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Variations. $27-$42.
Show times and tickets:
(734) 433-7673;
purplerosetheatre.org.
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In honor of the
200th anniversary
of the birth of com-
poser Guiseppe
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Verdi, Friends of the
Arts Editor
Opera of Michigan,
Oakland Choral
Society and the Jackson Chorale pres-
ent Verdi's Requiem at 7:30 p.m.
THE ART SCENE
Saturday, April 13, at St. Hugo of the
Art X Detroit: Kresge Arts Experience,
Hills Church, 2215 Opdyke Road, in
Bloomfield Hills. Among the solo-
a free, five-day experience celebrating
ists featured is mezzo-soprano Irina
Detroit's arts scene, runs April 10-14
Mishura. (A mass written by Verdi, an
in more than a dozen Midtown Detroit
agnostic, in memory of his dear friend
venues, which will host a collection of
and public hero, the poet and novelist
dance, music and theatrical performanc-
Alessandro Manzoni, Requiem was per- es, literary readings, workshops, panel
formed in 1944 in the Terezin transit
discussions and much more created by
camp by a chorus of 150 Czech Jewish
the Kresge Eminent Artists and Artist
prisoners, daring to use Verdi's original
Fellows. A special visual arts exhibi-
final words, "Liberate me:' Immediately tion runs through April 28 at MOCAD.
following the performance, the conduc-
Art X Detroit is funded by the Kresge
tor, Rafael Schaechter, and the mem-
Foundation. A complete schedule of
bers of the chorus were transported to
events is available at www.artxdetroit.
Auschwitz, where they were murdered.) com.
$20-$35. (313) 582-0997; (248) 391-
The Detroit Institute of Arts hosts an
0184; oaklandchoralsociety.org.
artist lecture with Paris-based Esther
New on CD from Naxos is Annelies,
Shalom-Gerz, who uses photographs,
the first choral setting of The Diary of
videos and multimedia installations to
Anne Frank, which takes the teenager's
investigate the relationships between
penetrating observations as the basis
cultural memory, citizenship and public
of its libretto, set to the music of James
space, at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 10.
Whitbourn. It features soprano Arianna Born in Lithuania, Shalom-Gerz moved
Zukerman in the title role.
with her family to Jerusalem, where she
was raised and studied. Free with muse-
POP / ROCK / JAZZ /FOLK um admission. (313) 833-7900; dia.org.
Following the presentation of his Yom
Hashoah choral cantata, I Believe
— A Shoah Requiem, which will be
performed April 7 at Orchestra Hall
and presented live on Detroit Public
Television, Adat Shalom's hazzan, bari-
tone Daniel Gross, switches hats to
perform — along with his wife, soprano
Lauren Skuce Gross, and pianist Cliff
Monear — a concert titled Jewish
Songs and Jazz, at 7:30 p.m. Sunday,
April 14, at the Birmingham Temple
in Farmington Hills. A program of the
Birmingham Temple's Vivace Series, it
will feature musical theater selections,
Yiddish/Jewish music and other reper-
toire that references Jewish culture. $23
adults/$20 members and seniors. For
tickets, call Joyce Cheresh, (248) 788-
9338; or Ann Sipher, (248) 661-1348.
ON THE STAGE
Chelsea's Purple Rose Theatre Company
stages Venezuelan-born Jewish play-
wright Moises Kaufman's 2009 drama,
33 Variations, through June 1. The play
shifts between Beethoven in 19th-centu-
ry Austria, obsessing over a commission
he can't complete, and a present-day
WHATNOT
The Wayne State Cohn-Haddow Center
for Judaic Studies and University
Library System present Judaism in the
American Home, an exhibit providing
insight into the cultural and religious life
of American Jews over the last century,
including ritual objects, kitchen items,
children's toys and more, April 14-May
12 in the Special Collections Room
(Room 3220) of the David Adamany
Undergraduate Library at WSU. Hours
are 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Sundays-Fridays
and 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturdays. At 2
p.m. Sunday, April 14, there will be
an opening ceremony with remarks
by Constance Harris of Birmingham,
who donated the exhibit's contents, and
Professor Ori Soltes of Georgetown
University; a reception follows, and
dietary laws will be observed. RSVP to
the opening by April 11 to Ruth Stern,
(313) 577-2679, and come back to the
Jewish News' Art Section next week for a
story on the exhibit. ❑
Email items for Out & About to
Gail Zimmerman at gzimmerman@
thejewishnews.com.
Conducted by
Christian Badea
with the Michigan Opera
Theatre Orchestra
Sung in German
with projected
English translations
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and the indomitable human spirit!
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