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while being set against the
backdrop of the Jim Crow
South just prior to World War
II," says director Christopher
Bremer. April 15-May 10 at
JET in the West Bloomfield
JCC's Aaron DeRoy Theatre.
$16-$48. (248) 788-2900;
jettheatre.org .

QUINTESSENTIAL

Violinist (and U-M school
of music professor) Aaron
Borofsky (right) joins Parisian
violinist Jean-Baptiste
Aguessy, along with three
other Chamber Soloists of
Detroit resident artists, for
"Quintessence!" The concert
will feature a pair of contrast-
ing masterpieces for string
quartet and piano — Cesar
Franck's Quintet and Dmitri
Shostakovich's Quintet. $10-
$30. 7:30 p.m. Monday, April
13, at First Presbyterian
Church of Farmington. (586)
944-5353; chambersoloists
detroit.org .

age 2 under the tutelage of
his father, the name Heifetz
(shown, left, in 1907 at age 6)
became synonymous with per-
fection. Get to know the artist
through vintage performances,
new interviews and previously
unseen home movies in PBS
American Masters' Jascha
Heifetz: God's Fiddler, airing 10
p.m. Friday, April 17, on Detroit
Public Television-Channel 56.
Dptv.org .

SWEET GEORGIA
BROWN

In 1927, the 5-foot-5-inch Abe
Saperstein had just completed

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FIDDLE MASTER

SUGAR, SUGAR

Penned by playwright Linda
Ramsay-Detherage, a long-
time Jewish Ensemble
Theatre favorite, and starring
Inga R. Wilson, Sugarhill "was
written in part to illustrate
the concept of tikkun olam,

Following a violin performance
by 12-year-old Jascha Heifetz,
in 1913, Fritz Kreisler, then the
most beloved violin player in
the world, was moved to com-
ment, "Well, gentlemen, we
might as well take our fiddles
and smash them across our
knees." Learning to play at

an uneventful career in semi-
pro baseball and pro basket-
ball. So he took over the Savoy
Big Five — an all-Negro basket-
ball team named for Chicago's
Savoy Ballroom, changed
its name to the Harlem
Globetrotters and pioneered
an 80-plus-years-and-counting
legacy. Though they started as
serious players, the Trotters
had trouble finding opponents,

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so Saperstein came up with
the idea of comedic razzle-daz-
zle combined with high-level
skill — and acted as the team's
coach, chauffeur, trainer and
only substitute (Saperstein
also was a pioneering entre-
preneur in America's Negro
Baseball League). Check
out the unfaltering Harlem
Globetrotters as they take on
the Washington Generals 7
p.m. Saturday, April 18, at
the Palace of Auburn Hills.
$18-90. (800) 745-3000;
palacenet.com . ❑

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