Arts & Entertainment
THE SOUNDS OF MUSIC
Schedule Of Performances
$12 Center members; $15 nonmembers
The JCC Stephen Gottlieb Jewish Music Festival runs March 6-14 at the Jewish Community Center buildings in West
Bloomfield (WB), 6600 W. Maple Road, and Oak Park (OP), 15110 W.10 Mile Rd. To order tickets online, visit www.jccdet.org ;
or call (248) 432-5692.
SATURDAY,
MARCH 6
8:30 p.m. (WB)
Opening Night,
featuring Hal
Linden, with
patron event
honoring Patti
and Steven
Tapper; Susan
and Howard
Tapper; and
Hal Linden
Marla Tapper
and Brian Young
The actor/singer/musician, who's earned
three Emmys as well as Broadway's Tony
Award for his lead performance in The
Rothschilds, is best known as the star of
the TV comedy series Barney Miller. He'll
perform a concert devoted to the songs
of Broadway. Music Festival patrons are
invited for a gala dessert reception with
Linden and festival honorees following the
concert in the Janice Charach Gallery.
$35 Center members; $45 nonmembers
SUNDAY, MARCH 7
2 p.m. Yoga Studio (WB)
Jewish Healing Through Music Workshop
Explore the potential of Jewish music
to heal souls and build community with
Rabbi Arnie Sleutelberg, spiritual leader of
Congregation Shir Tikvah in Troy.
FREE (tickets required)
7 p.m. (WB)
Jesse Palter Quartet: A Swinging Affair
Detroit Music Award-winning vocalist,
composer and bandleader Palter brings
her all-star jazz quartet to her hometown
of West Bloomfield.
$15 Center members; $20 nonmembers
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Leonard Slatkin
Slatkin
Maestro
Slatkin will
discuss his
vision for the
orchestra and
music making,
the orchestra's
role as a com-
munity and his
own hopes and
dreams for the
city of Detroit.
$12 Center members; $15 nonmembers
David DiChiera
MONDAY, MARCH 8
7:30 p.m. (WB)
A Night of Opera with Dr. David DiChiera
and performers from the Michigan Opera
Theatre
The Michigan Opera Theatre General
Director will speak on the "Style &
Symbolism in the Operas of Mozart!'
$12 Center members; $15 nonmembers
TUESDAY, MARCH 9
7:30 p.m. (WB)
"Does Music Matter? A Vision for Detroit,"
lecture by DSO Music Director Leonard
WEDNESDAY,
MARCH 10
1 p.m. (OP)
Elaine Serling:
"Kosher Style"
Singer/song-
writer Serling's
concerts have
inspired and
captivated
audiences of
all ages in cit-
Elaine Serling
ies throughout
Canada, Israel and the Un ited States,
including her hometown of Detroit.
FREE (tickets required)
7:30 p.m. (WB)
Inbal Segev er Elena Baksht Chamber Duo
Cellist Segev joins pianist (and
Michigan resident) Baksht in a program
celebrating Jewish masterpieces.
THURSDAY, MARCH 11
7:30 p.m. (WB)
Lenore Marwil Jewish Film Festival movie
screening of "Making Trouble"
Back by popular demand, Making
Trouble spans more than a century of the-
ater, film and television history, beginning
with Molly Picon's earliest performances in
silent films in 1903 to Gilda Radner's work
on Saturday Night Live.
All seats: $10
7:30 p.m. (OP)
Lenore Marwil Jewish Film Festival movie
premiere: "You Never Know: Shlomo
Carlebach"
The Michigan premiere of a documentary
chronicling the life of Lubavitcher Rabbi
Carlebach, who shared the stage with Pete
Seeger and the Jefferson Airplane and
brought the Torah to the hippies of San
Francisco. He died penniless but left behind
4,000 original melodies, and his music now
fills concert halls.
All seats: $10
Shircago
SATURDAY, MARCH 13
8:30 p.m. (WB)
The Banality Of Evil
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ext month, the Jewish Ensemble
Theater will present The Diary
of Anne Frank, the true, heart-
wrenching story of a doomed Jewish girl
hiding with her family in Nazi-occupied
Amsterdam. In the play, shortly before the
Frank family is betrayed and led off to be
exterminated, Anne writes, "In spite of
everything, I still believe that people are
really good at heart!'
Some observers dismiss Anne's state-
ment as the naive musing of a still-inno-
cent young girl. If Anne had been given
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the opportunity to amend her diary in
Auschwitz or Bergen-Belsen, they specu-
late, would she still think that being "good
at heart" was a universal human trait?
What if, hypothetically, one of Anne's
oppressors believed himself to be "good at
heart:' A thought-provoking play that adds
irony to Anne Frank's haunting message is
Good by the late British Jewish playwright
C.P. Taylor. Good, opening Friday, Feb. 26,
at the Hilberry Theatre on the Wayne State
University campus in Detroit, looks at
moral quandaries from the viewpoint of a
"well-intentioned" Nazi — starkly revealing
what Eichmann trial chronicler Hannah
Arendt called the "banality of evir
Good is directed by David Magidson, a
longtime Wayne State professor of theater
who recently also assumed the role of
artistic director at JET. Magidson, who has
directed more than a hundred plays in his
long academic career, will be calling the
shots next season on the JET stage. But
to take a sneak peek at his talents, catch
Good, in repertory, through May 7 at the
Hilberry.
The troubled German protagonist in
Good, Professor John Halder, is a literary
critic and novelist who works his way up
to an influential spot in the Nazi Party.
He feels he can work within the system to
temper its radical, evil edge.
Erman Jones as Professor John Haider
in Hilberry Theatre's production of Good
"For all his efforts to do the right thing:'
said Magidson, "he winds up in the worst
possible place regarding the Holocaust. It
shows that one cannot build hopes upon a
foundation of misery and death.