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CLASSICAL NOTES

The Plymouth Symphony Orchestra
presents No, No Nonet, featuring
works by Poulenc, Haydn and
Ellington, 8 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 29, in
the Little Theatre in Plymouth Canton
High School. $10-$12/free for students
through grade 12. (743) 451-2112.
Soprano Barbara Hendricks per-
forms 8 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 29, at Ann
Arbor's Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre.
$40/$25. (800) 221-1229.
The Michigan Chamber Players,
faculty artists of the U-M School of
Music, celebrate Mozart's birthday
with a free concert 4 p.m. Sunday,
Jan. 30, at Ann Arbor's Rackham
Auditorium. (734) 764-2538.
The Cranbrook Music Guild hosts
Meliora Winds, performing works by
Mozart, Mendelssohn, Dvorak and
modern composers . Irving Fine and
Samuel Zyman, 8 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 1,
in the Library of Cranbrook House,
Bloomfield Hills. $25. (810) 751-2435.
Guest conductor Jerzy Semkow
leads the Detroit Symphony
Orchestra in symphonies by Mozart
and Bruckner 8 p.m. Thursday, 10:45
a.m. Friday and 8:30 p.m. Saturday,
Feb. 3-5. $14466. (313) 576-5111.

Pop/RoadJAzz

Cranbrook Academy of Art pre-
sents alumnus Elliott Earls' perfor-
mance art with a hip-hop beat 8 p.m.
Saturday, Jan. 29, at Pontiac's Seventh
House. $12. (248) 335-8100.
The Cowboy Junkies take the stage
7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 2, at Ann
Arbor's Michigan Theater. $25/$20.
(248) 645-6666.
The University Musical Society pre-
sents Jazz at Lincoln Center Sextet 8
p.m. Friday and 2 p.m. Saturday (one-
hour family performance), Feb. 4-5.
$18-$36 on Friday; $20 adults/$10
children on Saturday. (734) 764-2538.

ON THE STAGE

Wayne State University's Studio
Theatre stages Paula Vogel's How I
*Learned to Drive, a story about a
woman who learns to drive her own fate,
8 p.m. Thursday-Saturdays, Feb. 3-12.
(Adult content.) $6-$8. (313) 577-2972.
The Farmington Players perform
Stei nback's classic drama Of Mice and
Men Feb. 4-26. Call for show times.
$12. (248) 553-2955.
Rosedale Community Players pre-
sent Agatha Christie's The Unexpected
Guest 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday Feb 4-
19, and 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 13. $10.
(313) 532-4010.
Ann Arbor's Performance Network

-Martin F. Kohn.
Detroit Free Press

mounts Steve Martin's comedy Picasso
at the Lapin Agile 8 p.m. Thursdays-
Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays, Feb 4-
March 5. $15-$18. (734) 663-7367.

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FAMILY FUN

The Hilberry Theatre presents a
special family performance of Thorton
Wilder's classic Our Town 8 p.m.
Saturday, Jan. 29. $15 adults/$5 chil-
dren. (313) 577-2972.

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THE ART SCENE

Founders Junior Council's T.G.I.E at
the DIA, featuring a special exhibition of
photographs by Robert Frank, refresh-
ments and live music, runs 8-11 p.m.
Friday, Jan. 28, at the Detroit Institute of
Arts. Tickets at the door: $20 mem-
bers/$25 nonmembers. (313) 833-4005.
The University of Michigan
Museum of Art hosts Dr. Maxwell
Hearn, head curator of Asian art at
New York's Metropolitan Museum of
Art, 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 30. He will
speak on "Seeking the Self amid
Mountains and Waters: Chinis Human
Landscape." Free docent tour of the
exhibit the Orchid Pavilion Gathering is
at 2 p.m. Free. (734) 764-0395.
Ferndale's Revolution Gallery pre-
sents Sunsh, paintings by Jon
McCafferty; and Pulse 6, a
light/sound installation by Bill Jones
and Ben Neill, Feb. 3-March 11.
Artists reception 5-7 p.m. Thursday,
Feb. 3. (248) 541-3444.
Detroit's Maniscalco Gallery pre-
sents a Nancy Prophit Memorial
Retrospective through Feb. 19.
Opening reception: 7-10 p.m.
Saturday, Jan. 29. (313) 886-2993.
The Woods Gallery in the
Huntington Woods Library presents the
works of Donald Calloway Jr. through
Feb. 29. Reception: 7-9 p.m. Thursday,
Feb. 3, with performance by singer
Thornetta Davis. Free. (248) 543-9720.
The Art Center in Mount Clemens
hosts its first electronic art exhibit, fea-
turing works by Charles McGee, Jan
Lincoln and Robert Martin among oth-
ers, through Feb. 10. (810) 469-8666.
Graduate students Deborah
Friedman, Alisa Fritz, Carlo Vitale
and Deanna Watson exhibit works
Feb. 4-March 3 at the Community
Arts Gallery. (313) 577-3423.

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