music
river rhapsody
The Arkansas Symphony Orchestra is relocating its River Rhapsody Chamber Series to the new Stella Boyle Smith Music Center at 1101 East 3rd Street in Little Rock, doubling the number of most concerts in the series and extending the 2024-25 season. It will open with a concert. The event, called “Intimate Letters,” will be held in the center’s Susie and Charles Morgan Hall on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 7 p.m.
Rockefeller Quartet Orchestra – Linnea Brophy and Trisha McGovern Freeney on violin. Katherine Reynolds (viola) Jakob Wunsch, cello — Performs Leoš Janacek’s String Quartet No. 2, “Intimate Letters.” Quapaw Quartet — Meredith Maddox Hicks and Charlotte Crossmer, violin. Tim McDuff (viola) and Travis Schaller, cello — will perform Ludwig van Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 10 in E flat major, Op. 74, “Harp.”
Meanwhile, Andrew Stadler and Carl Mason on trumpet. David Renfro, horn. Michael Underwood, trombone. Ed Owen on tuba. Harpist Alisa Coffey will perform Jan Koetsier’s Variations on a Theme from Vysehrad.
Tickets are $30 (subject to change and increase on a sliding scale based on availability) and $15 for students and military with valid ID. Call (501) 666-1761, extension 1 or visit arkansassymphony.org.
Mountain home lineup
Touted as the world’s most popular and best-selling ABBA production, “Arrival from Sweden: The Music of ABBA” is the next event in the 13th Performing Arts Season and will be held at Arkansas State University on Nov. 3 at 7 p.m. will be held at the Vada Shade Community Development Center. -Mountain Home, 1600 College St., Mountain Home. Tickets are $45, $22.50 for students.
Remaining lineup (all performances start at 7pm, except where noted; all ticket prices are PLUS):
◼️ Dec. 14, 2 p.m.: Will Hahn’s “The Grand Ole Christmas,” Will Hearn’s Grand Ole Christmas Show, “12:25 a.m. from the Grand Ole Radio Network, NOEL Radio ,” featuring Dalton Flake, the Dirty River Jazz Band and Blue Water Highway, as well as the NOEL Radio Orchestra and the Gospel Singers. $40, $20 for students.
◼️ March 11th: After “A group of unforgettable friends discovers the greatest hits of all time” featuring songs by The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Huey Lewis & The News, Styx, Queen and Michael Jukebox Musical “Forever Young” Jackson, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Brooks & Dunn, The Black Crowes, Bon Jovi. $40, $20.
◼️April 10, 6pm: Grammy Award Winner Susie Bogus. free.
◼️ May 15: “Michael Kavanaugh: The Music of Billy Joel and Elton John.” $45, $22.50.
Call (870) 508-6280 or visit TheSheid.com.
Tuba player Jim Self is at the University of Central Arkansas in Conway this week. (Democratic Party Official Gazette Special)
UCA Tuba Legend
Tuba player Jim Self is at the University of Central Arkansas in Conway from Tuesday through Friday. Self, as part of the Natural State Brass Band and UCA Tuba Euphonium Ensemble, will perform at the Windgate Center for Fine and Performing, located at Donaghy Avenue and Bruce Street in Conway, Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. Attend a concert at Arts Concert Hall. The UCA Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band will perform music by Self at a concert Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at Windgate Concert Hall.
The residency will also include a public rehearsal on Tuesdays at 7:30 p.m. and Central Arkansas musicians, including Self and Tom Richeson (trumpet/flugelhorn), Ted Ludwig (guitar), Brian Brown (drums), David Higginbotham (double bass), and Gail Robertson (euphonium). The group is scheduled to perform at “Neighbours, Anne.” Art Show,” Fridays 6-6:30pm and 7-7:30pm at the Brick Room, 1020 Front Street, Conway.
Admission to all events is free. Visit uca.edu/cahss/Artist in Residence.
Mr. Self, professor of tuba and chamber music at the University of South Carolina’s Thornton School of Music, has contributed to more than 1,500 film soundtracks, most famously as “Voice of the Mothership” in “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” ”
on the podium
hendricks playwright
Candice Jones, an Arkansas native and Hendricks Murphy Foundation Hendricks College Visiting Playwright, will present her work at Reeves Recital Hall at Hendricks, 1600 Washington Ave., Conway, on Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. I plan to talk about it. A reception will be held at the nearby Trieshman Gallery. Admission is free. Email Hendrix-Murphy@Hendrix.edu or visit hendrixmurphy.org.
Novelist lecture
Lauren Belfer, author of four novels, the most recent of which is “Ashton Hall,” will speak Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the Vada Shade Community Development Center at Arkansas State University, Mountain Home. This is part of the university’s Teleware Author Lecture Series. Admission is free. There will be a book signing session after the lecture. Visit asumh.edu.
history lecture
Roy Ritchie, W. M. Keck Foundation research director emeritus at the Huntington Library in San Marino, Calif., will give a talk titled “Medieval America” in Ottenheimer Auditorium on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in America before European colonization. Explore the thriving culture of. Arkansas History Museum, 200 E. Third St., Little Rock. This talk begins the University of Arkansas at Little Rock’s Institute of History’s 2024-25 “Evenings with History” lecture series. Admission is free. Support the Evenings with History series by purchasing a subscription online at ualr.edu/history/evenings-with-history-subscriptions.
The rest of the lineup for the series (all lectures begin at 7:30 at the museum, with refreshments served at 7 p.m.):
◼️ November 12: Johanna Miller Lewis, recently retired associate dean of the UALR College of Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences, and Education, presents “The Federal Government Must Win: Eisenhower, the 101st Airborne, and the 1957 Lecture on the Chubu High School Crisis.
◼️ December 3: UALR faculty member Hannah Anderson will discuss “Early American Plant Stories: Exchanges of Plant Knowledge between Settlers and Native Americans in the 17th Century Northeast.”
◼️ February 4: Katrina Yeoh talks about “Finding the Girl in the Archives: The Case of Fekirye and Lenghi Sefa.”
◼️ March 4: Charles Romney, Chris McAbee, and Larry Smith explore “Playing with History: Communities and the Modern Stage.”
◼️ April 1: Kyungsun Lee examines “The Arkansas River: Surviving the Impacts of Climate Change.”
Visit ualr.edu/history/history-institute or email mwheil@ualr.edu.
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Systematics workshop
The Central Arkansas Library System’s Butler Center for Arkansas Research will host genealogist Bessida Koohn White for its annual genealogy workshop Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., 100 River Market Avenue, Little Rock. It will be held at the Ron Robinson Theater. The workshop is divided into two sessions.
“Recognizing and sharing heirlooms” includes how to identify, catalog, document, and establish their provenance.
How to Create a Family Heritage Cookbook includes suggestions for recreating lost family recipes.
After the workshop, a video will be published on the CALS YouTube channel. Admission is free, but registration is required at events.cals.org/event/11583947. Register by Wednesday and get the option to add a free boxed lunch.
Fashion designer Colt Momoru will lecture and host a fashion show as part of his residency at the University of Central Arkansas in Conway. (Democratic Party Official Gazette Special)
women who design
Fashion designer Colt Momoru will be in residence from Monday through October. 11 at the University of Central Arkansas in Conway. As part of her residency, “Sustainable, Empower, Work (SEW) Dope,” she will give a public lecture titled “An Evening with Fashion Designer Colt Momoru” at the Windgate Center Concert Hall on October 9th at 7 p.m. We plan to do so. Fine and Performing Arts, Donaghy Street and Bruce Street.
Momoru, who appeared on Season 5 of “Project Runway” and two seasons of “Project Runway All Stars,” will be appearing at Conway Fashion on Oct. 11 from 7 to 10 p.m. at the Windgate Center Atrium.・He will be co-hosting and emceeing a fashion show in collaboration with Week. With keystone steps. Tickets are $25. Visit tinyurl.com/43cbx6se.
Jonathan Appel, founder of Atlas Preservation, will lead an Arkansas Historic Preservation Program workshop on the basics of cemetery preservation Saturday at Huntsville Cemetery in Huntsville. (Democratic Party Official Gazette Special)
cemetery preservation
The Arkansas Historic Preservation Program will be holding a free workshop on the basics of cemetery preservation on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Huntsville Cemetery and Cemetery Road in Huntsville, Missouri.
Jonathan Appel, founder of Atlas Preservation, will provide hands-on training in techniques for maintaining and preserving historic burial sites.
Participants will work on cleaning, basic repairs, and leveling gravestones. Lunch will be provided. Register (required) by calling (501) 324-9148 or emailing Holly.Hope@arkansas.gov.