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CLASSICAL NOTES
Veteran jazzman Chick Corea performs
with his new trio 9 p.m. Friday, May 18,
at the Royal Oak Music Theatre. $35.
(248) 645-6666.
Jazz harpist Christa Grix will be
joined by a bassist and a percussionist
7:30 p.m. Sunday, May 20, at Temple
Emanu-El in Oak Park, in a program
featuring classical, blues, popular and
Judaic music. $25/includes hors d'oeu-
vres, music and dessert afterglow.
Reservations: (248) 967-4020.
Michigan Opera Theatre presents four
evening performances and two matinees
of Giuseppe Verdi's comic opera Falstaff,
based on Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of
Windsor, May12-20 at t'-e Detroit Opera
House. Call for performance times. $18-
$98. (313; 237-7464.
The Zamir Chorale of Metropolitan
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bration of the Jewish home featuring the
adult chorale, guest soprano Jennifer
Goltz and the Zamir Children's Chorus, 3:30 p.m.
ON THE STAGE
Sunday, May 13, at Temple Emanu-El in Oak Park.
SRO Productions stages Paul Zindel's The Secret
Free of charge. (248) 901-3400 or (248) 543-1848.
Affairs of Mildred Wild - a comedy about a
Michigan Chamber Symphony Orchestra conduc-
woman who has escaped into a dream world con-
tor Dai Uk Lee leads his ensemble in an all-
jured up by the 3,000 movies she's devoured - 8
Beethoven program, including a performance of the
p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays, May
Ninth Symphony, 8 p.m. Wednesday, May 16, at
11-27, at the church in the city of Southfield's Burgh
Orchestra Hall. $15-$50. (313) 576-5111.
Historical Park. $8-$10. (248) 827-0710.
Metropolitan Opera star Deborah Voigt makes
University of Michigan's Festival of New
her Detroit Symphony Orchestra debut singing
Works, a series of script-in-hand staged read-
excerpts from Richard Strauss' Salome 8 p.m. Friday,
ings, continues 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday,
8:30 p.m. Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday, May 18-20,
May 18-19. Ann Arbor's Trueblood Theatre
at Orchestra Hall. $15-$52. (313) 576-5111.
presents playwright Leslie Lee's Jingles and a
Broken Tongue; $8. The Arena Theatre stages
two one-act plays, Angela Zuck's For Fear of
Love, For Love of Fear and David Roth's
Jazz drummer Elvin Jones performs with his band
Chipslips; free. (734) 763-TKTS.
Jazz Machine 8 p.m. Friday, May 11, in an
Ameritech Paradise Jazz Series concert at Orchestra
Hall. $16-$62. (313) 576-5111.
THE BIG SCREEN
Jazz pianist/composer Fred Hersch celebrates his
The Detroit Film Theatre at the Detroit Institute of
new three-CD collection, Songs Without Words, fea-
Arts
presents director Jafar Panahi's The Circle, focus-
turing original compositions and works by Ellington,
ing
on
the lives of several women in contemporary
Monk, Mingus and Cole Porter, 8 p.m. Saturday,
Iran
and
their search for a sense of self, 7 and 9:30
May 12, at Ann Arbor's Kerrytown Concert House.
p.m.
Friday;
4, 7 and 9:30 p.m. Saturday; and 1, 4
$10-$25. Reservations: (734) 769-2999.
and
7
p.m.
Sunday,
May 11-13. $6. (313) 833-3237.
Donny Osmond launches his first worldwide con-
The Classic Cinema Series at the Southfield
cert tour in more than 10 years, in support of his
Centre for the Arts screens Casablanca 7 p.m.
new Broadway album, This Is the Moment, 8 p.m.
Friday, May 18. $3; includes light refreshments.
Saturday, May 12, at Detroit's Fox Theatre. $37-
(248) 424-9022.
$52. (248) 433-1515.
Kevin Sands and a 12-piece big band perform A
Tribute to Frank Sinatra 6 p.m. Sunday, May 13, at
FAMILY
Southfield Centre for the Arts. $10. (248) 478-8267
or (248) 424-9022.
The Detroit News Young People's Concerts pres-
The "Moondoggie" of the Gidget movies, James
ents Gone with the Winds, with the Detroit
Darren will be joined in concert by '50s teen idol
Symphony Orchestra at Orchestra Hall and works
Bobby Ryden 3 and 7 p.m. Sunday, May 13, at
by Dukas, Rimsky-Korsakov and more, 11 a.m.
Macomb Center for the . 'erforming Arts. $26-$32.
Saturday, May 11. $8-$23. (313) 576-5111.
Blues Clues Live!, an interactive theatrical Produe-
(810) 286-2222.
Singer/songwriter Dar Williams takes the stage at
tion based on the television series, comes to Detroit's
Ann Arbor's The Ark 8 p.m. Monday, May 14. $25.
Fox Theatre Wednesday-Sunday, May 16-20. Call for
show times. $18.50-$29.50. (248) 433-1515.
(734) 761-1451.
THE ART SCENE
The Scarab Club in Detroit hosts an opening
reception for Vida Y' Puentes (Life and Bridges):
The Art of Pablo Davis 2-8 p.m. Saturday, May 12.
Donation: $20; benefits the Intergenerational
Center in southwest Detroit. The show continues
through May 25. Davis is the last living associate
who helped Diego Rivera paint his famous "Detroit
Industry" mural at the DIA. (313) 895-8460.
The Center for Creative Studies-College of Art
and Design opens its 2001 Student Exhibition and
Sale with a patrons preview 5-6 p.m. and a public
preview 6-9 p.m. Friday, May 12. Tickets: (313)
664-7464. The exhibition is open free to the public
10 a.m.-4 p.m. weekdays and noon-5 p.m. week-
ends May 12-27. (313) 664-7560.
Through May 27 the University of Michigan
Museum of Art hosts Paradise Now: Picturing the
Genetic Revolution, co-curated by Marvin
Heiferman and exploring artists' reactions to genetic
discoveries. (734) 764-0395.
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The Museum of African American History presents
Detroit Collects Mayhew, an exhibition of abstract
expressionist landscape paintings by Richard Mayhew,
through Sept. 16. The artist will attend a reception
on May 15 and conduct a workshop the following
day. For scheduled times, call (313) 494-5800, Ext. 0.
WHATNOT
The Motor City Comic Con, appealing to collec-
tors and fans of science fiction, classic TV, comic
books, role playing games and more, comes to the
Novi Expo Center 1-8 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m.-7 p.m.
Saturday and 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday, May 18-20.
$15 per day/three-day passes are $30 in advance,
$35 at the door. (248) 426-8059.
Dolls & Friends of Royal Oak displays hundreds
of antique, vintage and modern collectible dolls and
accessories for sale, as well as appraisals, 10 a.m.-3
p.m. Sunday, May 20, at the Sterling Inn, 34911 Van
Dyke, in Warren. $3/under 12 free. (248) 399-4345.
Author Henry Gleisner signs copies of his Holocaust
memoir, Defying the Fates: The Remarkable Story of a Jew
Who Survived in Nazi Europe, 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 15, at
Barnes & Noble in West Bloomfield. (248) 626-6804.
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