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Love will be the
theme of Classics
on the Lake 3
p.m. Sunday, Jan.
24, when lyric
tenor David
Troiana and sopra-
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perform a program
Arts &
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they call "Sweet-
Editor
hearts at St.
Mary's College of
Orchard Lake. Accompanied by
pianist Joseph Gurt, the pair will sing
operatic arias and Broadway duets.
The concert will be held in the shrine
chapel on the college's campus at
Orchard Lake and Commerce roads.
$25/$15. (248) 683-1750
One of Japan's leading conductors,
Junichi Hirokami makes his debut
with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra
8 p.m. Thursday and Friday, Jan. 28-
29, and 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 30,
at Orchestra Hall. The concerts will
feature Bizet's Symphony in C and
"Suite No. 1" from Carmen, as well as
Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5.
Hirokami, a winner of the Kondrashin
Conducting Competition in Arnster- ,
dam, has led many international
orchestras, including the Israel Phil-
harmonic. $13-$60. (313) 576-5111
or wvvvv.detroitsymphony.com .
The University Musical Society
hosts the American String Quartet for
its fourth of nine concerts in a series
titled Beethoven the Contemporary,
featuring the string quartets of
Beethoven and American composers
side-by-side. The 8 p.m. Thursday, Jan.
28, program at Rackham Auditorium
in Ann Arbor includes Copland's jazzy
compositions from the 1920s and Ives'
nostalgic work from the turn of the
century, along with Beethoven's Quar-
tet in C Major, Op 59, No. 3. Tickets
are $16-$30. At 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan.
30, the American String Quartet joins
up with the Walden Quartet, whose
members attend high schools in Oak-
land County, and area Suzuki students
in a special one-hour family concert at
Rackham. $20 adults/$10 children.
(734) 764-2538 or wwvv.ums.org .
The Chamber Music Society of
Lincoln Center with artistic director
David Shifrin presents a concert of
songs and chamber music by Scandi-
navian composers 8 p.m. Friday, Jan.
29, at Ann Arbor's Lydia
Mendelssohn Theatre.
Swedish mezzo-soprano
Anne Sofie von Otter will
be joined by pianist Bengt
Forsberg. $35/$20. (734)
764-2538 or www.ums.org.
Veteran songstress Dia-
hann Carroll teams up with
five on-stage musicians and
four Broadway performers in
Cranbrook roads in Bloomfield Hills.
$20/$16 students and seniors/ $10 chil-
dren under 10. (248) 362-9329.
Ann Arbor's Temple Beth Emeth
hosts Peter Yarrow, of Peter, Paul and
Mary fame, with his daughter Bethany,
in an 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 6, concert
in the temple's sanctuary. The temple
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Narrate by children's educator
and entertainer Rheda Becker, Animal
Portraits opens the Detroit Symphony
Orchestra's Tiny Tots concert season
this year with 10:15 and 10:45 a.m.
performances Saturday, Jan. 23, at
Mercy High School, 11 Mile and
Middlebelt roads, in Farmington
Hills. Conducted by Ya-Hui Wang
and geared toward children ages 3-6,
the program features musical portraits
of the wild kingdom, set to computer
illustrations designed by students and
faculty of the Center for Creative
Studies. $10. (313) 576-1111; tickets
also are available at Mercy High
School the day of the concert 45 min-
utes preceding the start of the perfor-
mance.
The Lerner and Loewe Song-
book 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 29;
2:30 and 8 p.m. Saturday,
Jan. 30; and 2 p.m. Sunday,
Jan. 31, at Macomb Center
for the Performing Arts.
Alan Jay Lerner and Freder-
ick Loewe won the Tony-
Award for My Fair Lady. $30
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adults/$27 students and seniors. (810)
286-2222.
Brass! Brass! And More Brass!, a
Detroit Chamber Winds and Strings
concert featuring works for a full
orchestral brass complement of trum-
pets, horns, trombone, tuba and percus-
sion, will be performed 8 p.m. Friday,
Jan. 29, at Christ Church Cranbrook,
at the intersection of Lone Pine and
1960s, Promises, Promises — based
on the movie The Apartment and with
music and lyrics by Burt Bacharach
and Hal David — takes the stage Jan.
22-Feb. 14 at Stagecrafters' Baldwin
Theatre, 415 S. Lafayette in down-
town Royal Oak. Cast members
include Nancy Baron of Bloomfield
Hills, Brian Golden of Farmington
Hills, Debbie Dworkin of Ferndale
and Ronit Feldman of Huntington
Woods. Call for showtimes. $12-$14.
(248) 541-6430.
Grosse Pointe Theatre pre-
sents Ken Ludwig's Moon Over Buf-
falo, a backstage farce set in 1953 in
the fictitious Erlinger Theatre in Buf-
falo N.Y. Performances are 8 p.m.
Thursdays-Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sun-
days, through Feb. 6, in the Fries
Auditorium of the Grosse Pointe War
Memorial, 32 Lakeshore Dr., Grosse
Pointe Farms. $13. (313) 881-4004.
Set in the corporate world of the
The Art Scene
Beyond the Surface, a 20-artist
exhibition of painting that "goes
beyond the scope of canvas, paint and
brush," opens with a reception 6-8
p.m. Friday, Jan. 22, and runs through
Feb. 19, at Paint Creek Center for the
Arts, 407 Pine St., in Rochester. Fea-
tured artists include Susan Heitman,
Yulia Iskhakov and Elise Mitzel-
Ulanoff. (248) 651-4110.
Cape Cod Impressionist Hilda
Neily joins Ann Arbor artists Greg
Sobran and Candace Compton-Pappas
for an exploration of light and color,
in an exhibit called Effects of Light
and Colour, at Creative Resource
Gallery, 162 N. Old Woodward, in
Birmingham. A reception takes place
6:30-8:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 22.
Through Feb. 21. (248) 647-3688.
Afternoon tea will be served from
1-5 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 23, as Royal
Oak's Sybaris Gallery celebrates the
opening of its Teapot Invitational, a
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1999
86 Detroit Jewish News