music
The Arkansas Symphony Orchestra will open the 2024-25 Stella Boyle Smith Masterworks Series with pianist Aaron Diehl’s solo performance of George Gershwin’s “Piano Concerto in F Major” Saturday at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday It opens at 3 p.m. at Robinson Center Performance Hall, 426 W. Markham in Little Rock. Broadway St. The program also includes Gershwin’s “Cuban Overture,” Anna Klein’s “Masquerade” and Grammy-nominated composer Carlos Simon’s “Graffiti.” Conducted by Geoffrey Robson. (501) 666-1761, extension 1, or visit arkansassymphony.org.
Meanwhile, the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra is moving its River Rhapsody Chamber Series to the new Stella Boyle Smith Music Center at 1101 E. 3rd St. in Little Rock, doubling the number of most concerts in the series and starting the 2024-25 season. It will open. Concerts called “Intimate Letters” will be held in the center’s Susie and Charles Morgan Hall on Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 7 p.m. The concert will feature both of the orchestra’s string quartets. The Rockefeller Quartet will perform Leoš Janáček’s String Quartet No. 2, “Intimate Letters,” and the Quapaw Quartet will perform String Quartet No. 10 in E flat major, Opus 2. 74, “Harp” by Ludwig van Beethoven. Halfway through, harpist Alisa Coffey joins the brass quintet to perform Jan Koetsier’s Variations on a Theme of Vysehrad.
John Fulbright, a member of an early version of the Turnpike Troubadours before going solo in 2008, will perform at Argenta Plaza, 510 Main St., North Little Rock, on Friday at 8 p.m. -Performed as part of the Vibe Music Series. Admission is free. (501) 758-1424;northlittlerock.org
Juvenile & the 4000 Degrees Band performs Sunday at 9 p.m. at The Hall, 721 W. Ninth St., Little Rock. (501) 406-1364;littlerockhall.com.
Godsmack will headline North Little Rock’s Simmons Bank Arena on Tuesday at 7 p.m. (501) 975-9000;SimmonsBancarena.com
Exhibits
“Two Minutes to Midnight and the Architecture of Armageddon,” a photo essay about the Cold War by Janine Mishna-Bales and Adam Reynolds, is on display at the MacArthur Museum of Military History, Arkansas, 503 E. Ninth St., through Jan. 5. There is. Little Rock. (501)-376-4602; littlerock.gov/MacArthur.
And “Commanding the Screen: American Presidents in Film and Television” continues to feature material from more than 30 films and television shows depicting fictional and real American presidents, and will be on display at the Clinton Presidential Center (President 1200) through March 23. ) will be held. Clinton Avenue, Little Rock. clintonpresidentialcenter.org/exhibits.