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Vivace Virtuosi

Though only 20 years old, violinist Melissa White
has wowed audiences as a soloist with symphony
orchestras from Detroit to Atlanta. Winner of the
Sphinx First Laureate Award in 2001, she is now
studying under Jaime Laredo and Ida Kafavian at
. the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.
Bulgarian-born pianist Angelina Pashmakova has
performed in Russia, Europe and India and is a
frequent guest artist with local chamber music
and orchestral concerts.
The Birmingham Temple Vivace Concert
Series presents the duo performing works by
Brahms, Chausson, Sarasate and others 8 p.m.
Saturday, May 14, at the temple, 28611 W. 12
Mile Road, in Farmington Hills. Tickets are $18
members, seniors and students; $21 nonmem-
bers. A meet-the-artists afterglow follows the
concert. For tickets, call (248) 788-9338 or
(248) 661-1348.

Throughout The Ages

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The Janice Charach Epstein Gallery exhibition
"The Jews in Turkey: Living Together
Throughout the Ages" opens with a gala event 2
p.m. Sunday, May 15, at the gallery, located in the .
West Bloomfield Jewish Community Center. The

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Alison Krauss and Union Station with
Jerry Douglas - Bluegrass with
crossover to pop, country and more.
Wharton Center for Performing Arts,
Michigan State University, East Lansing.
8 p.m. Friday, May 13. $30-$52. (800)
942-7866 or wwwwhartoncenter.com .

Lou Rawls - Pop series presents three-
time Grammy Award winner. Music
Hall Center for the Performing Arts,
350 Madison, Detroit. 8 p.m. Friday,
May 13. $30-$60. (313) 963-2366 or
www.ticketmaster.com .

Farmington Community Chorus -
Spring concert, "The Best is Yet to
Come" includes the 90-voice mixed
chorus, dancers and instrumentalists.
Seligman Perfoiming Arts Center,
Detroit Country Day School, 22305 W.
13 Mile, Beverly Hills. 8 p.m. Friday,
May 13. $10. (810) 632-4067.

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Turkish ambassador to the United States
and other dignitaries will attend.
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra will
On the first floor of the gallery,
honor the legacy of the late Max M.
"Jewish Costumes in the
Fisher with a - special performance 4 p.m.
Ottoman Empire," a selection of
Sunday,
May 15, in the facility that bears
illustrations depicting traditional
his name: the Max M. Fisher Music
16th- through 19th-century
GAIL ZIMMERMAN
Center.
Jewish attire of the region,
Arts Editor
Titled "Concert of Remembrance,"
will be featured. "Silk
the performance also will be dedicated
Needlework of
to all loved ones who have died but whose lives
Nallihah, Turkey," on the
and memories continue to be celebrated by family
gallery's second floor, depicts a
and friends. The com-
craft used not only as an ele-
munity
is invited to join
ment of dress adornment but
the DSO, led by
an expression of the thoughts
Resident Conductor -
and feeling of each needle-
Thomas Wilkins, in
woman.
what is intended to be
The exhibition runs through
an uplifting occasion for
July 28. See next week's Jewish
remembering those indi-
News for a more comprehensive
viduals.
look at the exhibits. For more
"I hope everyone in the
information, call (248) 432-
community will join us
5448.
for this concert," said
An exhibit at the Janice Charach
DSO President and
Epstein Gallery depicts Jewish
Executive Director Anne
dress in the Ottoman Empire.
Parsons, "especially if
they have someone spe-
The late Max Fisher

Pat Martino and the Music of Dexter
Gordon - Jazz guitar virtuoso appears

in a program that features music of the
tenor saxophonist. Orchestra Hall, 3711
Woodward, Detroit. 8 p.m. Friday, May
13. $18-$85. (313).576-5111 or
www.detroitsymphony.com .

99.5 WYCD Downtown Hoedown -
Country music. Hart Plaza, Detroit.
Friday-Sunday, May 13-15. (734) 459-
9157.

Guarneri String Quarter - University
Musical Society honors the quartet with
the 2005 UMS Distinguished-Artist
Award: Mozart, Schubert, Mendelssohn.
6 p.m. Saturday; May 14. $35-$85.
Rackham Auditorium, 915 E.
Washington, Ann Arbor. (734) 764- _
2538 or www.ums.org. .

Tom Paxton and Anne Hills - Folk
singers and songwriters. The Ark, 316 S.
Main, Ann Arbor. 8 p.m. Saturday, May
14. $20. (734) 761-1451 or
www.theark.org.

Emerging Artists - Pro Musica of
Detroit Inc. presents basso Valerian
Runinsky with accompanist composer

pianist Persis Parshall Vehar. Orchestra
Hall, 3711 Woodward, Detroit..8 p.m.
Saturday, May 14. $40. (313) 886-5639
or www.promusicadetroit.com .

Concert at "The Max" - Motor City
Brass Band, with Craig Strain conduct-
ing, features British trombonist Brett
Baker. $10. Max M. Fisher Music
Center-Music Box, 3711 Woodward,
Detroit. 3 p.m. Sunday, May 15. $10.
(313) 576-5111.

Mary Chapin Carpenter - Special
guest singer-songwriter Mindy Smith
opens. Michigan Theater, 603 E.
Liberty Ann Arbor. 8 p.m. Thursday,
May 19. $27.50-$40. (734) 73-8587 or
www.ticketmaster.com .

Musicians for Hope Benefit Concert
- Area musicians feature classical works
with funds to Hope Center Scholarship
Fund, which provides services to
preschoolers with autism, a part of
Beaumont's Center for Human
Development. First Presbyterian Church
of Birmingham, 1669 W. Maple. 3 p.m.
Sunday, May 22. $25. (248) 691-4757.

ON THE STAGE

The Scarlet Pimpernel - Oakland
Theatre Guild presents the classic story
of romance, intrigue and swashbuckling
adventure. Starlight Theater, Summit
Place Mall, 315 N. Telegraph,
Waterford. 7:30 p.m. Fridays-Saturdays,
2 p.m. Sundays, May 6-22. $14 adults,
$12 seniors, $10 students: (248) 335-
1788 or www.starlighttheater.net .

Riverdance - Fox Theatre, 2211
Woodward, Detroit. 8 p.m. Tuesday-
Friday; 2 p.m., 8 p.m. Saturday; 1 p.m.,
6:30 p.m. Sunday, May 17-22. $30-$65.
(313) 471-3200 or
www.ticketmaster.com .

THE ART SCENE

Person to Person - Solo exhibition of
oil paintings by Sylvia Clark. LaWrence
Street Gallery, 22620 Woodward,
Ferndale. Noon-5 p.m. Tuesday-
Saturday, through May 28; (248) 544-
0394 or www.lawrencestreetgallery.com .

Artist Julie Heffernan - Paintings by
New York artist. Robert Kidd Gallery,

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