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GET BACK!
Fab Four aficionados can relive the
past when Get Back!, featuring cast
members from Broadway's Beatlemania.f,
takes the stage at Meadow Brook Music
Festival 8 p.m. Saturday, July 3.
The performance is a scaled-down
version of the original Beatlemania.f,
minus the multimedia effects. It
chronicles the 1960s rise and subse-
quent breakup of the Beatles.
Portraying the Fab Four are Jack
Petrilla as Paul McCartney, Peter
McGann as John Lennon, Gerry
Lowery as George Harrison and Jerry
Sommers as Ringo Starr.
Creating the illusion of the Beatles
through three different eras — The Ed
standing-room-only gig,
at New York's Knitting
Factory's July 1995
"What Is Jazz?" festival.
According to Hersch,
"The nice thing about
playing with Michael and
Gerry is there are no lim-
its." The trio deftly bal-
ances chamber music deli-
cacy with casual but intense
swing in a performance
that is simultaneously lyri-
cal and cutting edge.
Kerrytown Concert House is locat-
ed at 415 N. Fourth Ave. Tickets are
$10-$25. (734) 769-2999.
annual Birmingham fire-
works on Saturday, July 3.
"The American Sky
Exhibition" features a full
night of family activities,
including live music, fabu-
lous food, supervised chil-
dren's projects, artists'
demonstrations and a per-
fect sight line for the fire-
works themselves, via the
center's viewing location
on the south side of
Lincoln Hills Golf Course.
"We think parents will love having
artful activities for their children to
enjoy in a supervised setting, as they
wait for the sky to darken and the fire-
works to begin," says BBAC Executive
Director Janet Torno.
Activities run 7-10 p.m., when the
fireworks are scheduled to start. Smart
Bus shuttles run every 20-30 minutes
to and from parking at Seaholm and
Groves high schools, from 6:45 p.m.
to 11:15 p.m.
BBAC is located at 1516 S.
Cranbrook (Evergreen) on the north-:"
west corner of 14 Mile in Birmingham
Tickets are $35 nonmembers/$30
BBAC members/$15 children 4-10/fre
for children under 4. For reservations,
call (248) 644-0866, Ext. 107.
JUST JAZZY
Veteran jazz trumpeter Marcus
Belgrave performs a concert of stan
dards and original compositions at
Orchestra Hall with a quartet of
distinguished musicians from
LIGHT UP THE SKY
Sullivan Show, St. Pepper's Lonely
Detroit's jazz community 8:30 p.m.
Hearts Club Band and Abbey Road/Let
The Birmingham Bloomfield Art
Friday, July 9.
It Be — the cast will perform more
Center offers a new way to view the
The concert inaugurates the
than 30 Beatles songs and
Detroit Symphony
complete three costume
SIESIEZES1====
Orchestra's new series,
changes. A fireworks presen-
titled "JazzStage,"
tation follows the show.
which aims to present
Tickets are $17.50 pavil-
the world-class jazz tal i
ion/$12.50 lawn and are on
ent of the Detroit area
sale at The Palace and Pine
Birmingham's Creative
For these concerts,
Knob box offices and all
Resource Gallery presents
the stage of Orchestra
Ticketmaster locations.
"Promising Abstractions,"
Hall will be trans-
Groups of 15 or more and
an exhibit of new abstract
formed into a jazz
children 12 and under can
work by five artists, includ-
club, an intimate
receive $3 off tickets by call-
ing four from Michigan,
cabaret-style setting
ing the Group Sales Office
through July 29. An open-
the performers and
at (248) 371-2055. Tickets
ing reception will be held
audience.
may be charged by phone,
6:30-9 p.m. Thursday, July
The usual seating
(248) 645-6666, or pur-
8, at the gallery, 162 N.
areas of the hall will be
chased online at www.ticket-
Old Woodward.
closed. The audience
master.com .
Featured artists include
will enter from the
Vidvuds Zvdrieus of
Parsons Street stage
Detroit, a painter who
door and be seated at
LUCKY NUMBER works in a style reminiscent
tables. Refreshments
Three of the leading com-
of abstract expressionist
will be available for c
posers and improvisers in
Willem de Kooning;
purchase.
modern jazz — pianist Fred
painter Michelle Hegyi of
Upcoming events in
Hersch. alto saxophonist/clar-
Ann Arbor, an Israeli native
the series include the
inetist Michael Moore and
who recently participated
Wendell Harrison
drummer/percussionist Gerry
in the Michigan Fine Arts
Quintet on Friday, July
Hemingway — appear in the
Competition; textile artist
16, and the Teddy
Michigan premiere of their
Lauren Gregersen of
Michelle Hegyi: 'A New Dawn,
Harris Jr. Quintet on
collaborative trio, 13 Ways, 8
Commerce Township, a grad-
oil on canvas, 1999.
Friday, July 30. Tickets
and 10 p.m. Friday, July 2, at
uate of Cranbrook Art
are $10 advance/$15
Ann Arbor's Kerrytown
Academy; sculptor Lauren
the door. Advance tick-
Concert House.
Cohen of Franklin, a recent graduate of the Center for Creative Studies who works in glass, copper and
ets may be purchased at
Hersch first convened
steel; and Antonini Amat of Barcelona, Spain, who paints with oils on canvas and paper.
the DSO box office at
the 13 Ways trio, for two
Gallery hours are 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. For more information, call (248) 647-3688.
Orchestra Hall or by
days of recording and a
calling (313) 576-5111
IN THE ABSTRACT
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7/2
1999
72 Detroit Jewish News