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Prize winner of the
1995 Melbourne
International
Chamber Music
Competition, the
Jerusalem Trio was
established in 1989
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Australia, South
America and the
United States. The group, whose mem-
bers include pianist Yaron Rosenthal,
violinist Roy Shiloah and violincellist
Ariel Tushinsky, has played chamber
music concerts with Isaac Stern, Pinchas
Zukerman and Shlomo Mintz, and has
been coached by luminaries like Stern
and Murray Perahia. Hosted by the Fair
Lane Music Guild, the Jerusalem Trio
plays works by Mozart, Ravel and
Brahms 7:30 p.m. Sunday, April 18, in a
special performance at the Henry Ford
Estate-Fair Lane on the campus of U-M
Dearborn. $12/$11 seniors/$7 students;
tickets available at the door one hour
prior to performance. (313) 593-5330.
It's April in Paris when soprano
Deanna Reylea and mezzo-soprano
Julia Buxholm present a "Parisian
Soiree" 7:30 p.m. Sunday, April 18, at
the Birmingham Temple Cabaret. The
duo, accompanied by pianist Jerry De
Puit, will perform songs from and
about Paris ... from Porter, Poulenc,
Piaf and others. 28611 W 12 Mile
Road, Farmington Hills. $18/515
seniors/$12 students. For tickets, call
Joyce Cheresh, (248) 788-9338, or
Ilene Cohen, (248) 288-2953; tickets
also available at the door.
The Streets of Old Detroit will
resound with the sounds of jazz vocal-
ist Kathy Kosins 6-9 p.m. Thursday,
April 22, in the Detroit Historical
Museum's series "Jazz in the Streets."
Kosins, a former backup vocalist for
Was (Not Was), writes most of her
own material. Tickets for the after-
work parry are $20 and include corn-
plimentary valet parking. Food and
beverages also are available. For reser-
vations, call (313) 833-1921.
Kol Simcha has adapted klezmer's

original format by pairing a front line
of clarinet and flute with a swinging,
tightly knit rhythm section of piano,
bass and drums. Yet its sound never
strays far from the soulful Yiddish
music which flourished in the streets
of Eastern Europe. The quintet per-
forms 7 p.m. Sunday, April 18, at East
Lansing's Wharton Center on the
MSU campus. 524. (517) 432-2000.
The Ann Arbor Symphony
Orchestra performs Mahler's Sixth
Symphony 8 p.m. Saturday, April 17,
at Ann Arbor's Michigan Theater. One
of the composer's most emotional
works, the symphony was given the
name "Tragic" by Mahler himself at its
first performances in 1906. Prior to
the concert, U-M Professor George

Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre in Ann
Arbor. $20-$35. At 8 p.m. Thursday,
April 22, at the Michigan Theater,
UMS presents Monsters of Grace, a
digital opera in three dimensions with
the Philip Glass Ensemble. This is the
latest work from composer Philip Glass
and director/designer Robert Wilson,
who created 1976's Einstein on the
Beach. $20-532. (734) 764-2538.
Violinist Kurt Nikkanen performs
Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. 2 with
the Detroit Symphony Orchestra 8 p.m.
Thursday and Friday, and 8:30 p.m.
Saturday, April 22-24, at Orchestra Hall.
DSO guest conductor Jerzy Semkow
also leads excerpts from Prokofiev's Love
for Three Ownges, Wagner's Prelude,
Liebestod's Tristan and Isolde and
Tchaikovsky's Francesca da Rimini. $13-
$63. (313) 576-1111.

Clockwise from top right:

Kathy Kosins
takes over the "Streets
of Old Detroit"
on Thursday

Julia Broxholm and
Deanna Relyea present a
"Parisian Soiree" at
Birmingham Temple.

The Jerusalem Trio performs
Sunday in Dearborn.

C. Rosenfeld will present a free lecture
titled "Mahler's Three Blows of Fate."
$16-$29. (734) 994-4801.
With an operatic voice spanning 3
1/2 octaves, Ewa Podles, accompanied
by Garrick Ohlsson on piano, takes the
stage in a University Musical Society
concert 8 p.m. Saturday, April 18, at

Rhino Records is working on a
four-CD boxed set of the
recordings of Gordon Lightfoot,
due out this summer. The leg-
endary Canadian singer/song-
writer's "If You Could Read My Mind"
is one of the most covered songs in pop
history. Hear him in person 8 p.m.
Saturday, April 17, at the Fox Theatre.
$34.50/$28.50. Or, if you're more
pop/rock than pop/folk, you might
prefer Rod Stewart, who'll perform old
and new favorites, also at 8 p.m.

Saturday, at the Palace of Auburn Hills.
$65.25/$45.25. (248) 645-6666.
Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks
Orchestra presents a program titled
Duke Ellington: A Centennial Tribute
7 p.m. Sunday , April 18, at Macomb
Center for the Performing Arts. The
orchestra was founded in 1990 with a
congressional appropriation recogniz-
ing jazz as a national treasure. $32
golden circle/S29 adults/S27 students
and seniors. (810) 286 - 2222.
The University of Michigan Men's
Glee Club performs a musical mix of
classical, folk, contemporary and U-M
pieces 8 p.m. Saturday, April 17, at
Hill Auditorium. $7-$12/$5 students.
(734) 764-1448.

On The She

The Gem and Century Theatres
present the smash Off-Broadway
musical spoof of the movies,
Forbidden Hollywood, on the
Century Theatre stage adjacent to the
Gem, through Aug. 29. Created and
written by Gerard Alessandrini, who
created Forbidden Broadway, the show
employs classic show tunes and
naughty lyrics to satirize 60 years of
Hollywood blockbusters. $24.50-
$29.50. (313) 963-9800.
In Assassins, a motley crew of nine
infamous malcontents has one thing in
common: They've all tried to kill the
president of the United States. The con-
troversial and rarely performed musical
by Stephen Sondheim, with book by
John Weidman, takes the stage at
Stagecrafters 2nd Stage April 16-May 2.
Debbi Dworkin takes the role of Lynette
"Squeaky" Fromme, and Dianne Sievers
portrays Emma Goldman. 415 S.
Lafayette, Royal Oak. Call for show
times. $9. ((248) 541-6430.
Larry Shue's classic comedy The
Foreigner, directed by Ann Arbor
playwright and actress Lyn Coffin,
runs 8 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays and
2 p.m. Sundays, through April 25, at
1515 Broadway. For ticket informa-
tion, call (313) 965-1515.
The Farmington Players present
Marc Camoletti's Don't Dress for
Dinner, a comedy about secret lovers,
mistaken identity and marital treach-
ery, 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and
2 p.m. Sundays, April 23 - May 15.
32332 W. 12 Mile Road, Farmington
Hills. $12. (248) 553-2955.

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4/16
1999

78 Detroit Jewish News