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Unlock your imagination at the 16th annual Detroit Festival of Storytelling
held in conjunction with Wayne State University's Communication Week. On
Saturday, internationally renowned storyteller Laura Simms, whose great-grand-
father was the grand rabbi of Moldavia, conducts a master class at 9 a.m. in
WSU's St. Andrew's Hall and presents a family concert from 4-6 p.m. in the
David Adamany Library's Bernath Auditorium. For more information, admis-
sion prices and times, call (313) 577-5342.
Grand Illusions
David Copperfield takes audiences on a journey through the history and
wonder of the art of magic in "Dreams and Nightmares." Going where no magi-
cian has ever gone, Copperfield uses lasers and the legendary "death saw" to
astound his fans. Performances continue noon, 4 and 8 p.m. Saturday, March
28, and noon, 3:30 and 7 p.m. Sunday, March 29. $29-$46.50. Fox Theatre,
2211 Woodward, Detroit. (248) 433-1515.
Bear Ballet
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra, with guest narrator Rheda Becker, presents
"Fancy Footwork," an energetic musical version of the children's tale Goldilocks
and the Three Bears. Featured are the Pointe Repertory Dancers and music by
Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Strauss and other notable composers. For ages 3-5. Sea-
holm High School, Cranbrook Road between Lincoln and 15 Mile roads, Birm-
ingham. $10. (313) 576-5111.
Guest Lecturer
The University of Michigan Hillel's 19th annual
Conference on the Holocaust presents controversial
Harvard Associate Professor Daniel Jonah Goldhagen,
author of the bestseller Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the
Holocaust. He will give the Michael Bernstein Memorial Lecture in the Rackham
Graduate School Auditorium. $5. (734) 769-0500.
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Rocker Leon
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(248) 544-3030.
Regarded as the greatest living fla-
menco guitarist, Paco de Lucia and His
Flamenco Sextet bring their masterful
interpretations of Spanish folk music to
Hill Auditorium 8 p.m. Saturday,
March 28. $20-$30. 825 N. University,
Ann Arbor. (734) 764-2538.
The Farmington Community
Band ushers in spring with a concert
of toe-tapping music 3 p.m. Sunday,
March 29, at Harrison High School,
12 Mile Road, between Middlebelt
and Orchard Lake roads, Farmington
Hills. $3/adults, $2/students, no
charge for seniors. (313) 261-2202.
In this third concert of the
"Beethoven the Contemporary" string
quartet cycle, The American String
Quartet performs the world premiere
of a work by Kenneth Fuchs based on
the poetry of Walt Whitman. 4 p.m.
Sunday, March 29, at Rackham Audi-
torium, 915 E. Washington, Ann
Arbor. $16-$30. (734) 764-2538.
The Raanana Symphonette
Orchestra of Israel performs at the
Masters Of Motion
Alvin Ailey and his group of young African-American modern dancers
embody the physical manifestation of Ailey's creative passion, vitality and artistic
power. The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater also performs 8 p.m. Friday,
April 3; 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday, April 4; and 3 p.m. Sunday, April 5, at the
Detroit Opera House, 1526 Broadway. $22.50-$39.50. (313) 961-3500.
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Toledo Museum of Art peristyle 7
p.m. Sunday, March 29. The Sym-
phonette premieres its composition
Children of God with contra-tenor
David De-Or. Also performing is a
former Toledoan, soprano Andrea
Markowicz. The appearance celebrates
the 90th anniversary of the Jewish
Federation of Greater Toledo. An
optional black-tie dinner precedes the
concert. $18-$60. (419) 241-1272.
Winner of the 1991 Grammy
award for Best New Artist, Marc
Cohn fuses '60s soul with '70s pop.
The singer/keyboardist comes to
Clutch Cargo's 7 p.m. Thursday, April
2. $22.50. 65 E. Huron, Pontiac.
(313) 961-MELT
Singer, songwriter Paul Anka
David Copperfield performs his magic
at the Fox Theatre.
appears in concert 7:30 p.m. Thursday,
April 2, and 8 p.m. Friday, April 3, at
the Macomb Center for the Performing
Arts, Hall and Garfield roads, Clinton
Township. $38/adults, $34/students
and seniors. (810) 286-2222.
Ivy, the guitar-pop trio featuring
vocalist Dominique Durand, accom-
panied by Andy Chase and Adam
Schlesinger (of Fountains of Wayne
and "That Thing You Do" fame),
comes to The Shelter 6:30 Friday,
April 3. $8. 431 E. Congress, Detroit.
(313) 961-MELT
On The Stage
Ivy, featuring Adam Schlesinger, ,
Dominque Durand and Andy Chase,
appears at The Shelter.
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright
Lanford Wilson's Book of Days
makes its world premiere on the Pur-
ple Rose Theatre Company stage 8
p.m. Thursday, April 2. Performances
continue through May 24. $15-$30.