Howard Hersh Felder

Howard Hersh Felder is just 29 years old, but a conversation with him is like a visit with an older, wiser relative you don't see very often. A great-uncle, maybe. Or a grandmother. Someone who's lived so long that there are few things left that don't remind the person of a story.

Howard Hersh Felder is just 29 years old, but a conversation with him is like a visit with an older, wiser relative you don't see very often. A great-uncle, maybe. Or a grandmother. Someone who's lived so long that there are few things left that don't remind the person of a story.

* Theater. "Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk," George C. Wolfe's Tony Award-winning tap musical, choreographed by Savion Glover, opens Wednesday at the Ahmanson Theatre, 135 N. Grand Ave., Los Angeles. Regular schedule: Tuesdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Sundays, 7:30 p.m.; Saturdays-Sundays, 2 p.m. and March 26, April 9, 23, 2 p.m. Ends April 26. $15-$65. (213) 628-2772. * Film.

George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue"--one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written. Right? Well, listen again, keeping in mind the words of an Auschwitz survivor who, as a boy, kept himself alive in that horrific concentration camp by running messages for death doctor Josef Mengele while other prisoners were marched off to their murders. "George Gershwin was a prophet" because, when he wrote the piece in 1924, he could hear the future's awful sounds, the survivor says.