the late 1960s had its origins on the air on
dramas and music to listeners across
Detroit's WKNR-AM, when disc jockey Russ
the nation. In recognition of that
When Diana Krall launched her career in the
Gibb stumbled upon the story and broadcast "the
time, the Detroit Symphony
early '90s, her goal was to make good music,
demise" of Beatle Paul McCartney to shocked lis-
Orchestra will present an all-new
not history. But, now, she's done both.
teners.
Pops Series production titled "On
This year, the Canadian singer and pianist
As part of the "On the Air" exhibit at the Detroit
The Air! — A Musical Journey
became one of the few jazz artists in the 42-year
Historical Museum, Gibb will share the story —
through the Golden Age of Radio."
history of the Grammy Awards to earn a nomina-
including the actual audio tapes from the broadcast
Conductor Jack Everly leads the
tion for Album of the Year, for her lushly orches-
— during a program titled "Russ Gibb and the Paul
orchestra and guest soloists in con-
trated When I Look In Your Eyes. Though she was
is Dead Controversy." It
certs at 10:45 a.m. and 8 p.m.
GAII. ZININIERNIAN
beat out by Carlos Santana, she did go home
begins 1 p.m. Saturday,
Thursday,
8:30
p.m.
Friday
Arts &Enter/oh/mew
with the Grammy for Best Female Jazz Vocal.
Editor
April 8, in the museum's
and Saturday and 3 p.m.
Krall's fifth and latest CD is a collection of
Louise C. Booth
Sunday, April 13-16.
luminous jazz ballads and Tin Pan Alley classics,
Auditorium.
Designed to emulate a live radio show of
performed with a lilting bossa nova twinge.
Admission is $4.50
the 1940s, "On the Air" will include perfor-
Featuring arrangements by Johnny Mandel, whose
adults/$2.25 seniors and
mances of big band dance classics such as
previous credits range from Frank Sinatra and
children 12 18/free children
Glenn Miller's "Chatanooga Choo Choo," Les
Count Basie to Brazil's Joao Gilberto and saxo-
under 12. (313) 833-1805.
Brown's "Sentimental Journey" and Johnny
phonist David Sanborn, the album showcases the
Mercer's "On the Atchison, Topeka and the
35-year-old Krall — who refuses to be defined or
Santa Fe."
LOCAL VOCAL
restricted by conventional jazz parame-
Other highlights include
ters — at her best.
excepts from popular
Singer Elena Beck returns
"I approached the whole album dif-
musicals such as
home to sing a variety of
ferently than my previous releases," says
Elena Beck sings Tuesday at the
Oklahoma and South
arias, songs and romances
Krall. "I didn't play eight-minute tunes
Pacific as well as sentimen- Oak Park ICC.
in an operatic concert 7:30
with [lots of improvised] piano chorus-
tal favorites "The White
p.m. Tuesday, April 11, at
es. I wanted to make each song an indi-
Cliffs of Dover" and "God Bless
the Jewish Community Center in Oak Park.
vidual story. So I approached each
America." Humorous commer-
A native of Russia, Beck is a graduate of the
arrangement with that, and Johnny's
cials and breaking news bulletins
musical theater department of the Moscow
style, in mind."
add to the authenticity of "the
Collegiate Academy of Art. In 1998, she represented
Diana Krall performs 8 p.m. Friday,
broadcast."
Detroit in a cultural exchange program with
April 14, at Ann Arbor's Michigan
Tickets are $18-$68. Call
Palermo, Italy. She currently is studying at Theatre
Theater. Tickets are $25. (248) 645-6666
(313) 576-1111.
LaScala in Milan, Italy.
Tickets are $2 and may be purchased at the
Jimmy Prentis Morris Building. This program is co-
GOLDEN AGE
RADIO DAYS
sponsored by the JCC's Boaz Siegel Culture Fund
In an era before television, radio
and the Russian Acculturation Program.
Grammy winner Diana Krall
Speaking of radio ... the infa-
reigned supreme, bringing news, radio
performs April 14 in Ann Arbor. mous "Paul is Dead" story of
For information, call (248) 967-4030

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Celebrating the 100th anniversary of
the birth of Kurt Weill, the Detroit
Symphony Orchestra performs the
composer's A Little Threepenny Music,
as well as tone-poems by Richard
Strauss, 10:45 a.m. and 8 p.m.
Friday, 8:30 p.m. Saturday and 3
p.m. Sunday, April 7-9, at Orchestra
Hall. $19-$62. (313) 576-5111.
At 8 p.m. Monday, April 8, at
Orchestra Hall, the U.S. Army Field
Band and Soldiers' Chorus gives a
free public performance, including
selections from Fiddler on the Roof
Doors open at 7:30 p.m.; patrons
without advanced tickets will be

admitted after 7:50 p.m. For more
information, call (313) 576-1111.
Metropolitan Opera mezzo-soprano
Suzanne Mentzer and acclaimed gui-
tarist Sharon Ibsin join forces for a
concert 8 p.m. Thursday, April 13, at
Ann Arbor's Lydia Mendelssohn
Theatre. $50/$35. (734) 764-2538.
The Motor City Theatre Organ
Society presents award-winning
organist Barry Baker 8 p.m. Saturday,
April 8, at the Redford Theatre,
where he'll play a pops concert of the
music of Gershwin, Ellington and
more. $10. (313) 537-2560.
The Bonstelle Theatre stages Steven
Schwartz's Godspell 8 p.m. Fridays
and Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays,

April 7-16. $10-$13. (313) 577-2960.
The Detroit Film Theatre at the
DIA screens Orson Welles' The Trial,
a newly restored version of the Kafka
classic, 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 10.
$5.50. (313) 833-3237.
Youtheatre presents Jeckyll and
Hyde, a contemporary, musical thriller
and modern-day parable of substance
abuse, for families with children 7 and
older, 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Saturday and
2 p.m. Sunday, April 8-9, at Music Hall
for the Performing Arts. $8 advance/$9
at the door. (313) 963-2366.
Huntington Woods artist Susan
Goethel Campbell presents her draw-
ings and books, works of "postindustrial
neo-romanticism," in a one-woman

show at Birmingham's Lemberg Gallery
through May 6. Opening reception: 5-7
p.m. Friday, April 7; gallery talk 7 p.m.
Thursday, April 27. (248) 642-6623.
A juried group show composed of
bronze, marble, terra cotta, steel and
wood sculptures by members of the
Sculptors Guild of Michigan will be
on display April 14-May 12 at the
Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center.
(248) 644-0866.
A one-person exhibition of recent
wood sculptures and charcoal draw-
ings by Cranbrook graduate Barbara
Cooper will be shown at Royal Oak's
Sybaris Gallery April 14-May 20.
Opening reception: 5-7 p.m. Friday,
April 14. (248) 544-3388.

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