.7.3111% Best Bets CLASSICA I NOTES Flutist James Galway performs 7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 17, at Macomb Center for the Performing Arts. $46- $55. (810) 286-2222. The Berlin Philharmonic, under the direction of Claudio Abbado, returns to Ann Arbor's Hill Auditorium for the first time since 1965 in a performance of Schoenberg's Pelleas and Melisande, Op. 5 8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 20. $25-$80. (734) 764-2538. The Detroit Oratorio Society per- forms works by. Faure, Poulenc and Ravel with the Detroit Chamber Winds and Strings 8 p.m. Friday,. Oct. 22, at St. Hugo of the Hills Church in Bloomfield Hills. $10-$25. ((248) 650-2655. POP/ROCK/JAZZ Singer/songwriter Elvis Costello, with special guest Steve Nieve, appears 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 17, at the State Theatre. $42.50/$30. (248) 645-6666. The Allen Ginsberg Memorial Concert, a benefit for Jewel Heart fea- turing Paula Cole, Philip Glass, Patti Smith and Ziggy Marley, takes the stage at Ann Arbor's Hill Auditorium 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 17. $12-$75. (248) 645-6666. The trio Ben Folds Five plays Pontiac's Clutch Cargo's Sunday, Oct. 17. Doors at 8. $17. (248) 333-2362. Composer/keyboardist Keiko Matsui takes the stage 8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 20, at the Royal Oak Music Theatre. 529.50. (248) 645-6666. Styx, one of the most successful pop/rock groups of the '70s, appears in concert 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 21, at the Fox Theatre. 535/$27.50. (248) 433-1515. The Count Basie Orchestra per- forms at Orchestra Hall, as part of the Ameritech Paradise Jazz Series, 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 22. Jazz vocalist Barbara Morrison joins the orchestra. 516- $62. (313) 576-5111. ON THE STAGE Wayne State University's Bonstelle Theatre opens its 49th season with Eugene O'Neill's nostalgic family comedy Ah, Wilderness. Performances are 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays, Oct. 15-24. $8-$10. (313) 577-2960. Ann Arbor's Kerrytown Concert House presents Nancy Heusel, Rachel Urist and Bill Cross in Martin McDonagh's award-winning The Beauty Queen of Leenane 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Oct. 22- 23. $10-$25. (734) 769-2999. Stagecrafters 2nd Stage mounts a production of the Douglas Carter Beane comedy As Bees Drown in Honey, starring Hal Levine of Troy, Oct. 22-31 at Royal Oak's Baldwin Theatre. $7. For show times and tick- ets, call (248) 541-6430. FAMILY FUN The Detroit News Young People's Concert Series kicks off 11 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 16, at Orchestra Hall with "In the Beginning," a program focusing on the notion of "musical creation." $8-$31. (313) 576-5111. The Cranbrook Institute of Science hosts Tales From the Cranbrook Crypt, an evening of Halloween fun, 6-8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Oct. 22-23. $6. Reservations: (248) 645-3210. THE ART SCENE Identity, Thought and Vision, the artwork and insights of 22 Jewish, Arab and Druze artists from Israel, is on display at U-M's Rackham Building through NOV. 15, in conjunction with an Oct. 25 conference on interethnic coexistence. (734) 647-2655. Meet Joseph Barbera, half of the Hanna Barbera Animation Studio, 8- 9:30 p.m. Friday, Oct, 15, at Southfield's Park West Gallery, where an exhibition and sale of drawings, production cels, lithographs and hand- painted limited editions runs through Nov. 14. (248) 354-2343. Cranbrook Art Museum intern Ashley Brown presents a slide lecture on the design and career of Pipsan Saarinen Swanson 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 21, in the deSalle Auditorium, followed by a "Dialogue in the Gallery" with Robert Saarinen Swanson, son of Pipsan Saarinen Swanson. Free with museum admis- sion. (877) 462-7262. Birmingham's Creative Resource Gallery hosts The Figure: More Than You Have Ever Seen, featuring human figure painters Alette Simmons-Jimenez of Miami and Hayes Friedman of Washington, D.C., through Nov. 14. Artists recep- tion: 6:30-8:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 22. (248) 647-3688. WHATNOT WDET-FM begins its yearly nine-day fund-raising campaign Friday, Oct. 15. The pledge drive will end early if the goal of $520,000 is reached before Oct. 23. (800) 959-9338. March 4 & 5, 2000 October 30 & 31,1999 i g toteLt4 Les Niserables November 13 & 14, 1999 ao,e4. CA/H*41 ,40e, .Cyle Crocodile April 8 & 9, 2000 December 18 & 19, 1999 Jekyll April 15 & 16, 2000 Alexander and the . Verti Bad Daq February 26 & 27, 2000 [thaws Aftiea ke noon May 20 & 21, 2000 The Lion mitig o Mali Performances at Music Hall in Detroit. Saturdays at 11 am. and 2 p.m. & Sundays at 2 p.m. -Season tickets just $25 for four shows- or a complete brochure, call the Music Hall Ticket Office: For tickets (313) 963-2366 DOUBLETREE GUEST SUITES - SOUTHFIELD (248) 350-2000 Come back to the Franklin Grille • ALL NEW MENU• EARLY BIRD Special 4 pm - 6 pia Monday - Saturday 1 5% Off all menu items Exclude liquor/beer/pop/coffee *Call now for your Millenium New Year's Eve Party Package. Special incentive given to those who make their paid reservation before December 1st. "HASTINGS STREET REMEMBERED" by Lou Surowitz Now Available...to order call Lou in Toledo at 419-536-9264 or Oscar Cook at 248-855-6375 10/15 1999 Detroit Jewish News 81