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SIDECIAl RENT! ()NE NIGH CNIY!
Celebrate New Year's Eve with Patty, Maxine & Laverne at JET
An Evening with the Andrews Sisters
Starring Company 13
Two performances: 6 p.m. & 9 p.m. (Season subscriptions do not include this show.)
You may see the 6 p.m. show and stay for a gala dinner or dine first
and enjoy the 9 p.m. production. Then...enjoy an afterglow with dancing,
dessert and a champagne toast at midnight.
Ticket for either the 6 p.m. or 9p.m. show: $60 • Ticket for the 7:30 pm dinner: $50
Ticket for the 10:30 pm afterglow party: $20
Dinner, show & afterglow package: $125
For more information visit our website at
www.JetTheatre.org
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JET performs in the Aaron DeRoy Theatre
6600 West Maple Road • West Bloomfield
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Metro Detroiters will
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nyone who has wondered how
it would feel to be a serious
and listened-to composer can
stop wondering. That goes even for people
without musical training.
Tod Machover, known for bringing
technology to musical scores played
internationally, will be putting together a
unique symphony, and he is looking for
imaginative contributors to be part of the
composing team.
The piece, including traditional instru-
mental music, will feature environmental
sounds associated with Detroit as captured
by Metro Detroiters.
Symphony in D will be the title of the
piece that could include car sounds, con-
struction sounds, urban gardening sounds
and hit Motown sounds among countless
others.
Machover will listen to sound submis-
sions and review conceptual contributions
made over the Internet, consult with oth-
ers and come up with the final work to be
performed Nov. 16, 2015, by the Detroit
Symphony Orchestra under the direction
of Leonard Slatkin.
"The idea of inviting a community to
come together in thinking about their
environment and the people who share
it — and doing that through listening and
music — is a good connecting mecha-
nism:' says Machover, who has worked on
similar projects in Toronto; Edinburgh;
Perth, Australia; and Lucerne, Switzerland.
"I like combining electronics with the
orchestra, and with this project, we com-
bine what we usually think of as music
(melodies, harmonies and rhythms played
by instruments) with the beauty, diversity
and power of the sounds around us.
"Since I've been doing these kinds of
projects, a different world has opened up
for me:'
As the piece evolves, there will be work-
shops and discussions throughout the city
and back-and-forth musical sharing and
shaping. Meetings will be held with Metro
Detroiters and community organizations
to engage wide participation with the help
of Machover's technology.
Machover, composer and professor of
music and media at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology Media Lab, has
introduced his innovations through earlier
DSO programming.
"Detroit is one of the world's most
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interesting cities right now:' says
Machover, whose grandparents, Rose and
John Machover, once lived in Flint.
"It has faced all of the challenges of
being industrial and is in a position to
reinvent itself. So many people are think-
ing about the city, and I'm excited to be
involved with this important dialogue:'
Once Machover has received the
submissions, he might rework some in
the studio. Other submissions might be
adapted by the orchestra instead of being
brought into the piece through the actual
recording.
Machover has developed technology
that can collect and combine sounds and
translate them into music.
The Constellation app, used in previous
versions of the City-Symphony series, is
Web-based and allows anyone to hear the
latest sounds collected and combine them
into personalized mixes.
Another mobile app is being designed
especially for Symphony in D to allow
any recorded sound to be geographically
identified by mobile devices to create a
sound map of the area. It will be available
through the Apple App Store and Google
Play early next year.
"I'm inviting people to listen to the
city, send recordings that they make and
suggest sounds they'd like us to record if
they think it's something interesting and
can't make recordings themselves:' says
Machover, whose lab developed the video-
game Guitar Hero for untrained individu-
als who want to play music.
"I grew up with Motown music and
have been listening to a lot of it again. I'm
sure there will be Motown elements in the
piece, but Detroit also is where techno was
born. You couldn't think about the city
and ignore the musical cultures, including
jaze
With Jewish culture important in his
life, Machover sees a connection to music.
"I love Judaism because it's a path to the
most a human being can be — in treat-
ing others and living right now," he says.
"Music is the perfect metaphor for all of
those things combined:' ❑
For more information on the proj-
ect and ways to submit sounds
and ideas for Symphony in D, go to
dso.org/SymphonylnD.