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 r mil 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 David Sachs Senior Copy Editor N 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 42 February 25 • 2010 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.