arts & entertainment >> editor's picks 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 118 may 19 a 2011 About 1410 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 Email items you wish to have considered for Out & About to Gail Zimmerman at gzimmerman@thejewishnews.com . Notice is requested three weeks prior to event.