landscape, a symbol of con-
stancy that has endured an
Visible Fictions, an award-winning company
often-turbulent American
from Scotland, has adapted the classic Albert
history.
Featured are works by
Lamorisse tale The Red Balloon especially for
young audiences and will bring its production to
early photographic pioneers
Youtheatre's stage at Music Hall 11 a.m. and 2
William Henry Jackson,
p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m.Sunday, April 15-16.
Timothy O'Sullivan and
The Red Balloon tells the story of Pascal, a
Carleton Watkins, who
small boy who feels misunderstood and ignored.
chronicle
the exploration of
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At home, he seems to be invisible to his parents,
the
American
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and on the playground his friends seem unkind.
19th century, as well as
One day, he looks up into the sky and spies a
urban and suburban land-
beautiful red balloon. Chasing it across the city, he
scapes by 20th-century photographers Lewis
finally catches it, changing his life forever. The self-
Hine, Walker Evans and Robert Frank.
propelling balloon becomes the most precious thing
The classic images of Ansel Adams, Paul
in Pascal's life; he now has a best friend.
Caponigro and Joel Meyerowitz are highlighted.
Looking at the joys and frustrations of friendship,
Meyerowitz is known for his color work, espe-
this production, currently touring across the United
cially his light-filled landscapes of Cape Cod.
States and Canada, has been invited to tour in
Contemporary views by Victor Landweber,
Istanbul, Singapore, Israel and Japan.
Sally Mann and Joel Sternfeld, photographers
Part of the Wiggle Club series, The Red Balloon is
who have explored historical, cultural and
suitable for children ages 3 and up. Tickets are $8
environmental concerns in their landscapes,
advance/$9 at the door/additional $8 for workshop.
also are featured.
For more information, call the DIA at
(313) 963-2366.
(313) 833-7900.
SEEING RED
"Wings," the first
Oscar winner for
Best Picture, will be
screened at Royal Oak's
Baldwin Theatre.
IT TADS THREE
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THE AMERICAN HORIZON
Opening April 19 and continuing through July 30
at the Detroit Institute of Arts, "The Enduring
Horizon: American Landscape Photographs from
the DIA's Permanent Collection" includes more than
80 images from 60 photographers.
Dating from 1860 to the present, the images reveal
a variety of historical and cultural perspectives that
helped shape a vision of the nation in America's pub-
lic consciousness. Seen as reflections of strength and
beauty, the photographs illustrate the evolution of
MORE BEST BETS ...
Melding classical, flamenco, jazz
and folk techniques, the Gerard Edery
Ensemble performs original and tradi-
tional Jewish music from around the
world 8 p.m. Saturday, April 15, at
Congregation Shaarey Zedek, 1942
Coolidge Road, East Lansing. Tickets
will be available at the door: $10
adults/$5 students. (517) 351-5267.
Detroit Chamber Winds presents
the concert suite from Igor Stravinsky's
L'histoire du soldat 7:30 p.m. Sunday,
April 16, at Birmingham Unitarian
Church, Woodward and Lone Pine,
and 4:30 p.m. Sunday, April 30, at
Christ Church Grosse Pointe, 61
SOUNDS OF SILENTS
Suzanne Shulman,
Mark Childs and Erica
Goodman comprise Trio
Lyra and will p orm
Sunday at Temp Israel
Watching a silent movie creates a whole
new experience for the viewer. Silence gives
the audience a chance to participate in what
they visually perceive by creating their own
dialogue for the characters on screen.
As part of a Silent Film Series at
Stagecrafter's galdwin Theatre in Royal Oak,
Wings, the first movie to win an Oscar for
Best Picture, will be shown 8 p.m. Saturday
Grosse Pointe Blvd., in Grosse Pointe
Farms. $22/$18. (248) 362-9329.
B.B. King, with special guest
Bobby Blue Band, takes the stage at
Ann Arbor's Hill Auditorium Tuesday,
April 18. Doors at 6:30 p.m./show at
7:30 p.m. $35/$20: (248) 645-6666.
Wayne State University's Hilberry
Theatre opens Pierre Augustin de
Beaumarchais' bawdy comedy The
Marriage of Figaro 8 p.m. Friday,
April 21; it runs in repertory with Five
by Tenn through May 20. Call for
show times. $11-$18. (313) 577-2972.
Jewish Ensemble Theatre presents
public performances of its educational
outreach offering The Diary of Anne
Frank 1:30 and 7 p.m. Sunday, April
and 2 p.m. Sunday, April 15-16.
The 1927 film, renowned for its
authentic scenes of WWI airplanes
flying through the clouds and con-
fronting the German enemy, is a
story of two young boys going off
to fight as pilots in France.
Anxiously waiting for one of the
boys to come home is "It Girl"
Clara Bow, as Mary Preston. While
it may appear to the novice that she
was overacting, Bow in fact was
acclaimed for her use of precise
facial expressions to fit emotion.
Accompanying the movie will be
theater organist John Lauter with an
original score. "It's my job to pro-
vide the 'voice' to the film," says
Lauter. Tickets are $8 and all seats
are reserved. To purchase tickets in
advance, call (248) 541-6430.
16, at the Anderson Theater Center at
Henry Ford Museum/Greenfield
Village. $5. (248) 788-2900.
The Historic Redford Theatre
screens Kirk Douglas' Spartacus, with
organ overture by John Lauter and
Gus Borman, 7:30 p.m. Friday and
1:30 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April
14-15. $3. (313) 537-2560.
Filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici
searches for the lost tribes of Israel in
a documentary special airing 8 and 10
p.m. Sunday, April 16, on A&E cable
network.
Music inspired by the American
frontier, including Aaron Copland's
Rodeo, will be featured in a Detroit
Symphony Orchestra Young
The members of Trio Lyra, a chamber
music ensemble from Toronto, have
been together for more than 20 years.
Flutist Suzanne Shulman, violist Mark
Childs and harpist Erica Goodman
comprise the group, whose repertoire
includes everything from the baroque
to the best of today's composers.
Trio Lyra will perform music by
Jewish composers at Temple Israel's
Schmier Family Concert 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, April 16. For complimenta-
ry tickets and more information, call
Temple Israel at (248) 661-5700.
People's Concert 11 a.m. Saturday,
April 15, at Orchestra Hall. $8-$31.
(313) 576-5111.
Featuring artwork by more than 60
Academy of Art graduate students, the
Cranbrook Academy of Art Student
Degree Show 2000 runs April 15-
May 12 at Cranbrook Art Museum.
(877) 462-7262.
Southfield's Park West Gallery hosts
an exhibition and sale of etchings and
lithographs by Mark Chagall through
April 27. (248) 354-2343.
The sixth annual Spring
Sugarloaf Art Fair visits the Novi
Expo Center 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Friday-
Sunday, April 14-16. $6/under 12
free. (800) 210-9900.
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