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CLASSICAL NOTES
At 2 p.m. Sunday, April 1, Detroit's Ford
Piquette Plant will serve as the first venue
for Detroit Chamber Winds & Strings'
new chamber music series, Structurally
Sound, presenting chamber music in
architecturally significant spaces with
repertoire that relates to the space's unique
qualities. "We want to stretch our imagina-
tions, attract new audiences, yet still create
great experiences for our current support-
ers:' says DCWS Executive Director Maury
Okun. $10-$35. (248) 559-2095; www.
detroitchamberwinds.org.
University Musical Society presents the
St. Lawrence String Quartet, performing
the Book of Ecclesiastes-inspired Kohelet,
a new composition by Argentinian-born
Jewish composer Osvaldo Golijov, at
7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 5, at Rackham
Auditorium, 915 E. Washington St., Ann
Arbor. $22-$46. (734) 764-2538;
www.ums.org.
Michigan Opera Theatre opens its
spring season at the Detroit Opera House
with Georges Bizet's The Pearl Fishers, a
tale of fate, loyalty and forbidden love set on
the island of Ceylon, at 7:30 p.m. Saturday,
April 14; 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April
18; 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 20; 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, April 21; and 2:30 p.m. Sunday,
April 22. A free opera talk begins one hour
prior to each performance. $29-$121. (313)
237-SING; www.michiganopera.org .
POP / ROCK / JAZZ / FOLK
Detroit jazz singer Kathy Kosins is out
with a new album, To the Ladies of Cool
(Resonance Records). Sung and inter-
preted in Kosins' own inimitable style, and
recorded with pianist-musical director
Tamir Hendelman, all of the 10 songs on
the CD derive from the repertoires of four
canonical female singers of the 1950s: Anita
O'Day, June Christy Chris Connor and Julie
London. Info: wwwresonancerecords.org .
Oak Park-born musician Aaron Jonah
4,,es WS
Lewis, who several years
ago won a national blue-
grass fiddle competition,
is now based in Berlin,
playing with several
bands and traveling the
world. He is presently on
the Time Capsule Tour,
playing with Englishman
Thomas Dolby's band
and also serving as the opening act. See
the Hillel Day School, Berkley High School
and Interlochen Arts Academy grad 7 p.m.
Wednesday, April 4, at the Royal Oak Music
Theatre. 318 W. Fourth St. $20 ($25 day of
show). (800) 919-6272;
www.royaloakmusictheatre.com .
ON THE STAGE
For the past 16 years, Jewish Ensemble
Theatre (JET) has produced The Diary of
Anne Frank for tens of thousands of stu-
dents and adults, giving many of them their
first exposure to the Holocaust. This year,
student matinees of the production ($10)
will take place April 10-20 at the Berman
Center for the Performing Arts in West
Bloomfield. A special public performance
will be offered at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 15;
$10-$15. To order tickets, or to inquire
about sponsoring a student or a school, call
(248) 788-2900; www.jettheatre.org.
At 6 p.m. Monday, April 16, at the
Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, a
fundraiser, Raise Your Hand for JET,
featuring a strolling dinner, live and silent
auctions, and tours of the galleries, will be
held to benefit JET'S mainstage and stu-
dent outreach programs. For info and to
RSVP by April 9, call (248) 788-2900.
A new, re-imagined touring production
of Disney's Beauty and the Beast, helmed
by original director Rob Roth and with
music and lyrics by Alan Menken and
the late Howard Ashman, and additional
songs by Menken and Tim Rice, comes
to the stage of Detroit's Fisher Theatre
7:30 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, 2 and 7:30 p.m.
Nate Bloom
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Special to the Jewish News
v g: Ancestry On The Air
Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates
4:114 Jr. is the host of Finding Your Roots, a
new 10-part, famous-person ancestry
series airing 8 p.m. Sundays on Detroit
Public Television, with encore showings
and all aired episodes
available online. Last
week's debut featured
singer Harry Connick
Jr., whose late moth-
er was Jewish. She
died when Connick
was 14, and shortly
thereafter
Connick
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decided to follow his father's Catholic
faith. On April 1, Barbara Walters,
82, will be profiled; next week, I'll
cover the other Jewish or part-Jewish
celebs coming up.
For Peet's Sake
Amanda Peet, 38, is
the star of the new
NBC romantic come-
dy series Bent, airing
8 p.m. Wednesdays.
She plays a recently
divorced lawyer with
a 10-year-old daugh-
ter. Jeffrey Tambor, 67, a series regu-
lar, plays the father of Peet's possible
love interest.
Saturday and 1 and 6:30
p.m. Sunday, April 10-22. Not
recommended for children
5 and under. Tickets start at
$32. (313) 872-1000; www.
broadwayindetroit.com .
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FAMILY FUN
Justin Roberts and his
band, the Not Ready for Naptime
Players, dish out intelligent and whimsi-
cally rocking music for kids and their par-
ents at 11 a.m. Saturday, March 31, at the
Ark in Ann Arbor. $12.50. (734) 761-1451;
www.theark.org .
Meadow Brook Theatre hosts History's
Alive!'s production of Houdini and the
Magic of Thinking Big, about how the
son of poor immigrants (his father was
a rabbi), inspired by a borrowed book,
dedicates himself to becoming the world's
greatest magician, at 1 p.m. Saturday,
March 31, for grades K-5. $15. (248) 377-
3300; www.mbtheatre.com .
WHATNOT
Nationally known psychic medium
Rebecca Rosen returns to Detroit, where
she first gained prominence, for several
appearances this spring and fall.
Rosen toured the country in 2011 pre-
senting a lecture titled "Co-Creating Our
Destiny," in which she explained that while
certain events and encounters are destined
to occur, because of the gift of free will, it's
ultimately up to us what we choose to do
with them.
In her 2012 lecture, "Inward and
Upward," she explains how our thoughts
— picked up through our five physical
senses but also telepathically at a nonver-
bal level — are the doorway to sensing
energy, and our intuition provides the
tools for working with it.
At 7:30 p.m. Monday, May 14, Rosen will
be at the Berman Center for the Performing
Arts in West Bloomfield for an Inward and
Omar's Outing
Last week, the
grandson of famous
Egyptian actor Omar
Sharif, Omar Sharif
Jr., 29, wrote an arti-
cle for the gay publi-
cation The Advocate,
in which he said that
his mother is Jewish and that he is
gay, adding he could no longer "remain
in the shadows" about these identities
when in Egypt. "The vision for a freer,
more equal Egypt has been hijacked,"
he wrote. Sharif Jr., also an actor, now
lives in the U.S.
Virtually all media outlets treated
Sharif Jr.'s disclosure that he is "half-
Upward Lecture/Audience Reading. Later
this year, at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 25,
she'll return to the Berman Center for
An Evening with Rebecca Rosen —
Audience Reading. Tickets for each of
these events are $30 and $60 in advance
(depending on seat location), $90 at the
door (based on availability). Call (248) 661-
1900 to purchase tickets.
Rosen has created CDs of both lectures
for those who were unable to attend and/
or for those who did attend and would like
to review the information. As an added
bonus, each CD contains a brand-new
meditation. For more information, go to
www.rebeccarosen.com .
In addition, Rosen currently is writing
her second book and is in need of real-life
stories and testimonials. If you have had a
reading and/or read her first book, Spirited,
and you feel the guidance and information
provided has helped you improve your life
and feel a greater sense of connection to
Spirit, inner peace, joy and love, email her
at stories@rebeccarosen.com . If your story
is a good fit, she will email you back to
notify you of its inclusion.
Finally, Rosen will appear at 9:30 a.m.-
12:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 15, at a brunch
at the Townsend Hotel in Birmingham for
Kadima's annual Healthy Body Healthy
Mind event. She'll demonstrate to the
audience how to draw on the power of
one's intuitive gifts and do one audience
reading. The event benefits Kadima's Child
and Adolescent program for children and
adolescents diagnosed with emotional
and behavioral disorders. $75. Tickets:
Contact Paula at (248) 559-8235, ext. 118
or paula@kadimacenter.org ; or go to
www.kadima.org .
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Out & About will return on April 12.
Jewish" as news, but 10 years ago, his
grandfather said in several interviews
that he paid for the "biggest bar mitz-
vah in the history of Canada" for his
grandson Omar.
However, in 2007, when the Funny
Girl actor was asked about his "Jewish
grandson" by the Arab news channel
Al-Jazeera, the elder Sharif denied
that his grandson was Jewish "at all"
and claimed he was a Muslim. Sharif
would only say that his grandson
"respected his Jewish mother." Clearly,
the elder Sharif fibbed because he was
scared for the safety of his son (who
had returned to live in Egypt with a
new Muslim wife) and for his grandson,
who often visited Egypt. ❑