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Through the
artistry of violinists
Shmuel Ashkenasi
and Mathias Tacke,
violist Richard
Young and cellist
Marc Johnson, the
GAIL
ZIMMERMAN Vermeer Quartet
has achieved inter-
Arts &
Entertainment
national stature.
Editor
The group, hosted
by the Chamber
Music Society of Detroit, performs 8
p.m. Saturday, April 10, at the Leila
Jones Theater, located on the Royal
Oak campus of Oakland Community
College. The program includes
Haydn's Quartet in G major, Opus 77,
No. 1, Verdi's Quartet in E minor and
Dvorak's Quartet in E-flat major, Opus
51. A forum, featuring Mark Clague,
adjunct assistant professor at the
University of Michigan School of
Music, precedes the concert at 6:45
p.m. He will discuss "Chamber Music
in America: How Does It Fit in the
Chamber, in the Hall, in Society?" $30
concert/$8 forum. (248) 737-9980.
An aging pop-icon based on Frank
Sinatra is the lead character in Andy
Kirshneisexperimental music-theater
piece, Relive the Magic, which the
doctoral student at U-M's School of
Music will present at the Michigan
Theater in Ann Arbor 3 p.m. Sunday,
April 11. "I'm trying to create some-
thing that is entertaining and funny,
but is also a meditation on aging and
memory and loss of self," says Kirshner.
$15/$10 students. (734) 763-8587.
Grammy-nominated jazz guitarist
Mike Stern first gained recognition
with Miles Davis' comeback band in
1980. He went on to be named Best
Jazz Guitarist by the readers and critics
of Guitar Player Magazine. A regular at
the intimate 55 Bar in Greenwich
Village, Stern plays the Magic Bag
Thursday, April 15. "The vocal, fluid
quality that some horn players have is
what I'm going for," says Stern of his
innovative playing style. Doors at 8.
$12 advance. (248) 544-3030.
The Mozarteum Orchestra of
Salzberg makes its first Ann Arbor

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for additional show times. $19.50-
$35. (248) 377-3300.
Filled with enchanting songs,
Leonard Bernstein's most witty musical
comedy masterpiece follows the ever-
optimistic Candide as he faces calamities
galore in his search for the best of all
possible worlds. Staged by the University
of Michigan musical theater program,

appearance in 25 years 8 p.m.
Thursday, April 15, at Hill Auditorium.
Conductor Hubert Soudant is joined by
26-year-old pianist Till Fellner and
American mezzo-soprano Katharine
Goeldner for this all-Mozart program.
$16-$45. (734) 764-2538.
Famed trumpeter Doc
Severinsen brings his "All-Star Big
Clockwise top:
Band" sound to the stage of
Orchestra Hall in an Ameritech
Ballet Internationale
Jazz Series concert with the Detroit
dances `.`A Thousand
Symphony Orchestra 8 p.m.
and One Nights"
Friday, April 16. $15-$60. The
at Music Hall.
DSO plays a concert of Schubert's
Magician/illusionist Michael
Symphony No. 8 and Bruckner's
Jacobson performs in an
Symphony No. 7 under the baton of
Aly n Hospital
conductor Jerzy Sernkow 10:45
benefit on May 4.
a.m. Friday, April 16; 8:30 p.m.
Saturday, April 17; and 3 p.m.
"The Magic School
Sunday, April 18, at Orchestra
Bus" roars into town
Hall. $13-$63. (313) 576-1111.
for a Crohn's and
A latter-day Alice Cooper,
Colitis
Foundation of
rocker Marilyn Manson - who
Michigan benefit.
takes his stage name from sex
goddess Marilyn Monroe and ser-
Tara Zdrojewski, Irene
ial killer Charles Manson -
Hublick, Eddie Rubin and
brings his rock 'n' roll music and
Rana Zdrojewski in the
controversial onstage antics to the
Marquis Theatre production
Palace of Auburn Hills 7 p.m.
of "The Velveteen Rabbit."
Thursday, April 15. $35. (248)
645-6666.
The Vermeer Quartet
The first white artist inducted
performs Saturday
into the Blues Foundation's Hall
on the 0.C.C. campus
of Fame, blues guitarist Johnny
in Royal Oak.
Winter takes the stage at the
Majestic Friday, April 16. Doors at
8. 4130 Woodward, Detroit. $22.
(313) 833-0120.

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earlier day in America, set at the time
of the 1904 World's Fair, 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, 8 p.m. Friday and 2:30 and
8 p.m. Saturday, April 15-17. $30/$27
students and seniors. (810) 286-2222.
Once Upon a Mattress, based on the
children's story The Princess and the Pea,
with music by Mary Rodgers and lyrics
by Marshall Barer, will be mounted in a

On The Stage

In Richard O'Brien s rock 'n'
roll sci-fi send-up The Rocky
Horror Picture Show, lovebirds
Brad and Janet have car trouble
on a dark, stormy night and seek
help in the creepy castle inhabit-
ed by Dr. Frank N. Furter. They
are in for an evening of close
encounters of the most unusual
kind. The musical, starring John
Michael Manfredi as Furter, runs at
Meadow Brook Theatre April 17-May
9, with previews running April 14-16.
A special late-night performance at
10:30 p.m. Saturday, May 1, will be
preceded by a costume contest. Call

Candide takes the stage at the Power
Center 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday and 2
p.m. Sunday, April 15-18. $18/$14/$7
students. (734) 764-0450.
Macomb Center for the Performing
Arts presents Meet Me in St. Louis, a
gentle and sentimental memory of an

Bonstelle Theatre production 8 p.m.
Fridays and Saturdays and 2 p.m.
Sundays, April 16-25. 3424 Woodward,
Detroit. $10-$13. (313) 577-2960.
The Detroit premiere of American
Enterprise tells the story of idealist
George Pullman, inventor of the

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4/9
1999

68 Detroit Jewish News