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…Close Up Right: Opening day with the Detroit Tigers. Below: Irwin Cohen Bottom: The Tigers' opening day lineup in 1940 included: Barney McCosky, Bruce Campbell, Charlie Gehringer, Hank Greenberg, Rudy York, Pinky Higgins, Dick Bartell, Birdie Tebbetts and Bobo Newsom. and Jewish pride, and I don't think Jewish players today have that." Detroit resident Harriet Berg remem- bers as a young teen-ager waiting on the steps of Congregation Sh...…
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…- 100 Years In Tune With The Gershwin Brothers. REED JOHNSON SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS Lu Top Right: The Gershwins' Broadway musical Girl Crazycontains many favorites: "I Got Rhythm," "Embraceable You," "But Not For Me" and o "Bidin' My Time." I— Above: Michael Feinstein's newest release, Nice Work If You Can Get It: I- Songs By The Gershwins, highlights the brothers' work from 1918 to 1946. Lu c , , Feinstein worked for Ira Gershwin from ...…
…W ithout them, there would've been no West Side Story and no soundtrack to Woody Allen's Manhattan. Jazz and blues might've remained forever outside the pop mainstream. Broad- way, perhaps, would have died out in the late 1920s, as audiences grew weary of frivolous musical comedies, and turned to movies and baseball instead. The careers of Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly and Ella Fitzgerald would've been infinitely duller, if not appre- ciably short...…
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…'Faithful' 'Purple Rose Comedy Festival' If the nuggets on stage tell us "turns," but I'll single out John Rated R true, there was a gold mine to Seibert. As a cheating jerk/hus- band in "The Date" and then a very sphere of study, be it choose from. art, science or math, has The first half is mostly deft, new-age Brit movie director in its own theories wherein flip, skit material resembling that "Rosemary and Julian," he gives certain basic ...…
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…Public Offering Of The IPO Music director for life, Zubin Mehta will conduct the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra when it comes to Ann Arbor on Thursday. he Israel Philharmonic Orchestra began life as a Diaspora organization. In 1936, the Palestine Orchestra — composed of German and Eastern European Jewish musicians who had lost their positions — gave its inaugural concert. It was led by Arturo Toscani- ni. Today, the Israel Philharmonic travel...…
…STN Entertainment 410 W hen Shelly Komer Jackier, Bela Green- baum and Fay Knoll signed up for an Israeli folk-dance class at the Oak Park JCC more than 20 years ago. little did they realize they were headed for careers as part- time dancers. Invited to perfoim at the former Borman se- nior residence, the three classmates began tak- ing their footwork on the road and soon created the Galai HaRuach troupe. The name changed to Hora Aviv sever...…
…AUDITIONS Michigan Renaissance Festi- val will hold auditions for Royal Court members, street characters and the Renaissance Academy, a tuition-free education program. 7 p.m. Fri., April 12, at the Stu- dent Theatre Arts Complex in Ann Arbor; 7 p.m. Thurs., April 18, at Oakland University Varn- er Hall, Rochester; 6 p.m. Tues., April 30, at Ferndale Library, Ferndale; 5 p.m. Tues., May 2, at Waverly High School, Lansing; noon Sat., June 1, Fe...…
…pass. Michigan Theater, Ann Ar- bor. (313) 668-8397. Redford Theatre Winter Film Series presents Oklahoma star- ring Gordon MacRae and Shirley Jones, with guest organist Lance Luce. 8 p.m. Fri., April 19; 2 and 8 p.m. Sat., April 20. Organ over- ture begins half hour before the film. 17360 Lahser at Grand Riv- er, Detroit. (313) 537-2560. Detroit Institute of Arts pre- sents The White School's Influ- ence on Filmmaking: The Work of Ralph Ste...…
…CALENDAR page 85 with guest vocalists, 8-midnight Fri.-Sat. in April. 33210 W. 14 Mile, West Bloomfield. (810) 855- 6220. Downtown Library Noontime Concerts. This week: Genesis II, sacred music from an African- American perspective. 12:15-1 p.m. Tuesdays through April. 121 Gratiot, Detroit. (313) 224- 074580. r The Blue Moon: Live music Thursdays featuring local talent 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Sundays open jam sessions 8 p.m.-2 a.m. 3965 Wood- ward (...…
…"You'll die laughing II The New York Post 0=0 COMEDY THRILLER rotating repertory: Abelard and Heloise, opens April 12, through May 11. Everything in the Gar- den, Edward Albee's sinister com- edy. Through April 27. Call for times. Hilberry Theatre, 4743 Cass Ave., Detroit (313)577-2972. Birdie on the Back Nine, pre- sented by r.a.t. productions. 8 p.m. Thurs.-Sat.; 4 p.m. Sun. $10. 1515 Broadway, 1515 Broadway Ave., Detroit (313) 831-258...…
…Cardew, new work. Both shows opening 7-9 p.m. Friday, April 12. Through May 17. The center will sponsor a tour of the Masco Col- lection at the company's Taylor headquarters. The collection is re- garded as one of the most exten- sive collections of 19th- and early 20th-century American art in the world. 6-8 p.m. Thursday, April 18. $25. Center hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. 407 Pine St., Rochester. (810) 6514110. MUSEUMS AND ART CEN...…
…eiN Fine Arts Civic Center, Novi. (810) 647-8938. Henry Ford Community Col- lege. 39th Annual Student Exhi- bition, opening Wed., April 17. Through April 26. Sisson Gallery, MacKenzie Fine Arts Center. (313) 845-6490. Wayne State University: 1996 W. Hawkins Ferry Symposium. "Out of Order and the Three Worlds Theory." Speakers include art critic Thomas McElvilley, art critic and historian Joanna Isaak, artist and filmmaker Louis Hock, Englis...…
