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Two of classi-
cal music's best-
loved pieces
share center
stage at the
GAIL
ZIMMERMAN Michigan The-
Arts 6--
ater in Ann
Entertainment
Arbor 8 p.m.
Editor
Saturday, Jan.
30, as the Ann
Arbor Symphony Orchestra pre-
sents Unfinished Masterpieces,
featuring Schubert's "Unfinished"
Symphony No. 8 in B minor and
Mozart's Requiem in D minor.
Tickets are $23-$29, with-dis-
counts available to seniors and stu-
dents. At 7 p.m., Dr. Julie Jaffee
Nagel delivers a pre-concert lec-
ture (free to all ticket holders) on
Mozart's relationship with his
mother; concurrently, conductor
Samuel Wong explores Mozart in a
"Sit-In with Sam" for middle and
high school students. Sit-In tickets
are $5-$10 and include lecture,
concert ticket and refreshments
during intermission. 527 E. Liber-
ty. Tickets are available by e-mail
at a2so@wwnet.com or at the
Michigan Theater box office
beginning at noon on the day of
the concert. (734) 994-4801.
Associate Professor Margery
Deutsch, director of orchestras at
the University of Wisconsin-Mil-
waukee, conducts a chamber con-
cert for the Plymouth Symphony
Orchestra 8 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 30,
in the Plymouth Canton Little
Theatre, 8415 N. Canton Center
Road, in Canton. Deutsch is one of
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seven finalists for the position of
music director/conductor of the
PSO. $12/$10 seniors and college
students/free grades 12 and under.
(734) 451-2112.
On The St
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The Big Screen
The Detroit ilm Theatre at the
Detroit Institute of Arts presents The
Thief (Russia — 1998 — Pavel
Chukrai) 7 and 9:30 p.m. Friday and
Saturday, Jan. 29-30, and 4 and 7
p.m. Sunday, Jan. 31. Based on the
director's
own expe-
riences of
growing
Joyce Brothers on Feb. 5. "Biogra-
phy" airs 8 p.m. weekdays. Check
your local cable listings.
Family Fun
Weird Science: A Conflation of
Art and Science, an exhibit opening
Jan. 30 and running through April 3
at Cranbrook Art Museum, brings
together four artists' projects, each
one representing an ongoing explo-
ration of a specific area of scientific
inquiry. In conjunction with a new
exhibition opening the same day
at the Cranbrook Institute of Sci-
ence, In the Dark, Cranbrook's
two museums will be hosting,
throughout February and March,
a series of joint family workshops.
For more information, call (248)
645-3323 or check the Web site
at wvv-w.cranbrook.edu/museum.
At 1 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 30,
the Harlem Globetrotters bring
their world tour — "Memories:
Always Different, Always Fun"
— to the Palace of Auburn Hills.
$11.50-$18. (248) 645-6666.
Performance Networ - stages Pri-
vate Eyes, a
``relentlessly truth-
The Friedman twins — better
ful" comedy by
known as Ann Landers and
Steven Deitz,
Dear Abby — are among the
p.m. Thursdays-
advice experts profiled on
Saturdays and 2
AEs "Biography"
and 7 p.m. Sun-
days, Feb. 4-28. In
a play that res-
onates with today's
headlines, characters
get caught up in
"With Hand and
widening circles of
Hammen"
at the
deception as they
Wearley
Studio
explore the pitfalls of
Gallery in Royal Oak.
View paintings accompanied
infidelity. 408 W.
by
passages from American litera-
Washington, Ann
ture
as Professor Daniel Minock
Arbor. $15/$12 stu-
leads
a
tour through the American
dents and seniors/pay-what-you-can
up under Stalin, The Thief an Acade-
galleries
of the Detroit Institute of
Thursdays. (734) 663-0681.
my Award nominee for Best Foreign
Arts
2
p.m.
Saturday, Jan. 30. Meet
Language.Film, is a portrait of love,
in Gallery W274. Free with muse-
corruption and self-discovery. Time
um admission. (313) 833-4249.
Out New York's Stephan Tally called it
The Wearly Studio Gallery opens
Drawing from her childhood in
"sublime ... [with] the clarity and
With
Hand and Hammer, an exhi-
an alcoholic environment and on
radiant soulfulness of the best Russ-
bition
of hand-raised metal vessels
her experience in recovery from
ian films." $5.50. (313) 833-2323.
by eight distinguished metalsmiths,
alcoholism, comic Wendi Fox will
with a reception 6-9 p.m. Saturday,
share her thoughts on how alcohol
Jan. 30, at the gallery, 1719 W. 14
abuse has become a national cata-
Mile Road at Crooks, in Royal Oak.
strophe in a show that is free and
Looking for advice? Next week,
Through
April 3. (248) 549-3016.
open to the public. In an effort to
A&E's Biography series profiles five
curb drinking on campuses, the
Jewish mavens: rough-talking radio
For more Arts and Entertainment list-
Alcohol Insanity Tour visits the
talk-show host Laura Schlesinger
ings, see the community calendar. Gail
Vandenberg Hall cafeteria at Oak-
on Feb 1; identical twins Ann Lan-
Zimmerman may be reached at (248)
land University in Rochester 8 p.m.
ders and Dear Abby on Feb. 2; sex
354-6060, ext. 260, or by e-mail at
Friday, Feb. 5. For more informa-
expert Dr. Ruth Westheimer on
gzimmerman@thej ewishnews. corn.
tion, call (248) 370-3570.
Feb. 4; and TV psychologist Dr.
The Art Scene
Laugh Lines
The Small Screen
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