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CLASSICAL NOTES

The Detroit Symphony Orchestra
and the Brazeal Dennard Chorale
perform works by Johnson,
Mendelssohn and Ellington 8 p.m.
Friday and 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb.
18-19, at Orchestra Hall; $19-$50.
At 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 20, the DSO
presents Mendelssohn Meets
Ellington as part of its "Introduction
to the Classics" series; $22-$30.
(313) 576-5111.
Balalaika virtuoso Gennady Zut
performs classical, modern and folk
music 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 20, at the
Jewish Community Center in Oak
Park. $2. (248) 967-4030.
The Borromeo String Quartet, with
James Dunham, viola, performs works
by Beethoven, Prokofiev and Dvorak 8
p.m. Saturday, Feb. 26, at Seligman
Family Performing Arts Center. $18-
$65/$15 students. (248) 645-6666.

Pop/RoadJAzz

The Detroit Symphony Pops per-
forms popular works by Copland,
Porter and Offenbach and entertainer
Sandy Duncan performs Broadway
hits 10:45 a.m. and 8 p.m. Thursday,
8:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday and 3 p.m.
Sunday, Feb. 24-27, at Orchestra Hall.
$14-$47. (313) 576-5111.
The Macomb Center for the
Performing Arts hosts a Hoagy
Carmichael Celebration 8 p.m. Friday,
Feb. 25. $26-$29. (810) 286-2222.

ON THE STAGE

The New York City Opera National
Company presents Rossini's The Barber
of Seville 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday and 2
p.m. (family performance) Saturday,
Feb. 18-19, at Ann Arbor's Power
Center. $22-$45; matinee: $20
adult/$10 children. (734) 764-2538. •
WSU's Bonstelle Theatre stages
Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our
Teeth 8 p.m. Fridays-Saturdays and 2
p.m. Sundays, Feb. 25 through March
5. $8-$10. (313) 577-2960.

DANCE FEVER

The Wayne State University Dance
Company presents its winter concert,
"Approaching Extremes," 8 p.m.
Friday-Saturday, Feb. 25-26, at
Detroit's Music Hall. $15 general/ $8
students. (313) 577-4273.

LAUGH LINES

Detroit's Second City stages its
new revue, Paradigm Lost,
Wednesdays-Sundays through June.
Call for show times. $10-$19.50.
(313) 965-2222.

THE ART SCENE
Detroit's CPOP Gallery presents
The Detroit Girlie Collective, featur-
ing paintings, sculptures, photography,
film and music by more than 30
socially minded women artists,
through March 2. (313) 833-9901.
The DIA opens the exhibit Martin
Lewis: Drawings and Related Prints,
works by the 1920s-'30s realist artist,
Sunday, Feb. 20. Through June 4.
(313) 833-7900.
Linda Soberman and Jennifer
Martin showcase their work in
"Collective Memories" at the Ann Arbor
Art Center's Exhibition Gallery through
Saturday, Feb. 19. (734) 994-8004.
The billboard above the new location
of Detroit Artists Market at Woodward
and Forest features Little Green Soldier,
'a work by Shana Kaplow, through
February. (313) 393-1770.
Volunteers are wanted to staff the
galleries for the exhibition "Van Gogh:
Face to Face" March 12-June 4, at the
DIA. (313) 833-0247.

BENEFITS
Variety-The Children's Charity
hosts A Winter's Fantasy, a black-tie
dinner with live' auction to benefit
children with special needs, 6 p.m.
Saturday, Feb. 26, at Knollwood
Country Club. The theme of the
evening is "James Bond." $225 per
person/$300 per patron/$500 per
benefactor. (248) 258-5511.
Ceramic masks created by celebrities
and artists will be auctioned Saturday,
March 18, to benefit COTS, the
Coalition on Temporary Shelter, at the
Detroit Yacht Club. $100 per person
includes buffet dinner, mask auction
and dancing. Other donation categories
available. Preview a portion of the mask
collection Feb. 17-29 at Somerset
Collection South. (313) 831-3777.

WHATNOT

The Jewish Authors Book Group dis-
cusses In Shared Dreams: Martin Luther
King Jr and the Jewish Community 7:30
p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 22, at Borders in
Farmington Hills. (248) 737-0110.
The Southfield Civic Center hosts
The Southfield Pavilion Antiques
Exposition 2 a.m.-9 p.m. Friday, noon-8
p.m. Saturday and noon-5 p.m. Sunday,
Feb. 25-27. $6. (810) 465-9441.
The Longhorn World
Championship Rodeo rides into the
Palace of Auburn Hills 8 p.m. Friday-
Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 18-
20. $20/$14. (248) 645-6666.
- Compiled by Sharon Luckerman
Editorial Assistant

John Tanasychuk Detroit Free Press
January 8th, 1999

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