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Supersession man
Leon Russell -
he's worked for
everyone from
Jerry Lee Lewis
and Phil Spector
to Joe Cocker, Bob
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Rolling Stones -
Arts
also has managed
Entertainment
to keep up a solo
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career. Touring in
support of his latest release, Face in the
Crowd, a blues-oriented return to his
roots, pop musics most anonymous
big shot" takes the stage at
Ferndale's Magic Bag
Friday, March 26. Doors at
8; $20. Also at the Magic
Bag this weekend is Susan
Calloway, a songstress rem-
iniscent of Sarah McLachan
and Shawn Colvin. She
performs Saturday, March
27. Doors at 8; $6. On
Tuesday, March 30, the
Jazz Mandolin Project, fea-
turing Jamie Masefield on
mandolin, Chris Dahlgren
on bass and Ariel Hoenig
on drums, brings its folk-
tinged jazz to the Magic
Bag. Doors at 8; $10.
(248) 544-3030.
Heroes and villains are
the stuff of great drama -
and great music. The Ann Arbor
Symphony Orchestra pays homage to
both 8 p.m. Saturday, March 27, at
Ann Arbor's Michigan Theater in a
"Heroes" concert featuring Prokofiev's
jaunty Lieutenant Kije, Richard
Strauss' grand tone poem Don Juan
and Beethoven's beloved Eroica
Symphony. Samuel Wong conducts.
$16-$29. (734) 994-4801.
The Farmington Community
Band's Spring Concert takes place 3
p.m. Sunday, March 28, at Harrison
High School, 12 Mile Road between
Orchard Lake and Middlebelt. This
year's concert features special guest
Cantor Stephen Dubov of Temple Beth
El and a program that includes selec-
tions from Broadway to Bach. Tickets
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are available at the door. $3 adults/$2
students/senior citizens are free. (248)
489-3412 or (734) 261-2202.
On Sunday March 28, at 4 p.m.,
Kerrytown Concert House presents a
solo "concert with commentary" on
Beethoven by acclaimed pianist Louis
Nagel. The University of Michigan
faculty member was recently named a
Steinway Artist. The program
includes Op. 77 ("Fantasy") and
Sonata in E major, Op. 109. 415 N.
Fourth Ave. $10-$25. For reserva-
tions, call (734) 769-2999.
Banyan, featuring Steven Perkins
(Jane's Addiction) and Rob
Wasserman (Rat Dog), appears at the
Majestic Theatre Saturday, March 27.
$12-$28. At 4 p.m. Sunday, March
28, the American String Quartet pre-
sents its final segment of this year's
"Beethoven the Contemporary" series
at Rackham Auditorium, featuring the
contemporary composer-Ruth Porter
Crawford, whose compositions drew
from the revolutionary technique pio-
neered by Arnold Schoenberg. $16-
$30. The Trio Fontenay, dedicated to
Left: Louis Nagel performs
at Kerrytown Concert House on Sunday.
• Above: Mickey Rooney in
"The Wizard of Oz," opening
at the Fox on Wednesday.
Doors at 8. 4130 Woodward, Detroit.
$20. (313) 833-0120.
"Teen idols" Peter Noone
(Herman's Hermits), Davy Jones
(The Monkees) and Bobby Sherman
perform the songs that made them
famous 3 and 7 . p.m. Sunday,
March 28, at Macomb Center
for the Performing Arts. $32-$40.
(810) 286-2222.
Ann Arbor's University Musical
Society hosts several concerts of inter-
est this week. Grammy-winning Sweet
Honey in the Rock combines power-
ful voices and an array of hand percus-
sion instruments in a blend of lyrics,
movement and narrative that speaks
out against oppression and encourages
good will. The group performs 8 p.m.
Friday, March 26, at Hill Auditorium.
piano trio literature and praised by
many in their 1996 Ann Arbor debut
as one of the best chamber music per-
formances of the year, returns to
Rackham Auditorium 8 p.m. Tuesday,
March 30. $12-$24. (734) 764-2538.
On The Stage
The Birmingham Temple Players
present Just the Two of Us, 8 p.m.
Saturday, March 27, and 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, March 28, at the temple. $8
members/$10 nonmembers; tickets
will be available at the door.
(248) 477-1410.
. In love with Shakespeare? One the
Bard's most sparkling and inventive
comedies, The Comedy of Errors,
involves the story of two pairs of iden-
tical twins in the same household who
are separated by a devastating ship-
wreck. The Aquila Theatre Company
of London brings this classic to the
Macomb Center for the Performing
Arts stage 8 p.m. Saturday, March 27.
$22/$20 students and seniors/$60 for
a family four-pack. (810) '286-2222.
In homage to the film, the stage
version of The Wizard of Oz,
starring Mickey Rooney as the
Wizard, comes to the Fox Theatre
March 31-April 11. Call for
evening and matinee show times.
$17.50-$45.50. (248) 433-1515.
A "workshop" production of
Orphan Train, a new work by
Michigan playwright Dennis
North about an orphaned child
who is sent out west to be "sold"
to the highest bidder, will be pre-
sented by the U-M Theatre
Department 8 p.m. Thursdays-
Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays,
April 1-11. Performances will take
place at the Trueblood Theatre in
Ann Arbor. The play, directed by
Guy Sanville, artistic director of
the Purple Rose Theatre Company,
will receive its professional debut
at the Chelsea venue in 2001.
$14/$7 students. (734) 764-0450.
Paula Vogel's Pulitzer prize-win-
ning drama, How I Learned to
Drive, the story of a woman's
remembrance of her pain and joy
in coming of age, takes the stage at
Ann Arbor's Performance Network
8 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays and 2
and 7 p.m. Sundays, April 1-25.
Vogel wrote The Mineola Twins,
currently enjoying a successful run
Off-Broadway. 408 W. Washington.
$15/$12 students/pay what you can
Thursdays. (734) 663-7367.
The Big Screen
Detroit native and Emmy winner
Gary Glazer will have four of his
documentaries screened at the East
Lansing Film Festival beginning 7
p.m. Friday, March 26, at Wells
Hall on the MSU campus. They
include Justiceville, Bombing L.A.,
Borderline: The Story of Eight Mile
Road and The Hudson's Building.
Glazer will be on hand to answer
questions after the films. $5/$3 stu-
dents. (517) 336-5802.
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3/26
1999
84 Detroit Jewish News