Arts & Entertainment Photo by Caro l Friedman About Yefim Bronfman Classical Combo Grammy Award-winning pianist Yefim Bronfman, 49, was born in Uzbekistan and immigrated to Israel with his family in 1973, where he began his piano studies at Tel Aviv University. He continued his stud- ies in the U.S. at the Juilliard School, the Curtis Institute and the Marlboro Festival. Renowned for his commanding tech- nique and significant lyrical gifts, he has gone on to appear with celebrated orches- tras, in chamber music collaborations and as a solo recitalist in the leading concert halls of the world. He is the recipient of the prestigious Avery Fisher Prize, one of the highest honors given to American instrumentalists. He won his Grammy for his recording of the three Bartok piano concertos with Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Bronfman will appear for two vener- able Detroit music institutions in the coming days. At 8 p.m. Saturday, May 19, he performs a recital for Chamber Music Society of Detroit — featur- ing selections from Beethoven, Schumann and Balakirev — at the Seligman Performing Arts Center on the campus of Detroit Country Day School in Beverly Hills. Tickets are $41-$75; student tickets are $25. Call (248) 855-6070. Then, Bronfman joins the Detroit Symphony Orchestra 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday and 8:30 p.m. Saturday, May 24-26, at Orchestra Hall in the Max M. Fisher Music Center in Detroit to play Rachmaninoff's legendary Piano Concerto No. 3, a signature piece for some of the world's greatest pianists (it was featured in the 1993 film Shine, about Australian pianist David Helfgott). Conducted by DSO Principal Guest Conductor and Artistic Adviser Peter Oundjian, the concerts also feature Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Aaron Jay Kernis' Newly Drawn Sky and two works by British composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. Tickets to the DSO concerts are $15-$69. Seniors (60 and over) and students can purchase 50-percent-off rush tickets at the box office 90 minutes prior to ciassi- cal concerts, based on availability. Call (313) 576-5111 or go to www. detroitsymphony. corn. Tie One On Some remember Menachem Begin as the man who made peace with Egypt. Others point to the former prime minister as one of the very few Israelis who regularly wore a tie. On Thursday, May 31, the Janice Charach Epstein Gallery will host "Dry Clean Only: A Charity Shirt and Tie Auction of Wearable Art." Local artists will decorate denim shirts and silk ties, which will be modeled by community leaders. Then it's time to bid on these wearable works of art, with proceeds benefiting Kids Kicking Cancer and the gallery. The event, sponsored by the gallery and the Shirt Box in Farmington Hills, will fea- ture the talents of artists Danny Gutman, Bruce Gerlach, Janice Tracht, Rabbi Aaron Bergman, Abby Stybel, Jason Talbert, Mark Lit, Hillary Fisher, Taryn Boyd and Jeremy Rich of TalkingSquid, Julie Tochette, Jo Rosen, Dominic Pangborn, Diane Smith, Dale Sparage, M. Ariel Sanders, Terry Lee Dill, Cliff Harris, Mollene Levin, Ron Steam, Edie Simons, Suzanne Sunshower, Marcia Henne, Jason Driscoll, Michael Phillips, Larry Lambert, Bill Bradley, Susan Fox, Stephen Deeb, Stephen Schudlich, Dan Swan, Barbara Mercier Pugsley and Stephen L. Pugsley. The event is free and open to the public. The preview begins at 6:30 p.m. and the auction starts at 7 p.m. The gallery is located in the Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit, 6600 W. Maple Road, in West Bloomfield. For information, contact the gallery at (248) 432-5579 or visit www.jccdet.org . Collector's Cache Bringing rarely seen art from a private collection to the public eye, the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit is currently hosting the exhibit "STUFF: International Contemporary Art from the Collection of Burt Aaron." It runs through July 29. Work owned by Detroit-area collector Aaron has been shown at major museums around the world. This exhibition features more than 140 works, in various media, by more than 75 artists, dating from the 1960s and continuing to the present. The art reflects the lack of any single, dominant art movement. It is an idiosyn- cratic collection, with abstract, realist, pop, conceptual and expressionistic painting, sculpture, photography and installation pieces. Some of the artists are well known, oth- FYI: For Arts 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. Photos are appreciated but cannot be returned. All events and dates listed in the Out & About column are subject to change. 140 c ., WS Nate Bloom • rim Special to the Jewish News Jewish 'Stars' 4:10 ti 38 The ABC series Dancing with the Stars is a monster hit almost at the level of American Idol. As this item goes to press, only four celebrity dancers remain going into the semifinals at 8 p.m. Monday and Tuesday, May 14-15. One of these four is Jewish actor Ian Samantha Ziering (Beverly Harris Hills 90210). The finals air 8 p.m. Monday and Tuesday, May 21-22. The show's success has greatly increased the visibility of Samantha Harris, its lovely Jewish co-host. Harris, 33, was born Samantha May 17 2007 Shapiro (Harris is her mother's maid- en name) and was raised in a Reform Jewish home in Minnesota. She went to Hebrew school and was a bat mitzvah. Harris earned a journalism degree from Northwestern University but also acted while in college. After graduation, she got some acting roles but eventually took a reporting job with Extra, the enter- tainment news show, and then joined Dancing at the start of its second season. She also works as a corre- spondent for El, the entertainment news cable station. This month, Harris told JVibe, a Jewish teen magazine, that she met her Jewish businessman husband at a cousin's birthday party in New York. They had a Jewish wedding presided over by the rabbi who con- firmed her, and Harris is now expect- ing their first child. All 'Shrecked' Shrek the Third, the sequel to the two wildly successful, animated Shrek films, opens on Friday, May 18. In this installment, the lovable ogre Shrek tries to avoid becoming the king of the land of "Far Far Away." CNN's Larry King appears in Shrek the Third as the voice of Doris, a Maya Rudolph funny female char- acter. Maya Rudolph, the Saturday Night Live star, provides the voice of Rapunzel. Rudolph is the daughter of Dick Rudolph, a Jewish music execu- tive, and the late Minnie Riperton, an African-American singer most famous for her 1974 hit, Lovin' You. Riperton, who wasn't Jewish, died of cancer in 1979. The film series is based on the 1990 book Shrek! by Jewish author William Steig, who died in 2003 at age 96. "Shrek" is the Yiddish word for fear or loathing. Saying Goodbye Suzanne Pleshette, 70, has had a very long acting career – in dramas before she got to show her great comic timing in The Bob Newhart Show. But she has never talked about being Jewish. A reliable source, 85- year-old Variety columnist Army Archerd, who knows Pleshette, con- firms that she is. Pleshette's husband of six years, comedian Tom Poston, died on April 30. Archerd attended Poston's funeral and burial at Hillside Jewish cemetery in Los Angeles. Pleshette, Archerd wrote in his Web blog, gave a witty and warm eulogy that cel- ebrated Poston's life.