Underwritten by: MASCO Corporation Foundation

15, with a 4 p.m. Sunday, March 2,
matinee, at the Zeitgeist Gallery and
Performance Space, 2661 Michigan
Ave., in Detroit. $10 at the door. Info:
www.theabreact.com; reservations:
reservations@theabreact.com .

Four Hands

Born in Tel Aviv in 1979, Inon
Barnatan started playing the piano
at the age of 4. He made his orches-
tral debut at 11. In 1997 he moved to
London to study at the Royal Academy
of Music. He is the recipient of many
awards and prizes, among them the
Young Artist of the Year Award from
the Classical Recording Foundation
in New York and the America Israel
Cultural Foundation Piano Award and
Public Award. His Israeli appearances
include performances with the Israel
Philharmonic Orchestra, Jerusalem
Symphony Orchestra, Haifa Symphony
and Israel Chamber and Jerusalem
Chamber orchestras.
Barnaton's debut CD of Schubert
piano works for Bridge Records was
released in June 2006 to great criti-
cal praise. London's Evening Standard
wrote, "The young, Israeli-born pianist
Inon Barnatan is a true poet of the
keyboard: refined searching, unfail-
ingly communicative."
Barnatan is one of six pianists
— ranging from their 20s to estab-
lished masters — who will per-
form 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 2, at Hill
Auditorium in Ann Arbor when the
University Musical Society presents a
"A Celebration of the Keyboard: Music
for Piano Hands:' a concert explor-

Oscar Nominees

Two films with Jewish themes
were nominated for Academy
Awards in the Foreign Language
Film category.
Israel's entry Beaufort and
Austria's The Counterfeiters
received the nod Jan. 22 from the
Academy of Motion Picture Arts
and Sciences. The Oscars will be
handed out Feb. 24 at the Kodak
Theatre in Los Angeles.
Beaufort, directed by Joseph
Cedar, is a wrenching war movie
depicting the final action of the
first Lebanon War when a small
Israeli unit evacuated the medi-
eval Beaufort fortress. (It will
screen at the Detroit Film Theatre
in April).
In The Counterfeiters by Stefan
Ruzowitzky, the Nazis round up
dozens of skilled Jewish crafts-
men from concentration camps

ing a variety of chamber music for
multiple pianists from composers
including Mozart, Mendelssohn, Faure,
Lutoslawski and Stravinsky. Other
performers include Wu Han, Anne-
Marie McDermott, Andre-Michel
Schub, Gilles Vonsattel and the veteran
and highly acclaimed Jewish pianist
Gilbert Kalish.
Tickets are $10-$56. (734) 764-2538
or www.ums.org.

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Untold History

After playing on the film festival
circuit (including last year's Lenore
Marwil Detroit Jewish Film Festival
and the Detroit Film Theatre), the doc-
umentary The Rape of Europa finally
has its theatrical release in Detroit on
Friday, Feb. 1, when it is scheduled
to open at the Maple Art Theatre in
Bloomfield Township.
In a journey through seven coun-
tries, The Rape of Europa tells the
story of the systematic theft, deliber-
ate destruction and miraculous sur-
vival of Europe's art treasures during
the Third Reich and World War II.
Filmmakers Bonni Cohen, Richard
Berge and Nicole Newnham based
their film on Lynn H. Nicholas' 1995
book of the same name. The film
begins and ends with the story of art-
ist Gustav Klimt's famed Gold Portrait,
stolen from Viennese Jews in 1938 and
now the most expensive painting ever
sold. Joan Allen narrates.
For the show times, check your
local movie listings or call (248) 263-
2111.

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and "Stop fighting!" in this hilarious World Premier of...

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January 22-February 17, 2008

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