LITTLE ROCK — Elsewhere in entertainment and the arts this weekend: ‘Nordic Lights’
Pianist Neil Rutman will solo in Edvard Grieg’s Piano Concerto in a minor, op.16, with the Conway Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Israel Getzov at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Donald W. Reynolds Performance Hall, University of Central Arkansas, 201 Donaghey Ave., Conway. The program, titled “Nordic Lights,” will also include Symphony No. 2 by Jean Sibelius.
Tickets are $20-$38, $6 for students. Call (501) 450-5506 or visit conwaysymphony.org.
‘American Journey’
Tony Caramia, a piano professor at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y., will give a recital titled “An American Journey” at 7 p.m. today in the Administration Auditorium at Harding University in Searcy.
The recital is part of the university’s Classical Lyceum Series. The program will include American Beauty Rag by Joe Lamb, Tango Americaine and Polonaise Americaine by John Alden Carpenter, “Homage to Chaplin” from American Souvenir by Manuel Blancafort, “Streets of Laredo” from American Ballads by Roy Harris, American Minuet by Harold Arlen, American Caprice by Morton Gould, W.C. Handy’s “St. Louis Blues,” Richard Rodgers’“Manhattan” and “America the Beautiful” by Samuel Ward.
Tickets are $3. Call (501) 279-4343.
Hero in HD
Richard Wagner’s Siegfried, the third opera in Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelungs cycle, will be on area movie screens - Breckenridge Village 12 in Little Rock, Tinseltown 14 in Benton, Towne Center in Conway and Razorback 16 in Fayetteville - at 11 a.m. Saturday as part of “The Met: Live in HD” series.
The running time is approximately five hours and 29 minutes, including two intermissions. Ticket information is available at fathomevents.com.
The University of Central Arkansas in Conway will show the opera at 2 p.m. Sunday in its Reynolds Performance Hall as part of the “Captured Live From the Met@UCA” series. Tickets are $15, $5 for students with valid ID. Call (501) 450-3265 or visit uca.edu/reynolds.
Candide at Tech
Arkansas Tech University’s theater department will continue its run of the musical Candide - music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Dorothy Parker, John La Touche and Richard Wilbur, book by Lillian Hellman, based on the Voltaire novel - at 8 p.m. today-Saturday in Witherspoon Auditorium at Arkansas Tech University, Russellville.
Tickets are $8, $5 for students and senior citizens. Call(479) 967-6347.
Marmalade at UCA
University of Central Arkansas Theatre will stage Mr. Marmalade by Noah Haidle at 7:30 p.m. today-Friday and Wednesday-Nov. 11 in the Bridges/Larson Theatre, Snow Fine Arts Center, UCA, 201 Donaghey Ave., Conway.
The play, recommended for adult audiences only, will be the university’s entry in the Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival.
Tickets are $10 (two free with a current UCA ID). Call (501) 450-3265 or visit uca.edu/ theatre.
Gladys in Maumelle
The Maumelle Players Community Theatre will stage Gladys in Wonderland by Rosemary Frisino Toohey at 7 p.m. Friday-Saturday and Nov. 11-12 and 2 p.m. Sunday and Nov. 13 in the Fellowship Hall of Shepherd of Peace Lutheran Church, 449 Millwood Circle, Maumelle.
Tickets are $12, $10 for students and senior citizens 65 and older. Call (501) 352-4239 or visit maumelleplayers.org.
Band memories
The North Little Rock Community Concert Band will give a concert titled “Times Remembered” at 3 p.m. Sunday at the Patrick Henry Hays Center, 401 W. Pershing Blvd., North Little Rock.
The program will feature works linked to the band’s 30-year history and the 157th birthday of John Philip Sousa and a salute to Arkansas veterans. Rico Belotti conducts.
Admission is free. Call (501) 758-2576 or visit northlittlerockband.com.
Monticello Waltzes
The University of Arkansas at Monticello concert and chamber choirs will perform Johannes Brahms’ op.52 Liebeslieder Waltzes with four-hand pianists Tatiana Roitman and Paul Becker as part of their fall concert at 7:30 p.m. today in the Fine Arts Center at UAM in Monticello.
The program will also include “The Heavens Are Telling” from The Creation by Franz Josef Haydn; Cantate Domino by Hans Leo Hassler; and three spirituals, “Old-Time Religion,” “Deep River” and “Hallelujah.” Kent Skinner conducts.
Admission is free. Call (870) 460-1060.
Alumnus in concert
Ouachita Baptist University Wind Ensemble will give a concert featuring composer and OBU alumnus Steven Bryant at 7:30 p.m. today in Jones Performing Arts Center, OBU, Arkadelphia. Craig V. Hamilton conducts.
Admission is free. Call (870) 245-5137.
Jazz benefit
Jazz trumpeter Rodney Block and the Real Music Lovers will perform a benefit concert for the Ozark FoothillsFilmFest titled “Jazz on a Sunday Afternoon” at 3 p.m. Sunday at Elizabeth’s Restaurant, 231 E. Main St., Batesville.
Tickets are $25 and include light hors d’oeuvres and beverages. Tables for four and eight are available. Call (870) 251-1189.
Smackdown tickets
Tickets - $17, $27, $37, $47 and $62 plus handling charges - go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday for the “WWE Smackdown,” 7 p.m. Jan. 3 at North Little Rock’s Verizon Arena.
The card (subject to change)will feature “Apex Predator” Randy Orton; “the largest athlete in the world,” Big Show; “world’s strongest man” Mark Henry; “Captain Charisma” Christian; “Celtic Warrior” Sheamus; Wade Barrett; “Dashing” Cody Rhodes; Ted Dibiase Jr.; Ezekiel Jackson; 2011 “Royal Rumble” winner Daniel Bryan; Justin Gabriel; the Great Khali; Natalya; and Alicia Fox.
Tickets are available at the arena box office and all Ticketmaster outlets; call (800) 745-3000 or visit ticketmaster.com.
Weekend, Pages 33 on 11/03/2011