ENTERTAINMENT NOTES : Concerts, musicals and puppet show fill calendar
Posted on Sunday, November 16, 2008
The School of Fine Arts Division of Music at Ouachita Baptist — libretto by William S. Gilbert, music by Arthur Sullivan — at 7: 30 p. m. Thursday-Saturday and 2: 30 p. m. Nov. 23 in the Jones Performing Arts Center at OBU in Arkadelphia.
Jacob Watson plays Frederic, who was apprenticed by mistake to a gentlemanly band of pirates until his 21 st birthday, celebrates the end of his indenture and then learns to his horror that a quirky clause in the wording thereof threatens his new life and his plans to wed Mabel (Hannah Chapman ), the beautiful ward of Maj. Gen. Stanley (Bryan Brooks ).
OBU faculty members Jon and Glenda Secrest are directing. Jon Secrest will conduct.
Tickets are $ 8. Call (870 ) 245-5563 or visit the Web site, www. obu. edu / finearts.
A touring company will bring Stephen Sondheim’s musical Arkansas with performances at 7 p. m. Monday and Tuesday at Walton Arts Center, 495 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville.
The performances are part of the center’s Coca-Cola Night Out Series. Tickets are $ 42- $ 50. Call (479 ) 443-5600 or visit the Web site, waltonartscenter. org. Big-band concert
The University of Arkansas Jazz Ensembles, two 17-piece big bands, will give a concert at 7: 30 p. m. Friday in the Arkansas Union Theater, UA, Fayetteville.
Jayne Jackson will sing George and Ira Gershwin’s “A Foggy Day.” Two jazz combos led by pianist Claudia Burson will perform a short set of jazz standards.
The program will include Fun Time and Time Stream by Sammy Nestico; Fred by Neal Hefti; Dark Side of the Blues by Andrew Classen; Point of Impact by Jeff Jarvis; Nica’s Dream by Horace Silver; Winding Way by Matt Harris; and Out of Nowhere by Edward Heyman and John Green. James Greeson conducts.
Admission is free. Call (479 ) 575-4190 or visit the Web site, www. uark. edu / dept / uamusic.
Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia will put on its touring Favourites, at 11 a. m. Saturday at Walton Arts Center, 495 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. the Octet in C major, op. 7, by Georges Enescu.
Tickets are $ 28; student rush tickets, if any seats remain, are $ 6. Call (501 ) 666-1761, Extension 21, or visit the Web site, www. arkansassymphony. org.
The show, aimed principally at youngsters 3-8, incorporates puppets and props designed by Jim Morrow, black-light staging techniques, original music by Nova Scotia composer Steven Naylor and storytelling by Gordon Pinsent.
After the show pizza and drinks will be sold in the lobby and Bentonville-based Tricycle Theatre for Youth will host a family workshop, including a peek backstage.
The performance is part of the Kleenex Kids Series, sponsored by Nestle Pure Life. Tickets are $ 10- $ 16. Call (479 ) 443-5600 or visit the Web site, waltonartscenter. org. Wind ‘Tributes’
The Hendrix College Wind Ensemble will present a concert titled “Tributes” at 7: 30 p. m. Monday in Staples Auditorium at Hendrix, 1600 Washington Ave., Conway.
The program will include arrangements or transcriptions of “Fest Marsch” from Tannhauser by Richard Wagner; Wagner’s Chamber guitar
Classical guitarist Michael Carenbauer will give a concert for the Chamber Music Society of Little Rock at 7: 30 p. m. Tuesday in the Parish Hall of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, 1000 N. Mississippi St., Little Rock.
Carenbauer’s program will include more than dozen short pieces by Francisco Tarrega; Variations sulla cavatina favorita and “De ! Calma oh ciel” di Rossini, op. 101, by Mauro Giuliani; Introduction, Theme and Variations on a theme from Mozart’s Die Zauberflote by Fernando Sor; a set of works Carenbauer transcribed from Images of Metheny, a recording by guitarist Jason Vieaux of transcriptions for classical guitar of songs by jazz guitarist Pat Metheny; a pair of works transcribed by Carenbauer from recordings by guitarist Martin Taylor; his own Ode to Home; “Bookends” by Paul Simon, based on a recording by Manuel Barreuco; and Carenbauer’s arrangements of “Luiza” by Antonio Carlos Jobim and the traditional “Greensleeves.”
Carenbauer is a member of the faculty at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
Tickets are $ 20, $ 10 for students. Call (501 ) 661-0520. Trauersinfonie; by Robert Jager; English Folk Song Suite by Ralph Vaughan Williams; Sanctuary by Frank Ticheli; and Strange Humors by John Mackey, with Dylan Sherwood on the djembe, an African drum. Karen Fannin conducts.
Admission is free. Call (501 ) 450-1422 or visit the Web site, www. hendrix. edu / music. Quartet and octet
The Arkansas Symphony Orchestra’s Sturgis and Quapaw quartets will form the lineup for the orchestra’s next River Rhapsodies chamber concert, 7 p. m. Tuesday in the Great Hall of the Clinton Presidential Center, 1200 President Clinton Ave., Little Rock.
The Sturgis Quartet — Geoffrey Robson and Andrew Harvey, violins; Tatiana Kotcherguina, viola; and David Gerstein, cello — will perform the String Quartet No. 3 in A major, op. 41 No. 3, by Robert Schumann.
They and the Quapaw Quartet — Eric Hayward and Meredith Maddox, violins; Ryan Mooney, viola; and Daniel Cline, cellist of the orchestra’s Rockefeller Quartet, sitting in for Melita Hunsinger, who is on maternity leave — will play ‘Ode to Freedom’
The Texarkana Symphony Orchestra, the Texarkana Regional Chorale, the Texarkana College Choir and four soloists will perform Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony as part of a program called “Beethoven’s Ode to Freedom: In Honor of Our American Veterans,” at 7: 30 p. m. Tuesday at the Perot Theatre, 219 Main St., Texarkana.
Soloists in the Beethoven symphony will be Mary Mc-Means, soprano; Kristian Roberts, mezzosoprano; Kwan Kyun Joo, tenor; and Lawrence Harris, baritone.
The program will also include “The Star-Spangled Banner,” Armed Forces Salute by Robert Lowden and Fanfare for the Common Man by Aaron Copland. Marc-Andre Bougie conducts and will give a concert preview at 6: 45.
Tickets are $ 36, $ 29, $ 22, $ 15 and $ 5, with special discounts for veterans. Call (903 ) 792-4992 or visit the Web site, www. texarkanasymphony. org. Joint concert
The Lyon Community Orchestra and Hendrix College Orchestra will put on a joint concert called “Welcome Winter !” at 7: 30 p. m. Tuesday in Brown Chapel at Lyon College, 2300 Highland Road, Batesville, and at 7: 30 p. m. Nov. 24 in Reves Recital Hall at Hendrix, 1600 Washington Ave., Conway.
The program will include works by two Arkansas composers: Running From Darkness by Billy Madison, band director at Cedar Ridge High School in Newark, and Crossings by Karen Griebling, on the faculty at Hendrix. Alice Witterman, a retired Batesville music teacher, will be the clarinet soloist in Adagio by Heinrich Baermann.
Barbara Reeve, instructor of strings in Batesville schools and conductor of the Lyon Community Orchestra, will be the violin soloist in the “Winter” concerto from The Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi. The program will also include Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Divertimento, K 138, and a chorus from Lyon College singing Johannes Brahms ’ version of Michael Praetorius ’ “Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming,” “ In the Bleak Midwinter ” and “Greensleeves.”
Griebling will conduct.
Admission is free. Call (870 ) 307-7242. Sax drive I
The University of Arkansas Saxophone Chamber Ensemble will perform at 7 p. m. Thursday in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall, Fine Arts Building, University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.
The program will include by Ronald Caravan; Restless Nights by Mark Henderson; two movements of the Symphony by Stephen Dankner; and an arrangement of the Time, op. 40, by Edvard Grieg.
Admission is free. Call (479 ) 575-4701. Sax drive II
The Washington Saxophone Quartet — Reg Jackson, soprano; James Steele, alto; Rich Kleinfeldt, tenor; and Rick Parrell, baritone — will give a concert at 7: 30 p. m. Wednesday in Reynolds Performance Hall at the University of Central Arkansas, 201 Donaghey Ave., Conway.
The program: arrangements of the Toccata and Fugue in d minor, BWV 565, by Johann Sebastian Bach; Four Bagatelles, op. 8, by Bela Bartok; In Her Family by Pat Metheny; Adagio, op. 11, by Samuel Barber; Histoire du Tango by Astor Piazzolla; and “Hoedown” from Rodeo by Aaron Copland; plus Michael Nyman; and New York Suite by Paquito D’Rivera.
The concert will be the culmination of a three-day residency in which quartet members will give master classes, individual instruction to saxophone students and a series of lectures, all as part of the university’s Artist in Residence program.
The quartet is best known for the musical theme to National Public Radio’s All Things Considered.
Admission to all events connected to the residency, including the concert, are free.
Call (501 ) 450-3293. Gloria Thursday
The University of Arkansas at Little Rock Community Chorus and Concert Choir will perform Antonio Vivaldi’s Gloria at 7: 30 p. m. Thursday in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall, Fine Arts Building, UALR, 2801 S. University Ave., Little Rock.
Bevan Keating will conduct the 90-plus member chorus, orchestra and soloists soprano Kathy Kilgo and mezzosoprano Jennifer Boccarossa.
The 10-voice UALR Chamber Choir will make its debut in this concert with performances of Harold Darke’s “In the Bleak Midwinter” and Jan Pieterzoon Sweelinck’s Hodie Christus Natus Est.
Tickets are $ 10, free for UALR faculty, students and staff with UALR ID. Free parking is available in Lot 13, east of Jack Stephens Arena, across 28 th Street from the Fine Arts Building. Call (501 ) 569-3294 or visit the Web site, ualr. edu / music. Memphis Mamma Mia !
Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus’ musical Mamma Mia !, based on the songs of ABBA, will be onstage at 7: 30 p. m. Tuesday and Wednesday, 2 and 7: 30 p. m. Thursday, 8 p. m. Friday, 2 and 8 p. m. Saturday and 1: 30 p. m. Nov. 23 at the Orpheum, Main and Beale streets, Memphis.
Tickets are $ 30– $ 65 plus Ticketmaster service charges. Call (901 ) 525-3000 or visit the Web site, www. orpheummemphis. com.
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