>> editor's picks Abou CLASSICAL *AI NOTES (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 Art s Editor 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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