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The JCC Choir performs a concert titled Passover:
Celebration of Freedom 4 p.m. Sunday, March 31, at
Temple Emanu-El in Oak Park. The program will
include Yiddish and Hebrew songs, as well as Lira, a
vocal trio featuring Larisa Matusova, Ida Kogan and
Rivka Latinsky. $3; tickets are available at the Oak
Park JCC. (248) 967-4030.
Two ensembles join forces for an evening of mixed
chamber music 8 p.m. Friday, April 5, at the
Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor. University Musical
Society hosts pianist Joseph Kalichstein, violinist
Jaime Laredo and cellist Sharon Robinson of the
Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio and the Emerson
String Quartet in a concert featuring works by
Beethoven, Wolf, Schoenberg and Brahms. $20-$36.
(734) 764-2538.
Birmingham Temple's Vivace Series presents the
Sonnet Quartet, featuring DSO violinists Hai Xin Wu
and Kimberly Kaloyanides Kennedy, DSO violist
Glenn Mellow and cellist Sarah Cleveland of the
Toledo Symphony, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 7, at the
temple in Farmington Hills. All
artists-in-residence at Oakland
University, the musicians will
perform chamber works by
Mozart, Hindemith and
Brahms. $15
members/seniors/students; $18
nonmembers. (248) 788-9338
or (248) 661-1348.

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admission/$7 senior adults. An Ann Arbor
festival pass is $42; single tickets are $8 gen-
Hamtramck's Planet Ant Theatre pres-
eral admission/$7 seniors. For information
ents. Brad Pomerance's The Elephant
about Ann Arbor screenings, call (734) 971-
Man, the true story of 19th-century
0990. For brochure, advance single or series
Briton John Merrick who is alienated from
tickets or sponsorship information, call the
society because of a disfiguring and debili-
JCC Life and Learning Department, (248)
tating illness and taken under the wing of
432-5577.
a London surgeon, 8 p.m. Thursdays-
Spike and Mike's 2001 ClassicFestival of
Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays, April 5-28.
Animation, featuring 16 of the most inven-
$10-$15. (313) 365-4948.
GAIL ZINIMERNIAN
tive new animated works from around the
Arts 6. Entertainment
world,
comes to the Detroit Film Festival at
Editor
the
DIA
this weekend. Screenings are 7 and
DANCE FEVER
9:30 p.m. Friday; 4, 7 and 9:30 p.m.
American Ballet Theatre returns to the Detroit
Saturday; and 1, 4 and 7 p.m. Sunday, March 29-31.
Opera House with Le Corsaire, based on The Corsaire
$6. (313) 833-3237.
by Lord Byron, a tale of love, betrayal, abduction and
murder, 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday,
April 4-7. $17-$75. (313) 237-7464.
THE SMALL SCREEN
The show that catapulted Irish dancing into the
Detroit Public Television broadcasts Resistance:
global spotlight, Michael Flatley's Lord of the
Untold
Stories of Jewish Partisans, a documentary
Dance, comprised of Irish dance champions from
taking
a
look at heroic Jewish resistance efforts against
around the world, takes the stage 8 p.m. Friday, 2
the
Nazis
and their collaborators during World War II,
and 8 p.m. Saturday
10
p.m.
Thursday,
April 4, on Channel 56. Check
and 1 and 6 p.m.
your
local
listings.
Sunday, April 5-7, at
Detroit's Fox Theatre.
$15.75-$60.75. (248)
FAMILY FUN
433-1515.
Macomb Center for the Performing Arts hosts a
production of Stuart Little, E.B. White's endearing
classic tale about a mouse named Stuart, 7 p.m. Friday
LAUGH
and Saturday, April 5-6. $10. (586) 286-2222.

ON THE STAGE

LINES

"I just want to find
The Ark in Ann Arbor hosts
out what the rest of
Sons of the Never Wrong,
the country is up to,"
Chicago's answer to Peter, Paul
said comedian/actor
& Mary, 7:30 p.m. Saturday,
and Country Day
The Sonnet Quartet performs at Birmingham Temple.
March 30, $12.50; contempo-
alumnus Robin
rary singer/songwriter Dar
Williams, set to
Williams, 8 p.m. Monday, April 1, $25; and Beat poet
embark on his first standup tour in 15 years. He
songwriter and spoke folk artist Annie Gallup, 7:30
performs 7:30 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday, April
p.m. Friday, April 5, $12.50. (734) 761-1451.
2-3, at Detroit's Fox Theatre. Explicit content/under
The "Classic Soul Tour 2002", featuring a
18 not advised. $59.50-$82.50. (248) 433-1515.
Temptations Review with Dennis Edwards, the Mays
and the Dramatics, takes the stage at Detroit's Fox
THE BIG SCREEN
Theatre 7 p.m. Sunday, March 31. $49-$77. (248)
Single tickets and season passes are on sale now for
433-3279.
the fourth annual Jewish Community Center Lenore
The legendary Ray Charles performs 7:30 p.m.
Marwil Jewish Film Festival, which takes place April
Monday, April 1, at Macomb Center for the
28-May 5 at the United Artists Commerce 14 and the
Performing Arts, $22-$50, (586) 286-2222; and again
Birmingham 8, and May 5-8 at the Michigan Theater
as part of Detroit's Music Hall Center for the
in Ann Arbor. A by-invitation-only reception for spon-
Performing Arts' American Masters Series 8 p.m.
sors and invited guests will be held April 25; sponsor-
Thursday, April 4; $25-$75. (313) 963-2366.
Bassist Tony Levin appears 8 p.m. Thursday, April
ship opportunities are available. Season passes for the
Detroit portion of the festival are $89 general admis-
4, at Ferndale's Magic Bag. $18 advance/$20 day of.
(248) 544-3030.
sion/$79 senior adults. Single tickets are $8 general

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THE ART SCENE

Jewish-American sculptor Louise Nevelson (1900-
1988) was in her 60s before she was recognized as a
leading artist. Lacking money for materials, she began
using wood and junk left on the streets of New York
City to create her innovative environmental art. The
Detroit Institute of Arts presents the video Nevelson in
Process, showing Nevelson completing two sculptures,
one in wood and one in metal, 2 p.m. Sunday, March
31, in the Holley Room. Free. (313) 833-4249.

WHATNOT

Author of Holy Wt7; Inc.: Inside the World of Osama
bin Laden, Peter Bergen speaks 7:30 p.m. Thursday,
April 4, at Wharton Center in East Lansing. Free to
the public. (517) 432-2000.
On consecutive Sunday afternoons from 2-3:30
p.m., beginning April 7, Cranbrook presents a five-
week Heritage Lecture Series about the 315-acre gem
located in Bloomfield Hills. The fee is $5 per lecture.
Those individuals wishing to become Cranbrook
docents will attend a post-lecture discussion session as
part of their training. For details, call (248) 645-3149.

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