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Chamber Music Society of Detroit
presents Roberto Diaz in a rare viola
recital and his Detroit-area debut at 8
p.m. Saturday, Oct. 6, at the Seligman
Performing Arts Center, 22305 West 13
Mile Road, in Beverly Hills. Diaz, also
president of the Curtis Institute of Music,
will perform works by Falla, Hindemith
and Brahms, as well as Ernest Bloch's
Suite Hebraique. Diaz will speak about
his dual career as violist and educator
and about the storied Curtis Institute
of Music from 6:45-7:30 p.m. (open to
ticket holders free of charge). $30-$60/
half-off for students. (248) 855-6070;
chambermusicdetroit. org .
Chamber Soloists of Detroit
(formerly the Pro Mozart Society)
presents Yoonshin Song, the newly
appointed concertmaster of the Detroit
Symphony Orchestra, in recital with
pianist Pauline Martin, at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, Oct. 7, at the Birmingham
Unitarian Church, Woodward Avenue
at Lone Pine, in Bloomfield Hills. The
concert is sponsored by Dr. Stanley
Levy in memory of his wife, Rita
S. Levy, and includes the music of
Janacek, Saint Saens and Brahms.
Tickets: $30; $10 students. Barbara
and Bernard H. Stollman will host a
reception benefiting the society with
an opportunity to meet the artists and
honor the memory of Mrs. Levy at
their Bloomfield Hills home following
the concert; $50. (586) 944- 5353;
chambersoloistsdetroit.org .
Classical pianist Simone Dinnerstein,
who studied with Peter Serkin at
Juilliard and is the daughter of Jewish
painter Simon Dinnerstein, is perhaps
best known for her self-financed 2007
recording of Bach's Goldberg Variations,
which shot to the top of the Billboard
Classical Chart and established her
career (she was Billboard's best-
selling classical instrumentalist of
2011). Simone Dinnerstein performs
a Cranbrook Music Guild concert,
including works by Bach, Chopin,
Brahms and Schumann, plus Daniel
Felsenfeld's The Cohen Variations
(a set of variations on a Dinnerstein
favorite, Leonard Cohen's "Suzanne")
at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 10, at Christ
Church Cranbrook. 470 Church Road,
Bloomfield Hills. $15-$25. 248-645-
0097; cranbrookmusicguild.org .
Four young musicians who began
playing together in 1993 when they were
still in their mid-teens, the members
of the Jerusalem String Quartet have
matured into outstanding interpreters of
the string quartet literature. Returning
to Ann Arbor for their fourth University

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Musical Society
of Musical Theatre presents
appearance, the
Sunday in the Park with
quartet will play works
George, with a book by
by Shostakovich and
James Lapine and music
Gail Zimmerman
Beethoven at 7:30 p.m.
and lyrics by Stephen
Arts Editor
Wednesday, Oct. 10, at
Sondheim, at 7:30 p.m.
Rackham Auditorium,
Thursdays, 8 p.m. Fridays
915 E. Washington. $24-$48. (734) 764-
and Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays, Oct.
2538; ums.org.
11-21, at the Mendelssohn Theatre in
Ann Arbor. The musical offers a glimpse
POP / ROCK / JAZZ / FOLK into the conflicts between artistic
passion and everyday life as illustrated
A Detroit Symphony Orchestra
by the lives of famed French painter
Pops Concert, called Cirque de la
Georges Seurat and his great-grandson, a
Symphonie, features aerial acrobats,
performance artist also named Georges.
strongman, jugglers and more
$20-$26/$10 students. (734) 764-2538;
accompanied by live music from the
tickets.music.umich.edu .
DSO, 10:45 a.m. Friday, 8 p.m. Saturday
and 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 5-7. $19 and up. LAUGH LINES
(313) 576-5111; dso.org .
The Ark in Ann Arbor hosts Veteran's
Jerry Seinfeld takes the stage at
For Peace: John Lennon's Birthday
Detroit's Fox Theatre at 7 p.m. Saturday,
Concert, benefiting the Veterans for
Oct. 6. $49-$79. (800) 745-3000;
Peace Chapter 93 Peace Scholarship
olympiaentertainment. com .
Fund, at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 9.
Musical artists, including Dick Siegel and THE BIG SCREEN
San and Emily Slomovitz, will perform
works by John Lennon on his Oct. 9
The Redford Theatre hosts the Three
birthday as well as other peace-themed
Stooges Festival, with six films
songs. $15. (734) 761-1451; theark.org .
featuring Larry, Moe and Curly, Friday-
Saturday, Oct. 5-6. $5. Show times: (313)
ON THE STAGE
537-2560; redfordtheatre.com .
The Cambridge, Mass.-based Alloy
The Farmington Players Barn in
Orchestra is a three-man musical
Farmington Hills mounts a production
ensemble under the direction of Ken
of the family-friendly comedy The
Winokur that writes and performs
Dixie Swim Club 8 p.m. Fridays and
live accompaniment to classic silent
Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays, Oct. 5-27
films. Hear the group at the Detroit
(with an additional performance on
Film Theatre at the DIA as they
Thursday, Oct. 25). The play, described
accompany The Overcoat (Russia/1924,
as a cross between Designing Women
directed by Leonid Trauberg and
and Steel Magnolias, tells the story of
Grigory Kozintsev, two young Jewish
five women who meet on a college swim
filmmakers from Ukraine, and based
team and remain friends for 55 years,
on the 1842 Gogol classic) at 7:30
reconnecting one summer weekend each p.m. Friday, Oct. 6; The Complete
year to laugh together and enjoy life.
Metropolis, (Germany/1927, the
Julie Yolles of Birmingham plays the
visionary sci-fi feature directed by Fritz
role of Dinah Grayson, a wisecracking
Lang, whose mother was born Jewish
power attorney who can never find time
but converted to Catholicism) at 7:30
for a man. $14-$16. (248) 553-2955;
p.m. Saturday, Oct. 6; Short Films of
farmingtonplayers.org .
Buster Keaton (The Butcher Boy, Good
The SAT brings heartache and
Night, Nurse! and The Play House) at
laughter to the Michigan premiere of
2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 7; and The Last
Jenny Lyn Bader's None of the Above,
Command (USA/1928, directed by Josef
running 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays
von Sternberg — born Jonas Sternberg
and 2 p.m. Sundays, Oct. 5-15, at
to a Jewish family in Vienna — about a
Marygrove Theatre, 8425 W. McNichols,
former Imperial Russian general whose
in Detroit. Dr. Arthur J. Beer directs
life takes astounding turns) at 4:30 p.m.
(his wife, Mary Wright Bremer, co-stars
Sunday, Oct. 7. The Overcoat is free with
in JET'S production of Moonlight and
museum admission;-other films, $6.50-
Magnolias through Oct. 7). Bader is
$7.50. (313) 833-4005; tickets.dia.org .
a former assistant to the late Wendy
The Lenore Marwil Jewish Film
Wasserstein and is the stepdaughter of
Festival Encore Series screens Berlin
the late Broadway book writer Joseph
'36, telling the fate of Jewish athlete
Stein (Fiddler on the Roof). $10 $20.
Gretel Bergmann at the 1936 Olympic
(313) 993-3270; theatre.udmercy.edu .
Summer Games, at 7:30 p.m. Thursday,
University of Michigan's Department
Oct. 11, at the Berman Center in West

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Bloomfield. $11. (248) 661-1900;
theberman.org .

THE ART SCENE

Janet Kelman & Friends, a studio open
house featuring the works of artists
Janet Kelman, Claudia Hershman,
Idelle Hammond and Carol Furtado,
as well as live music, runs noon-5
p.m. Saturday, Oct. 6, at 1410 Barnard
Road, in Ann Arbor. (734) 389-0454;
janetkelman.com .
The Pioneer Building presents its
Annual Open Studios, featuring more
than 30 artists — including Barbara
Dorchen, Marcia Freedman, Carole
Kabrin and Bobby Litwin — 2-8 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 6, at the Pioneer Building,
2679 E. Grand Blvd., in Detroit. For
more arts events during Detroit Gallery
Week, running Oct. 5-13, go to www.
artdetroitnow.com .
Cohn-Haddow Center for Judaic
Studies board member Bea Moss
delivers an illustrated lecture, Marc

Chagall — The Early Years: 1887-
1922, co-sponsored by Cohn-Haddow
and IRP of the Jewish Community
Center of Metropolitan Detroit, at 1
p.m. Sunday, Oct. 14, at the JCC in Oak
Park. At 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 16,
Cohn-Haddow, the Holocaust Memorial
Center Zekelman Campus and the Voice/
Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History
Archive, U-M Dearborn co-sponsor
Lucyna Aleksandrowicz-Pedich of the
Warsaw School of Social Sciences and
Communication speaking on Among
Alien People: Synagogue Architecture
in Contemporary Eastern Poland
at the Holocaust Memorial Center
in Farmington Hills. Both programs
are free and open to the public;
refreshments will be served at the
conclusion of the programs. RSVP by
Oct. 12 for both programs to Ruth Stern,
(313) 577-2679 or cohn-haddowcenter@
wayne.edu.

FAMILY FUN

Presented as part of Kids' Sundays at the
Berman and based on the popular books
and TV series, the family-friendly show
Angelina Ballerina: The Musical comes
to the Berman Center for the Performing
Arts at the Jewish Community Center in
West Bloomfield at 1 p.m. Sunday, Oct.
7. $13 adults/$11 children. (248) 661-
1900; theberman.org .

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