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CLASSICAL NOTES
For the 2011-12 classical season open-
ing in October, the Detroit Symphony
Orchestra has announced it will initi-
ate a new patron-minded pricing
program — with single tickets reduced
up to 53 percent (rolled back to 1999
levels). Tickets will go from $15-$50,
with more than half the tickets available
at $25 or less. Beginning in September,
a new $25 Student All-Access Pass will
provide students with admittance to all
DSO concerts at Orchestra Hall. When
season tickets go on sale on May 23,
eight-, 12- and 20-concert packages
also will reflect the discounts. (With the
DSO's reduction of ticket prices down
to $20 for pops and classical concerts
in its current spring season — catch
Leonard Slatkin conducting all-
Beethoven concerts 10:45 a.m. Friday
and 8 p.m. Saturday, May 20-21, at
Detroit's Orchestra Hall — ticket sales
have been at five times the normal vol-
ume, which has prompted the changes.)
(313) 576-5111; dso.org.
The Chamber Music Society of
Detroit hosts the Morgernstern Trio,
winners of the 2009 Kalichstein-Laredo-
Robinson International Trio Award,
performing works by Beethoven, Ravel
and Brahms, 8 p.m. Saturday, May 21,
at the Seligman Performing Arts Center
in Beverly Hills. $43-$75/$25 students.
(248) 855-6070; comehearcmsd.org .
Patti Lupone
POP/ROCK/JAZZ/FOLK
Jazz pianists Bill Charlap and Renee
Rosnes, who also happen to be husband
and wife, have recently released their
debut recording, Double Portrait (Blue
Note), of which DownBeat magazine
wrote: "The counterpoint and compat-
ibilities are so perfectly balanced, the
selections and arrangements so hand-
some, that Double Portrait is a prize."
Here them perform selections from the
album, and more, 8 p.m. Friday, May
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20, at Orchestra Hall.
26; $15 Wednesdays,
$22.50-$66.50. (313)
Thursdays and Sundays,
576-5111; dso.org .
$20 Fridays and Saturdays
The quartet Eddie
(20 percent will be taken
From Ohio, which
off Andiamo restaurant's
Gail Zimmerman
actually hails from
food bill if tickets are pur-
Arts Editor
Washington, D.C.,
chased); show times and
brings its lyri-
tickets: (248) 348-4448
cally driven and often
or andiamonovitheatre.
humorous original music, sung in four-
corn. Encore, a professional company
part harmonies over a background of
based in Dexter (3126 Broad St.), offers
acoustic strings and hand and stick per- performances May 26-29 and June 2-4;
cussion, to the Ark in Ann Arbor 8 p.m.
$19-$22; show times and tickets: (734)
Saturday, May 21. EFO guitarist Robbie
268-6200 or theencoretheatre.org .
Schaefer hosts his own show evenings
on XM Kids satellite radio. $25. (734)
THE ART SCENE
763-8587; theark.org.
Broadway star Patti LuPone, with
The work of some 100 artists from across
Maestro Leonard Slatkin conduct-
the U.S. will be for sale at Fine Art at the
ing the Detroit Civic Orchestra, will
Village of Rochester Hills, 10 a.m.-8
be the guest performer at the Jewish
p.m. Saturday and noon-6 p.m. Sunday,
Community Center of Metropolitan
May 21-22. Artist Allison Berlin of West
Detroit's gala opening of the new
Bloomfield, who is relatively new to the
Berman Center for the Performing
art fair scene, will show her cabbage
Arts, honoring Madeleine and Bill
bowls and leafy ceramics. Veteran potter
Berman, 7:30 p.m. Monday, May 23, at
Carole Berhorst of Bloomfield Hills will
the Berman Center at the JCC in West
display her bold and functional work.
Bloomfield. A limited number of tickets,
(248) 689-8734; fineartatthevillage.com .
at $200 each, are still available. (248)
The JCC's Janice Charach Gallery
432-5420.
will celebrate its 20th anniversary with
Bob Dylan turns 70 years on May
an exhibit and sale noon-3 p.m. Sunday,
24. A just-released CD, Bob Dylan
May 22, at the gallery, 6600 W. Maple
In Concert — Brandeis University
Road in West Bloomfield. The exhibit,
1963, captures the former Robert
which runs through July 24, will feature
Zimmerman (and, no, unfortunately,
new works by artists who have previ-
we are not related!) as a 21-year-old,
ously shown in the gallery, including
on the cusp of fame, in a previously
Herb Babcock, Faye Grajower, mother
unknown live recording taped at the
and daughter Joyce Brodsky and Lesley
Brandeis First Annual Folk Festival in
Serri, and Ed Meese, among others.
Waltham, Mass., on May 10, 1963.
The gallery is open to the public at no
charge 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Thursday
ON THE STAGE
and noon-4 p.m. Sunday. (248) 432-
5579; jccdet.org .
Stagecrafters presents the Tony
Award-winning musical Hairspray,
FAMILY FUN
under the musical direction of Marty
Mandelbaum, May 20-June 12 at the
On the sesquicentennial of the Civil War
Baldwin Theatre, 415 S. Lafayette, in
and with the most extensive display of
downtown Royal Oak. $18-$20. Show
Civil War records ever assembled from
times and tickets: (248) 541-6430;
the holdings of the National Archives,
stagecrafters.org .
the Henry Ford in Dearborn presents
Composer Jason Robert Brown
the exhibit Discovering the Civil War,
wrote the score for the 1998 Tony
running May 21-Sept 5, with little
Award-winning musical Parade, about
known stories, seldom seen documents
the 1913 trial of Jewish factory manager and unusual perspectives on the strug-
Leo Frank of Atlanta, who was falsely
gle that tore apart the nation. Through
accused and convicted of raping and
interactive components, visitors will
murdering his 13-year-old employee.
be able to consider and ask questions
His Drama Desk Award-winning 2002
about the evidence and listen to a wide
Off-Broadway musical, The Last Five
variety of voices to make up their own
Years, a two-person song cycle chroni-
minds about the confrontation between
cling a five-year marriage that falls
the Union and Confederacy. Special
apart, draws on pop, rock, classical,
events include free lectures 10-11 a.m.
folk and klezmer motifs. It comes to
May 21, July 23 and Sept. 3 and a public
two Metro Detroit stages in the coming
viewing of the original Emancipation
week. Andiamo Novi Theatre (42705
Proclamation, free to the public, in
Grand River Ave.) presents the show
an around-the-clock vigil June 20-22.
Wednesdays-Sundays, May 25-June
Admission to the museum is free with
A 20th-anniversary exhibit at the
Janice Charach Gallery in West
Bloomfield will feature new works by
returning artists. Shown here is a new
piece by Herb Babcock.
membership or $15 adults, $14 senior
(62 and up) and $11 youth (5-12).
Children 4 and under are free.
Civil War Remembrance Weekend,
May 28-30 at Greenfield Village, features
hundreds of military re-enactors, parades,
artillery demonstrations and hours of
19th-century music. Free to members or
with admission to Greenfield Village: $21
ages 62+, $22 ages 13-61, $16 ages 5-12,
4 and under free. More info and tickets:
(313) 982-6001; thehenryford.org .
WHATNOT
The Detroit Historical Society
and Preservation Wayne host a
Bootlegging-themed Boat Tour with
dinner on board the Diamond Jack,
Saturday, May 21, departing from the
Stroh River Place dock at 5:30 p.m. and
returning by 8 p.m. $55 members/$60
guests. (313) 577-7674.
Book Beat presents a conversation
about local community activism
between Grace Lee Boggs, author
of The Next American Revolution:
Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-
first Century, and Oran Hesterman,
founder of the Fair Food Network and
author of Fair Food: Growing a Healthy,
Sustainable Food System for All, 7 p.m.
Thursday, May 26, at the Oak Park
Library. (248) 968-1190. (1
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