Entertainment Best Bets CLASSICAL NOTES The Detroit Symphony Orchestra offers a French Valentine, with French-themed works by Berlioz, Mozart, Dukas and Ravel, 1:30 and 8 p.m. Friday and 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 14-15, at Orchestra Hall. $15-$56. (313) 576-5111. The Toledo Opera presents Opera Goes to the Movies, an evening of opera's greatest hits heard in films, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 15, at the Toledo Museum of Art. $10-$48. (866) 860-9048. Soprano Jennifer Larson performs the world pre- miere of Detroit area composer Mark Gottlieb's When Autumn Never Ends, a new song cycle for soprano, string quartet and piano, 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 16, at the Birmingham Unitarian Church, Woodward Avenue at Lone Pine. Presented by the Tuesday Musicale of Detroit, the concert also will feature works by Schumann, Handel, Mussorgsky and Morrison. $12.50/tickets available at the door. (248) 542-9426. Cellist Katri Ervamaa and pianist Winston Choi premier a recently commissioned sonata for piano and cello by composer Gunther Schuller, and play works by Michigan composers William Bolcom, Leslie Bassett and Carter Penn, 4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 16, at Kerrytown Concert House in Ann Arbor. $10-$25/$5 students. (734) 769-2999. . POP/ROCK/JAZZ/FOLK It's a double dose of doo-wop Saturday, Feb. 15, when the second annual Oldies 104.3 WOMC Valentine Doo-Wop Concert takes the stage 4 and 8 p.m. at the Detroit Opera House. $30-$45. (248) 645-6666. In the same vein, Doo-Wop Dreams brings 1950s and '60s musical nostalgia to Dearborn's Ford Community & Performing Arts Center, presenting several original doo-wop artists, 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 15. $42-$47. (313) 943-2354. Dave Holland is one of the most respected bass players and improvisers in jazz. He brings the Dave Holland Quintet and his newest ensemble, the New York Big Band, to Ann Arbor's Michigan Theater 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 15. $16-$34. (734) 764-2538. Country artist Kathy Mattea makes "musical soup" with Cherish the Ladies, adding Celtic instru- ments and ethnic drumming to her usual repertoire, 3 and 7 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 16, at Macomb Center for the Performing Arts. $27-$35. (586) 286-2222. Rock legend Paul Weller performs in support of his latest solo album, Illumination, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 18, at Detroit's Majestic Theatre. $30. (313) 961-5450. Bon Jovi, with special guests the Goo Goo Dolls, rocks the stage 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 18, at the Palace of Auburn Hills. $45-$65. (248) 645-6666. Ferndale's Magic Bag presents An Electric Evening with Chris Robinson and the New Earth Mud Tuesday, Feb 18; doors at 9 p.m. Robinson, whose father is Jewish, came to fame with the Black Crowes and earned genuine celebrity status when he married actress Kate Hudson, daughter of Goldie Hawn. $20. (248) 544-3030. The Ark in Ann Arbor hosts "folkternative" quar- 2/14 2,003 64 stages. The duo appear 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 20, at Macomb Center for the Performing Arts, $31-$40, (586) 286-2222; and 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 21, at Dearborn's Ford Community & Performing Arts Center, $30-$39, (313) 943-2354. tet Eddie From Ohio, with special guest Australian singer-songwriter Jeff Lang, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 20. $16- $28.50. (734) 761-1451. Tony/Oscar/Emmy winner and show biz veteran Liza Minnelli performs 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 21, at the Palace of Auburn Hills. $39.50-$59.50. (248) 645-6666. THE BIG SCREEN Featuring Alain Delon and Yves Montand, Le Cercle Rouge, Jean-Pierre GAIL ZIMMERMAN Melville's great 1970 French gangster St. Dunstan's Theatre Guild of Arts &Entertaillilleut Editor epic, screens 7 and 9:30 p.m. Friday and Cranbrook's Stage 2 presents Hold Me, Saturday and 4 and 7 p.m. Sunday, Feb. Jules Feiffer's witty comic revue about 14-16, at the Detroit Film Theatre at the Detroit relationships in the modern age, 8 p.m. Friday and Institute of Arts. $6.50. (313) 833-3237. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 14-16. $5-$7. (248) 644-0527. THE SMALL SCREEN Stagecrafters 2nd Stage mounts a production of the musical Floyd Collins, about a 1920s miner Woody Allen's valentine to New York City, trapped underground and the rescue efforts to save Manhattan airs commercial free 9 p.m. Friday, Feb. him, Feb. 21-March 9. Winner of a 1996 Drama 14, as part of Detroit Public Television-Channel Desk Award for Best Musical, it was written by Tina 56's Film Fest series. Check your local listings. Landau, with music and lyrics by Adam Guettel (a Jonathan Silverman and Adam Weiner play two grandson of composer Richard Rodgers). Jewish civil rights activists from the North in Performances are 8 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays, and 7 Showtime's Deacons for Defense, based on a true p.m. Sundays, except for March 9, when show time story of a group of African Americans in Bogalusa, is 2 p.m. $10. (248) 541-6430. La., who form a militia group to battle the Ku Klux. Klan. The telefilm premieres 8 p.m. Sunday, Feb. LAUGH LINES 16, and repeats 8 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 19, and 11 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 27. Check your local listings. The Second City-Detroit's mainstage cast presents Woodward to Your Mother, its 24th revue, now in FAMILY FUN previews 8 p.m. Wednesdays-Thursdays and 7:30 and 10 p.m. Fridays-Saturdays prior to its March 20 Purple Rose Theatre Company Arts Outreach official opening, at the Second City Theatre in Program hosts a one-night-only performance of its Detroit. $15-$20. (248) 645-6666. original, family-oriented musical production Talk Long-running comedy team the Smothers Brothers To Me 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 15, at the Chelsea brings a special blend of music and humor to two area Performing Arts Complex, located at Chelsea ON THE STAGE PULLING STRINGS n appearance by New York's Guarneri String Quartet has more impact these days than it has had in the past. The chamber group, launched in 1964, is cutting back on performances and taking full summer vacations. Guarneri, which has changed only one member in its long career, will be in Michigan for a concert sponsored by the Chamber Music Society of Detroit. Members will present works by Haydn, Bartok and Beethoven at 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 15, at Seligman Performing Arts Center in Beverly Hills. "There are no leaders in A our group," violinist Arnold Steinhardt told Modern Maturity. "We are four strong personalities who believe in disagreeing about the music." Cellist Peter Wiley is the newest member, recently replacing David Soyer, his . The Guarneri String Quartet teacher. The quartet also includes violinist John Dailey and violist Michael Tree. Guarneri, which takes its name from an Italian family known for making string instruments, has two Jewish members, Steinhardt and Tree. The chamber group, in its 39th year, can look back on thousands of international concerts, television and radio cials, documen- taries, educa- tional presenta- tions and more than 50 albums. A full-length film, High Fideli t y The Guarneri String tarter; was released FYI: For Arts and Entertainment related events that you wish to have considered for Out & About, please send the item, with a detailed description of the event, times, dates, place, ticket prices and publishable phone number, to: Gail Zimmerman, JN Out & About, The Jewish News, 29200 Northwestern Highway, Suite 110, Southfield, MI 48034; fax us at (248) 304-8885; or e-mail to gzimmerman@thejewishnews.com Notice must be received at least three weeks before the scheduled event. Photos are appreciated but cannot be returned. All events and dates listed in the Out & About column are subject to change.