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This Week's Best Bets

Saturday, 10:15 a.m. & 11:45 a.m.

Love
Notes
Hearts and drums will beat on Valentine's Day in the Detroit Symphony

Orchestra's first Tiny Tots concerts of the year. The program features narrator
and host Rheda Becker, flamenco dancer Anna Menendez and the African
drumming group Bichini Bia Congo. The upbeat performances, conducted by
Ya-Hui Wang, include marches, a polka and dances. $10. Mercy High School
Auditorium, Farmington Hills. (313) 576-5111.

Saturday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

The Art Of Romance

Young lovers play in a garden retreat; a suitor declares his devotion on bended
knee; a group of women delight in a child's first step. Intimate Encounters: Love
and Domesticity in Eighteenth Century France features these scenes in paintings by
French artists, including Boucher, Fragonard and Greuze. Toledo Museum of Art,
through May 10. Museum hours: 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday, 11 a.m.-10
p.m. Friday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday and 1-5 p.m. Sunday. $14/families,
$5/adults, $4/students and seniors. Timed tickets are necessary. (888) 763-7486.

Sunday, 5 p.m.

Rhapsody In Red

The Birmingham-Bloomfield Symphony Orchestra presents a benefit Valen-
tine's Dinner and Concert, "A Centennial Celebration," honoring the centennial
of George Gershwin's birth. The 7:30 p.m. concert, conducted by Felix Resnick,
features Gershwin's Porgy and Bess with performers from the University Musical
Society Choral Union. $50/dinner, $20/concert. Temple Beth El, 7400 Tele-
graph Road, Bloomfield Hills. (248) 645-BBSO.

Thursday, 7:30 p.m.

Passion For Politics

The JCC's Israel at 50 Lecture Series presents "Pluralism of Thought, Identi-
ty, Politics and Memory." Political science professor Zvi Gitelman, director of
the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, will discuss the challenges of ethnic and
political pluralism. Free of charge. JPM JCC, 15110 West Ten Mile Road, Oak
Park. (248) 967-4030.

Thursday, 8 p.m.

Heart Strings

Teen-age violin virtuoso Sarah Chang performs with the Detroit Symphony
Orchestra for four exciting performances. In addition to Thursday's perfor-
mance, Chang will perform 10:45 a.m. and 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 20, and 8:30
Saturday, Feb. 21. The concerts will feature Smetana's "Overture and Dances"
from The Bartered Bride, Sibelius' Violin Concerto in D minor and Beethoven's
Symphony No. 5. $17-$42. Orchestra Hall. (313) 576-5111.

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354-6069. Notice must be received at least three weeks before the scheduled
event. Photos are appreciated but cannot be returned. All events and dates listed
in the Out & About column are subject to change.

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What To Do, What To Do

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dancers, brings heart-pounding Scot-
tish music to Joe Louis Arena at 8
p.m. Saturday, Feb. 14.
$35/$25/$18.50. (313) 983-6606.
The Lyric Chamber Ensemble pre-
Fall in love with
sents
Valentine Rag, a jazz concert
music this week-
featuring
the CutTime Players, an
end when the
ensemble
comprised of seven members
Detroit Symphony
of
the
DSO
with guest artist Alexan-
Orchestra, the
GAIL
der
Zonjic.
3:30
p.m. Sunday, Feb.
ZIMMERMAN Detroit Concert
15,
at
the
Birmingham
Unitarian
Choir, the Van-
Arts 6-
Church,
Woodward
Avenue
at Lone
guard Voices and
Entertainment
Pine,
Bloomfield
Hills.
$18/adults,
vocalists Janice
Editor
$15/students and seniors. (248) 357-
Chandler and
1111.
John Shirley-
The Metropolitan Youth Sympho-
Quirk present a Choral Fest. The con-
ny
takes the stage at Orchestra Hall
cert includes performances of Faure's
4:30
p.m. Sunday, Feb. 15, with a
lush Requiem in D minor and Mozart's
program
of classical music that
Exsultate, jubilate. 8 p.m. Friday, Feb.
by Karl Jenkins and
Palladio
includes
13, and 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 14.
Swan
Lake Ballet Suite
Tchaikovsky's
$17-$42. Orchestra Hall. (313) 576-
$12/adults,
$10/children and
Op. 20.
5111.
students.
(313)
833-3700.
Local romantic musical duo David
Her music has been described as a
Sawicki and Lisa Lapides present an
wonderful
mix of the gritty and the
original concert, Hearts in Season, 4-
sublime,
the
poignant and the catchy.
6 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 14, at Xhedo's
Jonatha
Brooke
brings her emotional-
Cafe, 240 W. Nine Mile Road, Fern-
ly
direct
sound
to
The Ark 7:30 p.m.
dale. No charge. (248) 644-5140.
Sunday,
Feb.
15.
$15.
316 S. Main
Scotland The Brave, the 1998
Street,
Ann
Arbor.
(313)
761-1451.
tour of the Regimental Band of The
Calling
all
Parrot
Heads.
Jimmy
Scots Guards and the Pipes and
Buffet
&
The
Coral
Reefer
Band
Drums of The Black Watch, a 100-
bring
a
little
corner
of
paradise
to The
member ensemble of bagpipers,
Palace
8
p.m.
Monday,
Feb.
16.
Think
drummers, reed players and Highland
tropical rock and "Margari- _
taville" mania. $21-$46.
(248) 645-6666.
The Cranbrook Music
Guild presents the Talich
String Quartet 8 p.m.
k Tuesday, Feb. 17, in the
library of Cranbrook
House. The widely recog-
nized ensemble will per-
form works by Mozart, Barj- --\
tok and Janacek. $25. 380
Lone Pine Road, Bloom-
field Hills. (810) 751-2435.
Retired from the "pop
world," composer and
recording artist Joe Jackson
I
recently released a new clas-
sically inspired album,
Heaven and Hell, a series of
interpretations of the seven
deadly sins. Jackson brings
his new "voice" to the Royal
Oak Music Theatre 8 p.m.
Thursday, Feb. 19. $27.50.
(248) 645-6666.
Joe Jackson performs at the Royal Oak Music Theatre.

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