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Featuring a blend of world beat, jazz,
Golds takes the stage 8 p.m. Thursdays-
folk, country and pop music, the Dave
Sundays through April 27 at Riverdale
Two sisters — Cantor Lori Corrsin and guitarist
Matthews Band performs 7:30 p.m.
Arts Center, 76 N. Huron, in Ypsilanti.
Helene Rosenberg — perform in concert with
Tuesday, April 23, at the Palace of
$10-$15. (734) 483-7345.
flutist Susan Lazar 3 p.m. Sunday, April 21, at
Auburn Hills. $46.50. (248) 645-6666.
With music and new lyrics by Jewish com-
Temple Kol Ami in West Bloomfield. Works by
Jazz vocalist Kathy Kosins appears in
poser Steven Schwartz, Godspell, the award-
Gershwin, Rachmaninoff and Villa-Lobos,
concert 8 p.m. Friday, April 26, at
winning rock 'n' roll musical retelling of the
Sephardic songs and Renaissance music will be fea-
Oakland Community College's Highland
last seven days of the life of Jesus, closes out
tured. Limited tickets available at the door.
Lakes Campus in the student center
the season at Meadow Brook Theatre
The Birmingham Bloomfield Symphony Orchestra
arena. $10. (248) 942-3241.
Wednesdays-Sundays, April 24-May 19. Call
presents A Family Affair, a concert for the entire family
GAR ZIMMERMAN
The Windsor/Detroit ja77 Club presents
for show times. $17-$38. (248) 370-3316.
Arts c" Entertainment
honoring 2002 Young Artist Competition winners, 7
a Tribute to Benny Goodman, with Paul
A woman with a past meets a man with-
Editor
p.m. Sunday, April 21, at Temple Beth El in Bloomfield
Keller's Bird of Paradise Orchestra and
out a future in the mystery Dirty Little
Township. $25 adults/children
clarinetist Jim Wyse as Goodman,
Stories, created by Walk & Squawk Co-
free; tickets available at the door.
3 p.m. Sunday, April 28, at Temple Beth El in
Artistic Directors Hilary Ramsden and Erika Block,
(248) 645-2276.
Bloomfield Township. Dancing in the aisles
8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 4 p.m. Sundays,
The Detroit Symphony
and refreshments at intermission. For advance
through May 12, at Detroit's Furniture Factory. (313)
Civic Sinfonia, comprised of
tickets, at $15, call Bill Knowles, (248) 476-
832-8890.
105 teen musicians from
2674.
Shakespeare Improv, a- spontaneous melding of the
throughout the Detroit area,
Bard's work with modern-day comedy, caps off a gala
performs 7:30 p.m. Sunday,
ON THE STAGE
fund-raiser for Water Works Theatre Company and
April 21, at Detroit's Orchestra
its summer production of The Taming of the Shrew
Macomb Center for the Performing Arts
Hall. Free. (313) 576-5111.
Friday, April 26, at Royal Oak's Farmer's Market on
hosts a female version of Neil Simons The
Macomb Center for the
11 Mile Road. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. with food
Odd Couple, starring Barbara Eden and
Performing Arts presents the
and drink. $50/$60 at the door. (248) 988-1359.
Rita McKenzie, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, 8
New York Gilbert and Sullivan
The Windsor/Detroit Jazz
p.m. Friday and 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday,
Players in a production of
Club presents a M Tribute to
DANCE FEVER
April 25-27. $22-$55. (810) 286-2222.
H.M.S. Pinafore 7:30 p.m.
Benny Goodman," pictured,
The Purple Rose Theatre Company stages
New choreography by Jessica Fogel and Whitley
Tuesday, April 23. $22-$40.
April 28 at Temple Beth El.
Garson Kanin's comedy Born Yesterday —
Setrakian
will be featured in Contemporary Creations:
(810) 286-2222.
the film version won Jewish actress Judy
The
Very
Best of Modern Dance 2 p.m. Sunday, April
Flutist Maarika Jarvi makes her Detroit
Holliday a Best Actress Oscar — Wednesdays-Sundays
21,
in
the
Maggie
Allesee Studio Theatre, on the third
Symphony Orchestra debut under the direction of
through June 15 at the company's newly renovated
floor
of
Old
Main,
at Wayne State University.
her father, DSO conductor Neeme Jarvi, with the
home in Chelsea. Call for show times. $22.50-$32.50.
Afterglow
follows
performance.
$10-$15/$10 after-
U.S. premiere of the concerto Chant of the Celestial
(734) 433-7673.
glow.
Tickets
available
at
the
door.
(248) 689-4084.
Lake, written for her by Estonian composer Peeter
Jonathan Tolins' wrenching tale of the unraveling
Detroit
Dance
Collective's
annual
spring dance
Vahi, 8 p.m. Thursday, 1:30 and 8 p.m. Friday and
of a close-knit Jewish family, The Twilight of the
concert,
geared
especially
toward
families,
features
8:30 p.m. Saturday, April 25-27, at Orchestra Hall.

CLASSICAL

Works by Barber, Mozart and Haydn round out the
program. $16-$54. (313) 576-5111.
Oakland University's Community Chorus per-
forms Mendelssohn's Elijah, directed by Frederic
DeHaven, 8 p.m. Friday, April 26, at Varner Recital
Hall on the OU campus. $5-$10. (248) 645-6666.

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At the Ark in Ann Arbor, singer/songwriter and
comic observer Christine Lavin takes the stage 8
p.m. Saturday, April 20, $15; fast-rising roots-music
singer/songwriter Patty Griffin appears 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, April 21, $25; Waterson:Carthy, the first
family of British folk music, performs 8 p.m.
Wednesday, April 24, $15; Saffire — The Uppity
Blues Women, lead by pianist Anne Rabson, pay
tribute to the early days of blues 8 p.m. Thursday,
April 25, $17.50; and the Austin Lounge Lizards,
with former Southfielder Boo Resnick, showcase
their satirical bluegrass 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 26,
$15. (734) 761-1451.
Macomb Center for the Performing Arts hosts the
ja77y big band sounds of the Glenn Miller Orchestra 3
p.m. Sunday, April 21. $13-$40. (810) 286-2222.

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s shows at Detroit's C-POP Gallery.

SUZANNE CHESSLER

Special to the Jewish News

lthough jazz guitarist
Roni Ben-Hur is about to
make his first appearance
in Michigan, his performance will
carry some Michigan roots. Ben-
Hui-, who grew up in Israel and
did some instrumental self-teach-
ing there, studied in New York
with a former Detroiter, bebop
pianist Barry Harris.
Ben-Hur will join another jazz
guitarist, Spencer Barefield, for
two musical evenings, April 26

and 27, at the CPOP Gallery in
Detroit. The collaboration will
be the first for the musicians
who were introduced by a
mutual colleague, trumpet play-
er Marcus 13elgrave.
"Well do a mixmre of won-
derfill material from the jazz
.
repertore,
i some Gershwin,
Berlin and Ellington," says Ben-
I-Jur, 39, who also does a bit of
composing and has recorded with
various instrumentalists, starting
with Harris. "I think the guitar
has a lot of depth harmonically
and rhythmically and offers a

Roni Ben-HUT:
"We'll do a
mixture of
wonelerfiil
material
fi•0111 the jazz:
repertoire,
some Gershwin,
Berlin and
Ellington."

wealth of musical opportunities."
Ben-Hur, voted "Best New Talent"
in the Jazziz Readers Poll 2000,
knew he loved jazz when he vas still
in Israel. His initiation into ja77 came

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