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Detroit Symphony Orchestra performing Friday in Monroe
MONROE — The Detroit Symphony Orchestra returns to Monroe Friday.
The orchestra’s two-hour Monroe performance, “Ravel’s ‘Mother Goose,’” will begin at 8 p.m. April 19 in the La-Z-Boy Center, Meyer Theater at Monroe County Community College, 1555 S. Raisinville Road.
Selections include Jacques Ibert’s “Hommage a Mozart”; Mozart’s “Piano Concerto No. 23 in A Major”; Heitor Villa-Lobos’ “Sinfonietta”; and Maurice Ravel’s “Suite from Ma mère l’oye (Mother Goose).”
Pianist Jeneba Kanneh-Mason will perform.
“Jeneba Kanneh-Mason, already called ‘a deft and expressive soloist,’ makes her DSO debut with a concerto Mozart likely premiered himself,” the DSO said. “The program continues with a piece Ibert wrote for Mozart’s birthday and Villa-Lobos exploring the possibilities of Mozart’s themes through his ‘Sinfonietta.’ Spinning stories into exquisite sounds, Ravel brings out the electric drama of fairy tales in ‘Mother Goose.’”
Simone Menezes will conduct the orchestra in Monroe.
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The William Davidson Neighborhood Series brings the DSO to neighboring cities. Other stops in the series this year are in Southfield and Beverly Hills. The DSO’s final MCCC concert this season is set for 8 p.m. June 14.
Tickets are $30 for adults and $10 for children. For tickets, call the DSO Box Office at 313-576-5111 or visit dso.org.
Chickens and geese that went missing from a local nonprofit’s Detroit site were found in the backyard of a nearby home, the director of operations said Wednesday.
The Full Circle Foundation, a Grosse Point Park-based nonprofit, said more than a dozen chickens and geese were believed stolen from a chicken coop on Detroit’s east side that also features the Full Circle Edible Garden.
The nonprofit provides training and job opportunities for young people with special needs.
Neighbors who learned from news reports about the missing flock found the “chickens were being held in the backyard of a vacant home not far from the Full Circle Edible Garden,” said Stephanie DiVirgil, director of operations. She said Ribbon Farm 4-H owns the flock.
“The homeowner was contacted, and she reached out to Full Circle to confirm,” said DiVirgil. “We were able to retrieve all of the chickens and geese that were found on the property, 19 in total.”
The foundation and Ribbon Farms 4-H are working to secure the site, including cameras, fencing and lights.
“We will likely start a fundraising campaign to have these items installed,” DiVirgil said. “We’ve gotten amazing support from the community, including offers to help pay for these additional security measures.”
DETROIT (WXYZ) — Human remains were found in a furnace of an home on Detroit’s west side, the Detroit Police Department tells us.
The remains was found by an individual working on the home in the 5200 block of S Clarendon just after 11 a.m.
Anyone with information can call 313-596-2260 or CrimeStoppers at 1-800-SpeakUp.
Stay with WXYZ.com for updates on this developing story.
The Detroit Police Department is investigating after a 5-year-old child was shot in the arm near a park on Tuesday.
The shooting happened at about 8:50 p.m. near the Fargo-Oaklfield Playground on the city’s west side. Police Chief Todd Bettison says the child was in front of his home riding a bike with his father supervising at the time of the shooting.
Bettison says an individual at the park fired multiple shots, striking the child. He says the boy’s father reported hearing shots and the child falling from his bike.
Bettison says the child is expected to be OK.
Bettison says the person appears to have been firing shots randomly, which he calls “problematic.” He says a person of interest is described as possibly between 15 and 16 years old and wearing a mask. He says the person is known to frequent the area.
“When you fire a weapon, what goes up must go down,” Bettison said. “To parents and everyone, know where your kids are. Juveniles should not have guns, and whether you’re an adult or a child, you should not be firing a weapon inside of the city limits.”
Detroit Mayor Mary Sheffield released a statement, saying in part, “By the grace of God, this young boy will recover from his injury and is on his way home from the hospital. With that said, this incident was senseless and could have had a much more tragic ending.
“Every child in Detroit deserves to feel safe riding their bike, playing outside, and simply being a child in their own neighborhood. We cannot accept a reality where our children are placed in harm’s way because someone chose to recklessly fire a gun.”
Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 800-Speak Up.
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