Arts Life

CLASSICAL

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The Detroit Symphony Orchestra, under the baton
of Neeme Jarvi at Orchestra Hall, presents pianist Per
Tengstrand, performing Beethoven's Piano Concerto
No. 5, 8 p.m. Friday and 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 17-
18; conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conducting the
orchestra in Hoist's The Planets, whose themes have
been "borrowed" for numerous space movie sound-
tracks, 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 23, and 3 p.m. Sunday,
Sept. 26; and cellist Yo-Yo Ma, making a rare DSO
appearance and performing Dvorak's Cello Concerto, 8
p.m. Thursday, Sept. 30. Ticket information: (313)
576-5111 or www.detroitsymphonyorg
University Musical Society in Ann Arbor welcomes
virtuoso sitar player (and father of Norah Jones) Ravi
Shanker, 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 23, at Hill
Auditorium, $10-$48; and the Emerson String
Quartet, playing works by Tower, Shostakovich. and
Beethoven, 4 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 26, at Rackham
Auditorium, $20-$42. (248) 764-2538.
Ann Arbor's Kerrytown Concert House hosts a
20th-birthday gala weekend Oct. 1-3, with three days
of music, champagne and cake, 8 p.m. Friday (Parisian
Soiree), $20-$35; 8 p.m. Saturday (Bolcom & Morris
and Friends), $30-100; and 4 p.m. Sunday (combina-
tion program), $30-$100. Reservations: (734) 769-
2999.
Birmingham Temple's Vivace Music Series hosts
soprano Jennifer Larson, accompanied by pianist
James Wilhelmsen, 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 2, at the
temple in Farmington Hills. Larson will perform
Robert Schumann's song cycle Frauenliebe and Leben,
Richard Strauss' Brentano Liede Op. 69 and When
Autumn Never Ends, a narrative piece accompanied by
piano and string ensemble written specifically for
Larson by Royal Oak composer Mark Gottlieb.
Afterglow follows concert. $21 general admission/$18
students and seniors. (248) 788-9338 or (248) 661-
1348.
Jeff Haas presents his Double Quartet and the
Phoenix Ensemble String Quartet in the opening con-
cert of Temple Israel's Schmier Chapel Chamber Series
7:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 3, at the temple in West
Bloomfield. The program features a selection of classi-
cal music and jazz from Mendelssohn to Dvorak and
Irving Berlin to Dave Brubeck, plus The Age of
Confluence, a recent composition by Has scored for
both jazz quartet and string quartet. The public is
invited at no charge. (248) 661-5700.

POP/ROCK/JAZZ/FOLK

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Vocalist Janis Siegel of the Manhattan Transfer spot-
lights her new solo CD, Sketches of Broadway, in 8 and
10 p.m. performances at the Firefly Club in Ann
Arbor Saturday, Sept. 18, $20, (734) 665-9090. Siegel
also performs 4:30 p.m. Saturday ($15), followed by
the Bo-Keys at 6:30 p.m., at Ann Arbor's Riverside
Park along the Huron River as part of "Connections
Across the River," a celebration of music, dancing and
cultural events marking the official reopening of Ann
Arbor's Broadway Bridge. Sunday's performers include
Gemini (noon) and Dick . Siegel (7 p.m.), $15/$5 chil-
dren. (734) 763-TKTS.

Best Bets

The rock rollers of the Tragically Hip
Award-winning musical Thoroughly
take the stage 8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 18, at
Modern Millie, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday and
Detroit's Fox Theatre. $32. (248) 433-
Wednesday (sign-language interpreted),
1515.
Oct. 12-13, at Detroit's Fisher Theatre; $60
Singer-songwriter Michael Bolton per-
and up. Millie's Speakeasy, the 11th annual
forms 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 23, at
Young Adult Pre-Glow Party for ages 21-
DTE Energy Music Theatre. $19.50-
40, takes place 5-7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct.
$39.50. (248) 645-6666.
13, just prior to the theater performance, at
Dennis DeYoung, former singer-song-
the Motor City Grill in the Fisher Building
writer of Chicago-based rock group Styx,
(open to those who have purchased theater
GAIL ZIMMERMAN
presents a symphonic rock spectacular, fea-
tickets).
(248) 538-6610, Ext. 418 or
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vocalists and a full symphony orchestra,
7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 30, at the Detroit Opera
House. Also on stage that night will be Alan Parsons
DANCE FEVER
Live Project. $45-$65. (248) 645-6666.
Michael Flatlet's Lord of the Dance returns to
Rock 'n roll post-punk trio Yo La Tengo, featuring
Detroit's Fox Theatre 8 p.m. Friday and 2 and 8 p.m.
the harmonies of guitarist husband Ira Kaplan and
Saturday, Oct. 1-2. $16-$61.75. (248) 433-1515.
drummer wife Georgia Hubley, visits the Blind Pig in
Ann Arbor (doors at 9:30 p.m.) Monday, Sept. 27,
$14; followed by up-and-coming pop singer-song-
LAUGH LINEs
writer Matt Nathanson, (doors at 9 p.m.) Thursday,
Kadima, a nonprofit, nonsectarian agency offering
Sept. 30, $15. (248) 645-6666.
residential,
counseling and supported employment
The Ark in Ann Arbor presents Sing Out at the
services
to
adults
with psychiatric disabilities, celebrates
Ark, the club's first community sing (lyric books will
its 20th anniversary with a benefit performance featur-
be provided), led by Matt Watroba and other local
ing the Capitol Steps, a comedy troupe that performs
performers, 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 1. $11. (734) 761-
topical skits and musical parodies skewering politicians
1451.
of all stripes, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 28, at the State
Theatre in Detroit. $100. (248) 352-8998 or (248)
432-5585.
ON THE STAGE
A regular on Comedy Central and the Tonight Show,
The Farmington Players Open House, beginning
comic Michael Loftus performs at Mark Ridley's
6:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 18, features tours of the year-
Comedy Castle in Royal Oak 8 p.m. Thursday and 8
old theater, located at 32332 W. 12 Mile Road, as well
and 10:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Oct. 1-2. Also on
as information on upcoming shows, set design, cos-
the bill is gay-Jewish comedian Jason Douglas. (248)
tumes and membership; for more information call
542-9900.
(313) 418-5665. The Players open their season Sept.
24-Oct. 16 with Peter Coke's Breath of Spring, a com-
edy about a modern-day Robin Hood and her band of
THE BIG SCREEN
merry thieves. Call for show times. $13. (248) 553-
The Detroit Film Theatre at the Detroit Institute of
2955.
Arts presents the world premiere of Home of the
Macomb Center for the Performing Arts hosts
Brave, a new documentary by Paola di Florio that tells
Forbidden Broadway Shoots for the Stars, a funny
the story of slain Detroit civil rights worker Viola
love letter to theater in satire and song, 7:30 p.m.
Liuzzo, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 30. The filmmakers
Tuesday-Thursday, 8 p.m. Friday, 2 and 8 p.m.
will
be present to introduce and discuss the film.
Saturday and 3 and 7 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 28-Oct. 3.
Additional screenings: 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday,
$25-$30. (586) 286-2222.
Oct. 2 3. $6.50. (313) 833-3237.
NoSuch group presents the Detroit premiere of the
satire Laura's Bush 8 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays and 4
p.m. Sundays, Sept. 30-Oct. 10, at 1515 Broadway.
THE ART SCENE
With costuming by Eli Magid of Detroit, the play
The Ferndale Fine Art Show and Food Festival, fea-
begins when a librarian living in Kansas enlists the help
turing more than 120 juried artists and a tastefest
of a local prostitute to rescue the first lady after notic-
offered by 10 area restaurants, takes place 10 a.m.-8
ing in her television appearances that she has been
p.m.
Saturday and 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 18-
blinking "H-E-L-P-M-E" in Morse code (supporters of
19, along Nine Mile Road at Woodward in downtown
the president will probably find it offensive). All pro-
Ferndale. www.ArtShowInfo.com
ceeds will be donated to MoveOn, a group dedicated
Former Detroiter Aviva Kramer shows her paintings
to helping "ordinar." citizens find their political voice.
at Ferndale's Au Courant Gallery through Oct. 2.
$15/$10 students/pay what you can Thursdays. The
Opening reception: 5-7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 18. (248)
show will be followed at 10 p.m. Oct. 1 and 2nd by
548-3770.
the revue Jewish Girls Gone Bad (see next week's JN
Birmingham's District Arts Gallery features the
for more information). (313) 965-1515.
drawings, photographs and sculptures of Detroit artist
JARC, the nonprofit organization that enables peo-
Scott Hocking, who turns scrap metal, found objects
ple with developmental disabilities to live a full life,
and the detritus of city life into works of art, Sept. 18-
holds its 24th annual fall fund-raiser with the Tony

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