Arts & Entertainment
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Ameritech Paradise Jazz Series Concert at
Orchestra Hall. $17-$47. (313) 576-5111.
Fiddler Ken Waldman brings his poems
Violinist Jaap Schroeder, pianist Penelope
and stories of life in Alaska to Southfield
Crawford and cellist Enid Sutherland of the
Centre for the Arts 7:30 p.m. Thursday,
Atlantis Trio perform on historically cor-
March 22. $8-$10. (248) 424-9022.
rect instruments and will present works by
For the sixth consecutive year, Temple
Felix Mendelssohn and his sister Fanny
Beth
El celebrates Shabbat New Orleans-
Mendelssohn 8 p.m. Sunday, March 18, at
style with the New Orleans Klezmer
Ann Arbor's Kerrytown Concert House.
AllStars in a service beginning 7:30 p.m.
$10-$25. (734) 769-2999.
GAIL ZININIERNIAN
Friday, March 23. The group brings its dis-
Cranbrook Music Guild hosts Detroit
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tinctive blend of jazz, klezmer, rock, blues
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natives and sisters Ani Kavafian on violin and
and traditional liturgical melodies, sharing
Ida Kavafian on viola, accompanied by Anton
the
bimah
with
Cantor Stephen Dubov, the Kidz Klez
Nel on piano, 8 p.m. Tuesday, March 20, in the Sanctuary
Band
of
Michigan
and the TBE Adult Choir. A musi-
of Christ Church Cranbrook in Bloomfield Hills.
cal
Oneg
Shabbat
follows.
No charge. (248) 851-1100.
Tickets, including afterglow, are $25/$15 students and
The second annual "Celebration of Diversity"
are available at the door. Reservations: (810) 751-2435.
concert, a benefit for the Southfield Community
Countertenor David Daniels joins Canada's Les
Foundation and the International Institute
Violons du Roy for a performance of music from the
Foundation, features singer and civil rights activist
Baroque period 8 p.m. Thursday, March 22, in a
Harry Belafonte performing at the Detroit Opera
University Musical Society program at Ann Arbor's St.
House 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 24. $20-$200.
Francis of Assisi Catholic Church. $40. (734) 764-2538.
a
former
(248) 645-6666.
Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes,
winner of the Gilmore International Keyboard
Competition in Kalamazoo, plays Schumann's Piano
ON THE STAGE
Concerto with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra
10:45 a.m. and 8 p.m. Friday and 8:30 p.m.
Stagecrafters presents the Michael Frayn comedy
Saturday, March 23-24, at Orchestra Hall. The
Noises Off, which follows a ragtag group of third-
DSO also will perform the world premiere of the
rate actors on tour doing a bad British sex farce,
First Symphony by American composer John
March 16-April 1 at Royal Oak's Baldwin Theatre.
Campbell. $15-$71. (313) 576-5111.
Call for show times. $12-$14. (248) 541-6430.
Ann Arbor's Performance Network stages Peter
Mellencamp's Struggling Truths, about the Chinese
invasion of Tibet and the family it tears apart, 8
p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays,
Vocalist Sarah Brightman and her La Luna World
March 16-April 8. $14-$20. (734) 663-0681.
Tour come to Detroit's Masonic Temple 8 p.m.
The Theatre Company mounts a production of
Saturday, March 17. $35-$65. (248) 645-6666.
cellist
Skin,
Between
Daylight and Boonville, centering on three
Celebrating the release of his new CD
women
struggling
with the disappointments thrown
son
of
renowned
jazz
photogra-
Eric Friedlander,
their way, 8 p.m. ThursdayS-Saturdays and 2 p.m.
pher Lee Friedlander, brings his contemporary jazz
Sundays, March 22-April 8, at McCauley
quartet to Ann Arbor's Kerrytown Concert House 8
p.m. Saturday, March 17. $10-$25. (724) 769-2999. Auditorium on the Outer Drive campus of the
University Detroit Mercy. The dramatic comedy was
Folksinger, musicologist, author and teacher Jerry
written by Matt Williams, creator of Roseanne and
Silverman makes two Ann Arbor appearances. He
Home Improvement. $10-$12. (313) 993-1130.
performs 7:30 p.m. Sunday, March 18, at The Ark;
Plowshares Theater Company's production of
$12.50. (734) 761-1451. At 8 p.m. Tuesday, March
Marsha Jackson-Randolph's Sisters, a Women's
20, he presents a concert/lecture presentation, titled
History Month production, runs 7:30 p.m.
The Undying Flame: Ballads and Songs of the
Thursdays and Fridays, 3 and 8 p.m. Saturdays and
Holocaust, at U-M Hillel, 1429 Hill Street. Free
6 p.m. Sundays through April 8 at Henry Ford
and open to the public. (734) 769-0500.
Museum and Greenfield Village's Anderson Theater.
Featuring a mix of jazz and bluegrass, the Grammy-
take
the
$15-$20/2 for 1 Thursdays. (313) 872-0279.
nominated Bela Fleck & the Flecktones
Jack Jones explores the world of Don Quixote in
stage 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 21, at Ann Arbor's
the musical Man of La Mancha 7:30 p.m. Thursday,
Hill Auditorium. $25-$27.50. (248) 645-6666.
8 p.m. Friday, 2:30 and 8 p.m. Saturday, and 3 and 7
On the heels of her latest CD, Motor City Moments,
p.m. Sunday, March 22-25, at Macomb Center for
jazz violinist Regina Carter returns to her hometown
the Performing Arts. $34-$39. (810) 286-2222.
with her quintet 8 p.m. Thursday, March 22, in an

CLASSICAL NOTES

P o p / R o cK/JAzz

THE BIG SCREEN

Proceeds from the Detroit Institute of Arts' Oscar
Night America party benefit the Detroit Film
Theatre. Beginning at 6:30 p.m. Sunday, March 25,
at the Roostertail in Detroit, guests, in black-tie or
costumed as their favorite movie star, will enjoy a
champagne reception, movie-themed dinner, live
auction and big-screen presentation of the Academy
Awards. $135 per person. (313) 833-7969.

IT'S MAGIC

David Copperfield brings his latest stage show,
Unknown Dimension, featuring new illusions, to
Detroit's Fox Theatre 8 p.m. Friday; 12, 4 and 8
p.m. Saturday; and 1 and 6 p.m. Sunday, March 23-
25. $27.50-$45. (248) 433-1515.

THE ART SCENE

Wentworth Galleries at Troy's Somerset Collection
hosts the work of three generations of the Jewish
French Impressionist artist Camille Pissarro. Opening
reception: 1-4 p.m. and 5-8 p.m. Saturday, March 24.
(248) 816-8372. Pissarro's work also is included in
the inaugural exhibit, "Impressionist Masterworks
from the National Gallery of Canada," at the new Art
Gallery of Windsor through May 6. (519) 977-0013.
Detroit Artists Market hosts Body as Metaphor,
an exploration of figure and its treatment in con-
temporary art, March 23-May 11.
Opening reception: 6-9 p.m.
Friday, March 23. (313)
832-8540.

WHATNOT

The benched-format
Detroit Kennel Club
Dog Shows run 8:30
a.m.-5:30 p.m. Saturday
and Sunday, March 17-18,
at Detroit's Cobo Center. $8-
$10/$30 5-person family
pack. (248) 352-7469.

David Copperfield
brings his magic
to the Fox
Theatre.

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