SECOND GENERATION

classic comedy. The real Schwartz,
who also developed Gilligan's Island,
has a cameo role.
Schwartz produced 117 original
half-hour episodes of The Brady
Bunch, which live on in syndication
and enjoy greater success than the
show achieved in its original run.
Check your local listings.

Sally Taylor and her three-piece band have
made a meteoric rise on the national music
scene, building up a following with relentless
touring. The songstress and her band — bassist
Kenny Castro, drummer Brian McRae and gui-
tarist Chris Soucy — are currently recording a
follow-up to Taylor's first release, Tomboy Bride,
which sold more than 7,000 copies at her shows GAIL ZINIMERMAN
and through her Web site. Despite major-label
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overtures, Taylor prefers to remain an indepen-
dent artist, and is chronicling her experiences
CHILDHOOD
on the road in a journal, samples of which can be
The photographs of Sally Mann are steeped in
found on her Web site, www.sallytaylor.com .
the influences of rural southwestern Virginia, where
Perhaps her confidence emanates from two role
she was raised and still lives. In that rustic and
models: her parents, recording artists James Taylor
remote setting, she has achieved her most com-
and Carly Simon. Sally has written and recorded a
pelling
work — images of her children Emmett,
duet with her mother, called "Amity," which is set
Jessie and Virginia, often in the nude — in the years
for release later this year.
Sally Taylor will perform Friday, May 26, at
between 1984 and 1995.
"I don't think of my children, and I don't think
Ferndale's Magic Bag. Tickets, available in advance,
anyone else should think of them, with any sexual
are $8. Doors are at 8 p.m. (248) 544-3030.
thoughts," says Mann. "I think childhood sexuality
is an oxymoron." Nevertheless, Mann's work has
GROWING UP BRADY
been the subject of scrutiny about what constitutes
acceptable subject matter for a photographer.
Fans of television's The Brady Bunch, the sitcom
A retrospective of Sally Mann's photographs,
that ran 1969-1974 on ABC and spawned a bunch
titled
"Still Time," runs at the University of
of reunion sequels as well as a big-screen spin-off,
Michigan Museum of Art through June 11. In
will be pleased to go behind the scenes of the show
addition to portraits, it includes abstract still lifes
9-10 p.m. Sunday, May 21, when NBC broadcasts
and landscapes.
Growing Up Brady. The film chronicles the real-life
At 3 p.m. Sunday, May 21, Diane
antics of the cast and crew and is based on
Kirkpatrick, a U-M professor of his-
original cast member Barry William's (Greg Right:
tory of art, will explore Mann's pho-
Brady) and Chris Kreski's best-selling book.
The Kalichstein-
tographs within the context of con-
Jewish actor Michael Tucker (L.A. Law)
Laredo-Robinson Trio
temporary art in a lecture/gallery talk.
performs Saturday in
stars as producer Sherwood Schwartz, the
Free admission. (734) 764-0395.
often bemused and embattled creator of the honor of Lois Beznos.

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The Detroit Symphony Orchestra
performs Mahler's Symphony No. 9,
inspired by the composer's contempla-
tion of life and death and considered
to be one of the most influential
works of the 20th century, 8 p.m.
Thursday and Friday and 8:30 p.m.
Saturday, May 25-27, at Orchestra
Hall. $14-$66. (313) 576-5111.
Diane Schuur and Maynard
Ferguson present an evening of sultry
jazz and big-band swing 8 p.m.
Saturday, May 20, at Macomb Center
for the Performing Arts. $26-$32.
(810) 286-2222.

Celtic musical group Blackthorn
performs in a benefit concert for the
Ulster Project of Metro Detroit 8 p.m.
Sunday, May 21, at St. Hugo of the
Hills in Bloomfield Hills. The Ulster
project sponsors Catholic and
Protestant teens from Northern Ireland
and places them in host American
families. $20. (248) 851-1287.
Elliott Smith, whose songs graced
the soundtrack of Good Will Hunting,
takes the stage 8 p.m. Wednesday,
May 24, at St. Andrews Hall. $13.
(313) 961-MELT.
Stagecrafters presents Rodgers and
Hammerstein's The King and I
through June 4 at Royal Oak's

TERRIFIC TRIO

Since making their debut as the Kalichstein-
Laredo-Robinson Trio at the White House for
President Carter's inauguration in January 1977,
pianist Joseph Kalichstein, violinist Jaime
Laredo and cellist. Sharon Robinson, each
acclaimed soloists in their own right, have
shared beloved masterworks and exciting new
repertoire with audiences around the world.
The trio will perform a concert, including
works by Beethoven, Danielpour and Brahms, in
honor of Lois Beznos, president of the Chamber
Music Society of Detroit, 8 p.m. Saturday, May
20, at the Seligman Performing Arts Center,
located at Country Day School on 13 Mile Road,
in Beverly Hills. The concert, sponsored by the
society's board of directors and friends, recognizes
Beznos' 13 years of dedication to the Chamber
Music Society, the last five as president.
Tickets are $18-$65/$15 students, and are
available through Ticketmaster, (248) 645-6666.

Baldwin Theatre. Call -for show times.
$14-$16. (248) 541-6430.
Hamtramck's Planet Ant Theatre
stages David Ives' Mere Mortals, a
series of six comedic vignettes,
through June 4. Call for show times.
$10. (313) 365 4948.
Comedy troupe Cubicle Dogs lam-
poons corporate life in a new revue,
Mission Statement Impossible, running
8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, through
June 3, at Detroit's Masonic Temple.
$15. (810) 984-6336.
The DSO's Tiny Tots Series pre-
sents a concert titled "Destination:
Spain," featuring musical highlights
inspired by Spanish traditions, 11 a.m.

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Saturday, May 20, at Seligman
Performing Arts Center in Beverly
Hills. $10. (313) 576-5130.
Youthreatre at Music Hall hosts
Theatreworks/USA in a production of
Sundiata: The Lion King of Mali, fea-
turing traditional African rhythms and
colorful masks and costumes, 11 a.m.
and 2 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday,
May 20-21, at Music Hall for the
Performing Arts. $9. (313) 963 2366.
The Greektown Arts Festival, with
food, music and more than 100 artists'
booths, takes to the streets of
Greektown 5-10 p.m. Friday, 11 a.m.-
10 p.m. Saturday and noon-6 p.m.
Sunday, May 19-21.

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