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Adam Schlesinger,
who's been nominated
for the Oscar, Tony,
The Ann Arbor
Emmy and Grammy
Symphony
(he won that one!) —
Orchestra, con-
performs Wednesday,
Gai I Zimmerman
ducted by Maestro
April 25, at the Magic
Arts Editor
Arie Lipsky and
Bag in Ferndale. Doors
joined by soloists
at 8 p.m. $20. (248) 544-
and local choirs, concludes its season
5030; www.themagicbag.com.
with Carl Orff's monumental cantata
The Pairadocs Trio — including
Carmina Burana at 8 p.m. Saturday,
orthopedic surgeon Tom Ditkoff and
April 21, at Hill Auditorium in Ann
child psychiatrist Jeff London —
Arbor. Also on the program: contem-
performs 8 p.m. Friday, April 27, in a
porary composer Aaron Kernis' New
benefit concert for the Plymouth Arts
Era Dance and Brahms' Variations on
Council at JWH Center for the Arts,
a Theme by Joseph Haydn. $10-$55.
774 N. Shelden Road, Plymouth. $25.
(734) 994.4801; www.a2so.com.
Tickets available at the door.
Joshua Bell and Academy of St.
Martin in the Fields, recipients of
THE ART SCENE
the 2012 University Musical Society
Distinguished Artists Award, perform
Open(Studios), a new community
an all-Beethoven concert at 4 p.m.
event for the public to go behind the
Sunday, April 22, at Hill Auditorium
scenes with visits through the pri-
in Ann Arbor. Bell, who identifies as a
vate artists' studios and workshops
cultural Jew, plays a 1713 Stradivarius
of Cranbrook Academy of Art, will
that was owned by Bronislaw
launch the annual Graduate Degree
Hubermann, who founded the Israel
Exhibition, featuring the work of
Philharmonic. Tickets start at $10.
79 master of fine arts candidates, on
(734) 764-2538; www.ums.org .
Sunday, April 22. The exhibition runs
At 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 24, at
through May 13. For information and
Temple Shir Shalom in West
tickets, go to wwwcranbrook.edu .
Bloomfield, renowned pianist
University of Michigan
Menahem Pressler, founding mem-
Museum of Art presents Recent
ber of the Beaux Arts Trio, will be
Acquisitions: Curator's Choice Part
joined by three musicians from the
II, featuring works donated to the
DSO in a Pro Mozart Detroit con-
museum in the last five years (art-
cert of chamber music. Pressler's
ists include U-M grad and former
recently published biography, Always
Detroiter Michele Oka Doner),
Something New to Discover, by
through Aug. 5. (734) 764-0395;
Cynthia Wilson, details his remark-
www.umma.umich.edu .
able life: Born in 1923 in Magdeburg,
Detroit Artists Market presents its
Germany, he fled with his family to
Biannual All Media Exhibition 2012,
Israel in 1939 and arrived in America
with work by 26 Michigan artists
in 1946, where he won first prize
including Barbara Dorchen, April
at the Debussy International Piano
20-May 24. Opening reception: 6-9
Competition. A private champagne
p.m. Friday, April 20. (313) 832-8540;
reception with Pressler to benefit
www.detroitartistsmarketorg.
the Pro Mozart follows the concert.
Concert tickets: $25 adults/ $10 stu-
AUTHOR! AUTHOR!
dents under 25. (248) 646-9920; www.
promozartdetroit.org.
Judith Viorst, author of Alexander
and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good,
POP / ROCK / JAZZ / FOLIC Very Bad Day (one of almost 20 books
for children) as well as nonfiction
Josh Epstein and Daniel Zott of the
books and eight collections of poems
Detroit-based indie breakout band
for adults, will be the keynote speaker
Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. take the stage
at the Oakland Town Hall Lecture
at Detroit's Majestic Theater at 8 p.m.
Series at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, May
Saturday, April 21. $15. (313) 833-
9, at the St. George Cultural Center in
9700; www.majestictheater.com .
Bloomfield Hills. Tickets: $20/$34.50
Beatles tribute band the Fab Faux
lunch and lecture. Reservations: (248)
plays Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club
625-5844. 111
Band in its entirety at 8 p.m. Saturday,
April 21, at the Michigan Theater in
Please email items you wish to
Ann Arbor. $29.50-$85. (800) 745-
have considered for Out & About to
3000; www.ticketmaster.com .
Gail Zimmerman at gzimmerman@
New York pop band Fountains
thejewishnews.com. Notice is requested
of Wayne — including co-founder
three weeks before the scheduled event.

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