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ON THE STAGE
Returning to Meadow
Brook Music Festival
Tex-Mex rockers
8 p.m. Saturday, Aug.
Los Lonely Boys
13, is 100 Years of
Gail Zimmerman
and American
Broadway, a revue
Arts Editor
Chicano rock band
of the Great White
Los Lobos
out
Way's most beloved
with its first collection of new origi-
songs, including tunes from Jewish
nal material in four years with Tin
composers Jerome Kern, Rodgers
Can Trust, perform at Meadow Brook
and Hammerstein, Kander and
Music Festival 8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 12.
Ebb, Stephen Sondheim and more.
Los Lobos' lineup has remained
Musical director and pianist Neil
uninterrupted since 1984, when the
Berg, currently writing the music
group's sole Jewish member, saxo-
for the Broadway-bound musical
phonist/keyboardist Steve Berlin, 55,
Grumpy Old Men, based on the
joined original Mexican American
hit film, presents old and newer
players Louie Perez (guitar, drums,
Broadway classics with perform-
vocals), David Hidalgo (guitar, violin,
ers singing many of the hit songs
accordion, percussion, vocals), Cesar
they have sung on Broadway. $22.50
Rosas (guitar, vocals) and Conrad
reserved pavilion/$15 general
Lozano (bass, vocals), each of whom
admission pavilion. (800) 745-3000;
had been there since the beginning in
palacenet.corn.
1973.
Earlier in the day, at 2 p.m.
"It's always been about the music,
Saturday, Aug. 13, at Meadow Brook
not about cultural differences:' Philly
Music Festival, Berg presents his
native Berlin — who celebrated his
family-friendly production, Family
bar mitzvah at that city's famed Frank Day on Broadway, with songs from
Lloyd Wright-designed Beth Sholom
Broadway's greatest family musicals,
Synagogue — told Phildelphia's
including Annie, Beauty and the
Jewish Exponent earlier this year. "To
Beast, Mary Poppins, The Lion King,
an outsider, it all may appear exotic
Wizard of Oz, Wicked and more. $15
and strange," but it's no different from
reserved pavilion (half-off ages 12
being part of a family "where, on occa- and under) /$10 general admission
sion, the parents will speak Yiddish
pavilion (no discount). Doors at 1
when they don't want the children to
p.m. (800) 745-3000; palacenet.com .
understand them.
"My Spanish is terrible added
the instrumentalist-producer, whose
THE BIG SCREEN
musicianship can be heard on Paul
Simon's Graceland, among others.
Famed for his political documenta-
There are "distinct parallels between
ries capturing the history and poli-
Jewish music and Latin music, with
tics of Chile, acclaimed documen-
klezmer and Ladino a definite con-
tary filmmaker Patricio Guzman
nection."
traveled 10,000 feet above sea level
Tickets are $35 pavilion/$10 lawn.
to the driest place on earth for his
(800) 745-3000; palacenet.com .
newest film, Nostalgia for the Light.
Atop the mountains of the Atacama
Desert, astronomers from all over
the world gather to observe the stars
and galaxies in the translucent sky.
At the same time, the desert's harsh
heat keeps human remains intact;
the surviving relatives of the disap-
peared, whose bodies were dumped
here, search, even after 25 years, for
the remains of their relatives. The
Detroit Film Theatre at the Detroit
Institute of Arts screens the award-
winning film 7 p.m. Friday and
Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday, Aug.
12-14, and 4:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug.
31. $6.50-$7.50. (313) 833-4005;
tickets.dia.org.
—
Steve Berlin
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