LITTLE ROCK — The Two Jewish Guys - Little Rock lawyer Phil Kaplan and adman Leslie Singer - will present their Jewish Guys Hanukkah Special at 7 p.m. Monday at the Clinton Presidential Center.
The performance will feature skits, music and “general shtick” with musical guests the Meshugga Klezmer Band, the Bauman Brothers, pianist Tatiana Roitman and Darril “Harp” Edwards, a steel drum player from Trinidad and Tobago.
A 6:30 reception, sponsored by the center and the Clinton Museum Store, will precede the festivities. Radio station KUAR-FM, 89.1, will record the event for broadcast at 7 p.m. Dec. 6 and again on Christmas Day.
Admission is $4.99; prepaid reservations are required. Call (501) 569-8485 or visit the website, kuar.org.
Goldberg Variations
Pianist Simone Dinnerstein will play J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations at 7:30 p.m. Monday in Reves Recital Hall at Hendrix College, 1600 Washington Ave., Conway.
The performance is part of the Harold Thompson Series. Admission is free. Call (501) 450-1247.
River Rhapsodies
The Arkansas Symphony Orchestra River Rhapsodies Chamber Series celebrates the centenary of the Mexican Revolution in a concert called “The Celebration Continues” at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Great Hall of the Clinton Presidential Center, 1200 President Clinton Ave., Little Rock.
Geoffrey Robson, violin; Ryan Mooney, viola; and David Gerstein, cello, will play the String Trio by Manuel Ponce and Five Miniatures by Federico Ibarra.
The Quapaw Quartet - Eric Hayward and Meredith Maddox Hicks, violins, with Mooney and Gerstein - will play the String Quartet No. 3 by Silvestre Revueltas.
And the Rockefeller Quartet - Chris Baker and Darby BeDell, violins; Katherine Reynolds, viola; and Daniel Cline, cello - will play the String Quartet No. 13 in G major, op.106, by Antonin Dvorak.
Series sponsor is public radio stations KLRE-FM, 90.5, and KUAR-FM, 89.1. Tickets are $22, $10 for students. Call (501) 666-1761 or visit the website, ArkansasSymphony.org.
Conway chorus
The 60-member Conway Men’s Chorus will give a concert at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Donald W. Reynolds Performance Center, University of Central Arkansas, 201 Donaghey Ave., Conway.
The program will include Christmas favorites including a pairing of “The Little Drummer Boy” with “Peace on Earth,” “Mary, Did You Know,” “O Holy Night,” “White Christmas” and “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town.” Soloists will include Jim Lloyd, Ed Lybarger, Jerry Biesbesheimer and Mike McCullars. Sam Huskey conducts.
Admission is free. Call (501) 327-5151.
Lincoln exhibition
A traveling exhibition, “Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War,” opens Wednesday in the Main Gallery of the Arkansas Studies Institute, 401 President Clinton Ave., Little Rock, under the auspices of the Central Arkansas Library System and the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies.
The exhibition, through photocopies of original documents and pictures, focuses on Lincoln’s struggle with the political and constitutional challenges of the Civil War, in six themed sections, including the secession of Southern states, slavery and the wartime suspension of habeas corpus.
The exhibition, put together by the American Library Association Public Programs Office in collaboration with the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, will visit 25 libraries across the country through 2013, with funding by a major grant fromthe National Endowment for the Humanities.
Exhibition hours are 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Friday through Jan. 28. Admission is free. Call (501) 918-3032.
Native Nativity
“Nativity Scenes From Native America,” an exhibition of 37 Nativity scenes made of pottery, wood, papier mache and stone by Indians predominantly from the southwest United States and Mexico, goes on display at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Dr. J.W. Wiggins Native American Art Gallery, Sequoyah National Research Center, University Plaza, Asher and University avenues, at the south end of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock campus.
The exhibition, part of a collection of American Indian art assembled over 35 years, will be on display through Jan. 14. Gallery hours are 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday-Friday and also 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Dec. 11.
(UALR’s campus, including the gallery, will close Dec. 17-Jan. 4.) Admission is free. Call (501) 569-8336.
Christmas concert
The Memphis Symphony Orchestra will offer its “Home for the Holidays” pops concert at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the Fine Arts Center Auditorium at East Arkansas Community College, 1700 Newcastle Road, Forrest City.
Soprano Ashley Brown, who on Broadway played the title role in Mary Poppins and Belle in Beauty and the Beast, will sing “What Child Is This,” arranged by Jeff Tyzik, and“O Holy Night” by Adolphe Adam.
The Memphis Symphony Chorus and the University of Memphis Concert Singers will sing “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel” in a setting by John Rutter; the “Shepherds’ Chorus” from Amahl and the Night Visitors by Gian Carlo Menotti; Tyzik’s arrangement of “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing”; and Gloria by Randol Bass.
The purely orchestral part of the program will include Festival Fanfare for Brass by John Wasson; “Miniature Overture,” “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy” and “Russian Dance” from The Nutcracker by Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky; and Chanukah Suite, arranged by Tyzik. Mei-Ann Chen conducts.
The Oral Edwards family and Food Giant are sponsoring the concert. Tickets are $25, $15 for children 16 and under. Call (870) 633-4480, Extension 352 or 362 or visit the website, eacc.edu.
Madrigal Feastes
Two universities in the state will be offering Madrigal Feastes this week:
The University of Central Arkansas Chamber Singers will don period costumes and serenade the audience with carols, 6:30 p.m. Friday and Dec. 5 in McCastlain Ballroom, UCA. Dinner is a choice of prime rib, chicken Florentine or a vegetable plate. Tickets are $40. Call (501) 450-3265.
The Arkansas State University Concert Choir and Chamber Singers will serve as the court of “King Henry the VIII of England, Jonesboro and Craighead County,” complete with costumes, decorations, comedy and fanfare, 6:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday in the Grand Hall of ASU’s Fowler Center, 201 Olympic Drive, Jonesboro. The menu will include Cornish game hen, vegetable medley, yams, greene salat and rolls. A flaming pudding will be served with the royal fanfare. Tickets for Thursday and Saturday, available through Monday, are $35, $30 for senior citizens and ASU faculty, staff and students; call (870) 972-2781 or (888) 278-3267. Proceeds benefit the ASU Choir concert tour fund toward a trip to New York’s Carnegie Hall in March 2012. The ASU Faculty Women’s Club has charge of the Friday evening performance; all tickets are $30. Proceeds go to the Ruby Reng scholarship. Call (870) 972-3330.
Sedaris tickets
Tickets - $50 floor level, $40 balcony - go on sale Wednesday for an appearance by author and humorist David Sedaris, the closing event in the eighth annual Arkansas Literary Festival, 7 p.m. April 13 at Pulaski Academy’s Connor Performing Arts Center, 1901 Napa Valley Drive, Little Rock.
More than 1,300 people attended when the literary festival hosted Sedaris in October 2009.
Proceeds benefit the literary festival. Tickets will be available at any Central Arkansas Library System branch. Call (501) 918-3009 or visit ArkansasLiterary-Festival.org or cals.org.
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