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Oak campus of Oakland Community
College. $15. (248) 544-4903.
The first student at Baltimore's
Peabody Conservatory of Music to
receive diplomas in piano, violin and
conducting, Awadagin Pratt joins the
Detroit Symphony Orchestra for con-
certs featuring Beethoven's Piano
Concerto No. 3 at 8 p.m. Thursday
and Friday, April 29-30; 8:30 p.m.
Saturday, May 1; and 3 p.m. Sunday,
May 2. Also on the program are
Gershwin's Cuban Overture and
"Symphonic Picture" from Porgy and
Bess. $13-$63. (313) 576-1111.
With 60 albums and a Grammy to
her credit, "Lady of Song" Nancy
Wilson performs 8 p.m. Saturday, April
24, at the Southfield Centre for the
Arts as part of the

a family concert for ages 10 and up at
the D. Dan and Betty Kahn Building in
West Bloomfield. $5 members/$8 non-
members; tickets available at the door.
He's not just
(248) 661-7649 or (248) 967-4030.
Bob Dylan's son-in-
Popular jazz flutist Alexander
law anymore. Peter
Zonjic turns classical to close out this
Himmelman is a
season's "Classics on the Lake series at
critically acclaimed
St. Mary's College on Orchard Lake.
songwriter and per-
He'll be joined by fellow flutist Ervin
former in his own
GAIL
Monroe of the DSO and Canadian
ZIMMER/vIAN right, and he'll play
pianist Margaret Kapasi for a program
a solo show in sup-
Arts 6-
titled Two Flutes and a Piano 3 p.m.
port of his first new
Entertainment
Sunday, April 25, in the Shrine
Editor
studio album in five
Chapel on the college campus at
years at Millstreet
Orchard Lake and Commerce roads.
Entry Tuesday, April 27. The CD, Love
$25/$15. (248) 683-1750.
Thinketh No Evil, which was released in
Ann Arbor's University Musical
January on the Six Degrees label, show-
Society delivers
cases Himmelman's production skills as
a one-two
well; he produced all but one track. An
punch at Hill
Clocku*from top right:
Orthodox Jew who refuses to perform
Auditorium this
David Syme iippears In a Pmily Concert
on the Sabbath and has spent the better
weekend. "Put
Sunday :7T the ICC in WE'. t B100infidd.
part of the last decade hanging out with
up your Dukes"
his kids, Himmelman's work utilizes
Sarah Chang makes her t'nive7::ty Musical
as Pulitzer Prize
Society debut Sunday t Ann Arbon
"religious and spiritual themes [that]
winning com-
pop up now and again but avoid the
poser and jazz
Peter Himmehn,m pelforms
preachiness and solemnity that can
star Wynton
Tuesday in Pontiac.
plague such subject matter. Instead he
Marsalis leads
uses his beliefs as a wellspring of inspi-
the Lincoln
ration for his writing," said a recent JN
Center Jazz Orchestra in
review of the CD. With a brand-new
a "Centennial
band in tow and new songs "with smart
Celebration" of Duke
lyrics and infectious arrangements,"
Ellington 8 p.m. Friday,
Himmelman's show should be a real
April 23; $16-$36.
treat for fans that have been waiting too
Then, at 4 p.m. Sunday,
long for some new tunes from a well-
April 25, the NHK
regarded performer. Doors at 8; 18 and
Symphony Orchestra of
over welcome. 65 E. Huron, Pontiac.
Tokyo with guest violin-
$12 advance. (248) 333-2362.
ist Sarah Chang in her
The Lyric Chamber Ensemble
UMS debut takes the
winds up its concert season 3 p.m.
Hill stage. Chang is the
Sunday, April 25, with a chamber
youngest artist ever to
music concert featuring the work of
earn the coveted Avery
French composers. "French Salon" per-
Fisher Career Grant and
city of Southfield's
formers include the St. Clair Trio,
has been delighting
Celebrity Series.
comprised of cellist Marcy Chanteaux,
audiences since age 8. NHK conductor
$35/$30. (248) 645-6666.
violinist Geoffrey Applegate and
Charles Dutoit will lead the orchestra
There ain't nothing like a dame.
pianist Pauline Martin; soprano Valerie
in Sofia Gubaidulina's Concerto for
With Bob Mackie costumes and
Yova and pianist Joseph Gurt. The per-
Three Kotos (a 13-stringed plucked
accompanied by a chorus of singing
formance will be held in Hammell
zither introduced 13 centuries ago),
and dancing guys, Mitzi Gaynor —
Music's Recital Hall, 4110 Telegraph
which receives its Ann Arbor premiere;
South Pacific's Nellie Forbush — pro-
Road, just south of Long Lake. $18
$16-$50. (734) 764-2538.
vides audiences with a taste of some of
adults/$15 students and seniors; tickets
Winner of the 1994, '95 and '96
America's most melodic composers 3
available at the door. (248) 357-1111.
International Bluegrass Music
and 7 p.m. Sunday, April 25, at
The Jewish Community Center of
Association Vocal Group of the Year
Macomb Center for the Performing
Metropolitan Detroit's Encore Cultural
Award, IIIrd Tyme Out performs 8
Arts. $37 golden circle/$33 adults/ $29
Arts Series presents Detroit pianist
p.m. Friday, April 23, in the Lila
students and seniors. (810) 286-2222.
David Syme 4 p.m. Sunday, April 25, in
Jones-Johnson Theatre on the Royal

Musical
Notes

On The Stage

The 20th Century: Years in Review,
a play by Robert Werney, takes the
stage at the Knox Auditorium, located
in the First Presbyterian Church of
Birmingham (on Maple Road between
Cranbrook and Southfield), 2 p.m.
Sunday, April 25. Skits about Elvis,
Werney's bar mitzvah, the space shuttle
Challenger and Desert Storm provide
some of the action. Werney, 35, is a
former member of Jewish Association
for Residential Care's Circle of Friends.
There is no charge and all are welcome.
Refreshments follow the performance.
The new Studio Company, an
alliance of Meadow Brook Theatre
and Oakland University's Department
of Music, Theatre and Dance, presents
the Tony Award-winning play
Master Class, by Terrence
McNally, Wednesdays-Sundays,
April 28-May 16, at the Varner
Studio Theatre on the Oakland
University campus. Veteran
Detroit actress Susan Arnold takes
the role of opera legend Maria
Callas. Call for show times. $18-
$25. (248) 377-3300.
Appealing to both adults and
children, Stephen Sondheim and
James Lapine's Into
the Woods provides a
humorous look at the
interaction between
some favorite fairytale
characters —
Cinderella, Little Red
Riding Hood, Jack
and the Beanstalk,
Snow White and
more. The musical
will be presented by
the Ridgedale Players
8 p.m. Fridays and
Saturdays, April 30-
May 22, with 3 p.m. matinees
Sundays, May 2, 16 and 23, at the Troy
Playhouse, 205 W. Long Lake Road.
$13/$12 seniors and students, includ-
ing an afterglow. (248) 988-7049.

The Big Screen

"Silents" are golden when Boston's
renowned Alloy Orchestra returns to
perform its brilliant original score for
Fritz Lang's epic expressionist vision of
the future, Metropolis, 7:30 p.m. Friday,
April 23, and 3 p.m. Sunday, April 25.

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4/23
1999

78 Detroit Jewish News