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CLASSICAL NOTES

Chamber Music Society of Detroit opens it season
with a performance by the Tokyo String Quartet, with
pianist Jon Kimura Parker, 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 10, at
Seligman Performing Arts Center in Beverly Hills.
$23-$75. (248) 855-6070.
The Detroit Opera House offers single tickets for
the 2004-2005 opera and dance seasons beginning
Tuesday, Sept. 7. The fall opera season features Verdi's
Rigoletto and Gounod's Faust; the spring opera season
features Puccini's Tosca, the world premiere of the
Richard Danielpour/Toni Morrison collaboration
Margaret Gamer and Donzetti's Daughter of the
Regiment; $28-$170. For a complete dance schedule,
go to wwwMichiganOpera.org or call (313) 237-7464.

POP/ROCK/JAZZ/FOLK

Indie rock artist Liz Phair headlines the Chicks with
Attitude Tour, also featuring Swedish band the
Cardigans, teenage singer-songwriter Katie Rose and
piano-playing chanteuse Charlotte Martin, 6 p.m.
Friday, Aug. 27, at Royal Oak Music Theatre. $25.
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Folk singer-songwriter Livingston Taylor performs 8
p.m. Saturday, Aug. 28, at the Ark in Ann Arbor.
$17.50. (734)
761-1451.
Meadow Brook
Music Festival
hosts Southern
rockers the Allman
Brothers Band, 7
p.m. Sunday, Aug.
29, $28-$45.50;
blues artists the
Robert Cray Band
and Buddy Guy, 8
Folk artist Livingston Taylor -
p.m.
Saturday,
yes, he's James' brother - performs
Sept.
4, $25.50-
at the Ark in Ann Arbor.
$45.50; and mega-
Grammy winner
Norah Jones, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 8, $25-$58.
(248) 645-6666.
DTE Energy Music Theatre presents country super-
star Randy Travis, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 29,
$18.50-$34.50; pop/rockers Hootie and the Blowfish,
7:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 6, $18.50-$32.50; and coun-
try rocker Hank Williams Jr., 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept.
10, $19.50-$35.50. (248) 645-6666.
The Palace of Auburn Hills welcomes Latin pop
singer Gloria Estefan in her final farewell tour, "Live
and Re-Wrapped," 8 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 31, $25-$75;
and pop/rocker Phil Collins, 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 10,
$45-$85. (248) 645-6666.
Jerome Duncan Theatre at Freedom Hill in Sterling
Heights hosts Steve Miller Band, 7:30 p.m. Thursday,
Sept. 2, $36-$66; country artist Travis Tritt, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, Sept. 4, $18-$45; and rapper LL Cool J,
7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 10, $20-$45. (248) 645-6666.

FESTIVALS

Featuring more than 50 restaurants, 160 musical acts
- including headliners the B-52's, classic rocker Paul
Rodgers of Bad Company, Detroit rock band Sponge

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and pop-country band Diamond Rio -
and 200 art exhibitors, Chrysler Arts, Beats
and Eats takes over downtown Pontiac
Friday-Monday, Sept. 3-6. vvww.artsbeat-
seats.com
North America's largest free jazz event,
the Ford Detroit International Jazz
Festival, with headliners Aretha Franklin,
the Ramsey Lewis Trio and Lou Rawls,
takes place in Detroit's Hart Plaza Saturday-
Monday, Sept. 4-6. (313) 963-7622 or
www.detroitjazzfest.com

THE ART SCENE

Art fairs include the Village Art Fair, pre-
sented by the Michigan Guild of Artists
and Artisans, 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Saturday and
10 a.m.-6 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 28-29, at the
Village of Rochester Hills, located at
Walton Boulevard and Adams Road, (734)
662-3382; and Franklin's Art on the Green,
10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday, Sept. 6,
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Ferndale's Lawrence St. Gallery presents
two mixed-media solo exhibitions, "Portals"
by Birmingham artist Laura Whitesides Host and
ON THE STAGE
"Observations" by Southfield artist Marilyn Blinder,
The Birmingham Community House presents Un
Aug. 31-Sept. 25. Artists' reception: 5-9 p.m. Saturday,
Becoming, a new play by Rick Schweikert about the
Sept. 11. (248) 544-0394.
complex issues surrounding hysterectomy that pre-
"Juxtapositions," an exhibit of paintings, sculpture
miered Off Broadway earlier this year and is being
and silver jewelry by Susan Hershberg Adelman,
compared with Vagina Monologues and Wit, 7:30 p.m.
M.D., runs at the Southfield Public Library during the
Saturday, Aug. 28. Read by local actors, the produc-
month of September. Artist's reception: 6-8 p.m.
tion is free and open to the public. (484) 432-8356 or
Thursday, Sept. 2. (248) 796-4224.
www.unbecomingplay.com
The Detroit Institute of Arts presents The Photog-
Birmingham's Village Players stages Man of La
raphy of Charles Sheeler: American Modernist, the
Mancha, with book by Dale Wasserman, music by
first major retrospective to focus exclusively on
Mitch Leigh and lyrics by Joe Darion, 8 p.m. Fridays
Sheeler's photographic work, including his views from
and Saturdays, Sept. 10-25, with 2 p.m. matinees
the Ford Motor Co.'s Albert Kahn-designed River
Sundays, Sept. 19 and 26. $15. (248) 644-2075.
Rouge complex, Sept. 8-Dec. 5. (313) 833-7900.
The Masonic Temple Theater holds children's audi-
Wayne State University's Community Arts Gallery in
tions for its upcoming Oct. 5-10 production of Joseph
Detroit hosts its 2004 Faculty Exhibition, an intro-
and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Monday,
duction to recent work by full- and part-time faculty
Sept. 13. Registration at 3 p.m.; auditions begin at 4
of WSU's Department of Art and Art History, Sept.
p.m. For budding thespians ages 8-15/must be under
10-Oct. 15. Opening reception: 5-8 p.m. Friday, Sept.
5-feet-5-inches. For more details, cq11 (313) 872-1000.
10. (313) 577-2423.
University of Michigan School of Art and Design
LAUGH LINES
presents Regeneration: Contemporary Chinese Art
Known for his ear for dialogue and observational
from China and the U.S., a transnational look at con-
humor, comedian Richard Jeni takes the stage at
temporary Chinese art, through Oct. 8 at the Jean Paul
Meadow Brook Music Festival 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug.
Slusser Gallery at the school. Artists' reception: 6-9
28. $15-$25. (248) 645-6666.
p.m. Friday, Sept. 10. (734) 764-0397.
Ferndale's Batista Gallery shows Operation Sydney,
THE BIG SCREEN
new paintings and works on paper by Detroit artist
Congregation Chaye Olam hosts the Detroit-area
Tyree Guyton, Sept. 10-Oct. 15. Opening reception:
premiere of Hiding and Seeking: Faith and Tolerance
6-9 p.m. Friday, Sept. 10. (248) 544-4627.
After the Holocaust, a new film from the makers of A
Fine art photographer Marji Silk shows her work in
Life Apart.• Hasidism in America, 7:30 p.m. Saturday,
an exhibit called "Symphony of Light" through
Sept. 11, followed by a discussion led by Cantor
September at Borders Books, 5601 Mercury Dr., in
Stephen Dubov and U-M-Dearborn Holocaust histo-
Dearborn. (248) 544-1203.
rian Sidney Bolkosky. Filmed in Jerusalem, Brooklyn
and Poland, the film explores the Holocaust's effect on
WHATNOT
faith in God as well as its impact on faith in our fellow
The exhibit the Dead Sea Scrolls From the Bible to
human beings. Light refreshments/no charge/$5 dona-
America, including several Dead Sea scroll fragments
tion suggested. Following the program, Cantor Dubov,
from the Old Testament and examples of early
with guest vocalists and instrumentalists, will lead a
Hebrew, runs 9 a.m.-8 p.m. Mondays-Saturdays and
Selichot service beginning at 9:15 p.m. (248) 851-7485.
11 a.m.-7 p.m. Sundays through Sept. 19 at the Birch
Run Expo Center in Birch Run, Mich. $8-$15. (866)
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786-7261 or vvvvvv.DeadSeaScrollsToAmerica.com
Comedy Central's series South Park presents its hilar-
NCJW presents renowned critic and cultural arts
ious take on Mel Gibson's blockbuster The Passion of
columnist Frank Rich of the New York Times, 10:45
the Christ with South Park The Passion of the Jew,
a.m. (registration begins at 10:15 a.m.) Thursday, Sept.
an episode that originally aired March 31, 2004, and
9, at Adat Shalom Synagogue in Farmington Hills.
will be released on DVD Tuesday, Aug. 31. Jewish
Lunch to follow. $40 members/$45 nonmembers.
character Kyle sees the film and develops a powerful
RSVP suggested: (248) 355-3300, Ext. 0.
love for Mel Gibson, while Stan and Kenny embark on
a quest to find Gibson and get their money back.
Out & About will return Sept. 10.
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