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Naas
Mezzo soprano Ingveldur Jonsdottir and pianist
Gudridur St. Sigurdardottir perform Icelandic lullabies
and folksongs, as well as songs by Sibelius, Offenbach
and Weill, in a Brunch with Bach concert at the
Detroit Institute of Arts 11:30 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 14.
Seating at 11 a.m. $22 adults/$11 children under
12/$5 concert only stairwell seating. (313) 833-4005.
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra plays selections
from Andrew Lloyd-Webber's Phantom of the
Opera, followed by a live orchestra-accompanied
screening of the classic 1925 silent film starring Lon
Chaney, 8 p.m. Thursday, 8:30 p.m. Friday and
Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 18-21, at the
Detroit Opera House. $15-$86. (313) 576-5111.
POP/ROCK/JAZZ/FOLK
The Ark in Ann Arbor hosts veteran folk artist
Richie Havens, 8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 13, $25; and
virtuoso guitarist/blues singer Chris Smither, 8 p.m.
Friday, Sept. 19, $17.50. (734) 761-1451.
The Red Hot Chili Peppers perform 7 p.m.
Thursday, Sept. 18, at the Palace of Auburn Hills.
$40. (248) 645-6666.
Jewish blue-eyed soul singer/songwriter Michael
Bolton takes the stage 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept.
18, at Sterling Heights' Freedom Hill
Amphitheatre. $25.50-$55.50. (248) 645-
6666.
ON THE STAGE
son on PBS, airing 2-4 p.m. Sundays, Sept.
14 and 21, on WTVS-Channel 56. Two of
the featured artists, photographer Collier
Schorr and installation artist Eleanor
Antin, incorporate their Jewish heritage
into their work. Check your local listings.
The Players Guild of Dearborn presents
Harry Segall's popular comedy Heaven
Can Wait (it's been filmed twice and won
FAMILY FUN
Friends of the Oak Park Library host a
two Academy Awards) Sept. 12-28. Call
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Livonia
Youtheatre production of You're a
for show times. $11. (313) 561-TKTS.
Arts & En to
Good Man, Charlie Brown 7 p.m.
Stagecrafters presents an updated ver-
Edr for
Tuesday, Sept. 16, at the library. Free.
sion of Godspell, with music and new
(248) 691-7483.
lyrics by composer Stephen Schwartz,
Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn celebrates 100
Sept. 12-Oct 5, at the Baldwin Theatre in Royal
years of powered flight in an all-new 40,000-square-
Oak. Call for show times. $16-$18. (248) 541-6430.
foot permanent exhibit, Heroes of the Sky, featur-
The
perform
The U Theatre Drummers of Taiwan
ing seven themed areas and 15 historic airplanes; it
a
display
of
rhythm
and
movement
Sound of Ocean,
with no narrative but the theme of water and continu- opens to the public on Sept. 18. (313) 271-1620.
al sounding of 28 primordial drums and gongs, 8
p.m. Friday and Saturday, Sept. 19-20, at the Power
THE ART SCENE
Center in Ann Arbor. $14-$38. (734) 764-2538.
Lemberg Gallery in Ferndale hosts ULAE: New
Editions, a series of prints from Universal Limited
THE SMALL SCREEN
Art Editions, the premier fine art print publisher
founded by Tatyana Grosman in 1957, through
The four-part series Art:21 — Art in the Twenty-
Oct. 11. Reception: 5-7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 13.
the
only
series
on
television
to
focus
First Century,
(248) 591-6623.
exclusively on contemporary art, begins its second sea-
Left- to right: Fay Kleinman: "Zayde" painting. Sheldon Stern: "57th St. Fantasy.
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SENIOR STYLE
amily images enter into two
exhibits by senior artists — one
at the Jewish Community
Center of Washtenaw County and the
other at the Birmingham Bloomfield
Art Center (BBAC).
Fay Kleinman, 91, will show The
Zayde Paintings" in Ann Arbor. The dis-
play, which runs Sept. 14-Oct. 31, fea-
tures colorful images based on her
father's drawings, also on view.
Sheldon Stern, 73, will have a portrait
of his granddaughter among a large
group of pastels, oils, charcoals and
prints as the artist for the month of
September in the BBAC sales gallery.
"I'll be showing all of the paintings in
the series, but not all of them will be for
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sale," says I(leintrian, whose father,
Jacob Kleinman, drew for his grand-
daughter, Davi Napoleon, when she was
a child. "I want to keep the very first
images, such as a subway train in New
York."
The drawings in the Kleinman exhibit
were based on childhood fantasies as
presented from the perspective of a
Russian immigrant depicting scenes in
American life.
"I didn't realize my father had that tal-
ent until I saw these drawings," says
Kkinrnan, who studied at the National
Academy of Design, the American
Artists School, Hunter College and the
City College of New York.
Kleinman became known for her
tragic-comic expressionist paintings as
well as her portraits and landscapes as
she worked in New York and
Massachusetts. She exhibited at many
art centers before moving to Ypsilanti to
be near her family and currently is
devoting time to a series of portraits
depkting personal friends.
Stern, who earned a master's degree in
art history at Wayne State University
while still maintaining a full ophthal-
mology practice, began his art studies to
enhance his interests as a collector and
hobbyist. He had taken drawing lessons
as a child growing up in Indiana and
while stationed in Japan as a member of
the United States Air Force.
After retiring from his full-time
Michigan practice in 1997, Stern, of
Franklin, extended his art history studies
at the University of Michigan-Dearborn
and began exploring his own artistic tal-
ents at the 13I3AC. Besides taking on real-
istic still life and portrait projects, Stem, a
member of Temple Beth El, also has
done abstract landscapes.
"When I reduced my practice, I had
time to do other things I always had
wanted to do," says Stem, who has
donated other artists' works his family
collected to the Detroit Tnstitute of Arts.
"I get a great feeling of accomplishment
from painting, and I've always felt that
life would be vacuous without art."
Sterns work is currently represented at
Quarters Gallery in Harbor Springs and
the Crooked Tree Arts Council Gallery in
Petoskey His paintings have been includ-
ed in private collections in Michigan,
California, Colorado and Florida.
--- Suzanne Ches.der
"The Zayde Paintings" will be on
view Sept. 14-Oct. 31 at the
Jewish Community Center of
Washtenaw County, 2935 Birch
Hollow Dr., in Ann Arbor. (734)
971-0990. Opening reception: 3
p.m. Sunday, Sept. 14.
Sheldon Stern's paintings will be
on view and for sale through
September at the Birmingham
Bloomfield Art Center, 1516 S.
Cranbrook, in Birmingham. (248)
644-0866.
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