CLASSICAL NorrEs The Detroit Symphony Orchestra features Saint- Saens' Symphony No. 3 ("Organ"), Liget's Atmospheres and guest artist cellist Alisa Weilerstein, performing Barber's Concerto for Cello, 10:45 and 8 p.m. Friday, 8:30 p.m. Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday, April 30-May 2, at Detroit's Max M. Fisher Music Center. $15-$105. (313) 576-5111. Israeli-born classical cellist Matt Haimovitz, bringing his solo classical performances to rock clubs across the country, appears 8 p.m. Wednesday, May 5, at the Blind Pig in Ann Arbor. $12 in advance/$15 day of. (734) 996-8555. Cellist Matt Haimovitz performs May 5 at the Blind Pig in Ann Arbor. The Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra, Cantor Annie Rose and the Temple Beth Emeth Adult Choir (Kol Haley) team. up to present a gala concert under the directiori of Maestro Arie Lipsky 7 p.m. Sunday, May 7, at Temple Beth Emeth in Ann Arbor. The concert includes the premiere performance of Sephardic Suite, a newly arranged and orchestrated cycle of five choral Sephardic folk songs; Mozart's Symphony No. 40., and selections from Handel (Zadok the Priest and three movements from Samson). $30 adults/$15 children 12 and under/reception follows performance. (734) 665-4744. Birmingham Temple's Vivace Series hosts DSO Concertmaster Emmanuelle Boisvert and DSO Principal Cellist Robert deMaine, with pianist Angelina Pashmakova, in a concert of intimate cham- ber music 8 p.m. Saturday, May 8, at the temple in Farmington Hills. $15 temple members, seniors and students/$18 nonmembers. Tickets: (248) 788-9338 or (248) 661-1348. 4/30 2004 36 POP/ROCK/JAZZ/FOLK about the son and daughter of a bigamist (from different wive s ) who meet online, An evening of live mixed video and April 30-May 16. Call for show times. original music by Dziga Vertov $11-$12. (248) 988-7049. Performance Group, with Douglas The newly conceived national tour of Rosenberg (video), Scott Fields (guitar, Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma, composer) and Ryan Smith (laptop com- adapted from the recent Trevor puter, composer), takes place 8 p.m. Nunn/Susan Stroman production seen in GAIL ZIN 'MERMAN Saturday, May 1, at Museum of New Art Arts & Lift Editor London and New York, makes a stop at (MONA), 7 N. Saginaw, in Pontiac. The Detroit's Fox Theatre 8 p.m. Tuesday- first part of the program, Solution, inter- Friday, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday and 2 and rogates the Holocaust in images, music and text; the 7:30 p.m. Sunday, May 4-9. $28-$36.50 May 4-7/ second part, Pastorale, is a cine-poem of movement $48-$70.50 May 8-9. (248) 433-1515. and landscape. Free. (248) 210-7560. SRO Productions presents the George Axelrod com Jazz Pianist Steven Mayer performs a concert of edy Goodbye Charlie, about a wild guy who dies and works by jazz greats Art Tatum, Fats Waller and returns to earth as a woman to straighten out his life, Jelly Roll Morton 8 p.m. Saturday, May 1, at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays, Kerrytown Concert House in Ann Arbor. $5-$25. May 7-23, in the 1854 Church in Burgh Historical (734) 769-2999. Park in Southfield. $8-$10. (248) 796-4645. The Ark in Ann Arbor hosts New York folksinger Village Players of Birmingham re-creates the era Lucy Kaplansky, with special guest Martyn Joseph, and milieu of Jewish immigration in the early 20th 8 p.m. Saturday, May 1. $17.50. (734) 761-1451. century in Rags: The American Musical, a "lost" The Birmingham Concert Band performs its Broadway musical with libretto by Joseph Stein spring concert, "The Unconquerable Human (Fiddler), music by Charles Strouse (Annie) and Spirit," 3:30 p.m. Sunday, May 2, at Groves High lyrics by Stephen Schwartz (Pippin), 8 p.m. Fridays School in Beverly Hills. Free. (248) 647-7586. and Saturdays, Multicultural, salsa hip-hop group Ozomatli takes 1„, May 7-22, and 2 the stage Sunday, May 2, at Detroit's Majestic p.m. Sundays, Theatre. Doors at 7 p.m. $15. (248) 645-6666. May 16 and 23. Classic pop act Blondie appears Tuesday, May 4, The story of a at Clutch Cargo's in Pontiac. Doors at 7:30 p.m. refugee from the $40. (248) 645-6666. pogroms in Vocal group Five By Design pays homage to the Russia who jour- big bands of the 1940s in Radio Days, with seg- neys to America ments from vintage serials, comedies and quiz shows, seeking her hus- in DSO Pops Series concerts taking place 10:45 and band who immi- 8 p.m. Thursday, 8:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and grated several 3 p.m. Sunday, May 6-9, at the Max M. Fisher years before is Music Center in Detroit. $15-$86. (248) 576-5111. directed by Jyemo and the Extended Family, a Colorado- Barbara Bloom based reggae, Latin and world funk band featuring Bloomfield Township resident of Novi and fea- former Oak Parker Ira (Randy) Sweetwine on lead Megan Victor is in the ensemble tures Andover percussion, performs Thursday, May 6, at the Blind of "Rags," opening May 7 at high school Pig in Ann Arbor, $5 cover, (734) 996-8555; and Village Players Playhouse in sophomore Friday, May 7, at Fifth Avenue in Royal Oak, $5 Birmingham. Megan Victor in cover, (248) 542-9922. the ensemble; The Farmington Community Chorus, composed the Congregation Shaarey Zedek-West Bloomfield, of 85 members from the metro Detroit area, performs B'nai Israel Center member has acted as "resident its spring concert, "By the Numbers," 8 p.m. Friday expert" on Jewish tradition during preparation for and Saturday, May 7-8, at Seligman Performing Arts the show. $15. (248) 644-2075. Center in Beverly Hills. $10. (810) 632-4067. ON THE STAGE Players Guild of Dearborn stages the Leonard Bernstein/Adolph Green and Betty Comden/Jerome Robbins collaboration On The Town, about three all- American sailors on leave in New York City, 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, April 30-May 22, and 2 p.m. Sundays, May 9, 16 and 23. $14. (313) 561-TKTS. Ridgedale Players of Troy mounts a production of Ray Cooney's comedy Caught in the Net, a story THE BIG SCREEN Get ready to sing communally at the top of your lungs as Sing-A-Long Sound of Music, complete with subtitles, comes to the screen at Royal Oak's Main Art Theatre April 30-May 15. A costume competition precedes the screenings, and an on- stage master of ceremonies leads the audience in vocal warm-ups and synchronized gestures to be employed during the cult 1965 film's key moments. FYI: For Arts and Life 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. 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