ENTERTAINMENT NOTES : UA music professor to give clarinet recital with colleagues
Posted on Sunday, October 5, 2008
Nophachai Cholthitchanta, clarinet professor at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, will give a recital with pianist Kristen Harwell and faculty colleagues Janice Yoes, soprano, and Stephen Gates, cello, at 7 p.m. Monday in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall, Fine Arts Building, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.
The program: Duo for clarinet and piano, op. 15, by Norbert Burgmuller; Five Songs for soprano and clarinet by David Johnson; Three Romances for clarinet and piano, op. 94, by Robert Schumann; and the Trio for clarinet, cello and piano, op. 114, by Johannes Brahms.
Admission is free. Call (479 ) 575-4701 or visit the Web site, www. uark. edu / depts / uamu sic. ASU singers The Arkansas State University Concert Choir and Chamber Singers will give a concert at 7: 30 p.m. Monday in Riceland Hall, Fowler Center, ASU, 201 Olympic Drive, Jonesboro. The Concert Choir program will include “The Star Spangled Banner” in an arrangement by Lloyd Pfautsch; Ecce Dominus veniet, a double chorus motet by Michael Praetorius; “Paratum cor meum,” a psalm setting by Michael Haydn with a small instrumental ensemble accompaniment; “Ich aber bin elend,” a German a cappella double-chorus motet by Johannes Brahms; “There Will Be Rest” by Frank Ticheli, based on the poetry of Sara Teasdale; “Climbin’ Up the Mountain,” a spiritual by Moses Hogan; and “All That Hath Life and Breath Praise Ye the Lord” by Rene Clausen.
The Chamber Singers will perform madrigals by Orlando di Lasso, Claudio Monteverdi, John Dowland and Thomas Weelkes; carols by John Rutter and Ralph Vaughan Williams; and, with the Concert Choir, “O Sons and Daughters of the King” by Volckmer Leisring.
Dale Miller, director of Choral Activities, and graduate assistant Janet Tullos will conduct; pianist Luca Strazzullo will be the accompanist.
Admission is free. Call (870 ) 972-2094. Mouse with moxie Tall Stories’ touring production of The Gruffalo !, a musical adaptation of the award-winning picture book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, will be on stage at 6: 30 p.m. Monday at the Walton Arts Center, 495 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville.
The story involves a creative mouse who invents a fantastical creature called the Gruffalo to keep at bay a sly fox, a cunning owl and a sneaky snake as she travels through the deep, dark forest, then discovers that the Gruffalo really does exist.
The show is recommended for children 4-10. The performance is part of the center’s Kleenex Kids Series and inaugurates Pajama Night; all youngsters who come wearing pajamas and / or with their favorite stuffed animal will receive a treat.
Tickets are $ 10- $ 16. Call (479 ) 443-5600 or visit the Web site, waltonartscenter. org. Elvis is in the building Eddie Miles will bring back his “Salute to Elvis” show — with a nod to the legends of country music — to Murry’s Dinner Playhouse, 6323 Colonel Glenn Road, with performances at 7: 30 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and 12: 30 and 6: 30 p.m. Oct. 12.
Doors open at 6 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, 11 a.m. and 5: 30 p.m. for the Sunday shows.
A native of Kentucky, Miles now has theaters in his home base of Pigeon Forge, Tenn., and Myrtle Beach, S. C. He performed with many of Elvis Presley’s original band members in a week of 2002 shows to help commemorate the 25 th anniversary of Presley’s death.
Tickets (including buffet meal and show ) are $ 30 Tuesday-Thursday and Sunday evening, $ 32 Friday and Saturday, $ 28 Sunday matinee. Call (501 ) 562-3131 or visit the Web site, www. mur rysdinnerplay house. com. Murry’s has also announced its 2009 season: Jan. 9-Feb. 15: Harvey by Mary Chase Feb. 17-March 15: Funny Valentines by D. R. Andersen March 17-April 26: Little Shop of Horrors, music by Alan Menken, book and lyrics by Howard Ashman, based on the Roger Corman cult film. April 28-May 23: Dearly Beloved by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jamie Wooten May 26-June 28: I Do ! I Do ! by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt June 30-July 26: Squabbles by Marshall Karp July 28-Sept. 6: My Fair Lady, book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, music by Frederick Loewe, based on Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw Sept. 8-Oct. 11: First Baptist of Ivy Gap by Ron Osborne Oct. 13-Nov. 13: Murdered to Death by Peter Gordon Nov. 17-Dec. 31: Natalie Needs a Nightie by Neil and Carolyn Schaffner The dinner theater has scheduled auditions for Jan. 19 and May 11. In 2009, Murry’s will expand its weekday matinee schedule to include the first three Wednesdays of each run. Season tickets are $ 150. Call (501 ) 562-3131. UCA winds The University of Central Arkansas Wind Ensemble will give its fall concert at 7: 30 p.m. Tuesday in the Reynolds Performance Hall at UCA, 201 Donaghey Ave., Conway. Blake Tyson, associate professor of percussion at UCA, will be the soloist in Strange Humors by John Mackey, playing the djembe, an hourglassshaped West African drum.
Ricky Brooks conducts, with guest conductor Joseph Missal, director of bands at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, who, as part of a two-day residency at UCA, will also lecture to music education classes and hold a conducting master class for music education majors.
Admission is free. Call (501 ) 450-5764. UA winds The University of Arkansas Wind Symphony will give a concert at 7: 30 p.m. Wednesday in Baum Walker Hall, Walton Arts Center, 495 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville.
W. Dale Warren conducts the ensemble in Canzona by Peter Mennin; An Unending Legacy by Barry Milner; English Folk Song Suite by Ralph Vaughan Williams; Army of the Nile by Kenneth Alford; Concerto for Horn by Randall E. Faust with Timothy Thompson as soloist; Symphonic Dances by Edvard Grieg; and Nitro by Frank Ticheli.
Tickets are $ 10, $ 5 for senior citizens, $ 1 for UA students. Call (479 ) 575-4701 or visit the Web site, wwwuark. edu / depts / uamusic. Political murder The Royal Players will stage Mandate for Murder, or Taking a Stab at Politics by Pat Cook, at 7 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, Oct. 16-18 and 2 p.m. Oct. 12 and 19 at the Royal Theatre, 111 S. Market St., Benton.
The play involves a mayoral election that careens into a comedic whodunit.
Tickets are $ 10, $ 8 senior citizens, $ 5 students. Call (501 ) 315-5483 or visit the Web site, Royalplayers. org. ‘Carolers’ wanted The Ouachita Little Theatre will hold auditions for A Christmas Carol, adapted by Romulus Linney from the classic by Charles Dickens, 7-9 p.m. Thursday and Friday and 9-11 a.m. Saturday at Rich Mountain Community College, 1100 College Drive, Mena.
There are 16 speaking parts and numerous nonspeaking parts for adults and children. Auditions will consist of cold readings from the script. Brad Storey will direct.
Production dates are Dec. 5-7 and 12-14. Call (479 ) 243-0186, e-mail info@ouachitalit tletheatre. org or visit the Web site, www. ouachitalittlethe atre. org.
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