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By CAROLINE DARR
DailyArts Writer
This year, the Kerrytown
Concert Hall is celebrating
its 30th anniversary. In 1983,
the house's
founder Michele
Deanna Ramo
Relyea was
looking for World iazz
a studio to Orchestra
develop her Kerrytown Con-
singing and
piano skills cert House
and was September26,
shown the 8:00 p.m.
historic house $5
on, Fourth
Avenue. Reylea 'transformed
the gutted house into a unique
space that has hosted local and
international acts of all genres
since that first spring in 1984.
The new executive director
Lynne Aspnes was one of the
first acts the House showcased.
"I started teaching at the
University inthe fall of 1985 and
I was looking for a place to do a
concert,"Aspnes said. "Someone
said you have to talk to Deanna
and look at Kerrytown so I came
down and we talked and setupa
program for January 1986. That
was the first time I worked here.
It feels like it was just yesterday,
it's just been a blink of the eye
and it's 30 years later."
The House occupies a unique
niche within the Ann Arbor
music scene. In addition to
concerts, the House hosts
benefits, student recitals and
meetings for groups like the
Ann Arbor Piano Guild. The
teaching studios on the second

Kerryown
floor provide space for private performed their innovativ
lessons for young artists to across the globe.
develop their skills. "We've done everything
"It's very personal," Relyea coffee shops to Carnegie
remarked. "It's a place you and everything in betw
become personally attached Ramos remarked.
to. You feel like you're part Both artists come
of the evening when you sit classical backgrounds,
in an intimate hall and hear adds a unique element to
something that's unique. It's a jazz;
place where people can do their "His violin is unbelie
creative work that's accessible, because he has this
that's not booked a year in classical training (and)
advance and is flexible. It's a went into jazz with it," H
community, a village." said. "It's not easy to sv
The genres showcased at the from classical to jazz. I t
House have evolved through the when something really
years. natural and the fire is in
"When I was first playing belly for it and you do it fo
it was mostly classical and love of it, it becomes a pa
chamber music," Aspnes said. you. He's from classical an
"What's really interesting is from classical, and we bran
moving from that into this out beyond that so it was
incredibly edgy jazz that's very love at first note."
front line, sort of emerging This Friday's perform
groups and artists and genres." will be a selection of Latin
One of those groups is the featuring a wide varier
Michele Ramo World Jazz instruments.
Orchestra, which will be "The type of repertoire
playing today, Friday, Sept. 26. cross between jazz, ori
Ramo, an international classical Brazilian and gypsy jazz
and jazz sensation, was born traditional Brazilian,
on the coast of Sicily. At age is called Choro," Ramos
12, he began playing mandolin, "Choro means music for
then guitar, then violin, all people on the street and w
within a six month period. the only group in Michigar
He played with barbers in the plays it."
piazza and was eventually sent The set will feature R
to the conservatory for music on the mandolin, guitar
to train in the violin. He was violin, Hepler singing
the youngest in the history of Howard Alden, a jazz gui
Italy to make a major symphony from New York, on guitar
orchestra without having banjo. Traditional Bra:
finished his degree, but left instruments such as
for the United States in 1987 pandeiro, a small tambo
to study jazz. Ramo's wife and and. the cuica, a small
musical partner Heidi Hepler, bongo, will also be uti
a singer and lyricist, studied to transport the aud
with the Michigan Opera into the Brazilian jungle.
and Theatre Department at stated by Ramos, "it
Interlochen and has performed be an international levo
at jazz festivals around the musicianship that night,"
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'Books are far losers.'
You don't need the
books to love GoT '

ByDREWMARON
DailyArts Writer
When I tell people I'm a
huge "Game of Thrones,"
fan, they usually ask the
same question: "So you read
the books, then?" Instead of
sheepishly denying that I've
yet to read the mammoth
sized opus that is George R.
R. Martin's "A Song of Ice
and Fire," I proudly admit the
truth: "No, I haven't read the
books and won't do so until
the series is over."
I love television. I also love
reading and literature. Over
the summer, I read upwards of
30 books and graphic novels.
And not one of them "A Song of
Ice And Fire." Sure, every time
I travelled to a bookstore, I'd
find my hand floating over an
unsold paperback of "Game of
Thrones." 'Go ahead," I'd tell
myself, "just do it, already!"
So now I finally want to be
out with the damn thing: I've
had every opportunity to read
the books of "A Song of Ice
and Fire" and, until the show
is over, shall refuse to open a
single page.
Why?
There are a number of usual
reasons' I list off. There's the
"Godfather" excuse: "you love
The Godfather film, right?
So why not*read the original
book by Mario Puzo." The
book "The Godfather" is
frequently cited as one of the
best crime novels of the 20th
century and the movie would
not exist without it ... but
Santino Corleone's horse-like
appendage is also a recurring
motif.
I love reading. It's why I'm
studying English and writing
here at one of the greatest
colleges in the world. I believe
storytelling is the truest
form of connection between
human beings. Storytelling
is a universal tool. However,
when such a tool is out of
reach for almost a quarter of
the population, the universal
truths cease to be collectively
understood.
Thenthere's the screen: film

and television. Early pioneers finale of "Breaking Bad" felt
of film like Dziga Vertov and like more than just the last
Sergei Eisenstein saw the chapter of a long-running
video camera as a gateway book. I remember so vividly
into a universal language of the final Sunday where
expression, understandable groups of my friends all sat
regardless of class, gender, around a large TV, awaiting
religion, or politics. the ultimate fate of Walter
White. It reminded me of
things like the Super Bowl
W e're or even the way the Moon
Landing had been watched
approaching a many years ago. These were
ents that drew people from
time of change different lives together in
front of a single screen for a
in storytelling, singular purpose in watching
something significant unfold
before them. There was a
sensation hanging about the
Now, we live in a time room that like we reached
where all you need to visit new territory as one people,
Westeros is a friend's HBOGo not the moon but something
account (which HBO CEO still deep within, traveling
Richard Pleper has already aboard the USS Walter White.
atatesd you're .free to do). t, ,When the series ended and
Some of the greatest and most Badfinger's "Baby Blue" began
talented writers and creative playing, all of us looked at
minds living today are in each other and I had a sudden
television, and I'd be lying if realization: we had all ended
I said that some of the things this journey together. Some
I've watched rival the greatest of us had been watching since
works of literature ever the 'very beginning, while
produced. I mean, one of my others just caught up with a
professors, an expert in the last minute binge not an hour
field of drama and literature, before the finale. Yet, we
told us that he thought had all experienced the same
"Breaking Bad" might be journey and ended it together.
the greatest work of writing There were no tears at the end
produced since "King Lear." of the finale, noi were there
The *'point is we're applause. Instead, I looked
approaching a time of to my friend and uttered one
change for the platforms of word: "wow."
storytelling. The art forms It's moments like those why
of thousands of years ago I will never underestimate
are breaking down into new the power of television. Like
ways of spreading ideas and literature, it is a gateway to
information about the world connect with human beings
we live in. "Game of Thrones" times and nations apart from
is an excellent example of our own. Yet, its universal
that. Here is a television appeal lets us reconnect with
show applying the stories, something we as a nation
characters, ideas and content have forgotten in the power
of a literary work with of the written word and of
almost no compromise. To the stories housed within
read a book where the main their corridors. The stories
character dies at the end is remain the same, but the
undoubtedly surprising, but to delivery mechanisms will
watch a show where the first always change. If you watch
season ends with the main "Game of Thrones," you are
character's public execution: experiencing "A Song of Ice
that's just game-changing. and Fire," regardless of what
This past year, the series it says on your bookshelf.


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