CLASSICAL NOTES

Violinist Movses Pogossian and pianist Pauline
Martin play works by Brahms and Mozart 11:30
a.m. Sunday, June 9, in a Brunch with Bach con-
cert at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Brunch and
concert: $22/$11 children under 12; concert only:
$5. (313) 833-4005.
Cellist Nadine Deleury, violinist Velda Kelly and
pianist Michelle Cooker perform 7:30 p.m.
Monday, June 10, at the West Bloomfield Jewish
Community Center in a tribute to the late Irving
Ritter, longtime assistant director of the Institute
for Retired Professionals. Free and open to the pub-
lic. (248) 661-1000.
Martin Mandlebaum directs the all-women Bel
Canto Choral Group in a concert of light classi-
cal, light opera and .show tunes 8 p.m. Monday,
June 10, at Temple Emanu-El in Oak Park. Free.
(313) 640-0123.
Bass virtuoso Edgar Meyer is known for his virtu-
osity as both a classical and bluegrass musician.
He'll perform his own Concerto in D for Double Bass
with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra 8 p.m.
Friday, 8:30 p.m. Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday, June
14-16, at the Detroit Opera House (while Orchestra
Hall undergoes renovation). The DSO also per-
forms Dvorak's Symphony No. 7. $16-$54. Meyer
joins mandolinist Mike Marshall in a DSO-spon-
sored "Informance" - a performance and discus-
sion of the seemingly unlikely marriage of classical
and bluegrass - 8 p.m. Thursday, June 13, at the
Seligman Family Performing Arts Center in Beverly
Hills. Larry McDaniel of WDET's Arkansas Traveler
hosts. $18-$27. (313) 576-5111.

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Folk singers/songwriters Indigo Girls perform
7:30 p.m. Saturday, June 8, at DTE Energy Music
Theatre. $18-$35. (248) 645-6666.
Detroit native Marshall CrenShaw includes songs
from his latest CD,- I've Suffered for My Art ... Now
It's Your Turn, during a performance at The Ark in
Ann Arbor, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, June 9. $16. (734)
761-1451.
Alternative pop/punk bands Blink-182 and Green
Day take the stage 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 11, at
the Palace of Auburn Hills. $35. (248) 645-6666.
Crossing borders between jazz, soul and folk-
based pop, newcomer Norah Jones takes the stage 9
p.m. Friday, June 14, at Detroit's Gem Theatre.
Doors at 8 p.m. $22. (248) 645-6666.

ON THE STAGE

Hamtramck's Planet Ant Theatre stages a modern-
day version of William Shakespeare's Henry V,
directed by veteran Detroit actor Robert Grossman,
who also takes a role in the production, 8 p.m.
Thursdays-Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays through
June 23. $10-$15. (313) 365-4948, Ext. 1.

THE BIG SCREEN

Orchestra Is Here to Stay," featuring the
children's singing duo Gemini, 4 p.m.
Sunday, June 9, at Southfield Centre for
the Arts. $3-$5. (248) 569-9420.

Silvio: A Story of Art and Pizza pre-
mieres Friday, June 7, in the Cranbrook
Art Museum Auditorium, with showings
at 8 and 9 p.m. The 30-minute docu-
THE ART SCENE
mentary, capturing the eccentricities of
Ann Arbor's Washington Street Gallery
Redford pizza maker and folk artist Sivio
presents
"Recent Paintings: Explorations
Barile, and shot locally and in Italy, was
in Color and Form," featuring the
created by Detroit filmmakers Matt
GAIL ZIMMERMAN
abstract acrylic paintings of Ann Arbor
Cantu, John Prusak and Kathy Vander.
Arts &Entertaiwneut
artist Julie Karabenick, through July 6.
$10/includes afterglow at 9:15 p.m.
Editor
Opening reception: 7-9 p.m. Friday, June
(248) 542-8935.
7.
(734) 761-2287.
Ann Arbor's Michigan Theater presents Wings,
The
10th
annual
IRP Photo-Art Show, an annual
William Wellman's 1927 silent epic of World War I
exhibit
staged
by
the
Photography Group of the
flying aces and the first winner of the Academy
Institute
for
Retired
Professionals,
opens in the
Award for Best Picture, with live orchestral accompa-
lobby
of
the
West
Bloomfield
Jewish
Community
niment by the Michigan Sinfonietta, 8 p.m. Saturday,
Center Sunday, June 9, and remains on display
June 8. Reserved seating: $10. (734) 763-8287.
through Friday, June 21. (248) 661-1000. The
exhibit
moves to the Oak Park JCC Monday, June
THE SMALL SCREEN
24-Friday, July 5. (248) 967-4030.
AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Passions, counting down
America's greatest motion picture romances, airs 8-
WHATNOT
11 p.m. Tuesday, June 11, on CBS.
The Historic Indian Village Home and Garden
Tour
opens eight residences to the public Saturday,
FAMILY FUN
June 8. For more information, call the hotline at
The Southfield Philharmonic presents "The
(313) 922-0911.

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ROTE REVERSAL

Bloomfield and Tony n'
Tinas Wedding at the Baci
Henrietta Herrnelin jokes about
Theatre in Pontiac. A
being struck by "red lightening"
member of the Shaarey
when people ask the reason for her
Zedek Sisterhood, she
new hair colon Actually, its a string
also has packed meals for
of footliglits that transformed her
Yad Ezra.
trademark brunette locks.
"I rarely find a play where
Hermelin had to dye the top of
I cannot make a personal
her hair bright red for her part as
LO to right: Henrietta Hermelin, Nina
connection, and I certainly
one of the Mamas in Red Hot
IG7-chen Lynch Travis and Jennifer Jones in
can
identify with the rela-
Mamas, the David Christner
"Red Hot Mamas."
tionships in this one,"
comedy running through June 23
Hermelin says.
at Detroit Repertory Theatre.
the roof a bit by taking on some
"I love being at Detroit
The play, in its American pre-
teenage characteristics, making
Repertory Theatre. They're color
miere, is about two widows who
demands, fighting and assuming
blind in selecting their cast, and
move in with their grown chil-
some new freedoms.
it would be much easier if the
dren, after the couple's own
More complications arise as
world functioned like that."
grown children move out. Harry
rules are established by their chil-
Suzanne Chessler
Wetzel is the director.
dren, played by Nina Kircher and
"I play a woman twice wid
Lynch Travis.
Red Hot Mamas runs
owed and very active, but she
"Each mother acts on the other
doesn't want to marry again,''
through June 23 at Detroit
as they live together," Hermelin
Repertory
Theatre, 13103
explains Hermelin, of Southfield,
explains. "The other mother
last seen in the theater's produc-
Woodrow
Wilson.
Curtain
(Jennifer Jones) is grappling with
tion of Still Waters.
times
are
8:30
p.m.
a problem, and my character
"The truth is that when push
Thursdays-Fridays, 3 and
pushes her to confront it."
8:30 p.m. Saturdays and 2
comes to shove, my character is
Hermelin has performed in
very lonely."
and 7:30 p.m. Sundays. $15.
many area productions, includ-
(313) 868-1347.
After the Mamas become part
ing Dear Esther for the Jewish
of the same h
bold, they raise
Ensemble Theatre in West
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