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The Zamir Chorale
of Metropolitan
Detroit performs
its annual spring
concert 4 p.m.
Sunday, May 2, in
Room 332 at the
GAIL
D.
Dan and Betty
ZIMMERMAN
Kahn Building of
Arts &
the Jewish
Entertainment
Editor
Community Center
in West Bloomfield.
This year's concert, Elijah's Violin, based
on an adaptation by storyteller Howard
Schwartz, is a musical rendering of a
Jewish folktale reflecting the spirit of
the Jewish people. It will feature the
debut of the Zamir Youth Chorale.
Zamir Detroit's repertoire features
music from all periods, from baroque to
modern, sung in Hebrew, Yiddish,
Ladino and English. Admission is free
and the public is welcome. For more
information, call Larry Katkows ,
(313) 861-8990, or Debra Luria, (248)
851-8560.
Detroit Chamber Winds and Strings
presents a concert, Whoopee for
Winds and Strings, 7:30 p.m. Sunday,
May 2, at the Birmingham Unitarian
Church, 651 Woodward Ave. at the
corner of Lone Pine, in Bloomfield
Hills. The program features works by
Mozart, Dzubay, Britten, Beethoven
and Brant. $20/$16 students and
seniors/$10 children under 12. A com-
plimentary post-concert reception fol-
lows the performance. (248) 362-9329.
Works that convey the spirit of
springtime comprise Fanfare for Spring,
the Birmingham Concert Band's annual
spring concert, 3 p.m. Sunday, May 2,
at Groves High School Auditorium,
Evergreen Road just north of 13 Mile
Road, in Beverly Hills. Admission is
free, but donations to the band's
Interlochen scholarship are appreciated.
When Swing Was King, featuring
narrator and vocalist Frankie Lester,
the Henry Busse Orchestra and a
dual-screen visual presentation that
includes hundreds of pictures from the
decades big bands were first popular,
takes the stage 7 p.m. Sunday, May 2,
at Macomb Center for the Performing

Arts. $26 adults/$25 students and
seniors. (810) 286-2222.
Recipient of the 1999 University
Musical Society Distinguished Artist
Award, The Canadian Brass has won
millions of fans worldwide with its
sparkling arrangements of everything
from Bach to the Beatles. The ensemble
has been active in promoting and creat-
ing educational events for both young
musicians and teachers. At 6 p.m.
Saturday, May 8, the group will per-
form at Ann Arbor's Hill Auditorium,
followed by a video tribute. Tickets are
$15-$50; call (734) 764-2538. For
more information about the gala dinner
at the Michigan League that follows the

conductor of the Bolshoi Theater, the
Stockholm Philharmonic, the BBC
Symphony and the Vienna Symphony.
$13-$63. (313) 576-5111.
Voted "Entertainers of the Year
three times at the East Coast Music
Awards, Great Big Sea writes and per-
forms music in the maritime tradition
of their seafaring ancestors, featuring
close-knit harmonies, melodies and
diverse instrumentation. The
Canadian Celtic ensemble performs 8
p.m. Saturday, May 1, at the Ark, 316
S. Main, in Ann Arbor. $15/$10 stu-
dents. (734) 761-1451.
The Farmington Community
Chorus presents its 20th annual
spring concert, "Going Places," 8 p.m.
Friday and Saturday, May 7-8, at

to modern tunes. 1185 Tienken Road,
Rochester. $15. (248) 608-9077.
Written and performed by Andy
Kirshner, Who It Is is a tapestry of
jazz, gospel, reggae, scat, remixed
Debussy, Yiddish, Afro-Cuban and rap
music that taps into Kirshner's split
Jewish and Christian roots. Directed
by Walk & Squawk co-artistic director
Erika Block, Who It Is interweaves
characters and stories from ethnically
diverse urban and suburban land-
scapes. A Borscht Belt comedian, an
African-American Baptist minister, a
classroom of immigrants learning
English, a Unitarian Sunday school,
salsa dancers from the Copacabana, a
suburban high school football game,
an Old World rabbi, biblical patriarchs

Andy Kirschner presents "Who It Is," a musical journey across cultures and borders in search of American identity, at Ann
Arbor's Performance Network and at the Charles H. Wright Museum ofAfrican American History in Detroit.

concert, call
Harrison High School,
(734) 936-6837.
29995 W. 12 Mile Road,
Russian con-
between Middlebelt and
ductor
Orchard Lake. For tick-
Gennady
ets, call (248) 788-5322;
Rozhdestvensky
also available at the door.
makes a rare
Detroit appear-
ance 8 p.m.
A new musical based on
Thursday and
the Bible stories of Adam
Friday, May 6-
and Noah and set to the
7; and 8:30
music and lyrics of Prince
p.m. Saturday,
of Egypt composer Stephen
May 8, when he
Schwartz, Children of
leads the
Eden takes the stage at the
Immigrants at Ellis Island, in a
Detroit
Avon Playhouse Theatre 8
scene from David Wolper's
Symphony
p.m. Fridays and Saturdays
"Celebrate the Century" a CNN
Orchestra in
and 2 p.m. Sundays, April
series debuting on Sunday.
Liszt's Dante
30-May 22 (no perfor-
Symphony and
mance on Mother's Day).
Kodaly's Psalmus Hungaricus
Shir Tikvah member Jeffrey Hyke plays
(Hungarian Psalms). Tenor James
the young Abel, and Kol Ami member
Taylor and the University Musical
Brian Golden plays drums for the musi-
Society Choral Union will be featured.
cal accompaniment that features every-
In his legendary career,
thing from gospel to Hebrew melodies
Rozhdestvensky has served as principal

On The Stage

,
Abraham and Joseph, a white gangsta
rapper and a Sonny Rollins saxophone
concert intermingle to explore the
nature of American identity 8 p.m.
Thursdays-Saturdays and 2 p.m.
Sundays, May 6-16, at Performance
Network, 408 W. Washington, Ann
Arbor. $15/$12 students and seniors.
(734) 663-0681. 7:30 p.m. Thursdays,
8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 3
p.m. Sundays, June 3-13, at the
Charles H. Wright Museum of African
American History in Detroit. $18/$15
students and seniors. (313) 494-5800.
Macomb Center for the Performing
Arts mounts a production of Rodger
and Hammerstein's The King and I
7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 6; 8 p.m.
Friday, May 7; and 2 and 8 p.m.
Saturday, May 8. $29/$25 students
and seniors. ((810) 286-2222.
Grosse Pointe Theatre presents the
Tony Award-winning musical City of
Angels, a spoof of the hard-boiled pri-
vate-eye novels of the '40s — with

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4/30
1999

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