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CLASSICAL NOTES
Chamber Music Society of Detroit hosts one of
the world's foremost string quartets, the Tokyo
String Quartet, in performance with pianist Jon
Kimura Parker, 8 p.m. Saturday, March 8, at
Seligman Performing Arts Center in Beverly Hills.
$20-$67. (248) 855-6070.
The Phoenix Ensemble, helmed by violinist
Gabriel Bolkosky, celebrates the late Argentinean-
born Astor Piazzolla's birthday with a full program
of his tangos 8 p.m. Saturday and 4 p.m. Sunday,
March 8-9, at Kerrytown Concert House in Ann
Arbor. $5-$25. (734) 769-2999.
Brunch with Bach at the Detroit Institute of Arts
presents music for solo piano by Katherine Chi,
first laureate of the 2000 Honens International
Piano Competition, 11:30 a.m. Sunday, March 9.
Brunch and concert: $11-$22, /concert only: $5.
(313) 833-4005.
The cello-piano duo of David Finckel and Wu
Han join together to play sonatas by Beethoven and
Rachmaninov, and a new work by Lera Auerbach, 8
p.m. Tuesday, March 11, in a Cranbrook Music
Guild concert at Christ Church Cranbrook in
Bloomfield Hills. $30; available at the door, cash
only. (248) 644-6352.
PoP/RocK/JAzz/FoLK
Irish tenor Paul Hennessy and funnyman Noel V.
Ginnity join together in Dublin Irish Cabaret, a
blend of Irish ballads, songs, humor and dance, 8
p.m. Friday, March 7, at Dearborn's Ford
Community and Performing Arts Center, $25-$30,
(313) 943-2354; and again 8 p.m. Saturday, March
9, at Macomb Center for the Performing Arts, $22-
$30, (586) 286-2222.
The Ark in Ann Arbor hosts singer-songwriter
Willy Porter, 8 p.m. Saturday, March 8, $15; folk
performer Richard Shindell, 7:30 p.m. Sunday,
March 9, $13.50; classically influenced
pianist/singer-songwriter Sarah Slean, 8 p.m.
Tuesday, March 11, $11; Irish supergroup Patrick
Street, 8 p.m. Wednesday, March 12, $17.50; and
folk veteran Eric Andersen, 8 p.m. Thursday, March
13, $15. (734) 761-1451.
Dearborn's Ford Community and Performing Arts
Center welcomes zydeco artist Stanley "Buckwheat"
Dural, bringing his funky blend of dance music
combining Cajun, blues, jazz and R&B, 8 p.m.
Saturday, March 8, $21-$27; and classic country
star Roy Clark, 8 p.m. Friday, March 14, $27-$35.
(313) 943-2354.
Modern R&B/pop songstress Macy Gray takes
the stage Friday, March 14, at Detroit's St. Andrew's
Hall. Doors at 6 p.m. $20. (248) 645-6666.
Jazz legend pianist/composer Dave Brubeck —
once a student of French Jewish composer Darius
Milhoud — brings his quartet to Detroit's
Orchestra Hall in a SBC Ameritech Paradise Jazz
Series concert 8 p.m. Thursday, March 13. $18-$75.
(313) 576-5111.
Swedish alternative pop band Blankstar
holds a CD release party/performance,
showcasing its new release, Peggen, Friday,
March 14, at Ferndale's Magic Bag.
Doors at 8 p.m. $7. (248) 544-3030.
THE BIG SCREEN
The Jewish Studies Program at MSU
hosts the Israeli film The Distance, about
an architect torn between his life in America
and his ties to his homeland, 7 p.m.
Monday, March 10, at 1345 Engineering
Building, in East Lansing. (517) 432-3493.
ON THE STAGE
In an Institute for Retired Professionals
Macomb Center for the Performing
program, David Magidson, director of
Arts hosts a production of Shakespeare's
GAIL ZIMNIERNIAN
the JCC's Lenore Marwil Jewish Film
As You Like It, 7 p.m. Sunday, March 9,
Arts & Entertainment
Festival, presents a preview of the film fest
Editor
$18-$25; and Meredith Willson's The
1-2:30 p.m. Friday, March 14, at the JCC
Music Man (rescheduled), 8 p.m. Friday
in West Bloomfield. (248) 661-1000.
and 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday, March 14-15, $45.
Beginning at 7 p.m. March 23, snapping paparazzi
(586) 286-2222.
will welcome guests with star treatment on the red
America's best-loved opera, Porgy and Bess, a col-
carpet as they arrive to watch the 75th Annual
laboration between George and Ira Gershwin and
Academy Awards on the big screen during St.
DuBose Heyward, features a jazz and blues influenced
Dunstan's Red Carpet Party at the Star Southfield
score with classic Gershwin tunes — "Summertime,"
Entertainment Centre. The evening includes Oscar
"I Got Plenty O'Nuttirr and It Ain't Necessarily So"
themed hors d'oeuvres, desserts, beverages, live enter-
— and returns to Detroit in a production at Detroit's
tainment, silent auction, prizes and a celebrity look-
Fisher Theatre 8 p.m. Tuesdays-Fridays, 2 and 8 p.m.
like contest. The Oscar telecast starts at 8:30 p.m. $30
Saturdays and 2 and 7:30 p.m. Sundays, March 11-
per person/$40 reserved seating/benefits St. Dunstan's
30. Presented by Living Arts Inc., this version has
Theatre Guild of Cranbrook. (248) 644-0527.
toured 250 cities on five continents since 1993 and
includes a cast drawn from the nation's leading opera
companies. $30-$65. Information: (313) 872-1000;
THE SMALL SCREEN
tickets: (248) 645-6666.
The ninth annual Screen Actors Guild Awards
Bloomfield Players Community Theatre presents
presentation airs 8 p.m. Sunday, March 9, on TNT.
The Wiz, a contemporary musical based on The
Check your local listings.
Wizard of Oz, 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and
MWAH! The Best of the Dinah Shore Show show-
2 p.m. Sundays, March 14-23, at Bloomfield Hills
cases
the former Frances Rose Shore's greatest moments
Lahser High School Theatre. Directed by Joe
from
1957-1963
and airs 8 p.m. Wednesday, March
Ruthenberg, the 50-member cast includes more
12,
on
Detroit
Public
Television-Channel 56.
than 30 children and includes Groves High School
sophomore Casey Zamler as Dorothy and Susan
Friedman of West Bloomfield as Glenda, the Good
FAMILY FUN
Witch. $12. (248) 433-0885.
Macomb Center for the Performing Arts hosts
Bits 'N Pieces Puppet Theatre's Alice in
Wonderland 10 a.m., 1 and 3:30 p.m. Saturday,
DANCE FEVER
March 8. $10. (586) 286-2222.
The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre was
The Community House in Birmingham offers a
born March 30, 1958, in a now-fabled performance
children's
production of The Jungle Book, under
when Ailey and a group of young, black modern
the
direction
of Mitch Master, 11 a.m. and 3 p.m.
dancers performed at the 92nd Street Young Men's
Saturday
and
2 and 6 p.m. Sunday, March 8-9. $9
Hebrew Association in New York City. Featuring
at
the
door/$7
advance. (248) 644-5832.
new works by cutting-edge choreographers as well as
The
Loren
B.
Fischer Cutural Arts Series for
classics, revivals and its founder's own works, the
Children
and
Their
Families at Temple Beth El in
Alvin Ailey Dance Company returns to the Motor
Bloomfield
Township
hosts Animals Sensing Their
City 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, 8 p.m. Thursday-
World,
a
45-minute
interactive
presentation with an
Saturday and 2 and 7 p.m. Sunday, March 12-16.
assortment
of
animals,
12:30
p.m:
Sunday, March
$18-$86. (313) 237-SING.
9. Free; reservations not required. (248) 851-1100.
IT'S MAGIC
Billed as an "interactive experience of wish fulfill-
ment," David Copperfield: An Intimate Evening of
Grand Illusion brings audience members into the
show when the master magician takes the stage 8
p.m. Friday, 4:30 and 8 p.m. Saturday and 12:30
and 4 p.m. Sunday, March 14-16, at the Fox
Theatre. $28-$46. (248) 433-1515.
THE ART SCENE
The Janice Charach Epstein Gallery celebrates
Michigan Glass Month March 13-April 30 with Metro
Glass: Alumni and Students of the College for Creative
Studies, curated by Herb Babcock, Jean Sosin and Max
Davis. Opening reception: 6:30-8 p.m. Thursday, March
13. A raffle to benefit the gallery — top prize is a Steven
Weinberg glass sculpture—will be held. (248) 432-5448.
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