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It's a great week for
jazz lovers. At 8
p.m. Saturday, Feb.
20, the Jeff Haas
Trio and Friends
perform the Ann
Arbor premiere of
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that blends Jewish
music with contemporary jazz. The
Ark performance will feature Haas and
his trio mates, bassist
Chuck Hall and drum-
mer Alex Trajano, and
special guests Marcus
Belgrave on trumpet,
Marvin Kahn on alto-
clarinet and multi-
instrumentalist Rob
Smith. 316 S. Main.
$10. (734) 761-1800.
Blues and btogie-
woogie pianist Mark
Braun — known for
his performances on
South University Street
during the Ann Arbor
Street Art Fair —
appears with Pete Siers
on drums and Paul
Keller on bass 7 and 9
p.m. Saturday, Feb. 21,
as part of the Jazz in
Concert series at Ann
Arbor's Kerrytown
Concert House. 415 N.
Fourth. $10-$25. Call
for reservations, (734) 769-2999.
A Lyric Chamber Ensemble concert
11 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 21, at the Gem
Theatre features Black Folk Arts and
the Spencer Barefield Jazz Ensemble,
who will focus on the contribution of
African-American musicians to the
American jazz scene. Brunch is avail-
able before the concert in the theater's
new restaurant. $25 with brunch/$18
without brunch/$3 discount for seniors
and students. (248) 357-1111.
Dubbed the city's "most popular sub-
terranean jazz joint," the "Streets of Old
Detroit" will resound with the legendary

sounds of Marcus Belgrave and Charlie
Gabriel 6-9 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 25, as
the Detroit Historical Museum kicks off
the fifth year of its "Jazz in the Streets"
program. $20, including complimentary
valet parking. Food and beverages will
be available. (313) 833-1805.
The University of Michigan Jazz
Ensemble, featuring guest artist
Bryon Stripling, takes the stage 7:30
p.m. Friday, Feb. 26, at the Power
Center in Ann Arbor. An accom-
plished actor and singer, Stripling
has been chosen to star in the lead
role of the Broadway-bound musical
Satchmo. $10/$5 students. (734)
763-TKTS or (248) 645-6666.
To end the week, two of the

In a different vein, The Back
Doors re-create a "shocking reincarna-
tion of Jim Morrison" and a "live
Doors" show 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 20,
at the Magic Bag. $10. At 8 p.m.
Sunday, Feb. 21, acoustic guitar virtu-
oso Kenny Rankin performs his lilting
and ethereal music, also at the Magic
Bag. $15. 22920 Woodward,
Ferndale. (248) 645-6666.
The Chamber Music Society of
Detroit presents the Ying Quartet 8
p.m. Saturday, Feb. 20, and 3:30 p.m.
Sunday, Feb 21, performing works by
Beethoven, Ives and Brahms, in the
Peggy DeSalle Auditorium of the
Cranbrook Art Museum. $30, which
includes admission to the museum's
exhibits. (248) 737-9980.
The Russian
Acculturation
and Institute for
Retired
Professionals
of the Jewish
Community
Center hosts
Ramzik
Papikian, for-
mer star tenor

European, Armenian and Yiddish
songs and arias. $4. (248) 967-4030.
The Detroit Oratorio Society pre-
sents an evening of Bach and
Stravinsky 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 26, at
Kirk in the Hills in Bloomfield Hills.
$18 general admission/$25 reserved
tickets/$10 students. (248) 650-2655.
Rock icons the Rolling Stones and
their "No Security" tour hit the Palace
of Auburn Hills 8 p.m. Monday, Feb.
22. $90/$50/$39.50. (248) 645-6666.

On The Stafe

Opera Nationale It iana's produc-
tion of Verdi's Otello takes the stage 8
p.m. Saturday, Feb. 20, at Macomb
Center for the Performing Arts.
$32/$29/$26 seniors and students/$80
for a family four-pack. (810) 286-2222.
Celebrating individuality in a con-
formist society and based on a real-life
South African artist who creates her
personal Mecca of sculpture, Athol
Fugard's The Road to Mecca will be
performed 8 p.m. Thursdays-
Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays, Feb.
25-28 and March 4-7, at Wayne State
University's Studio Theatre. The the-
ater is located downstairs from the
Hilberry at 4743 Cass Ave., Detroit.
$6-$8. (313) 577-2972.

The Big Screen

Clockwise, from top left

The Rolling Stones play the Palace.
Ramzik Papikian performs
at the JCC in Oak Park.

Charlie Chaplin's
"The Gold Rush" will be screened
to organ accompaniment at
the Baldwin Theatre.

jazz world's most acclaimed
female performers, vocalist
Dee Dee Bridgewater and pianist
Geri Allen, will appear at Orchestra
Hall in an Ameritech Jazz Series con-
cert 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 26. $15-$46.
(313) 576-5111.

of the Armenian State Opera, 4 p.m.
Sunday, Feb. 21, in Jaffe Hall at the
Jimmy Prentis Morris JCC.
Accompanied by pianist Margarte
Benian, Papikian will perform Russian,

The classic Charlie Chaplin/Little
Tramp film The Gold Rush will be
screened 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 20,
and 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 21, at
Royal Oak's Baldwin Theatre as part
of Stagecrafters' Silent Film and
Organ Concert series. Lance Luce
provides organ accompaniment. A
little bit of movie trivia: The scene
where the Lone Prospector and Big
Jim have a boot for supper took
three days and 63 takes to suit direc-
tor Chaplin. The boot was made of
licorice, and Chaplin was later
rushed to the hospital suffering
insulin shock. $8. To reserve seats,
call (248) 541-6430.
The Baldwin Public Library in
Birmingham offers a free, six-part view-
ing, reading and discussion series, From
Rosie tr Roosevelt: A Film History of
Americans in World War II, 2 p.m.
Saturdays, Feb. 20-March 27, in the
library's Rotary Room. 300 West
Merrill. (248) 647-1700.

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2/19
1999

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