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CLASSICAL NOTES
The Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra
presents Winter Dreams, a concert con-
ducted by Maestro Arie Lipsky, at 8 p.m.
Saturday, Nov. 23, at the Michigan Theater.
Concertmaster Aaron Berofsky showcases
Tchaikovsky's technically difficult and
beloved Violin Concerto in D. $12-$60.
(734) 994-4801; a2so.com.
At 10:45 a.m. Friday and 8 p.m. Saturday,
Dec. 6-7, Music Director Leonard Slatkin
conducts the Detroit Symphony Orchestra
in the DSO premieres of Aaron Copland's
Hear Ye! Hear Ye! and Mason Bates' Concerto
for Violin and Orchestra, as well as Brahms'
Symphony No. 4, at Detroit's Orchestra Hall.
$15+. (313) 576-5111; dso.org .
In a Chamber Music Society of Detroit
concert at 8 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 7, at
Seligman Performing Arts Center in Beverly
Hills, two members of the renowned former
Tokyo String Quartet, violinist Martin
Beaver and cellist Clive Greensmith, team
up with pianist Jon Kimura Parker for their
world debut as a piano trio, with works by
Haydn, Shostakovich and Mendelssohn.
In a pre-concert event, Jeff Haas discusses
the legacy of his father, Dr. Karl Haas, the
legendary radio personality and founder
of the Chamber Music Society of Detroit,
on the occasion of his 100th birthday
anniversary. $15-$60. (248) 855-6070;
chambermusicdetroit.org.
Classical Notes). Free.
Gilbert Gottfried returns to
chambermusicdetroit.
the Magic Bag in Ferndale
org.
for two shows (doors open
Grammy Award-
at 7 p.m. and 10 p.m.) on
winning recording artist
Friday, Dec. 6. $25. (248)
Drake (the Toronto-
544-3030; themagicbag.com .
born rap artist, the
Gail Zimmerman
son of a Jewish mother
THE BIG SCREEN
Arts Editor
and African American
father, is a bar mitzvah)
The Detroit Film Theatre
appears in a rescheduled performance at
at the Detroit Institute of Arts shows
7:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 16, at the Palace
Waltz with Bashir (Israel/2008), in which
of Auburn Hills. $49.50-$99.75. (800) 745-
director and Israeli veteran Ari Folman
3000; palacenet.com .
used sophisticated animation techniques
to reconstruct and come to terms with
ON THE STAGE
his memories of the 1982 invasion of
Lebanon, at 9:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday,
Indulge in the Rat Pack experience with
Dec. 20-21; the film was nominated for a
Sandy Hackett's Rat Pack Show at 8 p.m.
Best Animated Feature Oscar. $6.50-$7.50.
Saturday, Nov. 23, at Andiamo Showroom
(313) 833-4005; dia.org.
in Warren. Hackett, the son of the late
comedian Buddy Hackett, put the show
FAMILY FUN
together with the help of the late Joey
Bishop (who will be represented by an
Wild Lights at the Detroit Zoo, a display
actor onstage, as will Frank Sinatra, Dean
of more than 1 million lights showing the
Martin and Sammy Davis Jr.). $25-$49.
magic of the zoo in winter, with live music,
(586) 268-3200; andiamoshowroom.com .
refreshments, and more, runs Nov. 23-Jan.
The Farmington Players present Annie,
5. $5-$8. Hours and info: (248) 541-5717;
the beloved family musical about the ram-
detroitzoo.org.
bunctious redheaded orphan searching
Detroit Symphony Orchestra Assistant
for her birth parents during the depths of
Conductor Teddy Abrams he's been
the Depression, with a score by Charles
selected by the Louisville Orchestra to be
Strouse and Martin Charnin, Dec. 13 29
their new music director effective with the
at the Barn, 32332 W 12 Mile Road, in
2014-15 season — leads the DSO in Here,
Farmington Hills. $18 adults/$16 students.
There and Everywhere!, a fun filled inter-
(248) 553-2955; farmingtonplayers.org.
active concert for ages 6 and up that will
demonstrate the different ways we listen
DANCE FEVER
to music and how it surrounds our every-
day lives, at 11 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 23, at
Introduce your children to the magic of
Detroit's Orchestra Hall. $20-$40. (313)
ballet as Akiva Talmi presents Moscow
576-5111; dso.org.
Ballet's Great Russian Nutcracker at 3
At 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 24, at the
p.m. Sunday, Dec. 22, at the Fox Theatre in Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor, the Ann
Detroit. The 2013 production includes 200 Arbor Symphony Orchestra presents
all-new hand-embellished costumes. The
Beethoven Lives Upstairs, a musical play,
Ukrainian-born Talmi (who has split time
for ages 6 and up, complete with actors
between the U.S. and a kibbutz in Israel)
in period costume and 25 excerpts of the
is a Juilliard-trained composer, conductor
master's music. $8 child/$12 adult. (734)
and producer. $28-$122. (800) 745-3000;
994-4801; a2so.com .
olympiaentertainment.com .
Detroit Puppet Theatre-PuppetArt pres-
ents Helm, a humorous Chanukah show
LAUGH LINES
based on the I.B. Singer Yiddish story
The First Shlemiel, at 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec.
The always funny — and irreverent —
1; Saturday, Dec. 7; and Sunday, Dec. 8. 25
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POP / ROCK / JAZZ / FOLK
Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr., the Detroit band
founded by musician-songwriters Josh
Epstein and Daniel Zott, takes the stage in
support of the group's second album, The
Speed of Things, on Tuesday, Nov. 23, at the
Jack White Theater in Detroit's Masonic
Temple. Doors at 7 p.m. $20. (313) 638-
2724; themasonic.com.
Chamber Music Society of Detroit inDepth
concerts at 7 and 8:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 6,
in Rivera Court in the Detroit Institute of
Arts feature the Jeff Haas Jazz Quintet.
Now a resident of Traverse City, Jeff Haas
has written more than 100 compositions
and is known for his signature blend of
Jewish music and jazz. The evening will
include a tribute to his father, Karl Haas (see
Jews
Nate Bloom
Special to the Jewish News
At The Movies
The 2012 film Hunger Games, the first
in a planned trilogy of films from the
best-selling novels of the same name,
was a mega box-office hit and critical
success. The sequel, Hunger Games:
Catching Fire, opens on Friday, Nov. 22.
Again, the setting is a dystopian
future where a small elite rule over
a wrecked North America and force
young people to fight for their lives in
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arena games. Lead character Katniss
(Jennifer Lawrence), who barely sur-
vived the arena in the first film, this
time fights in a match rigged by the
elite to end her life.
Elizabeth Banks,
Cohen
39, returns as Katniss'
chaperone, Elsie, with
Lynn Cohen, 69, play-
ing Mags, a new ally
of Katniss. Cohen,
who played Magda,
Miranda's nanny on
Sex and the City and
Golda Meir in Steven Spielberg's film
Munich, lived for many years in St.
Louis, where she directed plays at the
city's Jewish Community Center.
HBO Premieres
E. Grand River, Detroit. $5 children/$10
adults/workshops following performance:
$8. (313) 961-7777; puppetart.org .
At 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 1, at the Detroit
Institute of Arts, storyteller Judy Sima
will light up the holiday season with
Chanukah Stories of miracles, menorahs
and magic dreidels. Free with museum
admission. (313) 833-7900; dia.org .
Wild Swan's Theater's Jack and the
Beanstalk, a humorous stage version of
Jack's adventure climbing the magical
beanstalk, comes to the Berman Center in
West Bloomfield at 1 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 15.
$11 children/$15 adults. (248) 661-1900;
theberman.org.
THE ART SCENE
Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center in
Birmingham holds its annual Shop &
Champagne fundraiser at 6:30-9 p.m.
Thursday Dec. 4 (tickets start at $70) and
Holiday Shop, with artistic gifts of every
stripe, Dec. 5-21. Hours and info: (248)
644-0866; bbartcenter.org.
Deborah Marlowe Kashdan exhibits a
retrospective of more than 75 miniature
portraits of iconic Detroit artists,
gallerists, art directors and more in Art
Warriors & Motorcity Icons, running
through Dec. 14 in the Center Galleries
at the College for Creative Studies. Info:
collegeforcreativestudies.edu.
WHATNOT
Hob Nobble Gobble 2013, the premiere
fundraiser for America's Thanksgiving
Parade with star performances (includ-
ing Detroit's own Mike Posner), amuse-
ment rides, food, games and giveaways
— takes place 6:30-10:30 p.m. Friday, Nov.
22, at Detroit's Ford Field; (313) 923-7400.
Then enjoy the parade, which steps off at
Kirby and Woodward Ave. in Detroit at 9:05
a.m. Thursday, Nov. 28. Info: theparade.org .
Emerging and established Metro Detroit
dance/music and film/theater artists may
now apply for a $25,000 Kresge Artist
Fellowship at kresgeartsindetroit.org;
deadline is Jan. 31.
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Out & About will return in January.
The next evening, at 10 p.m. Sunday,
Nov. 24, a new six-part comedy series,
Getting On, debuts on HBO. It follows
the lives of an overworked medical staff
trying to tend to patients at a rundown
geriatric hospital.
Sarah Silverman's new comedy spe-
cial on HBO, Sarah Silverman: We are
Miracles, premieres 10 p.m. Saturday,
Nov. 23 (many encore showing), with
Silverman, 42, on stage at a very small
club, both making observations and
singing comic songs while accompany-
ing herself on guitar.
Alex Borstein
(MadTV), 40, co-stars
Borstein
as Nurse Dawn, a
woman who wants to
excel in her job but is
sidetracked by things
like her obsession to
find a boyfriend.
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