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The acclaimed

Muir String Quar-
tet — comprised

of violinists Peter
Zazofsky and Lucia
Lin, violist Steven
Ansell and cellist
Arts 6'
Michael Reynolds
Entertainment
Editor
— perform works
by Mozart, Dvorak
and Schubert, accompanied by special
guests pianist Randall Hodgkinson
and double-bassist Ed Barker, in a
Chamber Music Society of Detroit
concert at 8 p.m.
Saturday, Nov. 14,
at Orchestra Hall.
$15-$40. (313)
576-5111. Muir
cellist Michael
Reynolds will be
featured in a 6:45
pre-concert forum
on "The Chang-
ing Process of
Recording Cham-
ber Music."
Forum tickets are
$81$5 students.
(248) 737-9980.
Drawing on a
repertoire that
includes classical
works, spirituals,
folk songs, con-
temporary works
and, of course,
Michigan songs
(Can anyone else
remember the words to "The Yellow
and Blue"?), the University of Michi-
gan Glee Club performs at 6 and 9
p.m. Saturday, Nov. 14, in its 139th
annual fall concert at Hill Auditorium.
$7-$12/$5 students. (734) 764-1448.
Nationally renowned soprano (and
Huntington Woods resident) Edith Dig-
gory performs Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki's
moving Symphony No. 3 ("Symphony of
Sorrowful Songs") with the Pontiac-
Oakland Symphony Orchestra 8 p.m.
Saturday, Nov. 14, in the Varner Recital

GAIL
ZIMMERMAN

Hall of Oakland University in Rochester
Hills. $15 adults/$10 seniors and stu-
dents. (248) 334-6024.
The Detroit Symphony Civic
Orchestra opens its season under the
baton of Music Director Ya-Hui Wang
8 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 15, at Orchestra
Hall, with a program featuring
Sibelius' Symphony No. 2 and works by
Kabalevsky and Debussy. $61$25 box
seats. (313) 576-5111.
Mezzo-soprano Terry Meerkov,
pianists Estelle Titiev and Joseph Gurt
and cellist Vladimir Babin present a
concert of Italian, German, Russian and
Jewish music to benefit the Ann Arbor
Chabad House building fund. The pro-
gram takes place 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov.
15, at Eastern
Michigan Univer-
sity's Alexander
Recital Hall. $18.
For tickets and
information, call
(734) 665-2271.
Under the
musical direction
of former local
resident Misha

Rachlevsky,

Chamber Orches-
tra Kremlin,
which Rachlevsky
founded in 1991,
has emerged as
one of Russia's
leading string
ensembles. The
orchestra plays a
concert of works
by Rossini,
Schoenberg, Piaz-
zolla and
Tchaikovsky 8 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 17,
at Orchestra Hall. $10-$18/$7 stu-
dents and seniors. (313) 576-5111.
Performing in both Irish traditional
and pop formats, Mary Black is one of
the primary artists responsible for the
recent blossoming of Celtic music
around the world. For her new album,
Shine, she joined up with American
producer Larry Klein (Joni Mitchell,
Tina Turner, Shawn Colvin) to create
an eclectic album that touches on
Black's folk/jazz/ballad background but

the story of a shy and
awkward woman
unloved by her stern
and often unkind
father. This classic
drama about suffering
in the absence of love
will be presented by
Stagecrafters 8 p.m.
Thursdays, Fridays
and Saturdays and 2
p.m. Sundays, Nov.
13-29. $10-$12.
(248) 541-6430.
Five wailing
women, a smokin' six-
piece band, 15 cans of
hairspray a week and
impersonations of the
female stars of the
Billy Joel plays the Palace. '60s: Beehive will be
presented at 3 and 8
p.m. Saturday, Nov. 14, at Macomb
Center for the Performing Arts.
$24/$22 seniors and students. (810)
286-2222.
William Missouri Down's Innocent
It's back to River City when the
Thoughts, a steamy courtroom drama
Windsor Light Opera stages Meredith
in which the search for truth collides
Willson's The Music Man, based on
with political correctness and power
the recollections of the composer/lyri-
struggles, takes the stage at Ann
cist/book writer's life in a small Iowa
Arbor's Performance Network 8 p.m.
town. Among the Michigan residents
Thursdays-Saturdays and 2 and 7 p.m.
appearing in the production, running
Sundays, Nov. 19-Dec 13. $15/$12
Nov. 13-22, are Sally Kaufman of
seniors and students/pay what you can
White Lake Township and Fred
Thursdays. 408 W. Washington. (734)
Wassermann of West Bloomfield. At
663-0681.
the Chrysler Theatre in
Andover High School pre-
the Cleary International
sents Cole Porter's Anything--
Complex, 201 Riverside
Goes 7:30 p.m. Thursday-
Dr. W., in Windsor.
Saturday, Nov. 19-21, and
$20/$18 seniors and
2:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 22,
students. Call for show
at the Andover High School
times.(800) 387-9181.
Little Theatre, 4200 Andover
Joining The Mouse-
Road, Bloomfield Hills. For
trap and Hamlet in
ticket information, call
repertory through Feb.
(248) 645-4679.
3 is the Hilberry The-
atre production of
Scapin. Moliere's comic
tale of the crafty servant The Hilberry stages
Oakland County Traditional
who brings two pairs of Moliere's "Sc a pin,
Dance Society (OCTDS)
lovers together in defi-
opening tonig ht.
sponsors
traditional contra and
ance of their fathers
square
dances
on
the
second and fourth
opens 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 13. Call for
Saturdays
of
the
month
at 8 p.m.
additional showtimes. $10-$17. 4743
Dances
are
held'at
the
first
Baptist
Cass Ave., Detroit. (313) 577-2972.
Church, 309 N. Main St. in Royal Oak.
Inspired by the Henry James story
"Washington Square," The Heiress is All dances are prompted by callers to

introduces a new rock/pop
sound. Black will appear in
an Ark-staged concert at the
Michigan Theater in Ann
Arbor 7:30 p.m. Thursday,
Nov. 19. $21-$36. (734)
763-TKTS.
He's been taking some
time off lately to write clas-
sical music — "some of it
very '19th century' in
nature, a lot of it very
Rachmaninoff." But now,
singer/songwriter/"Piano
Man" Billy Joel lays off the
more serious stuff to play
the Palace of Auburn Hills.
The 8 p.m. Wednesday,
Nov. 18, concert is sold
out; tickets are still avail-
able for the 8 p.m. Friday,
Nov. 20, concert. $38.50.
(248) 645-6666.

Dn The Stage

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