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CLASSICAL NOTES

The Detroit Symphony Orchestra, with guest
conductor Lawrence Renes and Ramon Parcells on
trumpet, performs Mozart's Symphony No. 36,
Haydn's Trumpet Concerto and Beethoven's
Symphony No. 6 ("Pastoral") 8 p.m. Friday, 8:30
p.m. Saturday and 3. p.m. Sunday, Nov. 29-Dec. 1,
at Orchestra Hall. $15-$56. (313) 576-5111.
Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli takes the stage 7:30
p.m. Sunday, Dec. 1, at the Palace of Auburn Hills.
He'll be accompanied by the World Festival
Symphony conducted by Steven Mercurio, a
favorite at the Michigan Opera Theatre; soprano
Maria Luigia Borsi; and violinist Lidia Baich. $55-
$350. (248) 645-6666.

ROCK/POP /JAZZ/FOLK

Smog, featuring former Detroiter Beth Yates on
flute and keyboards, performs Friday, Nov. 29, at
Detroit's Magic Stick. Doors at 8 p.m. $10.
(313) 833-9700.
Grateful Dead veterans Mickey Hart, Bill
Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh and Bob Weir reunite as
The Other Ones, also featuring Rob Barraco, Jeff
Chimenti and Jimmy Herring, 7:30 p.m. Saturday,
Nov. 30, at the Palace of A uburn Hills. $45. (248)
645-6666.
Ann Arbor folk artist Dick Siegel returns to The
Ark in Ann Arbor 8 p.m. Monday, Dec. 2. $13.50.
(734) 761-1451.
Considered a rock visionary, Peter Gabriel, out with
a new CD called UP, tours to the Palace of Auburn
Hills 8 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 3. His band includes Tony
Levin on bass. $45-$125. (248) 645-6666.
The Contours, featuring original members Joe
Billingslea and Sylvester Potts, bring the sounds of
Motown to Temple Beth El in Bloomfield
Township 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 14. General
admission: $18; patron tickets with afterglow: $50.
(248) 851-1100.

Cincinnati Ballet, with 11 performances
Dec. 5-15. Choreographed by San
Francisco Ballet's Val Caniparoli, the
production will highlight more than 100
local children. Call for show times. $14-
$60. (313) 237-SING.

THE ART SCENE

Rebecca Shore, an Israeli artist, brings
Art from the Heart of Jerusalem, specializ-
ing in Jewish children's artwork, to the
lobby of the Jewish Community Center in
Oak Park now through December. Her
brightly colored, signed prints and litho-
THE BIG SCREEN
graphs,
mezuzot and picture frames feature
The Detroit Film Theater screens War
her
passion
for Judaism. For a preview of
Photographer, an Oscar-nominated doc- GAIL ZIMMERMAN
her
work,
go
to www.rebeccashore.com .
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Entertainment
For
more
information,
call the JCC, (248)
Editor
Nachtwey, who has been present at the
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center of virtually every world conflict
Meadow Brook Art Gallery presents
over the past 20 years, 7:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 2,
Detroit
Drawing:
Works on Paper by Nancy Patek,
at the Detroit Institute of Arts. $6. (313) 833-3237.
a series of meditative reflections on vanishing
aspects of urban Detroit observed and remembered,
FAMILY FUN
through Dec. 22. Artist's talk: 5 p.m. Wednesday,
Gemini, the duo of identical twin brothers San.
Dec. 4. (248) 370-3005.
and Las Slomovits, showcase rhythms of the world
and their own compositions in a benefit for Mott
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Children's Hospital 1 and 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 1, at
Two-time Caldecott Medal winner Chris Van
The Ark in Ann Arbor. Their new album, The
Allsburg
autographs his newest title, Zathura, the
Orchestra Is Here to Play, garnered Gemini its fifth
companion
to Jumanji, 12:30-2 p.m. Saturday, Nov.
Parents' Choice Award. An "instrument petting zoo"
30,
at
Book
-Beat in Oak Park. (248) 968-1190.
precedes the concerts. $7. (734) 761-1451.

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ON THE STAGE

The University of Michigan Department of
Theatre and Drama presents William Shakespeare's
Hamlet 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday and 2 p.m.
Sunday, Dec. 5-8, at the Power Center in Ann
Arbor. $15-$20/$8 students. (734) 764-2538.
The Village Players in Birmingham stage Wendy
Wasserstein's The Heidi Chronicles, a coming-of-age
story illustrating the changing culture of the
times from 1965-1989, 8 p.m. Fridays and
Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays, Dec. 6-15. $15.
(248) 644-2075.

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DANCE FEVER

The Detroit Opera House hosts an all-new pro-
duction of The Nutcracker, performed by the

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PUPPET MAGIC

aose the Window is not a Chanukah
story, but it's a Jewish story being
featured by the Detroit Puppet
Theater to celebrate Chanukah.
Based on the tale The First Schlemiel
by Isaac l3ashevis Singer, the produc-
tion brings Jewish humor to the
character of an old man who never
can get anything right.
"'We're celebrating traditions and
life in the shtetl," explains Igor
Gozman, theater founder who had
his puppet training in Russia. "The
music - kleziner, of course - has
been prerecorded."
The play, which has six puppet
characters, begins at 2 p.m. Saturday
and Sunday, Dec. 7-8, in the 150-
seat theater at 25 E. Grand River.
During the month, there will be
other productions to celebrate
Christmas and Kwanzaa.
Gozman will work the puppets with
Natasha Khusid, who has been a pro-
fessor of performing arts in Russia.
The two also will be live actors in the
production. Close the Window was
written by Corinne Stavish, who has
taught humanities at Lawrence
Technological University and conducts

storytelling workshops in the area
Gozman's wife, IrMa Baranovskaya,
also had artistic training in Russia,
and she constructs the puppets and
their costumes. For Close the
Window, the company will be using
tabletop puppets.
Performances at Detroit Puppet
Theater, founded in '1998, are supple-
mented with tours of the PuppetArt
Museum, which features a growing
collection of puppets from various
cultures as well as rotating puppetry
exhibitions, and studio workshops,
where audiences, for a fee, can learn
about making cloth characters.
"Puppets require -a lot of imagina-
tion from the audience and so are
right for children, who all seem to
have that," Gozman says. "When
people get older, puppets help them
keep their imagination."
-Suzanne Chessler

Close the Window will be per-
formed to celebrate Chanukah
2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Dec.
7-8, by Detroit Puppet Theater,
25 E. Grand River, Detroit. $5
children/$7 adults/$8 workshop.
(313) 961-7777.

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