ENTERTAINMENT NOTES : Four quartets play in three state concerts this week
Posted on Sunday, October 19, 2008
Pianist Michiko Otaki and the Graffe String Quartet — Stepan Graffe and Lukas Bednalik, violins; Lukas Cybulski, viola; and Michal Hreno, cello — will give a recital at 7: 30 p. m. Monday in Riceland Hall, Fowler Center, Arkansas State University, 201 Olympic Drive, Jonesboro.
The program: String Quartet in g minor, op. 74 No. 3, “Rider,” by Franz Josef Haydn; String Quartet No. 2, “Intimate Letters,” by Leos Janacek; and the Piano Quintet in E-flat major, op. 44, by Robert Schumann.
Also at ASU, tuba player Patrick Sheridan, a former member of the U. S. Marine Corps Band, will present “An Evening With Patrick Sheridan” at 7: 30 p. m. Tuesday in Riceland Hall. Co-sponsors are the ASU Bands and Jupiter Band Instruments Inc.
Both performances are part of the university’s Lecture-Concert Series. Admission is free. Call (870 ) 972-2308.
And five ASU faculty members will headline the season’s first Faculty Recital Series concert at 7: 30 p. m. Thursday in Riceland Hall.
Pianist Lauren Schack Clark will play the Piano Sonata in a minor by Franz Schubert. Soprano Marika Kyriakos will sing the aria “Les oiseaux dans la charmille” from the opera The Tales of Hoffmann by Jacques Offenbach with Luca Strazzullo at the piano.
Robin Dauer, horn, and Clark will play the Concerto for Horn by Ralph Hermann. Dan Ross, oboe, Dale Clark, bassoon, and Lauren Schack Clark will play the Trio by Andre Previn.
Admission is free. Call (870 ) 972-2094. More quartets
Two of the Arkansas Symphony’s string quartets will take part in the second of the orchestra’s 2008-09 River Rhapsodies concerts at 7 p. m. Tuesday in the Great Hall of the Clinton Presidential Center, 1200 President Clinton Ave., Little Rock.
The Rockefeller Quartet — Christian Baker and Darby BeDell, violins; Katherine Reynolds, viola; and Daniel Cline, cello — will perform Elegy by Elliott Carter and the String Quartet No. 1 in e minor, “From My Life,” by Bedrich Smetana.
The Sturgis Quartet — Geoffrey Robson and Andrew Harvey, violins; Tatiana Kotcherguina, viola; and David Gerstein, cello — will perform the String Quartet in D major by Cesar Franck.
Tickets are $ 28; student rush tickets are $ 6. Call (501 ) 666-1761, Extension 21, or visit the Web site, www. ArkansasSym phony. org. And another quartet...
Cuarteto La Catrina — Daniel Vega-Albela and Blake Espy, violins; Jorge Martinez, viola; and Alan Daowz, cello — will give a concert under the auspices of the Little Rock Chamber Music Society at 7: 30 p. m. Thursday in the Parish Hall of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, 1000 N. Mississippi St., Little Rock.
The quartet, founded in 2001, has a triple mission: “To promote Mexican and Latin American art music, to perform the masterworks of the string quartet repertoire and to work closely with living composers in order to promote the performance of new music,” according to a news release.
The program: Metro Chabacano by Javier Alvarez; Sonoralia, op. 3, “La Zacatecana,” by Emmanuel Arias y Luna; String Quartet No. 61 in d minor, op. 76 No. 2, “Fifths,” by Haydn; Huapango by Jose Pablo Moncayo; and the String Quartet in F major by Maurice Ravel.
Tickets are $ 20, $ 10 for students. Call (501 ) 661-0520 or (501 ) 351-2599. Piano premiere
Pianist Neil Rutman will give the Arkansas premiere of Frederic Rzewski’s Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues in a recital at 7: 30 p. m. Tuesday in the Snow Fine Arts Center Recital Hall, University of Central Arkansas, 201 Donaghey Ave., Conway. The program will also feature Novelletten, op. 21, and In der Nacht by Schumann; Andante and Rondo Capriccioso, op. 14, by Felix Mendelssohn; and the Nocturne in E major, op. 62 No. 1, and Polonaise in A-flat major, op. 53, by Frederic Chopin.
Admission is free. Call (501 ) 450-3136. Trash to treasure ?
Canadian-based “percussion theater” ensemble ScrapArts-Music will turn “Trash to Musical Treasure” on instruments crafted from salvaged and recycled junk at 7 p. m. today at the Walton Arts Center, 495 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville.
The quintet, founded by percussionist Gregory Kozak, makes instruments from exhaust hoses, artillery shells and broken monkey bars, among other sources.
The concert is a part of the center’s Pepperidge Farm Family Fun Series and is sponsored by Procter & Gamble. Tickets are $ 22- $ 28. Call (479 ) 443-5600 or visit the Web site, walton artscenter. org. UA music
Musical events in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall, Fine Arts Building at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville this week. Admission is free. Call (479 ) 575-4701 or visit the Web site, www. uark. edu / depts / ua music. Trombonist and composer Brian Allen will perform his Transitions 1-10 in a concert at 7: 30 p. m. Monday. The University of Arkansas Tuba Quartet — tuba professor Benjamin Pierce and graduate students Greg Battista, Matt Shipes and Jason Tacker — will give a concert at 7: 30 p. m. Tuesday. The program: Black Armored Wings by Michael Nickens; four Preludes by Dmitri Shostakovich; Prelude and Groove by Christopher Lee; “Little” Fugue in g minor by J. S. Bach; Kierkegaard by Meyer Kupferman; Turkish Rondo by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; and Four Pieces by Gordon Jacob.
The Center for the Study of Early Asian and Middle Eastern Musics and the UA music department of music will present a concert called “A Soiree of solo music for the Chinese two-stringed fiddle Erhu,” featuring Yu Siu Wah, associate professor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, at 8 p. m. Wednesday. Yu will perform a selection of pieces for the modern metal-string erhu and the traditional silk-string erhu. Pianist Lydia Artymiw will give a recital at 8 p. m. Friday, playing the “Allegretto grazioso” movement of the Piano Sonata in Bflat major, K. 333, by Mozart; the second and fourth movements of the Vingt Regards sur l’enfant Jesus (20 Glances at the Baby Jesus ) by Olivier Messiaen, marking the 100 th anniversary of the composer’s birth; selections from Jatekok (Games ) by Gyorgy Kurtag; and Fantasiestucke, op. 12, by Schumann. A reception will follow the recital. Air Force winds
The Midwest Winds Woodwind Quintet of the Air Force Band of Mid-America — Linda Foster, flute; Dawn M. Striker-Allan, oboe and English horn; Mary Nan Jordan, clarinet; Gerald Welker, French horn; and Robert Jordan, bassoon — will give a concert at 7: 30 p. m. Tuesday in Reves Recital Hall at Hendrix College, 1600 Washington Ave., Conway.
The program will include Mordechai Rechtman’s arrangements of the Italian Concerto by Johann Sebastian Bach, Quintet in E-flat major, op. 4, by Ludwig van Beethoven, and the Turkish Rondo by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Quartet No. 1 in F major by Gioacchino Rossini, arranged by Frederic Berr; and Potpourri Fantastico by Giulio Briccialdi.
Hendrix’s music department is sponsoring the concert. Admission is free. Call (501 ) 450-1422 or visit the Web site, www. hendrix. edu / music. Two bards’ works
British / American ensemble the Aquila Theatre Company will stage William Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors at 7 p. m. Thursday and 8 p. m. Friday and Homer’s The Iliad at 3 p. m. Oct. 26 at Walton Arts Center, 495 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. Tickets for The Comedy of Errors are $ 20-$ 30; for The Iliad, $ 25. Call (479 ) 443-5600 or visit the Web site, waltonartscen ter. org. Young singers sought
Wildwood Park for the Arts will hold auditions for young opera singers (under 40 ) — soprano, tenor and baritone — for its 2009 Opera to Go statewide school tour, 12: 30-2: 30 p. m. Nov. 3 at the park, 20919 Denny Road, Little Rock.
Prepare a 1 to 3-minute piece of classical music and bring a resume, picture and sheet music for the accompanist. Call (501 ) 821-7275.
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