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CLASSICAL NOTES
University Music Society presents
the Takacs Quartet, performing
their entire Bartok String Quartet
cycle, awarded Gramophone's
Chamber Music Recording of the
Year in 1998, 4 p.m. Sunday, Feb.
20, at Rackham Auditorium, Ann
Arbor. $28-$50. (734) 764-2538 or
www.ums.org.
Donny Osmond: An Intimate
Evening of Music comes to the Music
Hall Center for the Performing Arts,
Detroit, 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 18. $38-
$58. (248) 645-6666 or
www.Ticketmaster.com.
Vance Gilbert, former jazz singer
turned songwriter, who explores the
experience of being nonwhite in
America, the hard inner life of single
parents and the rocky road of love,
sings at the Ark, Ann Arbor, 8 p.m.
Friday, Feb. 18. $13.50. (734) 761-
1451 or www.theark.org.
Jazz drummer Jack DeJohnette cele-
brates Latin percussion with the Jack
DeJohnette Latin Project 8 p.m.
Saturday, Feb. 19, at Hill Auditorium,
Ann Arbor. $10-$40. University
Musical Society: (734) 764-2538 or
www.ums.org.
The New Orleans band The Iguanas
entertains with Mexican music, blues,
Cajun and zydeco, Louisiana funk
and roots rock, 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb.
19, at the Ark, Ann Arbor. $16. (734)
761-1451 or www.theark.org .
University Musical Society hosts the
Japanese Kodo Drummers 8 p.m.
Monday-Wednesday, Feb. 21-23 at
the Power Center for the Performing
Arts, Ann Arbor. $20-$44. (734)
764-2538 or www.ums.org .
Art Garfunkel entertains at the
Macomb Center for the Performing
Arts 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 23.
$50-$60. (586) 286-2222 or
www.MacombCenter.com.
David Clayton-Thomas and Blood
Sweat & Tears appear at the
Macomb Center for the Performing
Arts, Clinton Township, 8 p.m.
Friday, Feb. 25. $33-$40. (586) 286-
2222 or www.MacombCenter.com.
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Wayne State University's Student
Stage Program presents Jewish corn-
poser Jason Robert Brown's musical
The Last 5 Years, a story of a young
couple's romance with a twist, 8 p.m.
Friday-Sunday, Feb. 18-20. $10. The
Studio Theatre, Detroit. (313) 737-
1993.
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and mental wellness, SAJE has something for everyone.
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BIG SCREEN
The Flight, a 90-minute documen-
tary recounting the 1938 heavyweight
bout between Max Schmeling and Joe
Louis, screens 7:30 p.m. Wednesday,
Feb. 23, at the West Bloomfield JCC.
(248) 432-5577.
Oakwood Healthcare System
Foundation hosts Oscar Night
America, celebrating the 77th
Academy Awards, 6:30 p.m. Sunday,
Feb. 27, at Star Theatres Southfield
and Pistons Hoop City Grille,
Southfield, with proceeds to benefit
children's programs and community
outreach initiatives throughout the
Oakwood Healthcare System. $50
and up. (313) 596-5346 or
www.oakwood.org.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
A semi-staged performance of Shakespeare's words
and Mendelssohn's music
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 8 PM
Hill Auditorium
This production of A Midsummer Night's Dream is a most rare vision
HE ART SCENE
Paint Creek Center for the Arts and
Pewabic Pottery present The Best
of Arts & Crafts, a celebration of
pottery, tile and contemporary visu-
al arts, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and
Sunday, Feb. 19-20, at Shotwell
Gustafson Pavilion, Oakland
University, Rochester. (313) 822-
0954.
AMILY FUN
The Longhorn World Champi-
onship Rodeo returns to the Palace
of Auburn Hills 8 p.m. Friday and
Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb.
18-20. $15-$20/ $12 opening
night. (248) 645-6666 or
www.palacenet.com.
— Compiled by Bobbi Charnas
indeed — a semi-staged performance combining selected scenes from
Shakespeare's play and the complete incidental music that Mendelssohn
began when he was a youthful 17 and completed 17 years later as the most
celebrated composer in Europe. Conceived and directed by Tim Carroll —
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who directed last season's production of Twelfth Night by the Globe Theatre
— and performed by British stage actors and the Orchestra of the Age of
Enlightenment — the group that astonished Ann Arbor audiences in Cecilia
Bartoli's Salieri concert — this unique production will be seen in only three
cities: Ann Arbor, New York, and London.
This visionary production includes costumes, movement, and some props,
interweaving the play with the music to create a truly special evening.
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Media Partner Michigan Radio/Michigan Television.
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