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CLASSICAL NOTES
www.dso.org .
After a memorable residency featuring the
music of Schubert last summer, pianist
Louis Nagel returns to Ann Arbor's inti-
mate Kerrytown Concert House to present
his new concert and lecture series, Bach
and More, which will focus on the music
of Bach and Liszt. Nagel, a U-M professor
who also has taught at the Rubin Academy
in Jerusalem, will perform concerts at 8
p.m. Thursday, July 12, and 4 p.m. Sunday,
July 15 ($15-$30/$10 students), and
will deliver free public lectures at 8 p.m.
Wednesday, July 11, and 4 p.m. Saturday,
July 14. Tickets and reservations: (734)
769-2999; kerrytownconcerthouse.com .
Spend an evening lakeside with the
Detroit Symphony Orchestra at Ford
House on Friday ("A Night in Brazil") and
Saturday ("Carmen and Other Favorite
Stories"), July 13-14. Grounds at the Edsel
and Eleanor Ford House open at 6 p.m.,
concerts begin at 7:30 p.m. and fireworks
are at 9:30 p.m. 1100 Lake Shore Drive,
Grosse Pointe Shores. Tickets start at $20.
(313) 576-5111; dso.org .
New this year, the Avanti Summer
MusicFest hosts chamber ensembles
of DSO musicians performing at 7:30
p.m. Thursday, July 19, and the Avanti
Festival Orchestra, featuring DSO musi-
cians and other local performers, taking
the stage at 7:30 p.m. Friday, July 20, both
at the First Presbyterian Church, 1669
W. Maple Road, in Birmingham. Tickets
for each concert are $25-$50 and can be
purchased through www.dso.org or at
the door. The Avanti Workshop Finale,
at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, July 21, will feature
approximately 140 high school workshop
students coached by DSO musicians and
performing alongside them on the stage of
Orchestra Hall in Detroit; to reserve your
free tickets, call (313) 576-5111 or go to
POP/ ROCK
JAZZ / FOLK
About
41•10
Rock Radio, the first Jewish
rock Internet radio sta-
tion. See him in concert
at 7 p.m. Monday, July 16,
at the Berman Center for
the Performing Arts, 6600
W. Maple Road, in West
Bloomfield. $8 adults/$6
children. (248) 661-1900;
www.theberman.org .
Tenacious D is on the
road in support of a
Gail Zimmerman
new album, Rize of the
Arts Editor
Fenix, the duo's first stu-
dio album in six years.
Jack Black (who's been busy with his act-
ing career) and Kyle Gass (Tenacious D's
THE BIG SCREEN
core duo) take the stage at the Fillmore in
Detroit with special guests the Sights on
One of the best film musicals ever made,
Friday, July 6. Doors at 7 p.m. $25.
1952's Singin' in the Rain, directed by
livenation. com .
Stanley Donen and written by Adolph
See this season's talented top 10 final-
Green and Betty Comden, comes to area
ists when American Idol LIVE! launches
movie theaters at 7 p.m. Thursday, July
its 2012 tour at 7 p.m. Friday, July 6, at
12. Preceding the remastered film, one of
Detroit's Joe Louis Arena. $29.50-$65.
its stars, Debbie Reynolds, takes viewers
(800) 745-3000; olympiaentertainment.
behind the scenes. For theaters, go to
com.
fathomevents.com .
Yiddish theater/folk music authority
and performer Zalmen Mlotek, with spe-
FAMILY FUN
cial guest Daniella Rabbani, a New York-
based actor and singer, will be featured in
PuppetArt-Detroit Puppet Theatre
Temple Beth El's annual senior concert,
presents Kolobok — a Russian
100 Years of Yiddish Theater Music, at 2
folktale incorporating original music
p.m. Sunday, July 15, at the temple, 7400
and lyrics and known in America as
Telegraph Road, Bloomfield Township.
"The Gingerbread Man" — at 10 a.m.
Open to all seniors in the community at
Thursdays, July 12 and 19, and 2 p.m.
no charge. To reserve tickets, call (248)
Saturdays, July 7-28. $5 children/$10
851-1100, ext. 3150.
adults. 25 E. Grand River, Detroit. (313)
One of the top-touring Jewish musi-
961-7777; puppetart.org .
cians and family entertainers in the U.S.,
An all-new stage adaptation of
Rick Recht also is elevating the medium
the famous French fairytale, Puss In
of Jewish music as a powerful and effec-
Boots, produced and directed by John
tive tool for developing Jewish pride
Manfredi (a frequent contributor to JET
and identity. He is the national spokes-
productions), comes to Meadow Brook
man for the PJ Library, which provides
Music Festival at 2 and 7 p.m. Thursday,
free Jewish books and music to children
July 19. $15 reserved pavilion/$10
throughout the country; executive direc-
general admission pavilion/$49 reserved
tor of Songleader Boot Camp, a national
family four-packs. (800) 745-3000;
leadership development program; and
palacenet.com .
founder and executive director of Jewish
THE ART SCENE
The Detroit Institute of Arts hosts
Picasso and Matisse: The DIA's Prints and
Drawings, an exhibition telling the story of
Picasso's and Matisse's stylistic progression
and artistic range through more than 100
prints and drawings, from July 11-Jan 6.
The museum also is displaying Puppets of
American Dance, some of the best exam-
ples of American dance marionettes from
its Paul McPharlin Puppetry Collection,
from July 11-Jan. 16. Free with museum
admission. (313) 833-7900; dia.org.
From July 13-Oct. 15, Pewabic Pottery
presents Simply By Hand: Architectural
Ceramics from Mary Stratton to Now,
an exhibition of Pewabic tile work side by
side with that of other contemporary art-
ists. 10125 E. Jefferson, Detroit. (313) 626-
2000; pewabic.org .
Get ready for the two largest art fairs
in Michigan: The biggest, the Ann Arbor
Art Fairs —actually four art fairs in
one — runs Wednesday-Sunday, July
18-21, theannarborartfair.com; downtown
Plymouth's Art in the Park hosts more
than 400 artists Friday-Sunday, July 13-15,
artinthepark.com .
WHATNOT
Hydroplanes will race up to 200 mph
on the Detroit River during the 103rd
American Power Boat Association Gold
Cup Race, Friday (free for practice),
Saturday and Sunday, July 13-15. Info and
tickets: gold-cup.com .
Out & About will return on July 19.
Please email items you wish to have
considered for Out & About to Gail
Zimmerman at gzimmerman®thejewishnews.
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Nate Bloom
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A Jewish Spidey
Michigander Sam Raimi
W Former
made a trio of Spider Man films
were huge hits. Now comes The
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Amazing Spider Man, currently in
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theaters, which bills itself as "another
chapter" in the Marvel Comics super-
hero's life. It stars Andrew Garfield,
28, in the title role
as Peter Parker/
Spider-Man, with
Emma Stone, 23,
as his love inter-
est (they're a
real-life couple as
Afek well). Garfield's
Andrew
film breakthrough
Garfield
came in The Social
July 5 e 2012
Network, in which he played Eduardo
Saverin, a real-life Jewish Brazilian
who aided Mark Zuckerberg (played
by Jesse Eisenberg) in the creation of
Facebook.
Garfield was born in LA and raised
in London, where his paternal grand-
father, Samuel Garfinkel, grew up.
The son of Polish-born Jews; Garfinkel
changed his name after moving to the
U.S. Andrew's father, Richard, was
born here in 1950.
Andrew was 3 years old when his
parents moved to England in 1986;
they opened a small design busi-
ness there. Andrew's mother, Linda,
is English-born. It isn't clear whether
she is Jewish, but the actor has called
himself Jewish in interviews, saying
he eats matzah ball soup every day
he's in New York, where he lives with
Stone.
Playing Peter Parker's mother, Mary
Parker, is Embetz Davidtz, 46, best
known for her bravura performance
as Helen Hirsch, a real-life Jewish
woman who worked as a maid in the
home of the concentration camp com-
mander in 1993's Schindler's List. In
2002, Davidtz married Jewish attor-
ney Jerry Sloane in what brief press
reports described as a Jewish wedding
(so she may have converted). She and
Sloane have two children.
Woody Does Roma
Opening Friday, July 6, is the new
Woody Allen flick, To Rome with
Love, a series of vignettes with a light
comic air. Allen, 76, acts in this one,
playing an American opera direc-
tor. One segment features Jesse
Eisenberg, 28, as an American archi-
tect living in Rome with his girlfriend
(Greta Gerwig).
Complications ensue
when he falls hard for
his girlfriend's best
friend (Ellen Page).
On Father's Day,
Allen's only bio-
logical child (with Mia
Woody Allen
Farrow), Ronan (ne
Satchel) Farrow, 24, tweeted, "Happy
father's day – or as they call it in my
family, happy brother-in-law's day."
Ronan was 5 when, in 1992, his
father left Mia for her daughter Soon-
Yi Previn, now 41. Allen is paying a
price for his behavior: the contempt
of a son who by any standard is an
extraordinary person. Ronan gradu-
ated from college at 15, studied law at
Yale and is now a prominent human
rights attorney. Last December, he
was named a Rhodes Scholar. E