>> editor's picks CLASSICAL NOTES Beethoven, including his GREEKTOWNARRMS4IN NOVA About Frl [3 14 i>1Myis ON THE STAGE Featuring songs from Singing in the Rain to Hairspray, many of them by Jewish composers, Violin Sonata No. 5 ("Spring") in Hooray for Hollywood, Gail Zimmerman F Major, is the a production that show- A its Editor composer in the cases classic film images spotlight Saturday, along with live perfor- March 16, as Palmer Woods Music in mances, will be performed at 2 and 8 Homes presents a concert featuring p.m. Saturday, March 16, at Macomb Israeli-born violinist Yehonatan Center for the Performing Arts in Berick and pianist Pauline Martin; Clinton Township. $45-$55. (586) 286- tickets, including mid-concert 2222; macombcenter.com . reception, are $40/$35 groups of 10 or The Acting Company, established in more. Address will be revealed when 1972 by John Houseman and current tickets are purchased. (313) 891-2514; Producing Artistic Director Margot palmerwoods.org. At 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Harley, is a Tony Award-winning March 17, at Kerrytown Concert House classical touring company that will in Ann Arbor, Berick and Martin stage a production of John Steinbeck's reprise their Beethoven program. heartbreaking novella Of Mice and Men $15-$30/$5 students. (734) 769-2999; at the Berman Center for the Performing kerrytownconcerthouse.com . Arts in West Bloomfield at 8 p.m. The Berman Center for the Performing Saturday, March 16, and 3 p.m., Sunday, Arts in West Bloomfield presents March 17. There also will be a student Japanese-born violinist Midori, celebrat- matinee at 10 a.m. Monday, March 18. ing the 30th anniversary of her career, When Steinbeck, an Episcopalian, wrote live in concert at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, his controversial novel The Grapes of March 19. Discovered by Zubin Mehta, Wrath during the Depression, he was music director for life of the Israeli accused of being a Jew "acting for Zionist Philharmonic Orchestra, Midori has communist interests" When the national maintained an international presence, director of Friends of Democracy, first as a performer and increasingly as a opposed to pro-Nazi and anti-Semitic musical community engagement advo- propaganda, asked if he was Jewish, cate and educator. $56/$46 JCC members. Steinbeck replied, "It happens that I am (248) 661-1900; the berman.org. not Jewish and have no Jewish blood, but For his fourth appearance with Pro it only happens that way. I fmd that I do Musica of Detroit, at 8:30 p.m. Friday, not experience any pride that it is so ..." March 22, at Detroit's Max M. Fisher Tickets: $36/$26 JCC members. (248) Music Center, pianist/psychiatrist Dr. 661-1900; the berman.org . Richard Kogan will present a recital Meadow Brook Theatre in Rochester and lecture titled The Mind and Music presents the Michigan professional of Beethoven, pairing the seminal premiere of Somerset Maugham's The works of Ludwig van Beethoven with Constant Wife, a comedy of manners about infidelity, March 20-April 14. observations about the relationship between the composer's mind, his Detroit native Leslie Ann Handelman creative motivations, his deafness and co-stars as Marie-Louise, "the other his music. Afterglow follows. $45/$20 woman:' $25-$40. (248) 377-3300; first-time attendees/$10 students. Info: mbtheatre.com. promusicadetroit.com . Tickets: (313) THE ART SCENE 576-5111; dso.org. Irk POP / ROCK / JAZZ / FOLK Saturday & Sunday brun ch omelets made to order, much Acknowledging the ever-expanding power of science and the drug One of New York City's fastest-rising, industries, artist Beverly Fishman's all-girl-indie-bubblegum groups, Artificial Paradise, an exhibit running Supercute!, co-founded by Rachel March 14-May 3 at WassermanProjects, Trachtenburg (of the Trachtenburg includes scatters of glass pills and Family Slideshow Players, featuring tablets and enamel-on-stainless-steel Rachel, her Jewish dad and her Mexican paintings that mirror and refract mom), performs catchy songs on such viewers, dissolving them into shifting subjects as animal rights and joy for arrays of molecules, capsules forms sweets, as well as reframing '70s rock and more. Fishman, artist-in-residence classics. Supercute! opens the show for and head of the painting department British pop star Kate Nash Saturday, at Cranbrook Academy of Art, March 16, at the Magic Bag in Ferndale. appears at an opening reception 5-8 Doors at 8 p.m. $15. (248) 544-3030; p.m. Thursday, March 14. 2163 Cole St., Birmingham. (248) 220-4628; themagicbag.com . wassermanprojects.com . ❑ ila 6 6 more $9.99 rAKTHI