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Pianist Peter
Serkin joins the
Shanghai Quartet,
performing works
by Mozart, Bright
Sheng and Brahms,
in a Chamber
Music Society of Detroit concert at
8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 11, at Seligman
Performing Arts Center. Serkin is the
son of the late famed pianist Rudolf
Serkin, a Bohemian-born Jew who
immigrated to Switzerland and then
the U.S. to escape the Nazis. 22305
W. 13 Mile Road, Beverly Hills. $43-
$75/$25 students. (248) 855-6070;
comehearcmsd.org .
MacArthur Fellow Aaron Dworkin
created the Sphinx Competition to
bring cultural diversity to classical
music. The Sphinx Finals Concert, at
2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 12, at the Max M.
Fisher Music Center, showcases junior
high, high school and college-age string
players of African American and Latino
descent as they compete to be a part of
the Sphinx Symphony Orchestra. 3711
Woodward Ave., Detroit. $12. (313)
877-9100; sphinxmusic.org .
University Musical Society presents
Michigan Chamber Players in a free
concert of instrumental and vocal
performances highlighting the talents
of faculty members (including pianist
Martin Katz) of the University of
Michigan School of Music, Theatre
and Dance at 4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 12.
The Valentine's Day-apropos love
theme offers classical (Brahms) and
Broadway (Phantom of the Opera and
Fiddler on the Roof) works. No tickets
required. Rackham Auditorium, 915
E. Washington, Ann Arbor. (734) 764-
2538; www.ums.org .
The Birmingham-Bloomfield
Symphony Orchestra presents Water
Music, a classical concert of chamber
music, at 7 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 12, at
Temple Israel in West Bloomfield. $22
advance/$25 at the door. (248) 352-
2276; www.bbso.org .

POP / ROCK
JAZZ / FOLK

Jewish singer-songwriter Jill Sobule
has dealt with topics like the death
penalty, anorexia, shoplifting, repro-
duction, adolescence, the Christian
right — and kissing a girl. Her 1995
song "I Kissed a Girl" (long before
Katy Perry had the idea for a song
of the same title) was a story-song
about a lesbian flirtation between two
suburban girlfriends that became a
huge hit. Her often-satirical songs are
sometimes plotted through the eyes

of women in the news or
her own fictional female
creations. Hear Sobule
(and new songs off her
recently released and
upcoming albums) at 8
p.m. Thursday, Feb. 16, at
the Ark. 316. S. Main, Ann
Arbor. $15. (734) 761-
1451; theark.org .

ON THE STAGE

The Tony and Grammy-winning rock
musical SpringAwakening, based on
a play about the angst of teen sexuality
in the repressed society of 19th-cen-
tury Germany, opened on Broadway in
2006, directed by Michael Mayer, who
also directed American Idiot, which
recently played at the Detroit Opera
House; it starred Glee's Lea Michele in
the lead female role of Wendla. What's
That Smell Theater troupe presents the
musical 7 p.m. Feb. 10, 11, 12, 16 and
17 at the Emerald Theatre in down-
town Mt. Clemens, 31 N. Walnut St.,
$25 reserved/$20 general admission;
(586) 954-2311, theboxtheater.com.
U-M Musical Theatre Studio also will
stage Spring Awakening, with musical
theater students, 8 p.m. Feb. 10-12 and
15-19 at U-M Walgreen Drama Center
Arthur Miller Theatre, 1226 Murfin,
North Campus, Ann Arbor, $17/$10
students; (734) 764-2538, www.music.
umich.edu.
Nuclear Cowboyz 2012, a high-
octane, freestyle motocross show about
two powerful tribes whose survival in
a futuristic world is told through an
action-packed narrative of freestyle
aerial feats, gravity defying stunts and
pyrotechnic displays synchronized to
hard rock music, comes to the Palace
of Auburn Hills at 7:30 p.m. Saturday,
Feb. 11. The show is co-produced by
entertainment czar Kenneth Feld
and his daughter Juliette Feld, the
new executive vice president for Feld
Entertainment Inc. $33/$18 ages 2-12.
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Be in the know when you hear the
short-film winners announced dur-
ing this year's Feb. 26 Oscar broadcast.
The Detroit Film Theatre at the Detroit
Institute of arts hosts a program of
Academy Award-Nominated Short
Films, in both live-action and ani-
mated categories, 7 p.m. Friday and
Saturday, Feb. 10-11; 2 and 7 p.m.
Sunday, Feb. 12; 7 p.m. Friday and
Saturday, Feb. 17-18; and 2 and 7 p.m.
Sunday, Feb. 19. $6.50-$7.50; advance
tickets recommended. (313) 833-4005;
tickets@dia.org.

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