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ABSTRACT EXHIBITION

November 11 - January 22

Works By Over 60 Artists Including:

CLASSICAL NOTES

Renowned mezzo-soprano
Frederica von Stade, accompanied by
pianist Martin Katz, performs 8 p.m.
Friday, Dec. 10, at Ann Arbor's Lydia
Mendelssohn Theatre. $50/$35. (734)
764-2538.
The Southfield Symphony
Orchestra performs Christmas and
Chanuka selections, including Tew's
An Overture for Chanuka, 3 p.m.
Sunday, Dec. 12, at the Southfield
Pavilion, 26000 Evergreen Road.. $9-
$12. (248) 557-2085.
Balalaika virtuoso Gennady Zut
performs 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 12, at
Orion Township Public Library, 825
Joslyn Road. (248) 693-3000.

Pop/RoadJAzz

Indigo Girls take the stage 7:30
p.m. Friday, Dec. 10, at Eastern
Michigan University Convocation
Center, Ypsilanti. $22.50-$35. (248)
645-6666.
Vocalists Dionne Warwick, Peabo
Bryson, James Ingram and Deniece
Williams join the Detroit Symphony
Orchestra to perform their hits along
with holiday favorites 8 p.m. Friday-
Saturday, Dec. 10-11, at Orchestra
Hall. $26-$55. (313) 576-5111.
Dearborn's Anderson Theater at the
Henry Ford Museum presents its
inaugural Concert of Colors, Night in
Morocco, featuring Hassan Hakmoun
with special guests Marcus Belgrave
and Wendell Harrison, 7 p.m. Friday,
Dec. 10. $15-$30. (248) 645-6666.
The Farmington Community
Band performs its winter concert 3
p.m. Sunday, Dec. 12, at the
Farmington High School Auditorium.
Free. (734) 261-2202.
The Beach Boys take the stage 8
p.m. Saturday, Dec. 11, at the Palace
of Auburn Hills. $15-$25. (248) 645-
6666.
Detroit's State Theatre presents
Meat Loaf 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 12.
$58.50/$49.50. (248) 645-6666.
Smooth jazz artists Dave Koz,
David Benoit, Brenda Russel and
Peter White perform 8 p.m. Tuesday,
Dec. 14, at Detroit's State Theatre.
$25/$20. (248) 645-6666.
Acoustic rocker Kenny Rankin
plays the Magic Bag Thursday, Dec.
16. Doors at 8. $15. (248) 544-3030.

ON THE STAGE

Berkley High School presents its
fall musical, Guys and Dolls, 8 p.m.
Friday and Saturday, Dec. 10-11, in
the Berkley High School auditorium.
$7. (248) 837-8080.

JOSEPH ALBERS
STANLEY BOXER
ROBERT BRADY
JOHN CHAMBERLAIN
FRIEDEL DZUBAS
BEVERLY FISHMAN
CAIO FONSECA
SAM FRANCIS
HELEN FRANKENTHALER
SAM GILLIAM
PETER GOOCH
JAMES HAVARD
CHARLES HINMAN
HANS HOFMANN
ROBERT MOTHERWELL
JULES OLITSKI
KIKUO SAITO
JOHN TORREANO

Wayne State University's Studio
Theatre presents Jon Robin Baitz's A
Fair Country, a story about a family
ripped apart by a father's political
intrigue and a son's coming to grips
with his homosexuality, 8 p.m.
Thursdays-Saturdays, through Dec.
18. $8. (313) 577-2972.

DANCE FEVER

The Eisenhower Dance Ensemble
performs its Holiday Dance Spectacular
8 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday,
Dec. 11-12, at the Lake Orion
Performing Arts Center. $10-$12.
(248) 693-5436.

LAUGH LINES

West Bloomfield native Mike
• Green appears at Joey's Comedy Club
in Dearborn Thursday-Sunday, Dec.
16-19. Call for show times and ticket
prices. (313) 584-8885.
Detroit's Second City extends its
comedy revue Phantom Menace to
Society through early February. Show
times are 8 p.m. Wednesday-Sunday,
with additional shows 10:30 p.m.
Friday and Saturday. $10-$18.50.
(248) 645-6666.

ROBERT KIDD GALLERY

107 Townsend Street, Birmingham
248-642-3909 Tuesday - Saturday 11 - 6

THE ART SCENE

DIA conservator Barbara Heller
lectures on assessment and conserva-
tion techniques noon Sunday, Dec.
12, following an 11 a.m. brunch, at
Cranbrook Institute of Science. $12-
$20. For information and reservations,
call (248) 645-3210.
Robert Frank: The Americans, an
exhibition of photographs taken in the
1950s and expressing the photograph-
er's impressions and experiences of
American culture, runs at the Detroit
Institute of the Arts through March
26. (313) 833-7900.
Detroit's Scarab Club Galleries pre-
sents a mixed media show of works
created by its members through Dec.
31. (313) 831-1250.
The Michigan Guild of Artists and
Artisans, sponsors of the Ann Arbor
Summer Art fair, presents its Holiday
Art Fair 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and
11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 11-12.
$4 adults/ free for children under 12.
(734) 662-3382.

NEIL SIMON ' S

THE.
PRISONER

*There will be perfomances
Saturday, Dec. 25 & Jan. 1

Simon captures the
hell of modern city life,
while maintaining his
signature "tickle of the
funny bone".

WHATNOT

Wayne State University's Walter
Reuther Library presents an exhibition
on Jerome P. Cavanagh, Detroit's
youngest mayor ever, through spring
of next year. Free. Call for library
hours. (313) 577-4024.
- Compiled by Sharon Luckerman

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