[Arts& Entertainment

Gail Zimmerman
Arts Editor

Young Pucks

Two sensations of the classical music
world appear in
Michigan in the
upcoming week.
Israeli-born cellist
Matt Haimovitz, 35,
who made headlines
with his interpreta-
tions of Bach's Six
Suites for Cello and his
Bach "Listening Room"
Tour, during which the
Itzhak Perlman protege
performed classical
works in pop clubs
Matt Haimovitz
. and other nontradi-
tional venues for clas-
sical music, takes the stage in Chamber
Music Society of Detroit Opus 3 Series
concerts 8 p.m. Friday, Feb: 10, and 7
p.m. Saturday Feb. 11, at the Seligman
Performing Arts Center in Beverly Hills.
He'll also appear at a private dinner and
performance Thursday, Feb. 9, at the
home of Doreen Hermelin.
Currently professor of cello at McGill
University in Montreal, Haimovitz plays

a 1710 Matteo Gofriller cello. Among his concerts.
prestigious honors are an Avery Fisher
- Kernis, now 46 and the youngest
-Career Grant and a 2004 Trailblazer
American composer to win a Pulitzer
Award by the American Music
Prize, is an esteemed musical figure of
Center for his contribution to
"fearless originality [and] powerful
American music.
voice," said the New York Times.
The Feb. 10 program, with
In addition to having his orchestral
the St. Lawrence String
work Musica Celestis performed by the
Quartet, includes Mozart's
DSO 8 p.m. Thursday, 8 p.m. Friday, 8:30
Quartet in D major,
p.m. Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 9-
Shostakovich's String Quartet
12, in Orchestra Hall, his chamber music
No. 8 in C minor and Schubert's will be featured in a Pro Musica recital
Quintet in C Major. In the Feb.
by the Contrasts Quartet, an all-female
11 program,
violin, cello, clarinet and
Haimovitz will
piano ensemble making
perform Bach's'
their Detroit debut, 8:30
Complete
p.m. Saturday; Feb. 10, at
Unaccompanied
the Music Box in the Max
' Cello Suites.
M. Fisher Music Center.
Tickets are $38-$75 and
The Pro Musica concert
$23 for students. (248)
consists of five Kernis
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compositions plus the
www.comehearCMSD.org .
Beethoven Archduke Trio
The works of another . •
for piano, violin and cello.
Aaron Jay Ke rnis
bright, shining Jewish
Kernis will talk about his
light in the world of clas-
life and work as a compos-
sical music, composer Aaron Jay Kernis,
er and call audience attention to dis-
can be heard this weekend in Pro
tinctive features of his works, followed
Musica and Detroit Symphony Orchestra by an afterglow with the composer and

artists. Kernis also will discuss his work
in the DSO's pre-concert Ford
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ConcerTalk on Thursday, Feb. 9, at 7
p.m.
Tickets for the DSO concerts, which
also feature violinist Midori playing
Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto, are $19-
$69 (a limited number of box seats are .
available for $60 to $114). Tickets for
the Pro Musica concert are $40 and also
are available through the DSO box
office. Call (313) 576-5111 or go to
www.detroitsymphony.com .

Welcome Back, Eric

Set in Detroit, a new full-scale musical
tale, Father Bingo, comically weaves
political intrigue arid mistaken identity
into stories of a parish priest fighting to
save his church, a mayor trying to win
the hearts of his voters in support of
casino gambling and a woman search-
ing for the perfect match to end her
loneliness.
•
The show features the Original
Vandellas of Motown fame along with
talented local musicians and a cast of

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Ford, whose late mother was
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Jewish, plays a computer security
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expert who designs theft-proof finan-
cial systems but then is forced to •
Fire Trap?
overcome his own system and steal
Most films that open in February
$100 million
flop at the box office. Why? The -
when his wife
cold weather keeps people in, and
and kids are held
the TV networks run a lot of their
hostage by a had
best stuff this month (including,
guy (Paul
this year, the Olympics). The stu-
Bettany).
dios know all about this and
'Ford's recent
dump the opening of films they
action films have
don't think will succeed into the
flopped, and he is
February lineup.
now 63. So, a
So, it's not a good sign that the
Firewall flop may
new Harrison Ford action film,
mean an-end —.
Harrison Ford

February 9 • 2006

except for one more Indiana Jones
sequel — to Ford's career as a lead-
ing man. .
Nonetheless, according to Bettany,
the real-life Ford is still muy macho.
Bettany said this about a film fight
with Ford: "He's a tough son of a
bitch. I threw that man through a
window seven times — and he land-
ed on his head, got up, rebuilt the
window with the crew and then got
thrown through it again. 1_ hit that
man in the stomach, and he said,
`Could you just land it a bit harder so
I could feel it?"

Return To TV
You'll be seeing more of Jewish per=

formers Howie Mandel and Brooke
Burke in the months to come
because their shows netted good rat-
ings the first time around.
Ivlandel's game show Deal or No
Deal found an audience in a limited
December run
and will return to
NBC in March.
The premise is
clever enough to
keep your atten-
tion for a few
shows, but I don't
think it has the
legs to stick
around for many
seasons.
Brooke Burke