arts & entertainment >> editor's picks About CLASSICAL NOTES In celebration of the 100th birthday of Hill Auditorium, the University Musical Society presents the Detroit Symphony Orchestra at 4 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 13, at Hill Auditorium in a concert featuring the Frieze Memorial Organ. Built in Detroit in 1893 and displayed at the Chicago World's Fair, the organ was a centerpiece of Jewish architect Albert Kahn's design when Hill Auditorium was built. Leonard Slatkin conducts works by composers including Bach, Barber, Bolcom and more. Tickets start at $10. (734) 764-2538; ums.org . POP ROCK / JAZZ / FOLK The Ark in Ann Arbor hosts two concerts of note next week: At 8 p.m. Monday, Jan. 14, veteran pop singer Marc Cohn takes the stage, with special guest folk-pop singer-songwriter Rebecca Pidgeon (she's married to play- wright David Mamet); $45. (734) 761- 1451; theark.org. is pianist-singer-composer Then, at 8 p.m. Gabriel Kahane. A ris- Wednesday, Jan. 16, ing star on the indie-pop twin brothers San and 21st-century music scene, Laz Slomovits, best Kahane writes and performs Naiad Gail Zimmerman known as children's music with literary lyrics A its Editor and family entertain- full of story-telling and emo- ers through their duo tion, with melodies tinged Gemini, present an adult show — the with rich classical elements (he is the When I'm 64 Concert, celebrating their son of classical pianist-conductor Jeffrey 64th birthday and start of their 40th year Kahane). of playing music. Born in Budapest in He'll perform songs from his latest 1949, they left Hungary after the 1956 indie-pop album, Where are the Arms revolution; in this show, they'll play music (2011), along with material drawn from and recall favorite memories from each of his diverse songbook and musical the- the four decades of their career, including ater compositions, with yMusic, an their own songs and those from many of ensemble comprised of guitarist-violinist the artists who've inspired them, including Rob Moose, violist Nadia Sirota, cellist Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, Clarice Jensen, flutist Alex Sopp, clarinetist Tom Paxton and the Beatles. $12. (734) Hideaki Aomori and trumpet player C.J. 761-1451; theark.org . Camerieri. Kahane's greatest asset, said the Making his University Musical Society New Yorker, is "his sonorous, mesmerizing debut at 7:30 p.m. Thursday and 8 p.m. baritone; he brings to mind Sinatra in his Friday, Jan. 17-18, at the Arthur Miller wee-small-hours moor General admis- Theatre (1226 Murfin Ave.) in Ann Arbor sion tickets: $35. (734) 764-2538; ums.org . ON THE STAGE Manhattan's famous Brill Building, located at Broadway and 49th Street, was the epicenter of the pop-music universe in the late 1950s-'60s when composers/ performers like Burt Bacharach and Hal David, Neil Diamond, Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield, Paul Simon, Phil Spector, Leslie Gore, Gary Goffin and Carole King, Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller, Marvin Hamlisch and many oth- ers created their enduring pop standards. Performance Network in Ann Arbor stages Brill, a world-premiere comedy by David Wells, with music by Frank Allison, Thursdays-Sundays, Jan. 10-Feb. 10. Set in the Brill Building in 1959, the play tells the story of a washed-up big band songwriter (played by Phil Powers, a frequent per- former at Jewish Ensemble Theatre) who has to face the inevitability of rock 'n' roll. 120 E. Huron St. $22-$41. Show times and tickets: (734) 663-7367; performancenetwork.org . Jews Nate Bloom Special to the Jewish News New Flicks Two violent movies, Zero Dark Thirty and Gangster Squad, open on Friday, Jan. 11. Zero purports to tell the story of how an elite team of intelligence and military operatives, working in secret, found and eliminated Osama Bin Laden. The director, Kathryn Bigelow, and the writer-producer, Mark Boal, 39, previously • made the critically acclaimed 2010 Best Picture Oscar win- ner The Hurt Locker, about the Iraq war. The film earned Boal an Oscar for Best Screenplay. Boal While all agree Zero is an exciting, well-made film, it has created a storm of controversy; most believe it endorses the view that torture was critical to obtaining information that leads to Bin Laden's location. Michigan Sen. Carl Levin and Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California have weighed in, saying the classified info they've seen shows that torture was actually counterproductive in finding Bin Laden. Boal's response is that critics are misinterpreting his script regarding the value and morality of info obtained via torture. 50 January 10 • 2013 Jr, Gangster Squad stars Sean Penn, 52, as real-life gangster Mickey Cohen (1913-76). In the late '30s, when Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel came to Los Angeles to make money (most- ly from gambling) for the East Coast Jewish mafia, Cohen was his chief enforcer. When Siegel was murdered in 1947, Cohen took over his rackets. In the late '40s, the LAPD assem- bled the "Gangster Squad," a small group of officers who tried to stop Cohen and others. The movie is loose- ly based on a 2008 series of articles in the LA Times about the squad. The film centers on two squad members, played by Josh Brolin and Ryan Gosling, who try and get Cohen "by any means necessary." In real life, they never got Cohen. The feds got him: In 1961, he was sent to Alcatraz prison for tax evasion. Squad is directed by Ruben Fleischer (Zombieland), 38. Emma Stone, who co-starred in Zombieland, plays Cohen's "moll." FILM NOMINATIONS: Acting categories: Best Actor (drama): Joaquin Phoenix, 38, The Master; and, with an asterisk, Daniel Day-Lewis, 55, Lincoln (while now secular, Day- Lewis was baptized; his late mother was Jewish); Best Actress (drama): Rachel Weisz, 42, The Deep Blue Sea; Best Actor (comedy/ musical): Jack Black, 43, Bernie; Best Supporting Actor (any film): Alan Arkin, 78, Argo; Best Supporting • Weisz Actress (any film): Helen Hunt, whose paternal grandmother was Jewish, for playing therapist Cheryl Cohen- Greene in The Sessions. OTHER CATEGORIES: Best Director: Steven Spielberg, 66, Lincoln; Best Screenplay: Tony Kushner, 56, Lincoln; David 0. Russell, 54, Silver Linings Playbook; and Mark Boal, 39, Zero Dark Thirty; Best Original Song: Claude-Michel Schonberg, 68, Alain Boublil, 71, and Herbert Kretzmer, 87, for "Suddenly," a new song for Les Miserables; Best Animated Film: Hotel Transylvania, co-writ- ten by Robert Smigel, 52, and directed by And The Winner Is The Golden Globes, awarding the best in film and TV, will be broadcast at 8-11 p.m. Sunday, Jan.13, on NBC. Here are the Jewish nominees and a few others of "Jewish interest." Schonberg Genndy Tartakovsky, 42. Best Film: The award goes to the producers; the following films have at least one Jewish producer that I am aware of: Drama: Lincoln (Steven Spielberg), Argo (Grant Heslov) and Zero Dark Thirty (Mark Boal); Comedy/Musical: Les Miserables (Eric Feltner) and Moonrise Kingdom (Scott Rudin). TV NOMINATIONS: Best Lead Actress (drama): Julianna Margulies, 46, The Good Wife; Best Lead Actress (com- edy): Lena Dunham, 26, Girls; Best Supporting Actor (series, miniseries or made-for-TV movie): Max Greenfield, 32, New Girl; and Mandy Patinkin, 60, Homeland. Greenfield FOOTNOTES: Ewan McGregor, nomi- nated for Best Actor (comedy/musi- cal) for Salmon Fishing in Yemen, has a Jewish wife, and his children are being raised Jewish. Best Supporting Actor nominee Christoph Walz (Django Unchained) has a Jewish ex-wife and a son studying to be a rabbi. The newcomer star of Moonrise Kingdom, Jared Gilman, recently celebrated his bar mitzvah. ❑ Contact Nate Bloom at middleoftheroadl@aoLcom.