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TCHAIKOVSKY
SPECTACULAR

This weekend the
Detroit Symphony
Orchestra stages a grand
finale of concerts to round
off its summer season at
Meadow Brook Music
Festival. In addition to
Audra McDonald's DSO
debut with Ted Sperling
(see cover story) on
Sunday, Aug. 6, the
orchestra presents a
Cellist Mark
"Tchaikovsky Spectacular" Kosower makes
8 p.m. Friday and
his DSO debut
Saturday, Aug. 4-5.
this weekend.
The program, under the
baton of the young French
conductor Emmanuel Villaume, features the Russian
composer's "Polonaise" from Eugene Onegin, his
romantic Serenade for Strings and excerpts from The
Nutcracker Suite, and the majestic 1812 Overture, fol-
lowed by fireworks.
Making his debut with the DSO is cellist Mark
Kosower, who will perform Tchaikovsky's Variations
on a Rococo Theme. Kosower began studying the
cello as a toddler with his father, a cello professor at
the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire.
His performance career began at age 4, when he
began a 10-year association with the Dolce Trio. At
age 7, he began performing concertos with sympho-
ny orchestras. Currently pursuing a master's degree
at the Juilliard School in New York City, Kosower
will give a solo recital at the Kennedy Center in

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Al Jarreau, Roberta Flack, David
Sanborn, Joe Sample and George
Duke headline the touring Montreux
Jazz Festival, which visits Pine Knob
7:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 5.
$34.50/$18.50. (248) 645-6666.
A benefit concert for The Ark,
emceed by Man Watroba and featur-
ing Tom Paxton, Jerry Jeff Walker,
The Nields and more, takes place
7:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 6, at the Ann
Arbor folk club. $25. (734) 761-1451.
Red Hot Chili Peppers with spe-
cial guests Stone Temple Pilots take
the stage at Pine Knob 7 p.m.
Monday and Tuesday, Aug. 7-8.
$38.50/$28.50. (248) 645-6666.

by Hudson's, featuring appearances by
Queen Latifah, Gloria Gaynor, Loston
Harris, Anti-Gravity and Kiss Army, follows
at the Fox Theatre. The real show, of
course, is on the red carpet between the
RENAISSANCE MAN
venues, where metro Detroiters show off
their own fabulous finery.
Yale Strom, a former Detroiter
Patron tickets are $175 and also include
who moved to California with his
a private post-show reception at the new
family when he was 10, returns
Tiger Club in Comerica Park; call (313)
to his hometown 2 p.m. Sunday,
GAIL ZIMMERMAN
833-6760. Tickets for main floor and bal-
Aug. 13, in a benefit concert for
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Entertainment
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cony seating for the fashion show are $45
Congregation B'nai David. It will
and $30 respectively, and are available
be held at the synagogue, 5642
through Ticketmaster, (248) 645-6666.
W. Maple Road, in West Bloomfield.
For more information, call the Fash Bash hotline
The violinist/singer has made at least 40
at (313) 833-6954.
trips to Eastern Europe as the basis for his
recordings, books, photographic essays and docu-
mentary films, which include The Last Klezmer. His
musical compositions, featured on seven CDs, com-
bine Chasidic niggunim (religious melodies) with
Conductor Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops
jazz, classical, Balkan and Sephardic motifs.
Esplanade Orchestra will bring a patriotic program
Vocalist Elizabeth Schwartz, who has performed
of American favorites to Pine Knob 7:30 p.m.
across the country with Strom, will join him for the
Wednesday, Aug. 9. The program will feature sopra-
benefit concert. The duo have just completed a new
no Lisa Vroman and selections from America's musi-
CD of Yiddish, Hebrew and Ladino songs tided
cal past and present, much of which is featured on
Garden ofYidn, soon to be released by Naxos Records.
the Pops' A Splash of Pops recording, released last
The community is invited to the B'nai David con-
year on RCA Victor.
cert. A $5 donation is requested. For more informa-
The program will open with a unique take on our
tion, call (248) 855-5007.
national anthem and continue with a tribute to
Aaron Copland, honoring the Jewish composer in
the centennial of his birth. Vroman will sing some
CLOTHES ENCOUNTERS
Broadway and Tin Pan Alley tunes, and the concert
will close with another opportunity to hear
It's Detroit's ultimate see-and-be-seen party.
Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture. Although written by a
The 31st annual Fash Bash to benefit the Detroit
Russian, the work has long been associated with the
Institute of Arts will be held Friday, Aug. 11, begin-
Boston Pops' annual Fourth of July celebration.
ning at 5 p.m. with a patron party at the State
Tickets are $49 pavilion/$20 lawn. (248) 645-6666.
Theater. An 8 p.m. musical fashion show presented

The Warren Civic Theatre presents
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor
Dreamcoat, featuring more than 200
professional and student performers
under the direction of Greg
Trzaskoma, 8 p.m. Fridays and
Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays, Aug.
4-6 and 11-13, at the Warren Woods
Auditorium, 12 Mile and Schoenherr.
$4-$10. (810) 751-8080.
Detroit Artists Market, located at
4719 Woodward Ave., hosts a film
and music festival 5:30 p.m.-mid-
night Friday evenings through Aug.
18. $5. (313) 832-8540.
The exhibit "Stars," by Jewish con-
ceptual artist Sol LeWitt, is a series of
eight aquatint prints beginning with a
three-point star and ending with a

Go Pops!

ten-point star, and is on display at the
University of Michigan Museum of
Art through Aug. 20. (734) 764-0395.
Detroit's CPop Gallery celebrates
HeliArc, a juried industrial design
exhibit featuring 14 artists from
around the world, with an opening
reception 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug.
5, at the gallery, 4160 Woodward.
(313) 833-9901.
The Novi Art Festival, with more
than 200 artists, runs 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 5-6, in the
parking fields of the Novi Town
Center. Free. (248) 347-3830.
The Ferndale Art Fair runs 10 a.m.-
5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 5-6,
on Nine Mile Road at Woodward.
African-American culture and tradi-

tions will be the focus of Celebration
of Emancipation, running 9 a.m.-5
p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 5-6,
at Greenfield Village. $9-$15/free
under 5. (313) 271-1620.
The 22nd annual Concours
D'Elegance, highlighting the leg-
endary cars of the 1941 American
Auto Show, takes place 9 a.m.-4:30
p.m. Sunday, Aug. 6, on the grounds
of Meadow Brook Hall in Rochester.
$20 adults/$10 ages 13-17/12 and
under free. (248) 370-3140.
Preservation Wayne hosts its
annual Detroit'Theatre Tour
Saturday, Aug. 12, leaving every 30
minutes .9-11:30 a.m. from the State
Theater lobby on Woodward Avenue.
$25. (313) 577-3559.

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