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Musical Mix
The University Musical Society hosts the
Orion String Quartet joined by klezmer
violinist David Krakauer in a concert
blending classical virtuosity with avant-
garde improvisation 8 p.m. Wednesday,
March 5, at Rackham Auditorium, 915 E.
Washington, in Ann Arbor.
The performance celebrates the 20th
anniversary of the quartet, whose mem-
bers include violinists (and brothers)
Daniel and Todd Phillips, violist Steven
Tenenbom and cellist Timothy Eddy.
The March 5 program includes the
performance of a 2006 UMS co-commis-
sion written by Pulitzer Prize-winning
composer David Del Tredici titled Magyar
Madness. Inspired by Beethoven's Grosse
Guge and Schubert's four-hand mas-
terpiece Divertissement a la Hongroise,
Magyar Madness takes full advantage of
Krakauer's melismatic playing in a rousing
Hungarian finale.
Also on the program are Haydn's String
Quartet in C Major, Beethoven's Quartet No.
9 in C Major and Golijov's K'vakaraat for
Clarinet and Strings, composed in 1994 by
the Argentina-born
Jewish composer.
Krakauer's playing
will enhance the
piece, which draws
on a High Holidays
prayer. Golijov's work
often reflects the
Russian-Jewish heri-
tage of his family.
Concert tickets are $20-$44. (734) 764-
2538 or www.ums.org.
Pop Song Icons
One of the great interpreters of American
popular song and a man who has com-
posed many tunes that have become pop
music standards take to Metro Detroit
area stages this weekend.
Marvin Hamlisch is the composer of the
musicals A Chorus Line, They're Playing
Our Song, The Goodbye Girl and Sweet
Smell of Success. He's scored films includ-
ing The Way We Were, The Sting, Sophie's
Choice, Ice Castles and Bananas. He'll
use his piano and considerable charm to
engage the audience in an intimate evening
of repartee and songs
8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 29,
at Macomb Center for
the Performing Arts,
44575 Garfield Road, in
Clinton Township. $46-
$60. (586) 286-2222 or
www.MacombCenter.
Madison Ave, in Detroit. Tickets are $27-
$47. (313) 887-8500 or www.musichall.org .
Local Thespians
They may be pediatricians, lawyers, psy-
chologists or teachers during the workweek,
but when the weekends come, many local
COM.
Jews express their nonprofessional talents
Columbus, Ohio, native Michael
on the stages of local community theaters.
Feinstein is recognized not only for his
The Bloomfield Players, a multigenera-
mastery of the American popular song-
tional group featuring as many as four or
book, but for helping to preserve its legacy
five members of one family in a produc-
as well. Playing piano by ear since age 5, he tion, puts on The Wizard Oz 7:30 p.m.
is particularly identified with the music of
Fridays and Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays,
George and Ira Gershwin. His most recent
March 7-9 and 14-16, at Andover High
CD release is Hopeless Romantics, a song-
School in Bloomfield Hills.
book of Harry Warren clas-
The cast includes Claudia
sics recorded with jazz pia-
Cooper, Emma Fellows, Pam and
nist George Shearing. Also a
Bethany Friedman, Udi and Kayla
raconteur, Feinstein currently
Kapen, Samantha Pesick, Jake
is producing a documentary
Rubin, Hope Peskin-Shepherd and
feature on arts and society
Leah Shepherd, and Natalie Siegel.
icon Kitty Carlisle Hart. At
Lisa Rich and Kay-Ellen Murphy
8 p.m. Saturday, March 1,
are producing. Reserved tickets
Feinstein will bring his song
are $15 adults, $12 students and
stylings to Music Hall Center
seniors. (248) 433-0885 or tick-
Michael Fein stein
for the Performing Arts, 350
ets@bloomfieldplayers.org .
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Special to the Jewish News
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Rock Star
Scarlett Johansson and Natalie
Portman
Henry's Girls
Two of the most striking and popular
Jewish actresses of their generation,
Natalie Portman, 26, and Scarlett
Johansson, 22, are now on the talk-
show circuit to promote their new
movie, The Other Boleyn Girl, which
opens Friday, Feb. 29. It's no surprise
they became good friends while
making the film; both are smart and
literate New York-raised women in
control of their personal lives.
Boleyn Girl is a historical drama
set in the 1500s centering on English
King Henry VIII's relationships with
the aristocratic Boleyn sisters, Mary
B8
(Johansson), his mistress, and Anne
(Portman), his second wife. Andrew
Garfield, 24, (Lions for Lambs) has
a supporting role as Francis Weston,
one of several men who were execut-
ed on almost certainly false charges
of committing adultery with Anne.
February 28 • 2008
If you've seen the ubiquitous ad
for Apple Computer's MacBook Air,
you've also heard "New Soul," a very
catchy tune that plays in the back-
ground. Its singer
and co-composer
is Yael Naim,
30, who was
born in France to
Tunisian-Jewish
parents.
Naim grew up in
Israel and served
Yael Naim
with the IDF. She
moved to France
in 2001 to pursue a music career, but
her first CD sold poorly. Three years
ago, she teamed up with a French
friend to compose some new songs.
Her self-titled CD, which includes
songs in English, French and Hebrew,
has done extremely well on the
French charts and will be released in
America in March. "New Soul," mean-
while, is among the most downloaded
songs on I-Tunes.
Soundtrack Success
Ellen Page and Michael Cera sing the
song "Anyone Else But You" in the
last scene of the hit movie Juno. The
movie's soundtrack has topped the
charts and given a big career boost
to Adam Green and Kimya Dawson,
the song's co-writers.
Green and Dawson formed the
core of the band the Moldy Peaches,
which had only modest success and
went on hiatus in 2004. But when
Juno director Jason Reitman asked
Ellen Page what a 16-year-old girl like
Juno might listen to, Page suggested
Moldy Peaches' music. Jason liked
what he heard and asked Dawson
to write six new songs for the
soundtrack.
Green, who rocks harder than
Dawson, has a new solo CD, Sixes
and Sevens, coming out in March. He
told Rolling Stone magazine: "People
say I'm the Jewish Kurt Cobain, but
I'm really the
Woody Allen of
L".
music."
Meanwhile, the
song "All I Want
Is You," which
appears over
the animated
sequence at
Adam Green
the beginning
of Juno, was
written by children's performer-
author Barry Louis Polisar for a
1977 album (it's the first song on
the movie soundtrack recording
released by Rhino Records). Last
year, Polisar wrote and adapted a
Passover Haggadah, illustrated by
his daughter. Telling The Story: A
Passover Haggadah Explained is sold
nationwide and is available as a free
download on Polisar's Web site. Go to
the Web site
www.barrylou.com/books/
TellingTheStory.html.
Righteous Relative
British actress Helena Bonham-
Carter, 41, is the daughter of a British
Protestant aristocratic father and a