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(some successful in their
mission, others not) appear
in the Stephen Sondheim
Often referred to
musical Assassins, with a
as a "poet of the
book by John Weidman.
violin:' Joshua Bell
In a Farmington Players
enchants audiences
production running
Gail Z immerman
with his breath-
Feb. 14-March 1 at the
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taking virtuosity.
Farmington Players Barn in
University Musical
Farmington Hills, the insane
Society hosts Bell, with British pianist
Charles Guiteau (assassin of President
Sam Haywood, in a program of works
James Garfield) is played by Barry
by Tartini, Beethoven, Stravinksy and
Cutler of Ferndale; Keith Firstenberg
more, at 4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 16, at Hill
of Livonia plays the devilish "Proprietor."
Auditorium in Ann Arbor. $16-$89.
Performances are at 8 p.m. Thursdays-
(734) 764-2538; ums.org .
Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays, with a
Guest conductor Hans Graf leads the
special Presidents Day performance at 8
Detroit Symphony Orchestra in a pro-
p.m. Monday, Feb. 17 (students — rec-
gram including Dvorak's Symphony No.
ommended for those in high school and
6, Webern's In Sommerwind and Erich
college — will be admitted at half-price:
Wolfgang Korngold's Concerto for Violin
$9). Tickets: $16-$18. (248) 553-2955;
and Orchestra, featuring Austrian violinist farmingtonplayers.com .
Benjamin Schmid, at 7:30 p.m. Thursday,
Feb. 20, at Congregation Shaarey Zedek
LAUGH LINES
in Southfield; 10:45 a.m. Friday, Feb. 21,
at Ford Community and Performing Arts
Comedian-actress-writer Amy Shumer,
Center in Dearborn; and Saturday Feb.
star of the comedy series Inside Amy
22, at 8 p.m. at Orchestra Hall in Detroit.
Schumer, which premiered on Comedy
Korngold, born in Europe and a natural-
Central last year, has said she likes
ized American citizen, once said, "We
"tackling the stuff nobody else talks
thought of ourselves as Viennese; Hitler
about, like the darkest, most serious
made us Jewish" He is best known for his
thing about yourself." She brings her
film music, winning an Academy Award
standup (ages 18+) to Royal Oak Music
in 1938 for his score to The Adventures
Theatre on Friday, Feb. 14, with two
shows: doors at 8 p.m. (sold out) and 10
of Robin Hood, which marked the first
p.m. Reserved seats: $37.50-$45. (248)
time a composer, rather than a studio
399-2980; royaloakmusictheatre.com .
music department, took home the Oscar.
Tickets: $25+. (313) 576-5111; dso.org .
POP / ROCK / JAZZ / FOLK
At 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 15, at the Palace
of Auburn Hills, Billy Joel, a recent
Kennedy Center honoree, headlines a
solo arena concert in Detroit for the
first time since 2007. Tickets: $35-$119.
(800) 745-3000; palacenet.com .
The Detroit Jazz Festival Community
Series presents Jazz Speaks for Life,
with jazz pianist Jason Moran and the
Bandwagon, renowned Jewish can-
tor Alberto Mizrahi and other soloists
performing Dave Brubeck's Gates of
Justice, at 3:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 16, at the
Fillmore Detroit. A 60-voice choir and the
Detroit Brass and Percussion Ensemble
will join in Brubeck's piece, rooted in the
struggles of African Americans and Jews
and interlaced with biblical passages and
the words of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr. Mizrahi, one of the world's lead-
ing interpreters of Jewish music, worked
with Brubeck, who was not Jewish, in the
late 1960s on the original interpretation
of Gates of Justice. Doors at 2:30 p.m. $10.
(800) 745-3000; detroitjazzfest.com .
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