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CLASSICAL NOTES
Chamber Music Society of Detroit hosts cellist
Truls Mork and pianist Kathryn Stott, performing
Schumann's Fantasie Pieces, Op. 73 and cello sonatas
by Chopin, Miaskovsky and Prokofiev, 8 p.m.
Saturday, Nov. 13, at Seligman Performing Arts
Center in Beverly Hills. $33-$75. (248) 855-6070.
Michigan Opera Theatre closes its fall opera sea-
son with Faust, Charles Gounod's classic tale of a
man's struggle between good and evil, 8 p.m.
Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 13-14; 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Nov. 17; and 8. p.m. Friday and
Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 19-21. Faust. will
be sung in French with English surtitle translations.
$28-$113. (313)
237-7464.
Violinist
Jonathan Swartz
will be joined by
his wife, pianist
Wendy Chen, in
the next concert
in Temple Israel's
Schmier Chapel
Chamber Series.
Jonathan Swartz and Wendy Chen
The 7:30 p.m.
perform a chamber concert at
Sunday, Nov. 21, Temple Israel on Nov. 21.
performance at
the West
Bloomfield temple is free and open to the public.
(248) 661-5700.
POP/ROCK/JAZZ/FOLK
Pop veteran Neil Sedaka takes the stage at the
Andiamo Celebrity Showroom in Warren 8 and 10
p.m. Friday and Saturday, Nov. 12-13. $20-$75.
(586) 268-3200.
The Ark in Ann Arbor hosts satirical
bluegrass/folk/country musicians the Austin Lounge
Lizards 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 13. Detroit native
Boo Resnick, a U-M grad, plays bass. $20. (734)
761-1451.
University Musical Society presents E.S.T.
(Esbjom Svensson Trio), one of the hottest jazz acts
in Europe today, in a joint concert with a jazz piano
trio for the rock era, The Bad Plus, 8 p.m. Saturday,
Nov. 13, at the Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor.
$16-$36. (734) 764-2538.
It's the return of the Motown divas as Diana Ross
performs in concert 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 18, at
the Detroit Opera House, $35-$79.50, (248) 65-
6666; and The Supremes starring Mary Wilson
take the stage 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 20, at
Dearborn's Ford Community & Performing Arts
Center, $42-$47, (313) 943-2354.
The Billy Taylor Jazz Trio performs interpreta-
tions of originals and old favorites in a Paradise Jazz
Series concert 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 19, at Detroit's
Max M. Fisher Music Center. Ticket information:
(313) 576-5111 or vvvvw.detroitsymphony.org
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ON THE STAGE
NEW ON DVD
After a sold-out summer run at the
The action-comedy film The Hebrew
Purple Rose Theatre, Mitch Albom's come-
Hammer, written and directed by
dy Duck Hunter Shoots Angel, about a
Jonathan Kesselman and starring Adam
tabloid journalist from New York City on a
Goldberg in the title role as a handsome
search for two Alabama swamp poachers
Semitic super-stud who is called upon to
who believe they shot a celestial being, runs
save Chanukah, comes out on DVD,
at Detroit's City Theatre (formerly Second
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released by Comedy Central Home
Arts Editor
City) 8 p.m. Tuesdays-Fridays, 2 and 8 p.m.
Entertainment and Paramount
Saturdays and 2 and 7 p.m. Sundays, Nov.
Entertainment, on Tuesday, Nov. 16. The
17-Jan. 2, 2005. $35 $40. (313) 872-1000.
DVD's special features include deleted scenes, out-
Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit presents its second
takes, behind-the-scenes footage and commentary
annual Tesserae One-Act Play Festival, a series of one
from the cast and filmmakers.
act plays ranging from comedy to tragedy, 8 p.m.
wvvw.comedycentral.com
Thursday-Saturday and 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 18-21, at
the General Motors Mosaic Theatre, 610 Antoinette,
in Detroit. General admission is "pay what you can."
FAMILY FUN
(248) 307-0503.
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra presents a
Wayne State University's Hilberry Theatre opens the
Young People's Concert demonstrating how music
Bertolt Brecht classic Mother Courage and Her
captures the sounds of the animal kingdom 10 and
Children, a play with music set during the Thirty Years
11:30 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 13, at the Max M. Fisher
War (1618-1648) that deals with the theme of sur-
Music Center. For ages 4-11. Ticket information:
vival, 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 19. It will run in rotating
576-5111 or wvvw.detroitsymphony.org
repertory with Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit,
Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor and
Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman through Jan. 29,
THE ART SCENE
2005. $13-$22. (313) 577-2972.
Temple Emanu-El in Oak Park hosts an Israeli art
Farmington Players presents Charley's Aunt, the
show Nov. 18-21. Mencahem Safrai of the Safrai
comic masterpiece filled with mistaken identities and
Gallery in Jerusalem will bring more than 1,500
sight gags, Nov. 19-Dec. 11 at the Farmington Players
works
of art by more than 100 Israeli artists to view
Barn Theater. Call for show times. $13. (248) 553-
and
purchase.
Preview party: 7-10 p.m. Thursday,
2955.
Nov.
18/$36
per
person. Open to the general public
The University of Michigan Musical Theatre
10
a.m.-4
p.m.
Friday,
7-10 p.m. Saturday and 10
Department premieres The Water, a new musical -
a.m.-4
p.m.
Sunday,
Nov.
19-21. (248) 967-4020.
filled with folk and pop references - by composer
The 2004 Antique and Contemporary Ann
Georgia Stitt, lyricist Jeff Hylton and writer Tim
Arbor Fall Tile Fair takes place 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Werenko about a potentially devastating flood and its
Saturday, Nov. 13, at the First Unitarian Universalist
aftermath, 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday and 2 p.m.
Church of Ann Arbor, 4001 Ann Arbor-Saline Road
Sunday, Nov. 18-21, in the Trueblood Theatre in Ann
(at Ellsworth). $3/no strollers. (313) 822-0954.
Arbor. $9-$20. (734) 764-2538.
The Art Gallery of Windsor presents Barbara
Astman: Clementine Part I, a photographic instal-
lation by the Toronto artist celebrating the lives and
DANCE FEVER
spirits of Jewish orphans who arrived in Canada
Featuring an all-Argentinean cast, Luis Bravo's
after World War II, Nov. 20-Jan. 16, 2005.
Forever Tango, which traces the history of "the Eternal
Opening reception: 7-10 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 18.
Dance" through music, dance and dramatic vignettes, , (519) 977-0013.
comes to the Royal Oak Music Theatre 8 p.m.
Tuesday-Friday, 5 and 8:30 p.m. Saturday and 2 and
5:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 16-21. $29.50-$49.50. (248)
WHATNOT
399-2980.
A tennis exhibition featuring sisters Venus and
Serena Williams, as well as other celebrities, visits
the Palace of Auburn Hills 7:30 p.m. Thursday,
THE BIG SCREEN
Nov. 18. $15-$75/portion of the proceeds benefits
The Israeli Film Series of the MSU Jewish Studies
Ronald McDonald House. (248) 645-6666.
Program screens Broken Wings, the story of an Israeli
America's Family Pet Expo, presenting a wide
family dealing with the loss of its husband and father,
array of animal entertainment and products, comes
7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 16, in B-106 Wells Hall on
to the Novi Expo Center 1-9 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m.-7
the East Lansing campus. The film won nine Israeli
p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 19-
Academy Awards; it will be introduced by Ellen
21. $4-$9. (800) 999-7295.
Rothfeld, lecturer of Hebrew at MSU. Free. (517)
353-0740.
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