LITTLE ROCK — Elsewhere in entertainment and the arts this weekend: Smiley at the mike
Broadcaster, author, publisher and advocate Tavis Smiley will give a talk at 7 p.m. today in the M.L. Harris Auditorium, Philander Smith College, 900 Daisy Gatson Bates Drive, Little Rock, as part of the Arkansas Literary Festival and the college’s Bless the Mic series. Admission is free. Call (501) 370-5279 or (501) 918-3086 or e-mail skondo@philander.edu or sgele@cals.org.
Trumpet recital
Trumpeter Wiff Rudd will give a recital at 7:30 p.m. today in Riceland Hall, Arkansas State University’s Fowler Center, 201 Olympic Drive, Jonesboro.
Rudd, currently on the faculty of Baylor University School of Music, was associate professor of music at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville from 1998-2002, while also serving as principal trumpet of the North Arkansas Symphony Orchestra and a member of the Boston Mountain Chamber Players.
He and pianist Lauren Schack Clark will perform a program of 20th and 21st century music that will include Boutade by Pierre Gabaye; Sonate fur Trompete und Klavier by Karl Pilss; Three Bagatelles by Fisher Tull; the second movement of the Sonata for Trumpet and Piano by Eric Ewazen; Abstracts No. 2 by Robert Russell; Masks for Trumpet and Piano by Dana Wilson; and Concerto for Cootie by Duke Ellington.
The performance is part of the university’s Lecture-Concert Series. Admission is free. Call (870) 972-2094.
Oratorio for Easter
The University of Arkansas at Little Rock Community Chorus and the Second Presbyterian Church Choir will perform the Easter portions (parts 2 and 3) of George Frideric Handel’s oratorio Messiah at 7 p.m. today at Second Presbyterian Church, 600 Pleasant Valley Drive, Little Rock.
Bevan Keating will conduct the 120-voice choir, 10 student and professional soloists and 17-piece chamber orchestra.
Admission is free. Call (501) 227-0000 or (501) 569-3294.
Anniversary ‘fling’
Red Door Gallery (Melody and Steve Stanley, owners), 3715 John F. Kennedy Blvd., North Little Rock, will mark its 30th anniversary with a “Spring Fling” party, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday.
Participating artists, who will be creating works on site, include Tod Crites, Patrick Cunningham, Tracee Gentry, James Hayes, Amy Hill-Imler, KatEva (aka Shannon Jeffery), Terry Lynn, Joe Martin, Pat Matthews, Vicki Matthews, Daisy McDonald and Betsy Woodyard.
Admission is free. Part of the day’s proceeds from art sales and framing benefits local charities. The party will feature refreshments, door prizes and music by the Ted Ludwig Trio. Call (501) 753-5227 or visit reddoorgalleryonline.com.
Fiddling around
The Saline County Arts Project will host “Saline Jams” this weekend, including a concert featuring champion fiddler Junior Marriott and guitarist Jonathan Trawick at 7 p.m. Friday at the Royal Theatre, 111 S. Market St., Benton. Tickets are $8, $5 for students and senior citizens.
Three fiddle workshops will take place from 9:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday at the Saline County Arts Project, 4037 Boone Road, Benton. Workshop costs range from $10 to $30, $50 for all three. A complete schedule and registration information are available at salinecountyarts.com. Call (501) 773-9723.
Well Met, Manon
“The Met: Live in HD” series will offer a big-screen live “cinecast” of the Metropolitan Opera production of Manon by Jules Massenet, with soprano Anna Netrebko in the title role of a country girl with conflicting desires for love and luxury who is drawn into the glamorous, but hollow, life of Parisian sophistication, at 11 a.m. Saturday at:
Breckenridge Village 12, Breckenridge Village Shopping Center, Interstate 430 and North Rodney Parham Road, Little Rock
Conway Towne Center, 201 Skyline Drive, Conway
Tinseltown 14, 17314 Interstate 30 North, Benton
Razorback 16, 3956 N. Steele Blvd., Fayetteville.
Ticket information is available at fathom.com; ticket and production information is available at metopera.org/ liveinhd.
Weekend, Pages 33 on 04/05/2012