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The Fleisher-Jolley-Tree Trio, featuring Leon
Fleisher on piano, David Jolley on horn and Michael
Tree-on violin, takes the stage at the Seligman
Performing Arts Center in Beverly Hills 8 p.m.
Saturday, April 27, in a Chamber Music Society of
Detroit concert. In April 2000, Fleisher became the first
living pianist to be inducted into the Classical Music
Hall of Fame. $18-$67/$15 students. (248) 737-9980.
Detroit Chamber Wmds and Strings presents
Springtime Souvenirs, inspired by Tchaikovsky's
Souvenir de Florence, the string sextet that opens the pro-
gram, 4 p.m. Sunday, April 28, at Birmingham
Unitarian Church, and 3 p.m. Sunday, May 5, at Christ
Church Grosse Pointe. $10-$22. (248) 559-2095.
Gustav Mahler's six-movement Song of the Earth,
considered by many to be his greatest masterpiece,
will be the highlight of Detroit Symphony Orchestra
concei-ts 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday and 8:30'p.m.
Saturday, May 2-4, at Orchestra Hall. Vocalists Ewa
Podles and Dean Griffey join the DSO. The con-
cert's opening work is Mahler's arrange-
. ment of Beethoven's String Quartet No.
11. The Friday night concert will be
preceded by a discussion, starting at
6:30 p.m., with Dr. David Pickett, a
Mahler scholar, and DSO Conducting
Assistant Charles Greenwell; free to tick-
et holders. $20-$54. (313) 576-5111.

May 1. $26.75. (248) 645-6666.
Fleetwood Mac guitarist Peter Green
and the Splinter Group visit Ferndale's
Magic Bag Friday, May 3. Doors at 8
p.m. $25. (248) 544-3030.
Vocalist Linda Eder, wife of composer
Frank Wildhorn, performs 7:30 p.m.
Friday, May 3, at the Michigan Theater
in Ann Arbor. $35. (248) 645-6666.

10 a.m., 1 and 3:30 p.m. Saturday, May 3-
4. $10. (810) 286-2222.
Greenfield Village presents Spring Farm
Days 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays
through May 12. $10-$16/under 5 free.
(313) 271-1620.

THE ART SCENE

The Janice Charach Epstein Gallery at
the West Bloomfield Jewish Community
GAIL ZIMMERMAN
Center hosts Celebrate, an exhibit of the
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Arts el: Entertainment
works
of 22 Michigan artists commemo-
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the
10th anniversary of the gallery,
Riverdance returns to Detroit for eight
May 2-June 27. Opening reception: 6:30-
performances April 30-May 5 at the Fox Theatre.
8 p.m. Thursday, May 2. (248) 432-5448.
Call for show times. $18-$63. (248) 433-1515.
Ferndale's Au Courant Design Studio and Gallery
The Mt. Zion Theatre Company presents Oscar
presents
"Small Scale," a showing of works of sculptor
Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest 8 p.m.
"Lois
Teicher,
April 27-June 1. Opening reception: 5-7
Thursdays-Saturdays, May 2-18, at the Mt. Zion
p.m.
Saturday,
April 27. (248) 548-3770.
Performing Arts Center, 4453 Clintonville Road,
The Ann Arbor National Spring Art Show takes
Waterford. $7-$10. (248) 391-6166.
place 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Mosaic Youth Theatre presents Heart Beat!, a new
Sunday,
April 27-28, at the U-M Indoor Track
musical about love, hate and rhythm loosely based on
Building,
on State Street behind Yost Arena. (330)
a play by Aristophanes, Thursdays-
896-9498.
Sundays, May 2-5, at Music Hall
Porcelain artist Elizabeth Lurie, one of 125 artists
Center in Detroit, and June 20-23, at
selected this year to exhibit her works in the
Performance Network in Ann Arbor.
Smithsonian Craft Show, holds a 30th-anniversary
For show times and ticket informa-
open house, with guest artist Carolyn. Dulin,.at her
tion, call (313) 872-6910.
Farmington Hills home. Hours are 11 a.m.-7 p.m.
Ridgedale Players mount a produc-
Friday and 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, May 3-4. (248)
tion of Alex Gottlieb's comedy Wake
851-1732.
Up, Darling, about an actress who
gets cast in her first professional play
WHATNOT
"Solid as a rock" singing/songwriting
and the young playwright who falls in
duo Ashford and Simpson perform 8
Get your aura read and more 11 a.m.-8 p.m.
love with her, 8 p.m. Fridays and
p.m. Saturday, April 27, at Music Hall
Saturday, April 27, at the Body-Mind-Spirit Festival
Saturdays and 2 p.m.. Sundays, May
at the Macomb Community College Sports & Expo
Center for the Performing Arts. $25-
3-19. $11-$12. (248) 988-7049.
Pianist/cond uctor Leon
Center, 12 Mile Road and Hayes, in Warren. $5.
$40. (313) 963-2366.
Fleisher perfo rms Saturday
Gordon Lightfoot takes the stage 8
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THE BIG SCREEN
in a Chamb er Music
p.m. Saturday, April. 27, at the
The city of Berkley presents On the Road, its
The Last Waltz, Martin Scorsese's
Society of De troit Concert.
Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor.
2002 ice show, 7 p.m. Friday,. 12:30 and 6:30 p.m.
documentary about the Band's 1976
$37.50-$42.50. (248) 645-6666.
Saturday and 1:30 p.m. Sunday, May 3-5, at the
Thanksgiving
farewell concert, fea-
The Novi Concert Band, under the direction of
Berkley Ice Arena. $4-$7. (248) 546-2460.
tures Jewish rockers Bob Dylan, Robbie Robertson
The Junior League of Detroit hosts a Designers'
Jack Kopnick, presents its spring concert 7:30 p.m.
Neil Diamond and a slew of others. It opens Friday,
Show House Premiere Gala and Silent Auction
Sunday, April 28, at the Novi Civic Center, 45175
April 26, at the Birmingham 8. Check your local
beginning 5 p.m. Saturday, April 27, on the grounds
10 Mile Road. Free.
movie listings.
Maynard Ferguson and his Big Bop Nouveau
of the show house, 41 Provencal Road in Grosse
Pointe Farms. The 8,600-square-foot home was
Band perform a benefit concert for the Walled Lake
THE SMALL SCREEN
designed by Albert Kahn in 1906, and opens to the
Western Band and Orchestra Boosters 8 p.m.
public for tours May 4-27. Gala and tour: $60/regu-
Tuesday, April 30, in the Walled Lake Western High
Secrets of the Sequence, broadcast 1 p.m. Sundays
School Auditorium, 600 Beck Road, north of
lar tours: $15/$20 if purchased after May 3. (313)
on Channel 56, airs "The Genetics of Scent," featur-
Pontiac Trail. $20/limited seating. (248) 354-6311.
881-0040.
ing Israeli scientist Eran Pichersky, who currently
Bringing his "Driving USA" tour to the Palace of
Author Doreen Cronin and illustrator Betsey
works at the University of Michigan, Sunday, April
Lewin visit the Detroit area on Friday, May 2, to
Auburn Hills 8 p.m. Wednesday, May 1, is Paul
28. Victor/Harder Productions is the Midwest field
McCartney, who'll sing tributes to John Lennon,
promote their new children's book, Giggle, Giggle,
producer of the series.
George Harrison and his late wife, Linda. $52.50-
Quack. They'll be at the Book Beat in Oak Park,
$252.50. (248) 645-6666.
9:30-11:30
a.m., (248) 968-1190; and at the
FAMILY FuN
Rusted Root brings its rootsy sound to the stage of
Elizabeth
Stone
Gallery in Birmingham, 1-3 p.m.,
Macomb Center for the Performing Arts hosts the
Ann Arbor's Michigan Theater 7:30 p.m. Wednesday,
(248)
647-7040.
Russian American Kids Circus 7 p.m. Friday and

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