Arts & Life Best Bets 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 . 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 ARTS • 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. 5/12 2005 50 In Memory Of Max ' calendar MUSICAL NOTES 41'N 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, FYI: For Arts and Life related events that you wish to have considered for Out & About, please send the item, with a detailed description of the event, times, dates, place, ticket prices and publishable phone number, to: Gail Zimmerman, JN Out & About, The Jewish News, 29200 Northwestern Highway, Suite 110, Southfield, MI 48034; fax us at (248) 304-8885; or e-mail to gzimmerman@thejewishnews.com Notice must be received at least three weeks before the scheduled event. 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