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OH, CHANUKAH!

David Grover was Arlo Guthrie's
lead guitarist and arranger and has
played with the likes of John Denver,
Willie Nelson and Pete Seeger. Taking
a break to raise his daughter and con-
centrate on songwriting, he didn't
know he would fall in love with play-
ing for children and families. That's
just what he's been doing for the past
10 years with the Grammy-nominated
David Grover and the Big Bear Band
— from the Pine Ridge Indian
Reservation in South Dakota to New
York City to the White House.
David Grover and the Big Bear Band
will perform a Chanukah concert 7
p.m. Sunday, Dec. 17, at Adat Shalom
Synagogue. The community is invited
and there is no admission charge, but
all families are asked to bring a new,
unwrapped book, toy or game, which
will be donated to Orchard's Children's
Services. There will be special bedtime
snacks for all children at the end of the
concert. For more information, call
(2485 851-5100.
The Jewish Community Center of
Metropolitan Detroit's Jimmy Prentis
Morris Building will hold a Chanukah
klezmer concert starring Sruli and
Lisa 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 17. The duo
play five instruments between them,
and have performed on a PBS special,
on the soundtrack for Showtime's
Devil's Arithmetic and live on National
Public Radio. Tickets for this family
concert are $3 per child member/$4
per child nonmember/$4 per adult
member/$5 per adult nonmember.
For more information or tickets, call
(248) 967-4030.

CLASSICAL

NarEs

Kicking off Michigan Opera
Theatre's Verdi Festival, legendary
tenor Luciano Pavarotti will be part
of a one-night-only performance of
Aida in Concert 7 p.m. Thursday,
Dec. 21, at the Detroit Opera House.
The all-star cast includes Detroit
favorite Irina Mishura, who returns
to the stage as the Egyptian princess
Amneris, a role she inaugurated in
Michigan Opera Theatre's 1997 pro-
duction of Aida.

Joining Pavarotti and
Mishura will be Italian
soprano Fiorenza Cedolins
as Aida, Italian bass Andrea
Papi making his U.S. operat-
ic debut as Ramfls and bari-
tone Mark Delavan as
Amonasro. Conductor
Edoardo Muller will lead the
MOT Orchestra and a com-
bined Michigan Opera
Theatre and Rackham
Symphony Choir. Tickets
range from $100-$500. Call
(313) 237-7464.

Crenshaw cut his last Magic
Bag appearance short due to
illness, tickets are just $5.
(248) 544-3030.

THE BIG

SCREEN

The rare 1924 version of
Peter Pan lands at the
Editor
Baldwin Theatre in Royal
Oak for two shows, 8 p.m.
Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 16-
17. This silent film version of J.M.
Barrie's fantasy about a boy who
refused to grow up is known for its
p
inventive costumes and effects, and
hasn't been screened in the Detroit
Detroit's own Marshal Crenshaw
returns to Ferndale's Magic Bag for an
area for 50 years.
Betty Bronson stars as Peter and
acoustic concert on Sunday, Dec. 17.
George Ali reprises the role of Nana,
Crenshaw honed his pop writing craft
which he played numerous times on
from the Beatles and other '60s icons,
stage. The restored film retains its
but of his newest album, #447, he
original color tinting in amber and
says, "I'll never be a jazz musician, but
blue. The Baldwin Theatre will pro-
I love the stuff. It's been coming into
vide live organ accompaniment, and a
play as an influence on a lot of the
trio of actors will read the title cards.
stuff I'm writing lately. It kind of
Tickets are $8 adults and $5 chil-
changes my sound a bit."
dren; all seats are reserved. Call
Doors are at 8 p.m. Because
(248) 541-6430.

GAIL. ZIMMERMAN
Arts & Entertainment

was an allegory of man's primary strug-
gle to find the God within each of us.
His telling of the story, full of symbols,
comprises 21 scenes, with the events
taking place over one night, from sun-
down to sunrise. For more information,
call (419) 255-8000.
Cranbrook Art Museum is the first
museum venue to present mama, your
legs, a new large-scale installation by
Ursula von Rydingsvard, the celebrated
sculptor known for her monumental
abstract sculptures chiseled from cedar
wood. This exhibition features a series
of large motorized steel and cedar pis-
tons suspended from a steel grid, slow-

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David Grover and
the Big Bear Band
perform at Adat FAMILY
Shalom Synagogue in
Youtheatre continues its Wiggle
a Chanukah concert. Club series with The Very Hungry
The 1924 silent Caterpillar — which George W.
screen version of Bush recently named as his favorite
"Peter Pan," featuring book! — and The Very Quiet
Phillippe de Lacey as Cricket. The black-light stage ver-
Michael and George sion of Eric Carle's two classics will
Ali as Nana, lands be presented by the Mermaid
at Royal Oak's Theatre of Nova Scotia in per-
Baldwin Theatre. formances including puppetry and
music. Show times are 11 a.m. and
2 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m.
Sunday, Dec. 16-17, at the
Millennium Center in Southfield.
Tickets are $8 advance/$10 at the
door. (248) 557-7529.

FuN

THE ART SCENE

The graphic exhibition William
Blake's Book Of Job continues at
the Toledo Museum of Art through
Jan. 7. For Blake, The Book ofJob

Ursula von Rydingsvard: "mama,
your legs," cedar, steel; 2000; at
Cranbrook Art Museum.

ly rising and falling into massive chis-
eled cedar bowls on the gallery floor,
suggesting industrial machinery and
the toil of labor. It is sponsored at
Cranbrook by the Maxine and Stuart
Frankel Foundation for Art. For more
information, call (877) 462-7262.
It's the last week to catch the
Detroit Institute of Arts' salute to the
'60s, Pop Art: Prints and Multiples
from the DIA Collection, now on dis-
play in the Schwartz Graphic Arts
Galleries. More than 100 prints and
multiples from the DIA collections
represent the results of the creative
philosophy behind Pop — creating art
based on common objects. Pieces in
the exhibition include works by
Robert Indiana, James Rosenquist,
Claes Oldenburg, Andy Warhol, Jim
Dine and Robert Rauschenburg.

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