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The Detroit Symphony Orchestra kicks off its
Year of Jarvi, with Maestro Neeme Jarvi in his
15th and final season as music director of the
DSO, with Carmina Burana, a massive choral
work by German composer Carl Orff for which
the DSO is joined by the Estonian National Male
Choir and the UMS Choral Union. Performances
are 8 p.m. Friday, 8:30 p.m. Saturday and 3 p.m.
Sunday, Sept. 10-12, at the Max M. Fisher Music
Center. $30-$114. (313) 576-5111.
The Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra, under
Maestro Arie Lipsky, performs a concert featuring
French music from the 19th and early 20th cen-
turies 8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 11, at the Michigan
Theater in Ann Arbor. French Chic showcases cel-
list Wendy Warner, who will play Faure's Elegy and
Saint-Saens' Cello Concerto No. I. $10-$38. (734)
994-4801.
The Brunch with Bach concert series hosts
pianist Maria Mierelles, performing works by
composers of the Romantic era, 11:30 a.m.
Sunday, Sept. 12, at the Detroit Institute of Arts.
Brunch (11 a.m.) and concert: $22 adults/$11
children under 12; stairwell concert-only seating:
$5. (313) 833-4005.
POP/ROCK/JAZZ/FOLK
Jerome Duncan Ford Theatre at Freedom Hill
welcomes the Beach Boys 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept.
17. $25-$45. (248) 645-6666.
The Ark in Ann Arbor presents bluegrass per-
formers the RFD Boys, 8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 11,
$10-$11; blues artist Otis Taylor, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, Sept. 12, $15; cowboy balladeer Don
Edwards, 8 p.m. Monday, Sept. 13, $15; and
country rocker Nick Lowe, 8 p.m. Tuesday, Sept.
14, $25. (734) 761-1451.
Pop and R&B superstar Usher takes the stage at
the Palace of Auburn Hills 8 p.m. Saturday, Sept.
11. $37.50-$77.50. (248) 645-6666.
DTE Energy Music Theatre hosts country star
Kenny Rogers, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 11, $20-
$35; and rock band Fleetwood Mac, featuring
Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham, Mick
Fleetwood and John McVie, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday,
Sept. 14, $35-$95. (248) 645-6666.
Ann Arbor's University Musical Society kicks off
its season 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 17, with the Lincoln
Center Jazz Orchestra, with Wynton Marsalis on
trumpet. $10-$46. (734) 764-2538.
ON THE STAGE
_ Performance Network in Ann Arbor mounts a
production of Charlotte Jones' Humble Boy, a
freewheeling comedy adaptation of Hamlet set in
the Cotswolds, 8 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays and 2
p.m. Sundays, Sept. 16-Oct. 31. $20-$32.50/pay
what you can Thursdays. (734) 663-0681.
Players Guild of Dearborn presents 6 Rms Rv
9/10
2004
90
Vu, Bob Randall's comedy about a covet-
ed six-room, rent-controlled, river-view
New York apartment, 8 p.m. Fridays and
Saturdays, Sept. 17-Oct. 2, with 2:30
p.m. Sunday matinees Sept. 26 and Oct.
3. $13. (313) 561-TKTS.
in downtown Birmingham, (248) 456-
8150.
The Birmingham Bloomfield Art
Center presents a major retrospective of
artwork by the late Oak Park artist
Suzanne Velick Sept. 10-30. Opening
reception: 6-8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 10.
(248) 644-0866.
GAIL ZIMMERMAN
THE BIG SCREEN
Cranbrook Art Museum hosts
Arts Editor
Looking
Both Ways: Art of the
The Detroit Film Theatre at the
Contemporary
African Diaspora, an
Detroit Institute of Arts screens the
exhibit that embodies the diverse cultural influ-
Hitchcockian French suspense film Red Lights,
ences acting on 12 artists from Africa now living
director Cedric Kahn's 2004 adaptation of a novel
in Western countries, Sept. 11-Nov. 28. The muse-
by Georges Simenon, 7 and 9 p.m. Friday and
urn offers a free Community Day, with music, lec-
Saturday and 4 and 7 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 10-12.
tures and films, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 11.
$6.50. (313) 833-3237.
(877) 462-7262.
The Toledo Museum of Art presents The
Unseen Art of TMA: What's in the Vaults and
THE SMALL SCREEN
Why?, a major exhibition that liberates more than
Detroit Public Television-Channel 56 airs the
100 of T1VIA's works from art storage, including
two-part The Question of God: Sigmund Freud
the
first public display of both of the museum's
& C.S. Lewis, which frames issues about the
mummies
in more than 30 years, Sept. 12-Jan. 2,
meaning of life, the existence of God, the problem
2005. (419) 255-8000.
of suffering and the inevitability of death through
The Needlework and Textile Guild of Michigan
the lives and ideas of two great thinkers of the
hosts curator Nancy Villa Bryk of the Henry Ford,
20th century, 9 p.m. Wednesdays, Sept. 15 and
who will present Quilts at the Henry Ford: 80
22. Check your local listings.
Years of Collecting, 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 14,
at First United Methodist Church, 1589 W Maple
Road, in Birmingham; $5. Members Shary Cohn
FAMILY FUN
and Joan Pasman will conduct a workshop on cre-
PuppetART/Detroit Puppet Theater presents
ating fabric bowls on Wednesday, Sept. 15, $15;
Cinderella, a marionette ballet with classical
contact Deborah Shoop at (248) 477-6193 for reg-
music, 2 p.m. Saturdays, Sept. 11 and 18. $5-
istration and materials list.
$7/$8 workshop following performances. (313)
Beginning a semester-long examination and cele-
961-7777.
bration of Cuban art and artists, Wayne State
The Barney Buckles Show, with special guests
University's Elaine L. Jacob Gallery presents Cuba
puppeteer Michael Brody and author Kelly
from the Inside Looking Out I: Faculty Students
DiPicchio, entertains children and their families 2
and Alumni from the Instituto Superior de Art,
p.m. Sunday, Sept. 12, at West Bloomfield Civic
Sept. 17-Oct. 22. Opening reception: 5-8 p.m.
Theater inside Barnes & Noble on Orchard Lake
Friday, Sept. 17. (313) 577-2423.
Road. $2 per child/adults free. (248) 737-3301.
WHATNOT
THE ART SCENE
Upcoming art fairs include Art &
Apples, 4-7:30 p.m. Friday, 9 a.m.-
7:30 p.m. Saturday and 9 a.m.-4
p.m. Sunday, Sept. 10-12, in
Rochester Municipal Park in
Rochester, west of Rochester Road,
north of University, (248) 651-4110;
Spotlight Market Art & Gift Show
(proceeds benefit Meadow Brook
Theatre), 4-8 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m.-8
p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Sunday, Sept. 10-12, on Walnut and
Fourth streets in downtown
Rochester, (248) 651-8681; and
Common Ground Sanctuary's 30th
annual Art in the Park, 10 a.m.-6
p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Sunday, Sept. 11-12, in Shain Park
Meredith Wenzel of Toledo
exhibits her colorful glass
at Art in the Park in
Birmingham.
The Detroit Historical Museum
hosts a walking tour of the historic
Boston-Edison district 1 p.m. Sunday,
Sept. 19. Registration: (313) 833-
4727.
Authors Susan Isaacs, J.A. Jance, T.
Jefferson Parker and Lorenzo
Carcaterra speak at the 65th annual
Metro Detroit Book and Author
Society Luncheon noon Monday, Oct.
18, at Burton Manor in Livonia. $30.
Go to www.bookandauthor.org or
mail name, address and number of
tickets with self-addressed, stamped
envelope to: Metro Detroit Book and
Author Society Tickets, 210 Mead
Road, Rochester Hills, MI 48306
(tables seat 10; to sit together, send
for tickets together).
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