LITTLE ROCK — StoryCorps, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to recording, preserving and sharing the stories of Americans from all backgrounds and beliefs, will record interviews in Little Rock, Thursday through April 30.
StoryCorps will park its MobileBooth, an Airstream trailer outfitted with a recording studio, at West Daisy Gatson Bates Drive and Park Street, across from Little Rock Central High School.
The organization enables 40-minute interviews between two people who know each other, such as parent and child, grandparent and grandchild, siblings, friends. A facilitator is on hand as a guide. Participants receive a free CD copy of their interview; with their permission, a copy is archived at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress.
Little Rock station KUARFM, 89.1, will air a selection of local interviews; StoryCorps may select some to air on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition. A suggested donation of $25 helps offset costs, but those who can’t afford it can participate for free.
The StoryCorps trailer visited Little Rock in 2006 and Fayetteville in 2007.
Make reservations via the 24-hour reservation line, (800) 850-4406, or visit storycorps. org for more information on preparing a recording session. Sax, viola and piano
The Cross Town Trio - Jackie Lamar, saxophone; Karen Griebling, viola; and John Krebs, piano - will give the world premieres of Cross Town Tango by Stephen T. Griebling and Noumena by Ryan Gaston at 7:30 p.m. Monday in Reves Recital Hall at Hendrix College, 1600Washington Ave., Conway.
The program will also include Griebling’s arrangements of “Sous le dome epais” from Lakme by Leo Delibes and “Introduction and Andante” from The Pearl Fishers by Georges Bizet.
Admission is free, Call (501) 450-1249.
The trio will repeat the program at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Science Building Lecture Hall, Arkansas State University-Beebe. Admission is free. Call (870) 761-6375, or e-mail jbbristow@asub.edu or visit www.asub.edu.
‘Opera a la Carte’
University of Arkansas at Little Rock Opera Theater’s “Opera a la Carte” benefit, 6:30 p.m. Thursday in the Great Hall of the Arkansas Governor’s Mansion, 1800 Center St., Little Rock, will include cocktails, a threecourse dinner, performances by UALR students and a silent auction featuring three specially designed hats from the 2011-12 production of the opera Four Saints in Three Acts by Virgil Thomson.
Tickets are $75. Proceeds benefit the opera endowment fund. Call (501) 569-3294.
Brotherly bluegrass
Bluegrass duo The Bartley Brothers will perform at 7 p.m. Monday at the Collins Theatre, 120 W. Emerson St., Paragould, part of Jonesboro public radio station KASU-FM, 91.9’s Bluegrass Monday concert series. The station will pass the hat to pay the performers; suggested donation is $5. Call (870) 972-2367.
Percussive visitors
Percussion extravaganza Stomp will be onstage at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Donald W. Reynolds Performance Hall, University of Central Arkansas, 201 Donaghey Ave., Conway.
The show is part of the UCA Public Appearances’ Broadway Series. Tickets are $30-$40 for adults, $27-$37 for senior citizens, $10 for students, free for UCA students with ID, with discounts for UCA alumni, faculty and staff. Call (501) 450-3265 or (866)-810-0012 or visit uca.edu/tickets.
Arts Summit
Michael M. Kaiser, president of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, will head up the 2012 Arkansas Arts Summit, designed to help build and maintain strong arts organizations, April 17-18 at the Clinton Presidential Center, 1200 President Clinton Ave., Little Rock.
Former President Bill Clinton will deliver the keynote address April 17. The conference will also feature performances by Arkansas artists.
The program, developed by the Kennedy Center’s De-Vos Institute of Arts Management, will provide practical training for arts administrators and board members. Sponsors also include Arkansas Arts Council, the William J. Clinton Foundation, the Mid-America Arts Alliance and artist-designer Kaki Hockersmith.
Registration deadline is April 1. There is a $95 fee, which covers two continental breakfasts, snacks and an April 17 luncheon and cocktail reception that evening. A schedule and registration form is available at arkansasarts.com; call (501) 324-9766 or e-mail info@arkansasarts.com.
Tenor makes finals
Tenor Jacob Watson, agraduate of Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia, has reached the finals of the Lotte Lenya Competition, sponsored by the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music.
Watson emerged with 11 others out of a group of 29 semi-finalists after auditions March 9-10 in New York. They’ll compete for prizes of $15,000, $10,000 and $7,500 in the finals, April 21 at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y.
The international singing competition is for performers ages 19-30 who specialize in opera and musical theater.
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