The Week's Best Bets 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 . Stoltzman 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 FYI: For Arts and Entertainment related events that you wish to have considered for Out & About, please send the item, with a detailed description of the event, times, dates, place, ticket prices and publishable phone number, to: Gail Zimmerman, JN Out & About, The Jewish News, 27676 Franklin Road, Southfield, MI 48034; fax us at (248) 354-6069; or e-mail to gzimmerman@thejewishnews.com Notice must be received at least three weeks before the scheduled event. Photos are appreciated but cannot be returned. All events and dates listed in the Out & About column are subject to change.