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Arguably the world's foremost interpreter of
Bartok, The Takacs Quartet joins the popular
Hungarian folk ensemble Muzsikas for a program of
chamber music with Hungarian influences 8 p.m.
Saturday, March 29, at Rackham Auditorium in
Ann Arbor; $20-$40. At 4 p.m. Sunday, March 30,
at Rackham, Muzsikas goes solo with vocalist Marta
Sebestyen in a concert devoted to Gypsy folk tunes;
$16-$30. (734) 764-2538.
Michigan Performing Arts hosts the Michigan-
based ensemble Three Men and a Tenor 8 p.m.
Saturday, April 5, at Southfield's Millennium
Centre. $28-$45. (248) 557-7529.
The Southfield Philharmonic begins its spring sea-
son with a benefit chamber music performance of the
Southfield String Quartet, featuring violinists Joseph
Striplin and Greg Staples, violist Beatriz Staples and
cellist David Levine, 7 p.m. Sunday, April 6, at
Southfield's Ambassador Hotel (formerly the Michigan
Inn). A champagne afterglow follows. Tickets are $50
and must be purchased in advance/proceeds benefit
the Southfield Philharmonic. Season tickets (five
concerts) are available at a discounted rate of $100.
(248) 569-9420.
Violinist Patrick Dalton Holmes performs in a
Cranbrook Music Guild concert 8 p.m. Tuesday,
April 8, at Christ Church Cranbrook in Bloomfield
Hills. $30. (248) 644-6352.
Wayne State University brings Italian composer Ada
Gentile to the campus' Schaver Music Recital Hall for
a New Music Concert, followed by a strolling recep-
tion, 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 9. $25/benefits WSU
Department of Music. (313) 577-1795.
POP/ROCK/JAZZ/FOLK
Ann Arbor's Kerrytown Concert House hosts pianist
Misha Mengelberg and his Dutch avant-garde jazz
ensemble, the Instant Composer's Pool Orchestra, 8
and 10 p.m. Saturday, March 29, $15-$30; and corn-
poser/soprano Susan Botti, a specialist in the perform-
ance of contemporary music by diverse composers, 8
p.m. Saturday, April 5, $15-$20. (734) 769-2999.
Longtime Eurythmics vocalist Annie Lennox
brings her world tour to Detroit 8 p.m. Wednesday,
April 2, at the Scottish Rite Cathedral in the Masonic
Temple Theatre. $89.50-$99.50. (248) 645-6666. •
Queen of folk Joan Baez, with special guest Tracy
Grammer, graces the stage of Ann Arbor's Michigan
Theater 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 3. $25-$38.50.
(248) 763-8587.
He's shed his amazing Technicolor dreamcoat, but
Donny Osmond tours to Detroit's Fox Theatre in
support of his new CD, Somewhere in Time, 8 p.m.
Friday, April 4. $37.50-$55. (248) 433-1515.
The Ark in Ann Arbor hosts singer-songwriter Billy
Jonas 8 p.m. Saturday, April 5, $12.50; and 1 p.m.
Sunday; April 6, in a family concert, $7. (734) 761-1451.
Australia's garage rock foursome The Vines take
the stage Tuesday, April 8, at Detroit's St. Andrew's
Hall. Doors at 7 p.m. $17. (248) 645-6666.
Described as singing like Edith Piaf and looking
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Rejoicings, in which hope emerges for
post-apartheid South Africa, April 3-25.
Call for show times. $17. (313) 868-1347.
Chelsea's Purple Rose Theatre presents
the world premiere of Randall Godwin's
adult comedy Hope For Corky April 3-
May 31. Call for show times. $17.50-
$32.50. (734) 433-7673.
JEWISH MUSIC
Rodgers and Hammerstein's South
Congregation B'nai Moshe hosts 2
Pacific
takes the stage 8 p.m. Friday,
Cantorz and the Kidz, featuring B'nai Moshe
GAIL ZIM MERMAN
March
28, at Macomb Center for the
Cantor Earl Berris and Congregation Chaye
Arts t.:7. En tertainment
Arts, $29-$38, (586) 286-
Performing
Eel
hop
Olam Cantor Stephen Dubov, accompanied
and
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p.m. Sunday, April 6, at
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;
by Marty Mandelbaum and the Kidz Klez
Ford
Community &
Dearborn's
Band of Michigan, 7 p.m. Sunday, March 30, at
Performing
Arts
Center,
$40-$45,
(313) 943-2354.
Congregation B'nai Moshe in West Bloomfield. Free
of
Michigan's
Department
of
The
University
and open to the public. (248) 788-0600.
Rodgers
and
of
Musical
Theater
mounts
a
production
The Jewish Community Council's Detroit Jewish
Thursday-Saturday
Oklahoma
8
p.m.
Hammerstein's
Initiative (DJI) presents an interfaith concert, cele-
and 2 p.m. Sunday, April 10-13, at the Power Center
brating the theme "We Shall Overcome" and the
in Ann Arbor. $7-$20. (734) 764-2538.
holidays of Passover and Easter, 7:30 p.m. Saturday,
Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard concludes
Apri1s ,6, at Congregation Shaarey Zedek in
the
Hilberry Theatre season, running in repertory
Southfield. The multi-denominational MDA
April
11-May 17. Call for show times. $12-$20.
Fellowship Choir and the klezmer ensemble
(313)
577-2972.
Schmaltz will perform. Free and open to the com-
munity; donations welcome. (248) 642-5393.
like Marlene Dietrich, French chanteuse
Patricia Kaas presents a concert of French
chanson 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 10, at
Southfield's Millennium Center Theatre.
$60-$100. (248) 557-7529.
LAUGH LINES
ON THE STAGE
Dearborn's Henry Ford Community College pres-
ents a 3-D stereoscopic performance of William
Shakespeare's The Tempest 8 p.m. Wednesdays-
Saturdays, April 2-26, in the campus' MacKenzie
Fine Arts Center. $15. (313) 845-6478.
Wayne State University's Departments of Theater
and English host three one-act plays, winners of the
Louise Heck-Rabi Scholarship Award Competition,
facilitated by Dr. Phoebe Mainster and Dr. David
Magidson, 8 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays, April 3-12,
in the Studio Theatre, located downstairs from the
Hilberry. Free. (313) 577-2972.
Detroit Repertory Theatre stages the Midwest pre-
miere of playwright Athol Fugard's Sorrows and
Margaret Cho brings her "Revolution Tour" to
Detroit's State Theater 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 3.
$30-$45. (248) 645-6666.
Comedian Dave Chappelle visits Ann Arbor with
his "Dave Chappelle Is Blackzilla" tour 8 and 11 p.m.
Saturday, April 5. $28.50-$34. (248) 645-6666.
MADtv's Alex Borstein journeys to the Ann
Arbor District Library to discuss "Comedy and the
Television Industry" 7-8:30 p.m. Friday, April 11.
Free. (734) 327-4560.
THE BIG SCREEN
The Redford Theatre hosts A Three Stooges Festival,
featuring six 20-minute two-reelers, 8 p.m. Friday and 2
"WIT
HISTORY LESSON
Four historians will be featured
in a university-sponsored panel
discussion that supplements an
exhibit about Michigan Jews.
"MiChigan Jewry During the
1930s & 1940s: Depression, War
& Holocaust" is the topic that
builds on the exhibit "Uneasy
Years: Michigan Jewry During
Depression & War" at Michigan
State University. The panel will
explore the issues 2-4 p.m.
Sunday, March 30, in the MSU
Museum Auditorium in East
Lansing. The exhibit of photos
and mementoes of the times will
be at the museum until June 15
and then move
to other areas
of the state.
"This will
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be an opportu-
nity for us to _9 , .
think together
about what
Michigan's
Jews confront-
ed during that Boy Scout Troop 23, a elvish troop in Defroit
time," says
panel, will review the range of
Ken Waltzer, professor of history
responses to the rise of Nazism
and director of Integrative
and
anti-Semitism surrounding
Studies in the Arts and
World War II. •
Humanities at MSU. "We're
"My perspectie is that what took
working on covering beyond
place across the ocean was of high
what's in the exhibit."
concern, and Michigan Jewry did
Waltzer, who helped find the
well
in the way they protested Nazi
displayed items and organize the
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