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Mediterranean Persian Cuisine

30005 Orchard Lake Road
Farmington Hills

(North of 13 Mile)

www.pars1resturant.com

248.851.8200

Pars Mediterranean Restaurant

20% Off

Total Food Bill

Exp. 09.30.15

Hours:
Mon-ThrOP
llam-101

television special. It didn't go in those
directions so I decided to fashion a
book, and my path crossed with Lee
Cohen.
"We saw a tremendous reaction
among young people across America,
and we were fortunate to have philan-
thropists help us in building educational
tools around the book:'
With the help of the Milken Family
Foundation, Facing History and
Ourselves and the Wallis Annenberg
Foundation, teachers' resource materials
and videos were developed to explore
the different ideas in the chapters.
"I would appear in amphitheaters and
school auditoriums supported by these
wonderful organizations," says Golabek,
who traveled to Vienna and London to
see where her mother lived and track
down people who were part of those
times.
Although Golabek had started out
telling the story as herself, sometimes
jumping in as the people in her mother's
youthful experiences, the pianist-writer
wanted to extend the theater piece.
"One day, my path crossed with
[musical performer and producer]
Hershey Felder, and I showed him a
30-minute presentation of what I did for
the students:' she explains. "He offered
to become producer and adapted the
book into a 90-minute production as

The Pianist of Willesden Lane:'
Golabek, who earned a bachelor's
degree from the Peabody Conservatory
of Music in Baltimore, has set aside
work unrelated to her mother's history.
She is filming a documentary, bringing
out an audio book and contemplating a
feature film offer from a major studio.
She heads up the nonprofit organiza-

tion Hold On To Your Music, named in
honor of her grandmother, Malka, and
her parting words to Lisa.
While recalling a years-ago visit to
Ann Arbor to rehearse for her first
recording, Arensky /Tchaikovsky: Piano
Trios, Golabek looks forward to another
upcoming Michigan presentation. The
day after the Berman production, she
will appear before 3,000 Utica students
at the invitation of Superintendent
Christine Johns, who had seen Golabek
perform in another city
"My parents were very proud of being
Jewish and held their heads up high:'
says Golabek, near 60, single and based
in the Hollywood Hills. "They described
their losses but didn't live with bitter-
ness. They advised being worthy of the
gifts of life and making something out
of it. Feeling the Jewishness made me
very aware of fighting prejudice:'
Golabek, who has hosted a radio
program combining classical music
with readings of stories and poetry,
often is invited to speak before Jewish
organizations, including the United
States Holocaust Memorial Museum in
Washington, D.C.
"I walk as a proud Jew and wear a
Star of David around my neck:' says
Golabek, confident she shares her
mother's tenacity. "It was given to me
by my mother, and I never take it off. It
was given to her by a boy in the hostel.
"I always touch it before I walk out
on stage so that I can feel the legacy, the
mission and the promise and be worthy
of what my grandmother did [arrang-
ing for her daughter to be part of the
Kindertransport]. I want to make it all
relevant to young people today with a
message of hope:'

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