>> editor's picks CLASSICAL NOTES About mila who, like fellow original members Chris Coulos (drums, percussion) and Conducted by Zubin Benj Gershman (bassist), Mehta and honor- is Jewish. In the late 1990s, ing the legacy of the three (like fellow musi- American tenor cian Matisyahu) spent a Gail Zimmerman Richard Tucker summer in Israel attending Arts Editor with arias and the Alexander Muss High duets by soloists School, a nondenomina- Renee Fleming and Joseph Calleja, Live tional eight-week academic program for From Jerusalem: An Evening with the American teenagers focusing on Jewish Israel Philharmonic Orchestra will be history from biblical to modern times. the screened 7 p.m. Thursday, July 28, at "Spiritually it got me in touch with a more than 480 movie theaters nationwide, higher power, which was something I including theaters in the Detroit area. For had never been through prior to my theater locations and to buy tickets ($18- time there," Gershman told the Forward $20), go to FathomEvents.com . newspaper. "I think, to put it mildly, the The Detroit Film Theatre at the experience changed my life in a positive Detroit Institute of Arts screens The way, and I'm forever grateful for it." Magic Flute, a production of the Mozart opera filmed at Italy's La Scala opera ON THE STAGE house, 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday, July 22-24. $18-$20. (313) The Chelsea Art Players mount a pro- 833-4005; tickets.dia.org . duction of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Andrew Lloyd POP / ROCK / JAZZ / FOLK Webber and Tim Rice's popular rock musical based on the biblical story of At 8 p.m. Sunday, July 24, at Comerica Joseph, 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and Park, Paul McCartney will make 2 p.m. Sunday, July 22-24, at Chelsea his first concert appearance in the High School Center for the Performing city of Detroit proper in more than Arts, 740 N. Freer, Chelsea. $15 at the three decades for his "On the Run door. (734) 395-6818. Tour." $19.50-$250. (866) 668-4437; OlympiaEntertainment. corn. THE BIG SCREEN Although he is not Jewish, McCartney's late wife, Linda Eastman, was a secular For those heading Up North, the seventh Jew, and McCartney has been dating annual Traverse City Film Festival Jewish businesswoman Nancy Shevell runs Tuesday-Sunday, July 26-31, at — like Eastman, also from a prominent various venues around Traverse City. In New York family — since 2007. They are addition to screenings with paid admis- now engaged. Shevell is ABC journalist sion, the festival presents classic movies Barbara Walters' second cousin. free of charge on a giant, inflatable out- In 2008, before his first-ever Israeli door screen overlooking Grand Traverse concert, McCartney was asked about his Bay in the Open Space Park at dusk. own personal relation to Jews: "I know Free panel discussions with directors, a lot of Jewish people, I have a lot of writers, actors and other members of Jewish people in my family, I have a lot the film industry are offered daily. For a of Jewish friends. But to me, that's not full schedule of films and events, go to really important what religion people traversecityfilmfest.org. are attached to — because I have a lot of Christian friends and Muslim FAMILY FUN friends [too]. Its just happened that I do have a lot of relatives and friends who Stagecrafters Youth Theatre presents are Jewish. They're wonderful people. the regional premiere of Disney's Camp And, as you say, because Linda was the Rock — The Musical, performed by mother of my children, they're Jewish 40 children from the tri-county area, — half-Jewish — and that's great!" July 22-31 at the Baldwin Theatre, 415 S. The members of O.A.R. (standing Lafayette, Royal Oak. The musical is the for "of a revolution") bring their live stage adaptation of the Disney Channel's show in support of their forthcoming Camp Rock movies; it focuses on the seventh studio album, King, to Meadow importance of teamwork. 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