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Songs of war, peace, darkness and light will fill the
hall as the Zamir Chorale of Metropolitan Detroit,
under the direction of Benjamin Cohen, presents
Darkness and Light, a concert featuring Psalms for Woe
and Joy, both by contemporary composer Robert
Starer. The program begins 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 10, at
the West Bloomfield Jewish Community Center. Free
and open to the community. (248) 548-3217.
Well-known for her interpretations of Kurt Weill's
music and Berlin cabaret songs from the Weimar
Republic, German chanteuse Ute Lemper celebrates
Weill's centenary in a University Musical Society per-
formance 8 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 9, at Ann Arbor's
Michigan Theater. $16-$36. (734) 764-2538.
In a new Detroit Public Television national produc-
tion airing 8 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 12, on WTVS-
Channel 56, Neeme Jarvi leads the Detroit Symphony
Orchestra in a rare performance of Gustav Mahler's
reorchestration of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9. Poet
and rock singer Patti Smith hosts.
I Can Do Better Than That is a new
late-late night interactive TV show airing
2 a.m. Saturdays on WKBD-Channel 50
beginning Jan. 5. The producers are now
soliciting videos — original comedy skits,
shorts and music videos — of no more
than three minutes in length to be entered
into a weekly/monthly video festival.
Winners get cash, merchandise and the
opportunity to be seen by talent agents.
For more information, go to the Web site
at www.icandobetterthanthat.com .
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Under the direction of guest conductor
David Briskin, the Detroit Symphony
Orchestra's family-style musical presentation
"Yuletide Celebration" combines traditional
holiday music with the production elements of
a Broadway show. Included in the program, in
addition to classics like Irving Berlin's "White
Christmas," is Zan-lir Bavel's "Chanukah Light."
Performance times are 8 p.m. Thursday-Friday,
2 and 8 p.m. Saturday, 2 and 7 p.m. Sunday
and 8 p.m. Monday-Tuesday, Dec. 14-19. $15-
$25. (313) 576-51111.
ON THE STAGE
Rubin and Joshua Stilman of Farmington
Hills, Erica Harte of Huntington Woods
and Lauren Glass of Southfield.
Tickets are $5-$7; all seats are reserved.
(248) 541-6430.
THE ART SCENE
Norma Minkowitz uses the crochet tech-
nique to create human figural works, which
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eerily evoke supernatural power. The bodies in
Arts C Entertainment
most of her sculptures are incomplete — one
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is missing a head, another lacking arms or legs,
and this makes them general rather than par-
ticular, abstracted sculptural forms rather than portraits.
She is one of the participants whose work comprises
FAMILY FUN
Figurative Suggestions: Woven Knitted and
Stagecrafters Youth Theatre, a community theater
Constructed Forms, running Dec. 9-Jan. 13 at Royal
group for young people ages 8-18, presents a unique
Oak's Sybaris Gallery. Each of the exhibit's seven artists
version of Hansel & Gretel 7 p.m. Friday, 11 a.m.
in small and large-scale works utilizes techniques loose-
and 3 p.m. Saturday and 1 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 8-10, at
ly related to weaving to explore the subject of nature
and the human body. The opening reception is 5-7
p.m. Saturday, Dec. 9, at the gallery. For more infor-
mation, rill (248) 544 3388.
Ben Cohen
New York artist John Egner, a former painting
leads the
instructor at Wayne State University, was an influen-
Zamir Chorale
tial force in the emerging Cass Corridor art scene of
in concert on
the late '60s and early '70s. His first Detroit-area
Sunday
exhibit in 10 years, John Egner — Full Circle: A
Decade of Work, continues at Detroit's Center
Galleries through Dec. 16. (313) 664-7800.
The Michigan Guild of Artists and Artisans
hosts a Holiday Art Fair, featuring 130 juried
contemporary artists in all media, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Saturday and 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 9-10,
at Oakland Community College Building H on
the OCC campus at Orchard Lake and 1-696.
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Admission is $4 adults/children under 12 free.
Conductor
(734) 662-3382.
Ossip
Gabrilowitsch
The University of Michigan's Department of
takes center
Theatre and Drama presents a dramatization of
stage in a
Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird 8 p.m.
Detroit
Friday-Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 8-10,
Historical
at Ann Arbor's Power Center for the Performing
Norma Minkowitz:
Museum
Arts. Twenty-seven performers — both student
"Come Closer," fiber,
exhibit.
and professional — will inhabit Prospero's
wood;
at Royal Oak's
enchanted island in William Shakespeare's last
Sybaris Gallery.
great romance play, The Tempest, 8 p.m.
Thursday-Saturday, Dec. 14-16, also at the
Power Center. Tickets are $15-$20/$7 students for
the Baldwin Theater in Royal Oak. In this fairytale,
each performance. (734) 764-0450.
rather than being abandoned by their father and evil
The Furniture Factory in Detroit hosts Holy Sh*t!
stepmother, the children have loving parents, but get
Stories From Heaven and Hell, a one-woman show fea-
lost in the woods while picking berries. Their parents
turing Janice Perry, who'll focus her wit on Western spiri-
set out to find them, but in the interim before they are
tuality, 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Dec. 15-16. $24.
rescued, the children meet the Dew Princess, the
Goblin Gang and numerous forest animals.
(313) 832-8890.
The cast includes Shanna Eisenberg of Huntington
Woods, Jesse Einstein of Bloomfield Township, Eddie
WHATNOT
Currently open and running throughout 2001 at
the Detroit Historical Museum is 30 Who Dared:
Detroiters Who Made a Difference. Their names
are often enshrined on buildings and streets
throughout the Motor City, but most people know
very little about their accomplishments. "You could
look at this exhibit as a collection of some of
Detroit's most unsung heroes," said Dennis
Zarnbala, director of Detroit Historical Museums.
Two Jewish Detroiters are included in the exhibit:
Rabbi Leo Franklin, a leader of Temple Beth El and
proponent of interfaith cooperation, and Ossip
Gabrilowitsch, who helped turn the Detroit Symphony
into a world-class orchestra (he also happened to marry
one of Mark Twain's daughters!). For more informa-
tion, call the museum at (313) 833-1805.
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