Palmer Woods Music in Homes with Lotus Ensemble and More

The 2009-10 Music in Homes series offers the best in local Classical, World and Jazz in homes designed by legendary architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright and Richard Marr. Detroit’s historic neighborhood Palmer Woods toots its horn, strums its strings, and draws sellout crowds to its jazz, classical and world music concerts held in its [...]

The Friends of the Freer House Present: the Scarab Club String Quartet

In A Benefit Concert
Historic 1924 Freer Gallery of Art Concert Program
Sunday, February 7, 2010 -2:00 pm

The Friends of the Freer House will host an historical re-creation of the first concert performed at the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. in 1924. Marking the 86th anniversary of the inaugural recitals held at the newly opened Freer [...]

Chamber Music at the Scarab Club

Sunday, December 13, 2009 – 7:00 PM

Quartet for clarinet, violin, viola and cello – Krzysztof Penderecki
Trio for oboe, clarinet and bassoon – Kirke Mechem
Con Slancio for bass clarinet and string quartet – Justin Boyer

Prices Range from $15-$20. Students only $10.
http://www.scarabclub.org/html/chamber_music_.html
The Scarab Club 217 Farnsworth, Detroit, MI 48202
Phone 313.831.1250

Palmer Woods Music in Homes Series

[ December 26, 2009 8:00 pm to June 27, 2010 8:00 pm. December 26, 2009 8:00 pm to June 27, 2010 8:00 pm. ] Mansions, Castles, Cool Homes Great Music

Thornetta DavisDetroit’s historic neighborhood Palmer Woods toots its horn, strums its strings, and draws sellout crowds to its jazz, classical and world music concerts held in its historic homes. The first concert of the Palmer Woods Music in Homes featuring Blues queen Thornetta Davis on Saturday, December 26 (day after [...]

Detroit Chamber Winds and Strings Nightnotes

[ November 6, 2009; 8:30 pm; ] Friday, November 6, 2009 at 8:30 p.m.

Detroit Chamber Winds and Strings presents a concert of the DSO’s finest horn players in the intimate setting of Hagopian Rugs in downtown Birmingham.

The program ranges from Baroque favorites by J.S. Bach to modern masterpieces by Kerry Turner and Lowell Shaw. The performance takes place Friday, November 6, 2009 [...]

Friday Night Live! at the DIA Xiao Dong Wei and Yuki Mack

[ July 31, 2009; 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ] Friday, July 31, 2009 7 & 8:30 p.m.
Xiao Dong Wei is a classically trained Chinese musician, playing everything from Erhu (two-string Chinese violin), Guzheng, Pipa to piano, cello, percussion, and vocals. A recent transplant to Detroit from her native Beijing, China, she teams up here with Yuki Mack, one half of the Mack Sisters Piano [...]

Summer Nights At Meadowbrook with the DSO

[ July 25, 2009 12:00 am to August 2, 2009 12:00 am. ] SUMMER NIGHTS with the DSO
MEADOW BROOK MUSIC FESTIVAL

July 25, 26, 31 & August 1 & 2
Music Director Leonard Slatkin kicks-off Summer Nights with the DSO at Meadow Brook Music Fesival with two concerts featuring the hits of Tchaikovsky and Gershwin. Hear some of your favorite music; including the 1812 Overture, music from Swan [...]

DSO on the Riverfront

[ July 11, 2009; 11:00 am; ] The Detroit Symphony Orchestra (DSO) teams up with the Detroit RiverFront Conservancy and the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) to bring music, art and summer fun to three, free outdoor events at Rivard Plaza on the Detroit riverfront with 2nd Saturdays on the Riverfront. Each event will take place between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. [...]

DSO Salute to America at Greenfield Village

[ July 1, 2009 12:00 am to July 4, 2009 12:00 am. ] July 1st-4th

What could be more American than celebrating Independence Day at America’s greatest history museum, feasting on sumptuous all-American favorites and listening to America’s finest orchestra?

Join the DSO and The Henry Ford for the 17th annual Salute to America July 1-4 at Greenfield Village.

The red, white and blue will be flying high in the historic [...]

Midsummer Nights in Midtown

[ June 19, 2009 12:00 am to June 21, 2009 12:00 am. ] Thursday, June 18
7. Detroit Public Library
5201 Woodward – detroitpubliclibrary.org
Thornetta Davis
7:30pm – R&B | Soul
Local singing sensation, Thornetta Davis, has a rich, soulful voice that reaches through the microphone to both soothe and excite.

Linton Kwesi Johnson
9:00pm – Poetry
Reading from his third book of poetry, Jamaican-born and London-based dub poet, Linton Kwesi Johnson, shares his award-winning style of [...]