The Michigan Daily - Friday, October 1, 1999 -- 9 vUAnnual Choral Union features DSO By Jeff Glogower For the Daily The Detroit Symphony Orchestra performs a controversial piece from the former Soviet I Union that spea Detroit Symphony Orchestra Hill Auditorium Monday at 4 p.m. performancesi Leiferkus, theI and the UMS aks out against its government's policies for the first time in Ann Arbor on Sunday. This continues a tradi- tion of musical excellence I when the University Musical Society holds its 121st Annual Choral Union. This year's perfor- mance features the DSO. The DSO, under musical direction of renowned con- ductor Neeme Jarvi, will be performing Shostakovich's Symphony No. 13 (also known as "Babi Yar"). Other guest include Bass-Baritone Sergei Estonian National Male Choir Choral Union. Cabarat Artist Andrea Marcovicci will be providing entertain- ment for the Season Opening Dinner following the concert. The Detroit Symphony Orchestra is interna- tionally known with recordings being distrib- uted all over the world. Recently, they toured through Europe and Japan. In addition to worldwide recordings and tours, the DSO also broadcasts their concerts on more than 560 radio stations to about one million people who tune in each week. Their musical director, Neeme Jarvi, joined the DSO in 1990 as their i1th director. Jarvi is internationally acclaimed as well, having over 350 recordings, making him one of the world's most recorded conductors. He has performed for the UMS eight times already. The feature performance will be of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 13, ("Babi Yar"), being performed by The Estonian National Male Choir and the UMS Choral Union. This piece has a very interesting histo- ry. It was inspired by a poem written by Yevgeny Yevtushenko. The poem protested against anti-Semitism and the murder of the Jewish People by the Nazis during W \brld War II. Shostakovich utilized this theme and com- posed "Babi Yar" as a way to speak out against the Soviet Governments policies during the Cold War. This created some controversy as the government tried to keep this piece from ever being performed. The "Babi Yar" was per- formed anyhow, and it received an amazing ovation from the audience. This marks the first-ever performance of the Symphony No. 13 in Ann Arbor. Other performances will include Estonian composer Eugen Kapp's "Nordic Coast" and Edvard Grieg's Holberg Suite, Op. 40. Immediately following the performance, the UMS Advisory Committee will be hosting the annual season opening dinner at the Michigan League. At the dinner, Andrea Marcovicci will be providing entertainment with a piece called, "I'll Be Seeing You: Love Songs from World War II." Courtesy of ABC st of "Oh, Grow Up." eh, Grow Jp' )needs imne to Courtesy of UMS Neeme Jarvi directs the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Weak acting destroys 'Family Law' row up By Meredith Love For thie Daily 3WlIy Watchowski 'the Daily As apart of the new fall line-up, "Family Law" premiered Monday It appears promising, funny even "Three men who don't miss their ildhood because they never left it:" bower viewing the seriespremier of row Up," a new comedy by riter/producer Alan Bael, it is clear at this show needs to take its own vice if it plans to survive into adult- )od. The scenario is a popular one among Family Law * CBS Mondays at 10 p.m. night on CBS. The story line is set around Lynn Holt, played by Kathleen Quilian (Apollo 13). Lynn is a suc- cessful woman in her forties, who owns a successful law firm in part- nership with her husband and is a loving mother of two. This perfect world is turned willing to stay and work on their fail- ing marriage. To add insult to injury, Lynn arrives at the office the next day only to discover her husband has moved out of the firm to begin his own practice. He takes along with him most of the associates, clients and their files. So, to survive Lynn must now rebuild her family, her career and basi- cally her life. The first order of business is to find new associates. As a result of this search, she stumbles on the unlikely pair of Randi King (Dixie Carter) and Rex Weller (Chris McDonald). King is an aggressive southern belle dedicated to the destruction of Lynn's husband and male species in general. Weller on the other hand, is the classic scumbag lawyer, who will ultimately reach any low in the name of the almighty dollar. "Family Law" has an appealing plot, however, the performance of the actors, range from being melodramatic at some points to completely dead at others. For instance, the only breakdown the main character experiences includes a striptease to prove how she has stayed in wonderful shape for her husband despite her age, after which sheis com- pletely able to handle the stress of other cases and the care of her children, who also magically bounce back without so much as a teardrop. Maybe age played a role in the show's appeal; because I kept having to resist the urge to turn on "Road Rules." UM School of MUSK Dept otfTheatre & Drwa escape Fr a quirky comedy by 0' happn e O George F. Walker One family's BIZARRE struggle to hold on for dear life. this play contains adult language and themes Octber 7 - 9, 14 - 16 at 8pm ctober 10 & 17 at 2pm Trueblood Theatre Tickets are $14 * Students $7 with ID League Ticket Office 734-764-0450 Grow Up ABC edriesdays at 9:30 p.m. prime time sit- coms: three guys living, learning, and laughing in an apartment located in (where else?) New York. While the "Friends" image is the first to come to mind, the illusion is quickly dispelled as the lives of these for- mer college roommates, an upside down when her husband Michael announces that he is no longer Pixie Anne Pennwright Spokescritic * Club Diva . Milk Drinker fe and a paternally deprived piager begin to unravel and inter- -ine creating a world that is a public 'rVice announcement for the Peter Pan yfndrome and the damaging affects of ega on the human brain. The cast consists largely of 61lywood unknowns, who despite ir over-enthusiastic characterization monstrate a group chemistry, which .a provide the foundation upon 'l4 this comedy could grow. First ere is Ford (John Ducey), a newly ut-of the-closet homosexual who cently hit his oblivious wife Suzanne ena Sofer) with the door on the way ut. 'While "dissolving" his marriage, e moves in with his long time bache- " buddies who have lived together for ecades on the opposite side of the city. Norris (David Alan Basche) is a for- er medical supply salesman who l ons his career to channel his as ion and try his luck as an artist. unter (Stephen Dunham), on the ther hand, is a middle aged playboy lho divides his time between running construction company and engaging particularly loud bedroom sc ades forcing his roommates to vest in earplugs. The men live har- oniously in their pubescent world of 1-1e- dudes" and Sega tournaments their dog Mom (Can you say edipal complex?) runs a sarcastic ommentary via subtitles. Everything appears to be going ther smoothly until Hunter's 18-year- Id daughter Chloe (Niesha Trout), oon to be a student at New York niversity, decides to drop in. This pre- ents two problems. First, it is revealed at Hunter is 35, somehow a disturb- ng fact after witnessing his pathetic ttapts to recapture the essence of his ood. Secondly, but likely not sur- risingly to the already disillusioned udience, Hunter does not know he has daughter. Yet, with her quick wit and arcastic but sweet persona, Chloe, hough only a teenager, is a spark of aturity and humor in a world rampant ith mid-life crisis. It is she who pre- ents a character with whom the audi- nce can sympathize, literally, as she ;tgles to find herself while also par- tn ng her father and his roommates vho act more like her peers than her Iders: While the potential is there, the choolboy nature of "Oh Grow Up" eeds to do exactly that. In a time slot here it is competing with some of The University of Michigan SCHOOL OF Music FACULTY/GUEST RECITAL Friday, October 1 Britton Recital Hall, E.V. Moore Bldg., 8:00pm. Faculty: Yizhak Schotten, viola; Katherine Collier, piano Guests: Simon Wynberg, guitar; Ester Noh, violin Tom Landschoot, violoncello Arianna String Quartet *Paganini: Quartet #15 for Viola, Guitar, Violin, and Cello *W.A. Mozart: Quintet in A, K. 581 for Viola and String Quartet *R. Schumann: Piano Quintet in E Flat, Op.44 OCTUBAFEST Saturday, October 2 McIntosh Theatre, E.V. Moore Bldg., 8:00pm. UM Euphonium and Tuba Students, Solos and Duets Jazz duet by two tuba students who will also double on piano and guitar; Gillingham "Vintage", Newton "Capriccio", Broughton "Sonata", Scottish folk song "Carrick Fergus", Schumann "Adagio and Allegro", Luedeke "Wonderland Duets" (Narration by Fritz Kaenzig), Baroque and Classical duets. GUEST MASTERCLASS CHRISTIAN LINBERG, TROMBONE Monday, October 4 Cady Room, Stearns Bldg., 12 noon Linberg is a Swedish trombone virtuoso, recording artist and composer who has premiered 69 trombone concerti. Has per- formed the Haydn Trombone Concerto with the London Philharmonic and Mozart Concerto with the Prague Symphony. GUEST MASTERCLASS: WILLIAM WESTNEY, PIANO Monday, October 4 McIntosh Theatre, E.V. Moore Bldg., 7:00pm. A refreshing, innovative workshop that looks at performance from a different point of view focusing on how the performer communicates to his/her audience. OCTUBAFEST Monday, October 4 Britton Recital Hall, E.V. Moore Bldg., 8:00pm. UM Euphonium and Tuba Students, Solos and Duets Music of a variety of styles and eras. UNIVERSITY CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Monday, October 4 Hill Auditorium, 8:00pm. Kenneth Kiesler, Conductor - - Copland's Appalacian Spring * Beethoven's Symphony #4 UNIVERSITY PH1LHARMONIA ORCHESTRA Tuesday, October 5 Hill Auditorium, 8:00pm. Rossen Milanov, Conductor (UM debut performance) - Wagner's Overture to Die Meistersinger * Haydn's Symphony No.103 (Drum Roll) - Stravinsky's Le Chant du Rossignol FACULTY RECITAL: ANTHONY ELLIOT, CELLO Friday, October 8 Sharp yet fluffy, quivering, yet granite-like; stirs up a panoramic pantry of musical goodies...