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Leonard Slatkin
Leonard Slatkin, who this fall is set
to become the Detroit Symphony
Orchestra's 12th music director and third
Jewish one — Antal Dorati (1977-81)
and Ossip Gabrilowitsch (1918-36) are
the others — gives Detroit audiences
another preview of his talents when he
returns to Orchestra Hall in the Max M.
Fisher Music Center in Detroit to conduct
concerts 8 p.m. Thursday, April 3; 8:30
p.m. Saturday, April 5; and 3 p.m. Sunday,
April 6.
The program includes Hector
Berlioz's Roman Carnival Overture, Felix
Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 4 in A
Major ("Italian") and John Corigliano's
Addressing
Symphony No 3.
The Holocaust
("Circus Maximus"),
in which the
University of
The Jewish Community
Michigan Symphony
Center of Metropolitan
Gail Zimmerman
Band joins the DSO.
Detroit hosts the
Arts Editor
"This program
Kibbutz Theatre
actually has a the-
Company of Israel in its
matic tie says Slatkin in his program
American debut of Address Unknown at
notes.
2 and 7:30 p.m. Monday, March 31, and 2
"All of the works are about a part
p.m. Tuesday, April 1, at the Aaron DeRoy
of Italian culture but were not writ-
Theatre, in the JCC in West Bloomfield. The
ten by composers from Italy" Berlioz's
play is in Hebrew with English subtitles.
opera is derived from an opera about
Address Unknown, by Katherine
Renaissance sculptor Benvenuto Cellini;
Kressmann Taylor, is one of the earliest
Mendelssohn's symphony conveys the
works of Holocaust fiction. Published
exhilaration his visits to Italy inspired;
in 1938 in Story magazine, it tells of an
and Corigliano, whose father was Italian,
extraordinary correspondence between a
draws a parallel between the fall of the
Jewish-American art dealer and his busi-
Roman Empire and today's culture.
ness partner in Nazi Germany.
Tickets are $19-$71. (313) 576-5111 or
After its appearance in Story magazine,
detroitsymphony.com.
Address Unknown was published as a book
Editors's Note: Composer John
but seemingly disappeared. Revived in
Corigliano is a 1955 graduate of
1995, it has since been published in 20 lan-
Brooklyn, N.Y.'s Midwood High School.
guages and performed as a play in coun-
On Thursday, April 3, local graduates
tries including Israel, France, Germany,
of Midwood and other Brooklyn high
Italy and Argentina.
schools will join together for the 8 p.m.
Among those impressed by Address
Slatkin concert, followed by a dessert and
Unknown was Irwin Shaw, the former
coffee reception for Midwood alumni and executive director of the JCC who often
guests at which Corigliano will make an
organized dramatic readings of the book.
appearance.
In 1996, Shaw sent a copy of the book to
For more information, call Elizabeth
his friend Asher Tarmon, who translated
Kline Landers, (248) 884-5518.
Address Unknown into Hebrew.
Coordinated by Jewish Ensemble
Theater and the JCC's Jewish Life &
Learning Department in celebration of
Israel's 60th birthday, Address Unknown,
directed by Avi Malkah, features Rafi
Kalmar as Martin Schulze and Tzvika
Schwartzberg as Max Eisenstein.
Tickets are $20; call (248) 432-5462.
Art Of Framing
Master framer Paul Mitchell travels from
London to the Detroit Institute of Arts
for the annual Dr. Coleman A. Mopper
Memorial Lecture 1:30 p.m. Saturday, April
5, to discuss the art of framing art. The lec-
ture is free with museum admission.
Mitchell's company, Paul Mitchell Ltd., is
among the preeminent firms specializing
in the framing and conservation of old
and modern master paintings. They match
original frames with artwork from the time
period and reproduce copies of period
frames. Mitchell has reframed more than
a dozen paintings for the DIA, including
Rembrandt's masterpiece The Visitation,
Nicholas Poussin's Selene and Endymion
and Richard Wilson's View of Caernarvon
Castle. Using these and other examples, he
will compare paintings in their old mis-
matched frames with more appropriate
framing that complements the work.
The memorial lecture was established in
1997 in memory of Dr. Coleman Mopper,
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Play Ball
The Major League
baseball season
begins on Monday,
March 30. Here
is a rundown of
the Jewish Major
Leaguers, prepared
Ryan Braun
with the help of the
Jewish Sports Review newsletter. All the
players listed below have at least one
Jewish parent and were raised Jewish or
without religion.
First, some notable retirees: catcher
Mike Lieberthal and outfielder Shawn
Green, both of whom retired during
the off-season. Lieberthal had a solid
13-year career in which he was twice
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named an All-Star. Green never became
the "Jewish Babe Ruth" many had pre-
dicted, but he had good career numbers
in 12 seasons (a .283 batting average
and 323 home runs).
Ryan Braun, 24, broke into the
Majors last June with the Milwaukee
Brewers and proceeded to slug his way
to National League Rookie of the Year
honors. Unfortunately, Braun's terrible
fielding skills also were on display, and
the Brewers decided to move him this
year from third base to the outfield.
Braun is the son of an Israeli-born
father and a Catholic mother. He was
raised without religion and with few
Jewish cultural ties. However, his con-
nection to the Jewish community
seems to be growing: Last December,
he accepted an invitation to come to the
White House for the annual Chanukah
party the president throws.
Joining Braun on the Brewers' roster
is outfielder Gabe Kapler, 32, who
broke in with the Tigers in 1999 and
was with the Red Sox from 2003-2006.
In 2007, Kapler retired and took a
minor league coaching job. He decided
to come back this year and signed a
one-year deal with the Brewers. He has
done well in spring training. Kapler
also has been active in Jewish charity
work.
Boston Red Sox first baseman
Kevin Youkilis, 29, had a break-
through 2007 season, hitting .288,
with 16 homers and a ton of walks.
Youkilis, who was bar mitzvah, had a
solid Jewish religious upbringing. Last
September, he set up a charity founda-
tion to help poor kids, recently telling
a Boston paper: "In my religion, the
Jewish religion, that's one of the big-
gest things that's taught — perform-
ing a mitzvah. I was always taught as
a kid [about] giving to charity. You're
supposed to give a good amount of
charity each and every year. That
probably started in my youth."
Completing the roster of Major
League Hebrews are Colorado Rockies
pitcher Jason Hirsh; Chicago Cubs
pitcher Jason Marquis and outfielder
Sam Fuld; Pittsburgh Pirates relief
pitcher John Grabow; Texas Rangers
third baseman Ian Kinsler and relief
pitcher Scott Feldman; Houston Astros
catcher Brad Ausmus; and New York
Mets reliever Scott Schoeneweis.
Film Openings
David Schwimmer (Friends) makes
his feature-film directorial debut with