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CLASSICAL NOTES
Led by Music Director Leonard Slatkin,
the Detroit Symphony Orchestra offers
five free community concerts before the
Oct. 8 start of the 2011-2012 classical
season, including a 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 2,
concert at Orchestra Hall in Detroit. To
reserve seats, call (313) 576-5111.
ON THE STAGE
Performance Network in Ann Arbor
presents Donald Margulies' 2010 Tony-
nominated play, Time Stands Still, about
a photojournalist recently back from Iraq
after being injured by a roadside bomb
who must choose between returning
to the front or settling down with her
reporter boyfriend, Sept. 23-Oct. 23. $22
$41/senior and student discounts. Show
times and tickets: (734) 663-0681;
performancenetwork.org .
A scene from A Night in the Ukraine,
at the Hi lberry Theatre
The Hilberry Theatre opens its 49th
season with a musical double feature,
A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the
Ukraine. A Day in Hollywood is a musical
tribute to the screen stars and produc-
tions of the 1930s; A Night in the Ukraine
transports the audience to a black-and-
white Marx Brothers-like "film" loosely
based on Anton Chekhov's The Bear. The
musical runs for four consecutive weeks
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Special to the Jewish News
Sports Notes
a)
The following Jewish players (at least
one Jewish parent and were raised
Jewish or secular) are on an NFL
team roster as of Sept.13 (with the
aid of Jewish Sports Review). An (M)
or an (F) following the player's name
indicates which parent is Jewish if the
player doesn't have
two Jewish parents:
Greg Camarillo, 29,
(M), wide receiver,
Minnesota; Brian De
La Puente, 26, (M),
guard, New Orleans;
Antonio Garay, 31,
(M), nose tackle, San
Erik Lorig
100 September 22 2011
(rather than in the
usual repertory) Sept.
23-Oct. 15. $12-$30.
Show times and tick-
ets: (313) 577-2972;
hilberry.com.
Fresh off its highly
successful Broadway
run, Rain: A Tribute
to the Beatles, a live, note-by-note, mul-
timedia Fab Four tribute performance
to benefit JARC, takes place 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, Oct. 18, at the Fox Theatre in
Detroit. Seating assignments begin Sept.
26. For complete ticket information, call
(248) 538-6611 or go to jarc.org .
DANCE FEVER
The first dance event of the 2011-2012
University Musical Society season is the
Mark Morris Dance Group, performing
8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Sept 23-24, at
the Power Center in Ann Arbor. The dance
ensemble's presentations feature three
recent dances never before performed in
Ann Arbor, including Excursions (2008)
(set to music by Samuel Barber), Festival
Dance (2011) (set to music by Johann
Hummel) and Socrates (2010) (set to
music by Erik Satie). $18-$48. (734) 764-
2538; ums.org.
THE BIG SCREEN
The Alloy Orchestra, including percus-
sionist and clarinetist Ken Winokur,
returns to the Detroit Film Theatre Sept.
23-25 to accompany silent films including
Blackmail (Alfred Hitchcock, 1929; free
with DIA admission), 7:30 p.m. Friday;
Not Just for Kids (family friendly silent
shorts), 3 p.m. Saturday; Wild and Weird
(a new compilation of silent shorts veer-
ing from charming to outrageous), 7:30
p.m. Saturday; and From Morning To
Diego; Kyle Kosier, 32, (M), guard,
Dallas; Erik Lorig, 24, tight end/full-
back, Tampa Bay; Taylor Mays, 23,
(M), safety, Cincinnati; Adam Podlesh,
28, punter, Chicago; Sage Rosenfels,
33, (F), back-up quarterback (injured
reserve), New York Giants; Geoff
Schwartz, 25, offensive tackle (injured
reserve), Carolina; and rookie Gabe
Carimi, 23, right tackle, Chicago.
Veterans David Binn (San Diego) and
Igor Olshansky
(Dallas) were cut just
before the season
began.
Opening Friday,
Sept. 23, is
Moneyball, about
how real-life Oakland
A's general manager
Bennett Miller
Midnight (premiere of a
recently discovered 1920
German expressionist mas-
terwork), 4:30 p.m. Sunday.
$8-$10. (313) 833-4005;
tickets.dia.org .
Detroit Public Television-
Channel 56 broadcasts the
1971 film classic Fiddler on
the Roof8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 23.
FAMILY FUN
Dan Zanes & Friends perform in two
one hour University Musical Society fam-
ily concerts, 1 and 4 p.m. Sunday, Sept.
25, at the Power Center in Ann Arbor.
They will feature music from the Grammy
AwardNwinning group's new release, Little
Nut Tree (Festival Five Records), their
first family album in five years. "I actu-
ally think of my music as all-ages music,
and this is what makes us different from
other people in the children's field:' Zanes,
who is raising his children Jewish with
his Jewish wife, told the Jewish News in a
2006 interview. "I believe that grandpar-
ents and parents are just as important
in all this as the kids." $8 children/$16
adults. (734) 764-2538; ums.org .
The Detroit Institute of Arts hosts
Good Mischief with Gemini — the
musical duo of Ann Arbor-based broth-
ers San and Laz Slomovits — with
sing-alongs, tunes with hand motions
and songs from around the world, 2 p.m.
Sunday, Sept. 25, in the Lecture Hall. Free
with museum admission. (313) 833-7900;
dia.org .
scripture, from
blessings for
the home to
ancient scrolls,
10 a.m.-6 p.m.
Saturday and
10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Sunday, Sept.
24-25, on S.
Old Woodward,
Birmingham.
theguild.org .
Pill Spill, a
Orna Amrani: Blessing
floor installa-
tion by Beverly for the Home,
Birmingham Street
Fishman,
Art Fair.
current artist-
in-residence
and head of the Painting Department at
Cranbrook Academy of Art, is on view
through September at the Toledo Museum
of Art Glass Pavilion. The installation
contains more than 120 unique glass
capsules, ranging in size from 6 to 15
inches, and creates a sort of "architectural
circulatory system." 2245 Monroe St. Free.
(419) 255-8000; toledomuseum.org .
WHATNOT
American Sewing Expo, with education-
al presentations, hands-on classes, semi-
nars and all-day workshops by industry
professionals, runs Friday-Sunday,
Sept. 23-25, at the Suburban Collection
Showplace (formerly Rock Financial
Showplace), 46100 Grand River Ave., Novi.
Info and pricing: (248) 889-3111;
americansewingexpo.com .
THE ART SCENE
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Common Ground's Birmingham
Street Art Fair hosts 190 juried artists,
including Orna Amrani, whose hand-
made sculptures contain ancient Jewish
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considered for Out & About to Gail
Billy Beane put together winning
baseball teams by defying conven-
tional wisdom and using computer
statistical analysis in drafting and
trading for players. Directed by
Bennett Miller (Capote), 44, the film
stars Brad Pitt (Beane), with Jonah
Hill, 27, as Beane's right-hand man.
More Mad Mel
Mel Gibson has made a deal with
Warner Bros. to produce a film on
the life of Judah Maccabee. Gibson,
who has made anti-Semitic remarks,
is the son of Hutton Gibson, a viru-
lently anti-Semitic, ultra-traditionalist
Catholic who denies the Holocaust.
Nonetheless, Mel Gibson produces
films on his Jewish faves (like Leonard
Cohen and The Three Stooges).
com . Notice is requested three weeks before
the scheduled event.
This weirdness is doubled when
one learns that Joe Eszterhas (Basic
Instinct) has been signed to do the
Maccabee film's screenplay. Eszterhas'
background is traditionalist Catholic,
too, and his father, Istvan, was investi-
gated by the Justice Department for
helping Hungarian Catholic fascists
persecute and kill Jews during World
War II, a fact the younger Eszterhas
learned just after writing The Music
Box (1989), a fictional feature film
about a Hungarian immigrant who is
tried for war crimes against Jews. The
revelation of his father's background
caused Joe, seemingly always pro-
Jewish, to be largely estranged from
Istvan until his death.
It's a strange duo to make a movie
about the biggest Chanukah hero.