The Golden Dragon Acrobats of China will open the University of Central Arkansas' 2008-09 Public Appearances season with three performances Sept. 19-20 in Reynolds Performance Hall at UCA, 201 Donaghey Ave., Conway.
Motown legends The Temptations and The Four Tops will take the stage together Oct. 9.
The rest of the season:
Oct. 20: Marsalis Brasilianos, saxophonist Branford Marsalis and the Filharmonia Brasileira in a tribute to Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos.
Nov. 11: "Minus One," Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montreal.
Dec. 7: "A Celtic Christmas" by Scottish group Boys of the Lough.
Feb. 5: Argentine ballroom dance show "Tango Fire."
March 5: Poncho Sanchez Latin Jazz Band.
April 30: Rhonda Vincent, "America's bluegrass sweetheart," and her band, The Rage.
Season tickets range from $102 to $236. Single tickets to all shows go on sale on Aug. 11 at prices to be announced. Call (501) 450-3265 or, toll-free, (866) 810-0012, or visit the Web site, www.uca.edu/reynolds.
Quartet visits Village
The Arkansas Symphony Orchestra's Quapaw Quartet - Eric Hayward and Meredith Maddox, violins; Ryan Mooney, viola; and Melita Hunsinger, cello - will perform at 7 p.m. Monday at the Woodlands Auditorium, Ponce de Leon Center, DeSoto Boulevard and Balboa Drive, HotSprings Village.
The program will be announced from the stage. Host David Itkin, Arkansas Symphony music director, will discuss the orchestra's 2008-09 season.
Admission is free but reservations are required. Call (501) 922-2475 or e-mail guildtickets@sbcglobal.net.
Radio Flyer
Radio station KUAR-FM, 89.1, will put on its second Arkansas Flyer live variety show, celebrating Arkansas culture, music and politics, at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the Performing Arts Center (formerly the University Theater) at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 2801 S. University Ave., Little Rock.
The show marks May as Arkansas Heritage Month, for which the theme this year is politics, so the show will include Bob Hulsey's Invisible Radio Theater and tale-teller John Philpot in politically oriented skits and stories, along with a salute to political jingles.
The show will also feature musical performances by the Edgar Allan Po' Boys and house band Billy Jones Bluez. Radio personality and musician David B. Treadway will host. The show will be recorded for broadcast on KUAR at 1 and 7 p.m. May 29.
Tickets are $10, $5 for UALR students, free for children 12 and younger. A reception will kick off the event at 6:30 p.m. in the theater lobby. Call (501) 569-8492 or visit the Web site, www.kuar.org.
Singing for supper
An ensemble of the Arkansas Chamber Singers will perform as part of a Chamber Singers fundraiser called "The Beauty of Spring" at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Governor's Mansion, 1800 Center St., Little Rock.
Tickets are $60, including drinks and hors d'oeuvres.Cocktail attire. Call (501) 377-1121 or visit the Web site, www.ar chambersingers. org.
Ozarks residency
Seven members of the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra Arts Partners will conduct a two-day residency Thursday and Friday at the Ozark Folk Center in Mountain View.
Christian Baker, Darby BeDell and Joanna Whang, violins; Tatiana Kotcherguina and Katherine Reynolds, violas; and Daniel Cline and Will Preece, cellos, members of the Rockefeller Quartet and the Sturgis Trio, will give five music demonstrations for area school children and a performance for the general public:
1:15 p.m. Thursday and 10:15 and 11:15 a.m. Friday: Demonstration performances, "Arkansas - A Natural State of Music," Rockefeller Quartet, Folk Center, featuring music by Arkansas composers.
7:30 p.m.: Concert by both ensembles in conjunction with the Folk Center's "Festival of Southern Music" program. An invitation-only special reception, hosted by the center's"Committee of 100," will precede the concert.
10 a.m. and 1 p.m. Friday: Demonstration performances, "Mozart, The Man Behind the Music," Sturgis Trio, Mountain Home High School.
Financial support comes from Bank of America.
The education demonstrations at the Folk Center are free and open to the public. Tickets for the Thursday night concert are $10. Call (501) 666-1761, Extension 118.
'Miss Dot' scholarships
A group of Dot Callanen's students is creating a scholarship endowment fund to honor the late dancer, dance teacher and choreographer.
"Miss Dot" danced with nationally renowned ballet companies and artists but returned to her native Arkansas to work with the state's dancers, teaching ballet, tap, jazz and gymnastics. She founded the dance program at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock; was the artistic director of Arkansas Dance Theatre and the UALR Town and Gown Dance Ensemble; and choreographed for Murry's Dinner Playhouse, the Miss Arkansas Pageant,the Farkleberry Follies, Wildwood Park for the Performing Arts, the Gridiron and several movies.
The Dot Callanen Dance Scholarship will be the first endowed statewide dance scholarship available to any Arkansas high school student planning to pursue an education at any institution. The Thea Foundation will administer the awards.
Send donations payable to the Arkansas Community Foundation, 1400 W. Markham St., Suite 206, Little Rock, Ark. 72201, or visit the Web site, www.arcf.org. Specify that the donation is for the Dot Callanen Dance Scholarship either on the check or while paying by credit card via the Web site. All contributions to the fund are tax-deductible.
China exchange
Twelve music faculty members and a graduate student from the University of Central Arkansas in Conway will participate in master classes, clinics and conversations with Chinese music faculty and professional musicians as well as a pair of concerts Wednesday and Friday in Fuzhou, on the eastern coast of China, as part of an exchange program with East China Normal University and the Fuzhou Symphony Orchestra. Making the trip are music department chairman Jeffrey Jarvis; Israel Getzov, music director of the Conway Symphony Orchestra, assistant professor of music at UCA and visiting conductor for the Fuzhou Symphony; the Pinnacle Brass (Larry Jones and John Merlitz, trumpets; Brent Shires, French horn; Denis Winter, trombone; and Ben Miles, tuba); the Sunaura Trio (Carolyn Brown, flute; Lorraine Duso, oboe; and Kelly Johnson, clarinet); pianist Neil Rutman; and music theorists Carol Anthony and Paul Dickinson.
Five East China Normal students studied at UCA during the 2007-08 school year; one intends to return after her graduation to work on a master's degree. Runyu Hou, the chairman of the East China Normal music department and the conductor of its orchestra, was at UCA to work with faculty in October and brought the university orchestra to UCA in February. UCA expects five more Chinese music students next year.
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