>> editor's picks CLASSICAL NOTES ► About his wife and two children, recently was appointed artistic director of the State Symphony Orchestra of Russia. $10-$80. (734) 764-2538; ums.org. In concerts 10:45 a.m. Friday, 8 p.m. Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 2-4, at POP / ROCK / Orchestra Hall in Gail Zimmerman JAZZ / FOLK Detroit, saxophonist Arts Editor Branford Marsalis Singer-songwriter and joins the Detroit peace activist Chava Alberstein, Symphony Orchestra to perform born in Poland and raised in Israel, the rarely heard Hot-Sonate of Jewish has recorded more than 60 albums composer Erwin Schulhoff, whose and performs in Hebrew, English persecution by the Nazis would destroy and Yiddish. Among the most well his career and end his life in a concen- known of Israeli folksingers, she is tration camp. Also on the program: Glazunov's Alto Saxophone Concerto and as well known for her support of liberal causes. She performs 7:30 Beethoven's kinetic Seventh Symphony. p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 6, at the Berman Tickets start at $18.50. (313) 576-5111; Center for the Performing Arts on the dso.org. campus of the Jewish Community Acclaimed worldwide for his tech- Center in West Bloomfield. $30 JCC nique and musicianship, British members/$40 nonmembers. (248) 661- cellist Steven Isserlis performs with 1900; theberman.org. Canadian pianist Connie Shih in a pro- In the Ultimate Doo Wop Show, gram of works by Mendelssohn, Liszt, Schumann and Franck 8 p.m. Saturday, coming to Detroit's Fox Theatre 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 8, hear 10 origi- Dec. 3, at Seligman Performing Arts nal doo-wop artists — including the Center, 22305 W. 13 Mile, Beverly Hills. Vogues, the Diamonds and the Crystals Isserlis comes from a musical family; — perform the genre's most memo- his grandfather, who was a Russian rable hits with the classic standards of Jew, was one of 12 musicians allowed to leave Russia in the 1920s to promote the holiday season. $32.50-$75. (800) 745-3000; olympiaentertainment.com . Russian culture, but he never returned. $43-$75/$25 students. (248) 855-6070; ON THE STAGE comehearcmsd.org . The University Musical Society One of Ireland's most celebrated play- presents the London Philharmonic wrights, Martin McDonagh, has cited Orchestra, with violinist Janine Martin Scorsese, David Lynch and Jansen, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 6, at Hill Auditorium, 825 N. University Ave., Quentin Tarantino as some of his great- est influences. He made the jump to Ann Arbor. LPO Principal Conductor film with the Academy-Award-winning Vladimir jurowski leads the orches- Six Shooter (2005), In Bruges (2008) tra in Tchaikovsky's rarely performed and the upcoming Seven Psychopaths. Manfred Symphony, Mozart's Violin On Dec. 2, the Hilberry Theatre opens Concerto No. 5 in A Major and Towards McDonagh's sentimental dark comedy Osiris, a 2005 work by Matthias The Cripple of Inishmaan, the first Pintscher. play of his Aran Islands trilogy, set off Jurowski, 39, was born in Moscow the western coast of Ireland in 1934 into a Jewish family of musicians. His when a filmmaker arrives to make a own background in Soviet Russia was documentary about life on the islands. necessarily secular, he said in an inter- It will run in rotating repertory with view with London's Jewish Chronicle. Frank Langella's Cyrano (beginning Jan. "The only time we were reminded 13, 2012) until Feb. 4, 2012. 4743 Cass we were Jewish was when we came Ave., Detroit. $12-$30. Show times: up against anti-Semitism," said the (313) 577-2972; hilberry.com . conductor, whose family moved to The Bonstelle Theatre stages William Germany when he was 18. "Our family Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, a com- was typical of the Soviet middle-class edy filled with strong musical ele- `intelligentsia, and there was very little ments, love and the reversal of gender talk of religious faith." and social roles, 8 p.m. Fridays and But, he told the Chronicle, "We have Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays, Dec. this collective memory. We are all con- nected by our common past. My grand- 2-11. Guest Director Alison C. Vesely, co-founder and artistic director of the mothers, when they didn't want us to understand what was being said, would First Folio Theatre in Chicago, helms the production. 3424 Woodward Ave., speak in Yiddish and, of course, their Detroit. $12-$15. (313) 577-2960; childhood had been in the remains of bonstelle.com . the Jewish shtetl culture' Jurowski, who lives in Berlin with 72 Out & About on page FRIDAY, DEC. 9, 2011 Come join us on this musical journey back in time with Motown Recording Legends. MISS MARTHA REEVES Rock N' Roll Hall of Famer The Queen of Motown will take you back to Hitsville as she performs all of her blockbuster hits: such as, Dancing in The Street, Nowhere To Run, Jimmy Mack, Heat Wave and My Baby Loves Me! THE CONTOURS Featuring Sylvester Potts writitalt4 These "Bad Boys" of Motown will dazzle you with timeless Motown and Dirty Dancing grooves such as their chartbuster hits: Do You Love Me and First I Look at The Purse! 11111HIE CONTCUIPS FEATURING SYLVESTER POTTS THE VALADIERS Featuring original lead singer Stuart Avig These gentlemen were the very first white/ Jewish group to record at Motown back in 1959. They will perform all of the Motown and holiday classics including their very own, Greetings (this is Uncle Sam)! TIME: TICKETS 8:00PM Doors open at 7:00pm WHERE: MARQUIS THEATER 135 E. MAIN ST. NORTHVILLE, MI 48167 $30,00 per ticket Available only at The Marquis Theater Only cash or check accepted For more information or to reserve tickets for parties of 110 or more call SCOTTY at 248.921.7000 Jr4 December 1 • 2011 69