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Beat Of Chanukah

WL Central, Northern & Western HS
choirs, bands and orchestras present

Collage Concerts

Jewish Drum Tales brings spirit of the holiday alive for students.

•December 10, 2013

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WL Western HS band & orchestra

•December 11-12 9 2013

Lisa Parshan

Special to the Jewish News

T

he story of Chanukah can eas-
ily be told through a variety
of ways. Children can listen
to a book on CD, watch a DVD, act it
and go through the artistic process of
developing a project to highlight the
holiday. But what if all those storytell-
ing methods were combined? Jewish
Drum Tales, produced by Musical IQ,
a New Jersey-based edu-tainment
company specializing in educational
programming and specialty entertain-
ment, combines all these methods.
Their debut in Michigan featured
appearances at Akiva Hebrew Day
School in Southfield as well as at
the Jewish Community Center in
West Bloomfield, Temple Beth El in
Bloomfield Township (where Gan
Shalom students from Congregation
Beth Shalom in Oak Park joined in),
the Jewish Federation of Greater
Ann Arbor and Hillel Day School in
Farmington Hills.
Shmueli Perkel, flutist and drum-
mer, dazzled students from nursery-
age through third grade. They retold
the Chanukah story using rhythm,
meter and rhyme through the drums,
whether it was re-enacting a battle
scene or simulating the small drops
of oil that remained in the Beit
HaMikdash (holy temple) after the
Maccabees' victory.
Accompanied by Yitzchak Meir
Malek, guitar player and drum-
mer, their combined musical talents
gave the students visual imagery and
stimulated their imaginations as they

'A Good Man'

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WL Northern HS choirs, band
& orchestra

•December 17-18, 2013

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WL Central HS choirs, band
& orchestra

•December 19, 2013

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WL Western HS choirs

For ticket information,
go to wlcstickets.com
or call 248-387-9160.

WL Northern HS Performing Arts Center to host

Holiday Pops with the Phil

Presented by the Huron Valley
Council for the Arts

Flanked by Yitzchak Meir Malek and Shmueli Perkel, Akiva student Yaffa
Klausner, 9, of Southfield, concentrates on her drum moves.

December 13, 2013
WL Northern HS

Featuring the Michigan Philharmonic
with music director and conductor
Nan Washburn.

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For ticket information,
go to www.huronvalleyarts.org
or call 248-889-866o.

pm

WL Western HS Performing Arts presents

"Almost Maine"

February 6-8, 2014
WL Western HS

Tickets will be available for
purchase in January, 2014.
For ticket information,
go to wlcstickets.com
or call 248-387-9160.

A captivated audience watches the presentation.

WL Northern HS Performing Arts presents

recounted the exciting Chanukah story.
This program was sponsored
by Rebecca and Mitch Klausner
and family in memory of Peter D.
Houghteling, great-uncle of Akiva

students Alter, Raffi, Ezra and Yaffa
Klausner.

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"Tarzan - The Musical"

Lisa Parshan is director of Akiva's Early
Childhood Center.

February 6-9, 2014
WL Northern HS

Tickets will be available for
purchase in January, 2014.
For ticket information,
go to wlcstickets.com
or call 248-387-9160.

Shriver discussed his book about his father and

WL Central HS Performing Arts presents

Alzheimer's at collaborative event.

"Fiddler on the Roof'
Bala

M

ark Shriver, author of A Good Man: Rediscovering My Father,
Sargent Shriver, spoke at Knollwood Country Club in West
Bloomfield in October for three community organizations:
Jewish Senior Life, JVS' Dorothy & Peter Brown Jewish Community Adult
Day Care Program and the Alzheimer's Association-Greater Michigan
Chapter.
Shriver greeted each person with focus and a listening ear; that atten-
tion to detail permeated the crowd, creating a feeling of connection among
everyone in attendance. While it was cathartic for Shriver to write about
his father's 10-year ordeal with Alzheimer's, he said writing the book also
gave him a deeper understanding and appreciation of his father — and his
mother, Eunice Kennedy Shriver.
He noted that a more accurate term for caregiver is "love-giver?' This
profound realization resonated with the audience, many of whom had
been touched by the effects of Alzheimer's on a loved one or friend.

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l othz1 April 25-27 &
May 1-3, 2014,
WL Cental HS

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Tickets will be available
for purchase March 2014.
For ticket information, go to
wlcstickets.com
or call 248-387-9160.

For more information and
additional show listings, go to
wlcstickets.com .

Rochelle Upfal, CEO of Jewish Senior
Life, with author Mark Shriver

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