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CLASSICAL NOTES
Chamber Music Society of Detroit hosts two cele-
brated artists, clarinetist Richard Stoltzman and pianist
Lukas Foss, 8 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 2, at Seligman
Performing Arts Center, on the campus of Detroit
Country Day School in Beverly Hills. Known for his
innovative ja77 performances and his chamber music
excellence alike, Stoltzman has performed with more
than 100 orchestras worldwide. Foss, who fled Nazi
Germany with his family in 1933, entered
Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music at age 15 in
1937 as a 15-year-old prodigy. In addition to his career
as a pianist, he is renowned worldwide as a composer,
conductor and educator. Tickets are $18-$67/$15 stu-
dents. (248) 645-6666.
Classical guitarist Helene
Rottenberg, appearing with violinists
Velda Kelly and Elizabeth Rowin, vio-
list John Madison, cellist Nadine
Deleury, flutist Susan Lazar and narra-
tor Will Horwath, will be featured in
the Schmier Chapel Chamber Concert
at Temple Israel 7:30 p.m. Sunday,
Dec. 3. The program will highlight
the music of Mario Castelnuove-
Tedesco. Free and open to the com-
munity. For complimentary tickets,
call (248) 661-5700.
Pop / Ro cK/J Azz
Pianist
Out with a lovely new album, It's
Lukas
Foss
Like This - in which she covers songs
joins
from The Beatles and Steely Dan to
clarinetist
Gershwin and Bernstein - Ricky Lee
Richard
Jones performs at Ferndale's Magic .
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in
Bag Sunday, Dec. 3. Doors at 6 p.m.
a
Chamber
$35. (248) 544-3030.
Music Society
After kicking off their tour with a
of Detroit
sold-out season finale at Pine Knob,
concert.
eclectic rockers Barenaked Ladies and
special guest Guster return to metro
Detroit for concerts at the Palace of Auburn Hills
7:30 p.m. Wednesday (sold-out) and Thursday,
Dec. 6-7. $32-50-$45. (248) 645-6666.
Saffire - The Uppity Blues Women, featuring Ann
Rabson, one of the finest barrelhouse blues pianists of
her generation (and sister to Mimi Rabson, famed vio-
linist of the Klezmer Conservatory Band), takes the
stage at Macomb Center for the Performing Arts 7:30
p.m. Thursday, Dec. 7. $22-$24. (810) 286-2222.
ON THE STAGE
The Birmingham Templesingers stage an encore of
The Lost Moment of Peace, a dramatic musical set
during World War I presented by Rabbi Tamara
Kolton and Milton Landau under the
musical direction of Arthur Rose, 2 p.m.
Sunday, Dec. 3, at the Birmingham
Temple. Free and open to the community.
(248) 477-1410.
David Mamet's Oleanna, featuring
Richard Sparks as a beleaguered professor
and Southfield's Jessica Stanford-Hudspeth
as his distressed pupil, explores a struggle for
power against a backdrop of sexual harass-
ment and political correctness. The heated
drama plays at the Wayne State University
Studio Theatre downstairs at the Hilberry
Theatre 8 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays, Dec.
7-9 and 14-16. $6-$8. (313) 577-2972.
directed and co-wrote the acclaimed film
noir Rififi (1955). Dassin followed the crime
thriller with Never on a Sunday, featuring his
Greek wife, Melina Mercouri.
Virtually unseen since its original release,
Rififi, in a newly restored version, will be
screened at the Detroit Film Theatre 7 and
9:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 4 and 7
p.m. Sunday, Dec. 1-3. $6. (313) 833-3237.
GAIL ZIMMERMAN
A rts v Entertainment
Editor
Jean Servais, left, and Perlo Vita
(a pseudonym used by Jules
Dassin) in Dassin's "Rififi," at
the DFT.
DANCE FEVER
A holiday classic for all faiths, The
Nutcracker, performed by the world-
acclaimed Ballet Internationale and featur-
ing the traditional Russian choreography of
artistic director Aldar Aliev, comes to the
Detroit Opera House for 12 performances
Dec. 7-17. For the first time, the Michigan
Opera Theatre Orchestra will play the
Tchaikovsky score. Call for show times. $14-
$60. (313) 237-7464.
THE ART SCENE
Contemporary blacksmith Steven Bronstein
is among the Jewish artists represented in the
Winter Gallery Crawl 2000, a bus tour to 35
Detroit art retailers between 10 a.m. and 6
p.m. Saturday, Dec. 2. Bronstein, who works
out of a studio in Vermont, will show a pendu-
lum clock at the Detroit Gallery of
Contemporary Crafts in the Fisher Building,
where the clock will be among unique gifts
offered in the gallery's 25th annual holiday
show, "Objects of Wonder and Delight."
Organized by Detroit's Cultural Affairs
Jessica Stanford-Hudspeth and
Department, the crawl, visiting galleries
Richard Sparks star in David
downtown, along Jefferson Avenue and
Mamet's "Oleanna" at WSUs
throughout the New Center/Cultural Center
Studio Theatre.
area, is in its 16th year. Buses leave every 20
minutes from each of the starting points: the
Palms Building, 2111 Woodward; Pewabic Pottery,
Lansing's BoarsHead Theatre presents Visiting Mr.
10125 E. Jefferson; the Scarab Club, 217 Farnsworth;
Green, a two-character play about opposites who've
and the Biegas Gallery, Grand River at Library. The
been thrown together - an old Jewish widower who
$10 tour fee can be paid in advance or on the day of
keeps kosher and a young, totally assimilated Jewish
the crawl. (313) 224-9500.
homosexual - through Dec. 17. Performance times
The whimsical papier-m ache sculptures of
are 7 p.m. Thursdays, 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays
Michigan-born artist Stephen Hansen will be on dis-
and 2 and 7 p.m. Sundays. $24-$29. (517) 484-7805.
play Dec. 1-30 at Pontiac's Galerie Blu/Uzelac
Gallery. Opening reception with the artist: 7-10 p.m.
Friday, Dec. 1. (248) 332-5257.
THE BIG SCREEN
Pontiac's Habatat Galleries presents Twenty-five
Years of Chihuly, an exhibit of 45 blown glass
Born in Connecticut as one of eight children of a
sculptures providing a historical and contemporary
Russian-Jewish barber, Jules Dassin started his career in
perspective on legendary American glass artist Dale
the Yiddish Theater, before moving on to a career as a
Chihuly's career, Dec. 8-31. Opening reception:
film director in Hollywood. Blacklisted by the
7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 8. (248) 333-2060.
McCarthyites, he moved to Europe, where in France he
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