CLASSICAL NOTES

University Musical Society presents the chamber
ensemble Orion String Quartet 4 p.m. Sunday,
April 1, at Rackham Auditorium in Ann Arbor.
$20-$36. (734) 764-2538.
"Three Piano Crossover" joins ja77. greats Marian
McPartland and Dick Hyman with renowned classical
pianist Ruth Laredo on the stage of Orchestra Hall 8
p.m. Thursday, April 5. $15-$60. (313) 576-5111.
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra highlights the
contributions of Scandinavian musicians when it
performs works by legendary Finnish composer Jean
Sibelius and modern-day composer Leif Segerstam,
who also will conduct, 8 p.m. Friday, 8:30 p.m.
Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday, April 6-8, at Orchestra
Hall. $15-$71. (313) 576-5111.

performance and afterglow tickets are $195
Saturday, March 31, at the Clarkston
per person/performance and afterglow tickets
Performing Arts Center at Clarkston
are $125; call (313) 237-7464.
High School. $25 general admis-
sion/$75 patron tickets followed by
afterglow. (248) 625-7500.
THE BIG SCREEN
As the grand finale of its
The Detroit Film Theatre screens Rebels
"Improvisation: A Journey Into Jazz"
With a- Cause, a new documentary by
exhibit, Pontiac's Creative Art Center
Helen Garvy that examines the internal his-
presents the Sheila Landis Trio in con-
tory of the Michigan-born Students for a
cert 8-10 p.m. Saturday, March 31.
GAIL ZIMMERMAN - Democratic Society through interviews with
Vocalist Landis is well known for her
Arts 6- Entertainment
its now middle-aged student radicals, 7:30
scat singing. $12 at the door/$10
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p.m. Monday, April 2, at the Detroit
advance. (248) 333-7849.
Institute of Arts. $6. (313) 833-3237.
On the heels of a successful perform-
ance at this year's Ann Arbor Folk Festival, the four-
piece acoustic band Eddie From Ohio, combining
elements of bluegrass, country, folk and rock, takes
FAMILY
the stage at The Ark in Ann Arbor 7:30 and 9:30
PuppetArt celebrates National Puppetry Month,
p.m. Saturday, March 31. $13.50. (734) 761-1451.
with visiting puppeteers and special performances, sem-
Master pianist and crooner Michael Feinstein per-
inars and talks, 2 p.m. Saturdays March 31-April 28,
forms a benefit concert for Detroit's Music Hall
at Detroit Puppet Theatre, 25 E. Grand River, in
Center for the Performing Arts 8 p.m. Saturday, April
Detroit. Admission: $7 adults/$5 children; seminars:
21, at Music Hall. $25-$60; call (248) 645-6666.
$10 professionals/$7 students. For more information
Premium tickets at $125, including afterglow with
and a complete schedule, call (313) 961-7777.
the artist, also are available; call (313) 963-2366.

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ON THE STAGE

Native Detroiter Ruth Laredo performs at
Orchestra Hall on Thursday.

Pop/RocK/JAzz

The Concert of Colors series presents an evening of
Native American music, with performances by Floyd
Red Crow Westerman, Joanne Shenandoah, Joe Reilley
and Beh'skaabii, 8:30 p.m. Friday, March 30, at Henry
Ford Museum's Lovett Hall in Dearborn. Doors open
7:30 p.m., when a Native American marketplace selling
arts and crafts will be featured. $15. (313) 843-2844.
Ann Arbor's Kerrytown Concert House stages its
second annual CabaretFest 7 and 9:30 p.m.
Saturday, March 31. Each show will open with a U-
M student cabaret, followed by Ann Arbor mezzo
soprano Joan Morris, accompanied by William
Bolcom on piano, performing songs with lyrics by
Yip Harburg. Cabaret singer Wesla Whitfield closes
the show with standards from the "Great American
Popular-Songbook," accompanied by pianist Mike
Greensill. S15-540. Reservations: (734) 769-2999.
Pontiac-Oakland Symphony and Michigan Opera
Theatre's "Broadway Classic Quartet" present an
evening of popular show tunes and American stan-
dards to benefit the symphony as well as math, sci-
ence and art programs for area children, 7:30 p.m.

Wayne State University's Studio Theatre stages
Top Girls, an edgy commentary on feminism, capi-
talism and the female experience, Thursdays-
Saturdays through April 7. Call for show times. $6-
$8. (313) 577-2972.
The University of Michigan Department of
Theatre and Drama mounts an updated version of
William Shakespeare's Measure for Measure 8 p.m.
Thursdays-Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays through
April 8. $151$7 students. (734) 764-0450.
The Heartlande Theatre Company presents its
marathon of 24 new, short plays - by local, regional
and international authors - noon-midnight Saturday,
April 7, at the Studio Theatre in Varner Hall on the
Rochester campus of Oakland University. Plays include
Kitty Dubin's Bye Bye Love, Rich Orloff's Oh Happy
Day and Myron Stein's Louie's One and Only. Tickets,
available at the door, are $20 all-day admission/$5 for
the hour (see four plays). (248) 988-1094, Ext. 1.

DANCE FEVER

Drawing a fine line between high art and high camp,
the world's foremost all-male comic ballet, Les Ballets
Trockaderos de Monte Carlo, visits the Detroit Opera
House 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 11, in a benefit per-
formance for the Midwest AIDS Prevention Project
(MAPP) and SPIN, created at the DOH to promote
an interest in the performing arts within the gay and
lesbian community. Performance only tickets are $20-
$75; call (313) 645-6666. Pre-performance dinner,

THE ART SCENE

Part Ii of the photographic exhibition Portraits of
Honor: Detroit's Holocaust Survivors, featuring
black-and-white photographs by Tom Kirby of sur-
vivors primarily from Hungary, Czechoslovakia,
Romania and Poland, remains on display at the Oak
Park Jewish Community Center through April 22.
To be photographed for this ongoing project, call
Dr. Charles Silow at (248) 356-6668.
Detroit's Elaine Jacob Gallery hosts Horses to
Horsepower: Sixty Years of Advertising Art April 6-
May 25. Opening reception: 5-8 p.m. Friday, April
6. (313) 577-2423.
Nature photographer Art Wolfe presents an illus-
trated lecture, "The Living Wild," 7-9 p.m. Tuesday,
April 3, at Cranbrook Institute of Science.$15-$18.
(248) 645-3230.

WHATNOT

WDET 101.9 begins its annual pledge drive
Friday, March 30, and will return to regularly sched-
uled programming once its goal of $575,000 is
reached. To pledge, call (800) 959-WHET or go to
the Web site at www.wdetfm.org .
The All-New Shrine 2001 Circus comes to the
State Fair Coliseum March 30-April 15. For show
times and ticket information, call (313) 366-6200
or (248) 645-6666.
The Royal Hanneford Circus plays the Palace of
Auburn Hills April 5-8. Call for show times. $5-
$12. (248) 645-6666.

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