Best Bets OUT OF HOLLYWOOD In 1910, the 12-year-old Erich Wolfgang Korngold created a musical sensation when his ballet, Der Schneemann ("The Snowman"), premiered at the Viennese Cou.rt Opera M a command performance for Emperor Franz Josef. "The boy has so much tal- ent that he could easily give vs some and still have enough left for himself," said Giacomo Puccini, the com- poser of La Boheme and other blockbuster operas. But instead of becoming the next Mozart — the out- come his music critic father had hoped for when he gave his son his illustrious mid- dle name — the Jewish composer spent his most productive years in Hollywood writing film scores, including A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Prince and the Pauper. Since his death in 1957, Korngold's serious music has become increasingly popular. On Thursday, Oct. 23, the Janice Charach Epstein Gallery will present a concert of his chamber music, along with music by two other composers known primarily for their film scores --- Nino Rota, composer of the Godfather films, and .Matuice Jarre, best known for Di: Zhivago. Performers are Brian Bowman, clarinet; Velda Kelly, violin; Nadine Deteury, cello; and Eduard Perrone, piano. The four are all members of Chamber ivlusic at the Scarab Club, a series based at the historic Detroit arts center located at 217 Farnsworth. "It's the first concert we're doing at the gallery, and we're really looking forwa.rd to it," said Sylvia Nelson, director of the Janice Charach Epstein Gallery. The concert includes Korngold's Trio for Violin, Piano and Cello, Opus 1. Written around the same time as Der Schneemann, it contains all the elements that made his mature music for film so popular, said Velda Kelly, violinist with the Scarab Club ensemble. "It's very lush and very big, even for three instruments," Kelly said. "It's amazing how he wrote for piano." Also on the program are Rota's Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano and three movements from jarre's Engadiner Suite, written for violin, cello and piano. — Diana Lieberman "Chamber Music of Film Composers," a recital by Music at the Scarab Club, takes place 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 23, at the Janice Charach Epstein Gallery, located in the Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield. $10. (248) 432-5448. 10/17 2003 6 8 Classical Notes ON THE STAGE Michigan Opera Theatre opens its 2003- 2004 "Season of Love" with the company premiere of A Masked Ball, Giuseppe Verdi's dramatic tale of "fatal love" set in 18th-century Sweden, with six performances running Oct. 18-Oct. 26 at the Detroit Opera House. Among those making their MOT debuts are American tenor Marc Heller, alternating in the role of Ricardo. $23-$110. (313) 237-SING. St. Dunstan's Theatre Guild of Cranbrook presents Les Liaisons Dangereuses, a play about the witty, seduc- tive and wicked world of the pre- Revolutionary French aristocracy, Oct. 24- Nov 8 at the group's playhouse in Bloomfield Hills. Directed by Mark Nathanson of Royal Oak, the cast includes Rachel Biber of Birmingham and Kathy Storchan of Farmington Hills. Call for show times. $11-$13. (248) 644-0527. GAIL ZIMMERMAN Arts & Entertainment Editor PoP/RocK/JAzz/FoLK The fifth annual Motor City Boogie-Woogie and Blues Festival, hosted by Motown Funk Brother Joe Hunter, takes the stage 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 18, at the Redford Theatre in Detroit. Proceeds benefit the Farmington Hills-based American Music Research Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to doc- umenting and preserving boogie-woogie and American roots music in its pure forms. Doors at 6 p.m. $25/ tickets also available at the door. (800) 585-3737 or wvvw.amrfnet. Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel reunite for their "Old Friends" tour 7:30 p.m. Saturday (sold out) and Sunday, Oct. 18-19, at the Palace of Auburn Hills. $59.50-$205. (248) 645-6666. The Ark in Ann Arbor hosts folk trou- badour John Gorka, with special guest Justin Roth, 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 18, $16; veteran folk artist Loudon "Old Friends" Paul Simon Wainright III (father and Art Garfunkel perform at of budding singer- the Palace. songwriter Rufus Wainwright), 8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 22, $20; bluegrass musicians the Alison Brown Quartet, 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 23, $16; and the Dick Siegel Trio, 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 24, $13.50. (734) 761-1451. Guitar rock trio Gov't Mule, with Chris Robinson (former frontman of the Black Crowes, hubby of actress Kate Hudson and son-in-law of Goldie Hawn), takes the stage 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 22, at the Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor. $25. (248) 645-6666. FULLY FIBER Alice Bronston, represented by a hand-painted silk and wool abstract wall hanging titled Rhapsody in Blue, is among some 20 artists featured in 'Without Restraints: Reshaping Familiar Forms in Fiber," an exhibit running Oct. 16-Now 14 at the Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center The exhibit, developed by the Janice Charach Epstein Gallery in West Bloomfield, includes quilts, wearables and baskets. "We chose the artists for their ability to push fiber DANCE FEVER University Musical Society hosts the Miami City Ballet in a program of works choreographed by St. Petersburg native George Balanchine, with music by Igor Stravinsky, 8 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 18-19, at the Power Center in Ann Arbor; $14-$42. Also on Saturday, Oct. 18, there will be a one-hour family performance ($7 -$15) at 1 p.m. at the Power Center; and at 6 p.m., MCB Artistic Director Edward Vilella will give a free pre-concert lecture at the Michigan League on the U-M cam- pus. (734) 764-2538. THE SMALL SCREEN Meet the woman behind a genius 10 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 21, when Detroit Public Television-Channel 56 screens Einstein's Wife, based on love letters discovered in 1986 that reveal a partnership of passion and intel- lect between Einstein and his first wife, Mileva Marie. Check your local listings. Comedy Central's animated Kid Notorious, voiced, produced and about legendary Godfather producer Robert Evans, provides a glimpse into his life and includes celebrity cameos; the show launches 10:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 22. Check your local listings. FAMILY FUN Marshall Field's Day of Music, a non-ticketed event, free and open to the public, provides family- friendly musical programming, hands-on games, interactive lectures, jugglers, mimes, tours and more, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday and noon-6 p.m. Sunday, to its limits," says Sylvia Nelson, director of the Janice Charach Epstein Gallery. "We do an annual fiber show and decided to place this year's at the BBAC because we wanted to introduce a new audience to this type of work." Bronston, a Bloomfield Hills resident who studied at the BBAC, has shown her fiber projects at the Jewish Community Center, Scarab Club and private galleries. "I've been sewing since I was a child," Bronston says. "I've sewn clothes for myself and like the feeling of working with fibers." publishable phone number, 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 Notice must be received at gzimmerman@thejewishnews.com 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 to: least three weeks before the scheduled event. Photos are appreciated but cannot be returned. 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