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Detroit Symphony Orchestra flutist
Jeffrey Zook performs 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, NOV. 21, in the Schmier
Chapel Chamber Series Concert at
Temple Israel. Free and open to the
community. (248) 661-5700.
Renowned violinist Gidon Kremer
visits Ann Arbor's Rackham Auditorium
with members of his musicians' collec-
tive, Kremerata Baltica, 4 p.m. Sunday,
Nov. 21. $16-$34. (734) 764-2538.

Ann Arbor's Michigan Theater
screens the original silent film Robin
Hood, with live orchestra accompani-
ment by the Michigan Sinfonietta, 8
p.m. Saturday, Nov. 20. $15/$7.50
students. (248) 645-6666.

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Macomb Center for the Performing
Arts hosts The British Rock Symphony
& Choir, presenting masterpieces of the
Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Pink
Floyd, 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 20; $28-
$35. (810) 286-2222.
WDET's Man Watroba joins Neil
Woodward and Gary Weisenburg, per-
forming "folk music like it used to be,"
8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 26, at The Ark in
Ann Arbor. $12. (734) 761-1451.
The Windham Hill Winter Solstice
Concert takes the stage 8 p.m. Friday,
Nov. 26, at the Michigan Theater in
Ann Arbor. $15-$35. (248) 645-6666.
Aretha Franklin returns to Orchestra
Hall in all-new show with the DSO 8
p.m. Friday and Saturday, Nov. 26-27.
$25-$100. At 7 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 28,
the Queen of Soul performs a benefit
concert for the Rosa and Raymond
Parks Institute for Self-Development.
$75-$200. (313) 576-5111.

ON THE STAGE

The Orchard Ridge Players of
Oakland Community College present
the Thornton Wilder classic Our
Town 7:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday,
Nov. 18-19, at Smith Theater on the
Orchard Ridge Campus. $71$4 stu-
dents. (248) 471-7667.
Revival at Possum Kingdom
Community Church by Michigander
Linda LaRocque, a comedic version of
city slickers trying to outsmart country
bumpkins, takes the stage at the Detroit
Repertory Theatre through Dec. 31. Call
for show times. $15. (313) 868-1347.
Meadow Brook Theatre presents
Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol
Nov. 20-Dec. 26. Call for show times.
$13-$37. (248) 377-3300.
Ann Arbor's Performance Network
mounts a production of Not Waving,
the story of a woman just released
from a mental institution who drags
her conservative mother through a
whirlwind of adventures, 8 p.m.
Thursdays-Saturdays and 2 p.m.
Sundays, Nov. 26-Dec. 19. $15-$18.
(734) 663-0681.

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LAUGH LINES

Comedienne Margaret Cho brings
her act to Detroit's State Theatre 7:30
p.m. Saturday, Nov. 20. $26.50-$35.
(248) 645-6666.

FAMILY FUN

St. Dunstan's Guild of Cranbrook
stages a musical version of Goldilocks
and the Three Bears 7 p.m. Friday, Nov.
19; 11 a.m., 1 and 3 p.m. Saturday,
Nov. 20; and 12:30 and 2:30 p.m.
Sunday, Nov. 21. $6. (248) 644-0527.
The Wayne State University Dance
Company presents On Stage! Dance
Performances for Children 11 a.m.
and 1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 20, in the
Community Arts Auditorium. $4 chil-
dren/$5 adults. (313) 577-4273.
The Detroit Historical Museum
hosts On the Air! Film Festival and
Family Workshop, featuring classic
films, guided tour and more, 1-3 p.m.
Saturday, Nov. 27. $3. Reservations:
(313) 833-1262.

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THE ART SCENE

Tragic Beauties, an exhibit of
Barbara Abel's photographs of antique
wax mannequins, is on display at
Rochester's Paint Creek Center for the
Arts through Dec. 23. Opening recep-
tion 6-8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 19. (248)
651-4110.
Royal Oak's Arnold Klein Gallery
presents A Tribute to Time, featuring
30 artists who pay homage to the chang-
ing of the millennium, through Dec. 30.
Opening reception noon to 5 p.m.
Saturday, Nov. 20. (248) 647-7709.
Donald Sultan shows "Selected
Drawings 1976-1998" at Birmingham's
Hill Gallery through Dec. 31. (248)
540-9288.
Ideals of the medieval past are
explored in The Pointed Arch:
Idealizing the Gothic Age, a new exhib-
it at the Detroit Institute of Arts run-
ning Nov. 24-Feb 13. (313) 833-7900.

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Valerie Giberman, MSW, discusses
Anita Shreve's Oprah Book Club
selection, The Pilot's Wife, noon
Sunday, Nov. 21, at Borders in
Birmingham. (248) 203-0005.

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