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POP/ROCK/JAZZ/FOLK
Pro Musica Society of Detroit opens its 78th sea-
son 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 23, in the Recital Hall of
the Detroit Institute of Arts with featured artists the
Amernet String Quartet and clarinetist Alexander
Fiterstein. The quartet is composed of violinists
Misha Vitenson and Marcia Littley,. violist Michael
Klotz and cellist Javier
Arias, all of them gradu-
ates of the Juilliard School
of Music. Fiterstein, who
won First Prize in the
2001 Young Concert
Artists International
Auditions, studied at the
Israel Arts and Science
Academy, Interlochen Arts
Academy and the Juilliard
School. The program
includes Brahm's Clarinet
The Detroit Film Theatre at the
Barry Manilow takes the stage 8 p.m.
Detroit Institute of Arts screens Zelary,
Saturday, Oct. 23, at the Palace of
an unusual love story set in Nazi-occu-
Auburn Hills. He will sing songs from his
pied Czechoslovakia in 1943 inspired by
featuring
music
Manilow
Scores,
new CD,
actual events, 7 and 9:45 p.m. Friday and
from his theater pieces, Copacabana and
Saturday and 4 and 7 p.m. Sunday, Oct.
Harmony. $39.50-$89.50. (248) 645-
22-24. $6.50. (313) 833-3237.
6666.
GAIL ZIMMERMAN
Metro Detroit's first-ever Disability
The Ark in Ann Arbor hosts folk per-
Arts Editor
Film Festival, taking place 9 a.m.- 11
formers Lou and Peter Berryman and
p.m. Saturday, Oct. 23, at Dearborn's
their special brand of offbeat topical satire
Ford Community and Performing Arts Center,
8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 23, $15; and the California
includes the films Liebe Perla and A World
Guitar Trio, performing across a wide variety of
Without Bodies, documentaries screening 7-9 p.m.
musical genres, 8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 26, $20. (734)
that explore the oppression of the disabled during
761-1451.
the Holocaust, followed by a discussion. Ticket
Cabaret vocal artist Jan Sage performs works by
information: www.bwcil.org/reellife.html
Jewish composers Kurt Weill, George and Ira
Gershwin, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim
and Maury Yeston 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 23, at
THE ART SCENE
Kerrytown Concert House in West Bloomfield.
$10-$25. (734) 769-2999.
The Woods Gallery in the Huntington Woods
Singer-songwriter Dolly Parton performs songs
Library presents a Holiday Gift Galerie, featuring
from her four-decades-long career, with special
handmade gift items, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and
guests the Grascals, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 26, at
noon-5 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 23-24. (248) 336-1961.
Detroit's Fox Theatre. $37.50-$57.50. (248) 433-
Ferndale's Batista Gallery hosts the mixed-media
1515.
sculpture of Susan Aaron-Taylor through Nov. 24.
Michigan Jazz Festival presents Big Bands
Opening reception: 6-9 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 23.
Revisited, a concert performed by the Johnny
(248) 544-4627.
Trudell Big Band featuring the music of Count
Basie, Duke Ellington, Woody Herman, Stan
Kenton and Buddy Rich, 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 24,
WHATNOT
at the Clarenceville L.E. Schmidt Auditorium,
The New Yorker College Town Tour, featuring
20155 Middlebelt, in Livonia. $15. (248) 474-
small, in-classroom visits by New Yorker writers,
2720.
editors and artists; free daytime, on-campus lec-
Direct from Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Afro-
tures; and three evenings showcasing New Yorker
Latin Jazz Orchestra, led by Arturo O'Farrill, per-
writers, artists and entertainers, runs Thursday-
forms classics in the Afro-Latin jazz tradition 8 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 28-30, on the University of
Friday, Oct. 29, at the Max M. Fisher Music
Michigan campus in Ann Arbor. Highlights
Center. Ticket information: (313) 576-5111 or
include a conversation between New Yorker editor
www.detroitsymphony.org
David Remnick and investigative reporter
Seymour Hersh, 4 p.m. Oct. 28 at the Lydia
Mendelssohn Theater, free; New Yorker film critic
ON THE STAGE
David Denby hosting a preview of the new Marc
The Studio Theatre at Wayne State University
Foster (Monster's Ball) film, Finding Neverland, 8
presents Steve Martin's adaptation of the Carl
p.m. Oct. 28 at the Michigan Theater, $20/$10
Sternheim farce The Underpants 8 p.m. Thursday-
students; and New Yorker humor writer Andy
Saturdays through Oct. 28. $7-$9. (313) 577-2972.
Borowitz, who'll interview author/actress Amy
Set in a Soviet Georgian village during the 1950s,
Sedaris, 8 p.m. Friday at the Ark, $20/$10 stu-
the absurdist fairy tale Forbidden Christmas or the
dents. For tickets, call, (734) 763-8587; for a corn-
Doctor and the Patient, rarely staged in the United
plete schedule, go to
States, addresses loss, madness, self-discovery and
www.newyorkercollegetour.com
love. Starring dance legend Mikhail Baryshnikov, it
Currently at the Detroit Historical Museum is
will be staged 8 p.m. Wednesday-Friday, 2 and 8
the exhibition Enterprising Women: 250 Years of
p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 27-31, at
American Business, highlighting some 40 women
the Power Center in Ann Arbor. $20-$65. (734)
entrepreneurs, including Mary Chase Perry
764-2538.
Stratton, founder of Pewabic Pottery, and Brownie
Pontiac Theatre IV presents Dracula, with Mitch
Wise, who developed the concept for Tupperware
Master in the title role, 7:30 p.m. Fridays and
parties. (313) 833-1805.
Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays, Oct. 29-Nov. 7, at
Grandstand seats in Detroit's Grand Circus Park
the West Bloomfield Civic Theatre, located in
are available for purchase through Nov. 17 for this
Barnes & Noble in West Bloomfield. $10/available
year's America's Thanksgiving Parade. $20. (313)
at the door. (248) 737-3301.
923-7400 or www.theparade.org
Quintet; Six Jewish Songs
and Dances for Clarinet
Clarinetist Alexander
and Strings by the noted
Fiterstein performs
Israeli composer Betty
Saturday evening
Olivero; and a new work
at the DIA.
by contemporary Mexican
composer Emmanuel Arias y Luna. $40, includes a
guided tour of "The Photography of Charles
Sheeler: American Modernist" exhibit prior to the
concert and an afterglow reception with the artists.
Woodward Avenue entrance opens at 6:45 p.m.
Tickets: $40, (313) 833-4005; also available at the
door, by cash or check only. Info: (313) 886-5639.
The Michigan Opera Theatre opens its 2004 fall
opera season with Verdi's Rigoletto, the tragic tale
of a-razor-tongued court jester, 8 p.m. Saturday and
2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 23-24; 7:30 p.m. Wednesday,
Oct. 27; 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m.
Sunday, Oct. 29-31, at the Detroit Opera House.
$28-$113. (248) 645-6666.
The Pro-Mozart Society of Greater Detroit pres-
ents excerpts from Mozart operas 3 p.m. Sunday,
Oct. 24, at the Birmingham Temple in Farmington
Hills. A talented "Youth Prelude" precedes the con-
cert at 2:15 and a reception with the musicians fol-
lows the concert. $20, available at the door/$10 stu-
dents. (248) 683-9626.
The Birmingham-Bloomfield Symphony
Orchestra invites listeners on A Scandinavian
Cruise as it plays works by Grieg, Sibelius and other
Scandinavian composers 7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 24, at
Temple Beth El in Bloomfield Township. $25/chil-
dren free. (248) 645-2276.
Jerusalem-based composer/professor Andre
Hajdu, whose work reflects Jewish topics from folk-
lore to Jewish thought and history, lectures and
presents his works for piano 3:30 p.m. Tuesday,
Oct. 26; and Israeli U-M doctoral student and dou-
ble bassist Ron Merhavi presents a dissertation
recital 8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 27, both at the
University of Michigan School of Music, E.V.
Moore Building, 1100 Baits Dr., in Ann Arbor.
(734) 764-0594.
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