tions — songs in some dozen languages, including French, Spanish, Ladino, Hebrew, Yiddish, Arabic and English — 4 p.m. Sunday, April 22, at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, at the synagogue's annual Laker Concert. Composer, singer and guitarist Edery was born in Casablanca and raised in Paris and New York City. Speaking several languages through- out his childhood, he absorbed a vari- ety of musical tra- ditions spanning three continents. Cantor Alberto Influenced by Mizrahi classical, flamenco, jazz and folk techniques, his virtuoso guitar playing reflects a fusion of styles; today he is rec- ognized as one of the leading interpreters of Sephardic song and its rich heritage of French, Spanish and Judeo-Spanish melody. His ensemble brings an ancient repertoire to the contemporary stage, bol- stered by new arrangements and original compositions. A Greek-born tenor and cantor of the historic Anshe Emet Synagogue in Chicago, Cantor Mizrahi, who has been 4,c ws Nate Bloom saw Special to the Jewish News Film Notes Shia LaBeouf, 20, stars in the film Disturbia, opening April 13. He plays a young man who becomes sullen after the death of his father. He gets into trouble and is sentenced to a period of house arrest. In a plot twist similar to Rear Window, he spends a lot of time looking out his windows and observing his sub- urban neighbors. Shia LaBeouf He begins to sus- pect that one of them (David Morse) is a serial killer. Carrie Ann-Moss plays his mother and Sarah Roemer plays his love interest. LaBeouf grew up in a troubled Los Angeles home. His father, who isn't Jewish, got hooked on drugs, and Shia's parents divorced. His Jewish 40 April 12 2007 hailed as "the Jewish Pavorotti," is a versatile stage performer as well as a prominent interpreter of the Hebrew liturgy. At home in both cantorial melody and the classical secular repertoire — he performs in nine languages — he has soloed in concerts at Carnegie Hall, London's Queen Elizabeth Hall and Tel Aviv's Heychal Hatarbut. For complimentary concert tickets, call Lillian White at Temple Israel, (248) 661-5700. Concert Of Remembrance The Jerusalem Quartet is composed of four young musicians who began playing together in 1993, when they were still in their mid-teens. Together for more than a decade, they have evolved into sophis- ticated interpreters of the string quartet literature. The ensemble made its University - Musical Society debut in 2005 to great mother barely scraped by, and Shia, to put food on the table, somehow managed to get comedy clubs to put him on as a stand-up comedian at the age of 12. He got his big break as a star of the Disney Channel series English and stars Halle Berry. It is scheduled to open this fall. Bier also is working on a film related to the Holocaust. Even Stevens. The seventh annual Downtown Seder was held in New York on March 28 at the Museum of Jewish Heritage. This year, like in past years, there was quite a lineup of Jewish celeb guest "performers," including actress Tovah Feldshuh, famous architect Daniel Libeskind and sing- ers Jill Sobule, Neil Sedaka and Debbie Friedman. Past year high- lights include comedian and now U.S. Senate candidate Al Franken singing, "Go Down Moses" and rock legend Lou Reed reading the part of the Wicked Son. Downtown Seder founder and head Michael Dorf real- izes his seder Michael Dorf attracts some fanat- Shia, who was bar mitzvah, has deftly avoided the child-actor curse, landing starring roles in good films like I Robot, Holes and The Guide to Recognizing Your Saints. He will host Saturday Night Live on April 14. Opening in some theaters nation- wide on April 13 (the Maple Art Theatre in Bloomfield Township is a possibility, but check your local listings) is the Danish film After the Wedding, which was Oscar-nomi- nated for Best Foreign Film. It tells the story of a man involved in chari- table work in India who returns to Denmark to secure a big donation. Susanne Bier, a Danish Jew and the daughter of German Jews who fled to Denmark during the Nazi period, directed the film. Bier's next film, Things We Lost in the Fire, is in Seder News acclaim and returns to Ann Arbor in a UMS concert at 4 p.m. Sunday, April 15, in Rackham Auditorium. The program includes Haydn's Quartet in f minor, Tchaikovsky's Quartet No. 1 in D Major and Barber's Quartet for Strings ("Adagio for Strings"), an unofficial American anthem of mourning, played after the deaths of Presidents Roosevelt and Kennedy, as well as at the televised prayer service held at Ground Zero about six weeks after 9-11. The Jewish Federation of Washtenaw County will honor Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) in con- junction with UMS and the Jerusalem Quartet performance. Preceding the concert, the community is invited, at 3 p.m., to a ceremony at the University of Michigan Alumni Center's Founder's Room honoring the memory of those who perished in the Holocaust. For more infor- mation about the program and specially priced tickets ($30.60) to the concert, go is fans. He says, "This year, I got Neil Sedaka for the first time. There are people who are coming to this thing – I don't want to say it's the wrong reason – but they bought a pair of tickets for $300 because they're Sedaka fans and they want to see Neil do five minutes of something in a seder." Meanwhile, English Jewish rocker Graham Gouldman, who wrote an incredible number of big rock hits and was a founding member of the very popular rock band 10cc, cel- ebrated Passover at a seder in the Arizona home of his adult daughter. Pressel Prevails On April 1, Morgan Pressel, 18, of Boca Raton, Fla., won the Kraft- Nabisco Championship golf tourna- ment. This tournament is ranked as one of the four major events on the Ladies Professional Golf Association tour, and Pressel is the youngest golfer ever to win an LPGA major. The cute, blond, pixie-like Pressel was only 12 when she qualified for