Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Berkley High School orchestra and a cappella choir students receive a standing ovation Tuesday evening for their world premiere performance of the cantata.
A thunderous standing ovation rewarded Berkley High School orchestra and a cappella choir students Tuesday evening for their world premiere performance of "My Name is Anne Frank: A Cantata." Composer Volker Blumenthaler and lyricist Alexander Gruber, both from Germany, joined Holocaust survivors, parents and officials representing Berkley and Huntington Woods in the audience at Berkley High School's packed auditorium. The cantata kicked off a series of events the Holocaust Memorial Center Zekelman Family Campus in Farmington Hills will hold to celebrate its acquisition of one of 11 saplings from the chestnut tree that stood outside Anne Frank's window in Amsterdam and gave her hope as she hid during World War II. BHS Orchestra Director …
Thursday, May 2, 2013
Composer Volker Blumenthaler and lyricist Alexander Gruber will visit from Germany to speak about their inspiration and hear "My Name is Anne Frank" performed in its entirety for the first time May 7 at Berkley High School.
The Berkley School District and Holocaust Memorial Center Zekelman Family Campus in Farmington Hills are proud to announce that the Berkley High School orchestra and choir will perform the American premiere of My Name is Anne Frank, a cantata written in commemoration of the life of Anne Frank, on May 7. Starting at 7 p.m. at the BHS Auditorium located at 2325 Catalpa, the performance is the world premiere of the composer Volker Blumenthaler's complete and original orchestration. The program features solos by Hazzan Daniel Gross (of Adat Shalom Synagogue) and Cantor Penny Steyer (of Temple Shir Shalom). [Read: BHS to Present U.S. Premiere of Cantata Based Anne Frank's Life] This is a big moment for music education in the state of Michigan. …
Saturday, April 6, 2013
The Farmington Hills museum will offer free admission and parking Sunday, April 7.
This Sunday, April 7, will mark the Metro Detroit Jewish community's annual Yom HaShoah Commemoration Day, punctuated by a special event at the Holocaust Memorial Center Zekelman Family Campus in Farmington Hills. The event begins at noon and will include volunteers from both the Great Lakes Region B’nai B’rith and the Holocaust Memorial Center, who will read aloud of the names of some of the 6 million that died in the Holocaust. The formal program starts at 1 p.m. with the Posting of the Colors by members of the Jewish War Veterans, United States of America. An original Kaddish (Hebrew prayer) led by Holocaust Memorial Center Executive Director Stephen M. Goldman will follow, and the traditional candle lighting will be led by Holocaust …
Thursday, February 21, 2013
“Where the Past Meets the Future" will be on display through July 21.
The Holocaust Memorial Center Zekelman Family Campus in Farmington Hills will display the multimedia art exhibit “Where the Past Meets the Future” by Fay Grajower from March 15 through July 21. The exhibit features 140 small-scale paintings and mixed media pieces. It revisits the vibrant Jewish life in Poland before the Holocaust and reflects hope and interest in contemporary Polish Jewish life and culture. Grajower uses her acquired memories of her mother and siblings’ experiences to work through issues of the past. Eleven other works by Grajower, including two very large-scale paintings, oil on canvas works, paintings on vinyl, among other mixed-media pieces, also will be on display. “When we decide which exhibits we would like to …
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
“I found it disturbing,” Huntington Woods resident David Schulman said. “It’s a form of hate speech.”
Noon, Feb. 6: "i killed it." That was the simple message posted Tuesday night on the dETROITfUNK.com Facebook page in reference to the Nazi slogan “Arbeit Macht Frei” that recently cropped up in big red letters at the Packard Automotive Plant in Detroit. Randy Wilcox of Harper Woods, who runs the photo blog, along with another man whose name was not given, removed the sign Tuesday, deadlinedetroit.com reports. "I didn't want this image of this sign to go nationwide or international, because it is that kind of thing that they would report on in Russia, Saudi Arabia. ... Germany. Israel. I decided to publish my photos and talk about taking the sign down to steal thunder away from whoever did it, and turn the control back around to our side…
Leslie Ellis
10:58 pm on Friday, May 3, 2013
Thanks for the heads-up! I'll spread the word about the live link! more ›