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The new Motor City Lyric Opera launches its first
production, Amahl and the Night Visitors, a 50-
minute children's opera in English with "a message
applicable to every creed," that "in giving, we
receive," 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 19, 1 and 6 p.m.
Saturday, Dec. 21, and 1 and 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec.
22, at Detroit's Music Hall Center for the Performing
Arts. $20 adults/$10 children. (313) 963-2366.

POP/ROCK/JAZZ/FOLK
The Celtic band Altan performs traditional Irish
songs 8 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 14, at the Michigan
Theater in Ann Arbor. $16-$34. (734) 764-2538.
Folk veteran Livingston Taylor (yes, he's James'
brother) takes the stage 8 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 14,
at The Ark in Ann Arbor. $17.50. (734) 761-1451.
The Novi Concert Band, under the direction of
Jack Kopnick, presents its winter concert 7:30
p.m. Sunday, Dec. 15, at the Novi Civic Center,
W. 10 Mile Road west of Novi Road. Free/refresh-
ments will be served.

about the meaning of the Jewish holi-
day, airs 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec 14, on
Nickelodeon.

visual perspective of the computer age,
Dec. 14-March 23. Featured artists
include Beverly Fishman, Peter
Zimmerman and Amy Yoes, who'll
FAMILY FUN
speak 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 25, in the de
Salle Auditorium. (877) 462-7262.
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra's
Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, profes-
Detroit News Young People's Concert
sor in the department of Art and
Series presents A Holiday Story, featur-
Archaeology at Princeton University,
ing a musical retelling of both Christmas
speaks on The Legacy of Michelangelo
and Chanukah stories, 10 and 11:30
GAIL ZIMMERMAN
and Medicean Florence in Central
a.m. Saturday, Dec. 21, at Orchestra
Arts & Entertainment
Europe: Instruction, Imitation,
Hall. $10-$36. (313) 576-5111.
Editor
Emulation 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 14, in
the Holley Room at the Detroit
THE ART SCENE
Institute
of
Arts. Free with museum admission.
Birmingham's David Klein Gallery presents the
(313)
833-7900.
paintings and pastels of German-born Jewish
Cranbrook Fundamentals, an exhibition of
painter Wolf Kahn through Dec. 21. An escapee
paintings
and sculpture by four artists who taught
from Nazi Germany, Kahn immigrated to the
and/or
studied
at the Cranbrook Academy of Art
United States in 1940 and specializes in land-
during
the
first
half of the 20th century, runs
scapes. Information: (248) 433-3700.
through
Jan.
20
at Birmingham's Robert Kidd
Cranbrook Art Museum hosts Post Digital
Gallery.
(248)
642-3909.
Painting, an exhibition by 12 contemporary inter-
national painters whose work reflects a dynamic

ON THE STAGE

Actor Brian Mallon takes the stage in Mark
Jenkin's one-man play about the life of actor
Richard Burton — including his infamous rela-
tionship with actress Elizabeth Taylor — in
Playing Burton, 8 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 19, at The
Ark in Ann Arbor. $17.50. (248) 645-6666.

DANCE FEVER

The Michigan Classic Ballet Company performs
its 13th anniversary production of The Nutcracker
11 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. Saturday and 3 p.m.
Sunday, Dec. 14-15, at Mercy Auditorium in
Farmington Hills. $14-$18. (248) 334-6964.

When Danny Syme was working
his way through the University
of Michigan in the mid-1960s,
he performed in a rock 'n' roll
band in the Ann Arbor area.
He was the lead singer and
played guitar, often emulating
the music of such famous
rhythm and blues groups as
Motown's Contours, Four Tops

THE BIG SCREEN.

Ferndale's Magic Bag hosts its 10th annual
Spike & Mike's Sick & Twisted Animation
Festival, featuring 25 brand-new animated shorts,
Dec 13-Jan. 2. All shows 18 and over. $7 at the
door. For a complete schedule of show times, go
to the Web site at vvvvw.themagicbag.com or call
(248) 544-3030.
The Detroit Film Theatre at the Detroit
Institute of Arts screens a newly restored print of
Jean Cocteau's 1947 French masterpiece Beauty
and the Beast 7 and 9:30 p.m. Friday and
Saturday and 4 and 7 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 13-15.
$6. (313) 833-3237.

THE SMALL SCREEN

The Rugrats Chanukah Special, in which the
Rugrats try to reconcile Grandpa Boris with an
estranged friend after the two perform in a play

hold a drawing for someone to
Win a free Ford Mustang."
The Contours have been hon-
Syme never forgot them.
ored with two music industry
Danny went on to become
lifetime achievement awards and
Rabbi Daniel B. Syme of Temple : made several gold records. "Do
Beth El in Bloomfield Township.
You Love Me," which has sold
The Contours continued on a
more than 10 million records
40-year show business career of
worldwide, was featured in the
concerts and recordings — and
1988 Oscar-winning film Dirty
are still going strong. Thanks to
Dancing and led to an interna-
Rabbi Syme, the Cont6urs will
tional tour as the Contours
bring the famed Motown sound
played to more than 2 million
to Temple Beth El for a concert
fans in eight countries.
Saturday, Dec. 14, singing the
How do Temple Beth El mem-
great hits of the old Motown era
bers feel about the upcoming
as well as modern numbers.
concert? "People of my genera-
Original members Joe
: tion are very excited, Rabbi
Billingslea and Sylvester Potts
Syme said. "The others are going
will be joined by Al Chisolm,
to learn."
Charles Davis and .Gary Grier.
— Bill Carroll
"I saw them at a concert at the
Palace of Auburn Hills recently
The Contours perform
with some of the other Motown
7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec.
groups and the experience
14, at Temple Beth El.
revived old memories," said
General
admission: $18.
Rabbi Syme. "I've loved the
Patron tickets, including an
Motown Sound since I was a
afterglow reception and
boy. The Contours are a leg-
photo opportunity with the
endary act and this will be their
Contours: $50 per person.
first concert at a synagogue. •
(248) 851-1100, Ext. 3142.
"It will be a celebratory event •
and a fun evening. We'll even

BLAST FROM THE PAST

The Contours:
First synagogue appearance.

and Temptations.
The Contours hit the Motown
jackpot with the Berry Gordy-
penned classic "Do You Love
Me" in 1962 — and the young

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