Best Bets CLASSICAL NOTES 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). 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. Photos are appreciated but cannot be returned. 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