Cary Loren in Paris , V:Lia canon A GERSHWI\ RHAPSODY 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: int Free pre-performance chat featuring Gershwin historian Penny Masouris. 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