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Saturday March 12, 2011
at 7:30 p.m.
Presented by the Detroit Opera House
and Rackham Symphony Choir
conducted by Suzanne Mallare Acton
Celebrating the genius of George Gershwin
and featuring some of his most beloved standards
including "S'Wonderful", "Embraceable You",
"Someone to watch over me" and more!
For his artistic achievements,
Cary Loren wins Benard L. Maas Prize.
Elizabeth Applebaum
Special to the Jewish News
T
he kaiju were supposed to
remain contained!
And yet, Godzilla, Mothra
and the three-headed King Ghidorah
manage to escape!
Meanwhile, Earth is being taken
over by the Kilaaks, a curious race of
alien females who wear sparkly silver
hoodies! Can mankind be saved?
In Destroy All Monsters, a wonder-
fully cheesy Japanese film from 1968,
the world teeters on the brink of
destruction. Who could have imag-
ined that out of such chaos came
... one of Detroit's most influential
bands of the 1970s. The band took
its name from the film and didn't
include Kilaaks but instead a bunch
of University of Michigan students
and friends — including Cary Loren.
Most know Loren, who lives in
Southfield, as the owner of the Book
Beat in Oak Park. But first he was a
photographer, and an artist, and a
musician and a filmmaker and now a
prize winner.
Loren, 55, recently was honored
with the Benard L. Maas Prize in
Achievement in Jewish Culture and
Continuity, presented by the Benard L.
Maas Foundation in cooperation with
the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan
Detroit. It is awarded each year on a
rotating basis in the areas of humani-
ties, performing arts and fine arts and
includes a $3,500 gift.
Loren, a native Detroiter, always
loved art, and as a child he often took
pretend photos with his father's cam-
era. In college, he joined fellow U-M
students Mike Kelley, Jim Shaw and
Niagara to form the anti-rock, noise
band Destroy All Monsters, whose
music was inspired by the visual arts,
performance and theater.
At their first show, a comic book
convention, "we were asked to stop
after 10 minutes," Loren says.
Yet the friends continued to pro-
duce projects together, notably a
magazine, each page of which was
a work of art: a different color and
texture of paper, photos, words and
drawings of women, odd creatures,
animals and flowers and statues and
stars, all swirling and spinning into
a kind of musical collage that some-
times soothes and sometimes bites.
Despite the premiere, Destroy All
Monsters went on to find fame and
travel around the world in concert,
and the magazines are now highly
collectible.
Loren spent most of his time
behind the camera, both taking
photos and making films. Most
recently, the Pompidou Museum in
Paris commissioned Loren to make
a short film, Ah, Sunflower, which
considers artists, ranging from Allen
Ginsberg to William Blake, and the
way in which inspiration and passion
and creativity pass from one artist to
another.
Loren's photos have been on exhib-
it at galleries throughout the United
States and in London, Oslo, Athens
and Paris, and they sell well. Each is
filled with color and light and shad-
ows, with images of everything from
sea monsters to Frank Sinatra.
Loren also is making a photo cata-
log for an upcoming exhibit in Los
Angeles, and on occasion he works
with the band Monster Island, whose
sound he describes as "acoustic, eth-
nic, a kind of mix of Chinese, Indian
and Russian instruments:' with songs
performed in a variety of languages,
forming something of "a puzzle of a
journey to different cultures!' Li
This production features:
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Free pre-performance chat
featuring Gershwin historian
Penny Masouris.
An entertaining glimpse into the
colorful life of George Gershwin.
6:30 p.m. in the auditorium.
Alvin Waddles
"Rhapsody in Blue"
Soprano
Kimwana Doner
Baritone
Eric Greene
Kimwana and Eric perform with the choir
and soloists for a concert version of
"Porgy and Bess".
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