Elsewhere in entertainment and the arts: Brass quintet
Pinnacle Brass, the University of Central Arkansas’ resident brass quintet - Larry Jones and Eric Liu, trumpet; Brent Shires, horn; Justin Cook, trombone; and Christian Carichner, tuba - will perform music from its December two-week tour of China at 1:40 p.m. today in the Snow Fine Arts Recital Hall, UCA, 201 Donaghey Ave., Conway.
The program will include Bai Lin’s Introduction; “Grover’s Corners” from Aaron Copland’s film score to Our Town; JohnPhilip Sousa’s Hands Across the Sea; Samuel Ward’s “America the Beautiful”; Jiang Jun Fu’s Silvery Moonlit Night; and Duke Ellington’s “Do Nothin’ Till You Hear From Me.” The performance will also feature comments, narrative and images from the tour.
Admission is free. Call (501) 450-5768 or email bshires@uca.edu.
Lunch lecture
Mark Christ, author and community outreach director for the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program and a member of the Arkansas Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission, will discuss the role of black soldiers during the latter years of the Civil War in a Brown Bag Lunch Lecture titled “An Eagle on His Button,” noon Wednesday at the Old State House Museum, 300 W. Markham St., Little Rock. Admission is free; take a sack lunch. Call (501) 324-9685 or email info@oldstatehouse.org.
Brother Sun
Folk music trio Brother Sun will perform at 7:30 p.m. today in Riceland Hall, Arkansas State University’s Fowler Center, 201 Olympic Drive, Jonesboro. It’s part of the university’s Lecture-Concert Series. Admission is free. Call (870) 972-2094 or visit AState.edu.
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