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What To Do, What To Do ...

Musical
Notes

In 1927, the dancer
Ida Rubinstein
made a request of
the composer
Maurice Ravel to
write some music
for a new ballet,
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ZIMMERMAN one with a Spanish
theme. Ravel
Arts &
Entertainment
accepted the project
Editor
and created Bolero.
Considered scan-
dalous when it first appeared, Bolero
went on to help British ice dancers
Torville and Dean capture an Olympic
gold medal, and its predominate theme
was effectively used in
the soundtrack of the
Bo Derek film 10.
Rubinstein, born to a
wealthy Jewish family in
St. Petersburg, Russia,
was orphaned at an
early age and, at 21,
inherited a fortune that
she invested in the arts.
She became a ballet
dancer, retiring at the
beginning of World War
II to the South of
France, where she was
left undisturbed. She
died in Vence in 1960.
Jean Cocteau once said
of her, "She is too beautiful, like a per-
fume that is too strong."
Ravel's Bolero will be performed by
the Detroit Symphony Orchestra at
Orchestra Hall 10:45 a.m. Friday, Feb.
26; 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 27; and 3
p.m. Sunday, Feb. 28. The orchestra
will be led by Yan Pascal Tortelier,
principal conductor of the BBC
Philharmonic since 1992. The concert
also features Concertmaster Emanuelle
Boisvert performing Haydn's Violin
Concerto in C major.
Hailed as one of the most exciting
conductors to emerge from France,
Tortelier also will conduct next week-
end's DSO concerts at Orchestra Hall,
featuring Stravinsky's legendary ballet
score for Petrushka. Pianist Howard
Shelley, who in 1983 became the first
pianist ever to perform the complete

works of Rachmaninoff, will play
Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 22.
Performance times are 8 p.m.
Thursday, March 4; 8 p.m. Friday,
March 5; and 8:30 p.m. Saturday,
March 6. $13-$60. (313) 576-1111.
The Detroit Symphony Civic
Orchestra, under the baton of con-
ductor Ya-Hui Wang, performs
Bernstein's Overture to Candide,
Copland's Rodeo and Dvorak's
Symphony No. 78 p.m. Sunday, Feb.
28, at Orchestra Hall. A "Civic Family
Hour," which highlights small ensem-
bles made up of orchestra siblings and
musical parents, precedes the concert
at 7 p.m. $6. (313) 576-5111.
The Birmingham Concert Band
presents its "Cabaret Concert" 3 p.m.

Sunday, Feb. 28, in the cafeteria of
Groves High School, at the corner of
Evergreen and 13 Mile Road in
Beverly Hills. Former WQRS person-
ality Davis Gloff is emcee and featured
vocalist. Donations accepted.
With a little help from his friends,
Ringo Starr and his All-Starr Band visit
the Palace of Auburn Hills 8 p.m.
Monday, March 1. This 10th-anniver-
sary tour lineup features Todd Rundgren
(Utopia), Gary Brooker (Procul Harum),
Jack Bruce (Manfred Mann, Cream),
Simon Kirke (Free, Bad Company) and
Timmy Cappello (Tina Turner). $32.50
and $22.50 reserved/$10 general admis-
sion. (248) 645-6666.
What's new, Pussycat? Just ask Tom
Jones. The still-hot hunk appears at
Macomb Center for the Performing
Arts 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 4,
and 8 p.m. Friday, March 5. While
Jones has suffered the slings of critics,
he's also had his admirers. Ringo Starr
pal Paul McCartney wrote "The Long
and Winding Road" especially for
him. $38 adults/$34 students and
seniors. ((810) 286-2222.

Above left: French conductor
Yan Pascal Tortelier conducts
two weekends of concerts
for the DSO.

Above right: Selma Cohen
and Jack Abella play
Miriam and Abe Goldman
in Ridgedale Players'
production of 'Beau Jest."

Left: Ringo Starr brings
his All-Stan• Band
to the Palace.

On The S

It's a good time for Andrew Lloyd
Webber fans. As the prolific compos-
er's Sunset Boulevard debuts at the
Detroit Opera House (see related arti-
cle in this week's Arts &
Entertainment section), the longest
continuously touring musical in histo-
ry, Cats, returns to Detroit's Fox
Theatre for six days. Show times are 8
p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Friday
and Saturday and 1 p.m. Sunday,
March 2-7. $18-45. (313) 983-6611.
A young Jewish woman hires an
actor to pretend to be her Jewish doc-
tor boyfriend in James Sherman's Beau
Jest, which takes the stage 8 p.m.
Fridays-Saturdays, March 5-6, 12-13
and 19-20; and 3 -p.m. Sundays,
March 14 and 21, at the Ridgedale
Playhouse. Jack Abella of Southfield
and Selma Cohen of Oak Park play
Abe and Miriam Goldman, the girl's
parents. They have been helping the
cast to get familiar with Jewish ritual
and Yiddish and Hebrew pronuncia-
tions for the comedy, vaich deals with
universal issues of family,
love, independence and
freedom. Because a
Passover seder is featured
in one scene, the cast and
directors are donating
money raised at perfor-
mances to \Tad Ezra, the
kosher food bank, for the
purchase of Passover food.
The playhouse is located at
205 W. Long Lake,
between Crooks and
Livernois, in Troy. $11/$10
seniors and students on
Sundays. (248) 988-7049.
The Bonstelle Theatre
presents Timberlake Wertenbaker's Our
Country's Good, a play that illustrates
how theater has the potential to change
people's lives when a colony of convicts
attempts to do a comedy, 8 p.m. Fridays
and Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays,
March 5-14. 3424 Woodward, Detroit.
$10/$8. (313) 577-2960.
Actor Chaz Palminteri's'Faithful, an
adult comic thriller, will be performed
8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Feb. 26-
27 and March 6; and 2 p.m. Sunday,
March 7, at the Historic Hartland
Music Hall, 3619 Avon, in the Village
of Hartland. $8 adults/$7 seniors and
students. (810) 220-3521.

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