The Last Southern Gentlemen Tour -- jazz pianist and paterfamilias Ellis Marsalis Jr. and his trombonist son, Delfeayo Marsalis, with Billy Williams, percussion, and Eric Wheeler, bass -- will headline the annual Jazz Eureka festival at 8 p.m. Saturday at The Auditorium, 36 S. Main St., Eureka Springs. Tickets are $25 to $47.50. Visit theauditorium.org.
The Fayetteville Jazz Collective, an 18-piece big band, will headline at 7:30 p.m. Friday in The Auditorium. Ben Harris directs. Tickets are $12.
The festival, Tuesday through Sept. 14, will feature free, outdoor jazz concerts in Basin Spring Park on Spring Street, including an appearance by Little Rock-based trumpeter Rodney Block, 5-7 p.m. Friday, and an all-afternoon show, noon to 6 p.m. Saturday, featuring Matt and Gus Smith, Brandon Mezzelo, Walter Savage and the Northeast State University Jazz All Stars, featuring Tommy Poole.
A complete lineup is available online at jazzeureka.org; call (479) 253-7333.
The Marsalises will also perform as part of "Jazz on Ninth Street," a fundraiser for the Friends of the Mosaic Templars Cultural Center, at 7 p.m. Sept. 14 at the center, 501 W. Ninth St., Little Rock. Tickets are $25-$50. Call (501) 683-3620 or visit the website, tinyurl.com/pgcu2rq.
Delfeayo Marsalis, also the author of a children's book, No Cell Phone Day, has scheduled three visits with central Arkansas students on Sept. 15 (for more information, email info@speakloudly.com):
• 9-10 a.m., book talk and trombone demonstration, Winthrop Rockefeller Elementary School, 700 E. 17th St., Little Rock.
• 1-2 p.m., workshop titled "Say It Loud!" with "aspiring young artists," Mosaic Templars Cultural Center.
• 6-7:30 p.m., conversation, trombone demonstration and book signing, Winthrop Rockefeller Elementary School.
Young Artist tour
Belarus-born American pianist Olga Krayterman, the National Federation of Music Clubs' 2013 Young Artist Piano Competition winner, will start her Young Artist tour of Arkansas this week:
• Wednesday, 11 a.m., Trinity United Methodist Church, 1101 N. Mississippi St., Little Rock, sponsored by Little Rock Musical Coterie. (501) 666-2813.
• Thursday, 7:30 p.m., Fine Arts Center, University of Arkansas at Monticello. (870) 460-1060.
• Sept. 14, 2:30 p.m., White Lecture Hall, Robert Burns Building, Northwest Arkansas Community College, 1 College Drive, Bentonville. (479) 619-4261.
• Sept. 15, 7:30 p.m., Oakcliff Baptist Church, 3701 Gary St., Fort Smith. (479) 646-3891.
• Sept. 16, 7:30 p.m., Mabee Fine Arts Center, Ouachita Baptist University, Arkadelphia. (870) 245-5129.
• Sept. 18, 7:30 p.m., Stilwell Humanities Recital Hall, Texarkana College, 2500 N. Robison Road, Texarkana. (870) 773-1118.
Admission to all concerts is free.
Krayterman will play the same program at each appearance: The White Peacock by Charles Tomlinson Griffes; Prussian Sonata No. 4 in c minor, H.27, by C.P.E. Bach; Fantasy in b minor, op.28, by Alexander Scriabin; the Mazurka in c-sharp minor, op.50, No. 3, and the Ballade No. 3 in A-flat major, op.47, by Frederic Chopin; and three Etudes-tableaux -- op.39, No. 2 in a minor; op.39, No. 8 in d minor; and op.39, No. 9 in D major, by Sergei Rachmaninoff.
Hendrix art show
The Hendrix College art department will display the work of faculty members David Bailin, Melissa Cowper-Smith, Angela Cummings, Melissa Gill, Matthew Lopas, Erik Maakestad, Delita Martin, Shannon Rodgers and Anna Tanner, Monday-Oct. 3 in the lobby of Art Building A at Hendrix, 1600 Washington Ave., Conway. There will be a reception, 5-6 p.m. Wednesday. Gallery hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday. Call (501) 450-1262 or email lopas@hendrix.edu.
Crowell tickets
Tickets -- $35 (reserved), $25 (general admission) -- go on sale at noon Monday for an 8 p.m. Dec. 4 performance by singer-songwriter Rodney Crowell at South on Main, 1304 S. Main St., Little Rock, under the auspices of the Oxford American magazine. Visit metrotix.com.
History symposium
The Arkansas History Commission and the Sequoyah National Research Center will host a half-day symposium, "The Great War: Researching World War I in Arkansas Archives," 9 a.m.-noon Saturday in Dickinson Hall, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 2801 S. University Ave., Little Rock.
Admission is free. Call (501) 682-6900 or (501) 569-8336.
Elf auditions
The Arkansas Repertory Theatre will hold auditions for performers over 18 for Elf (music by Matthew Sklar, lyrics by Chad Beguelin, book by Bob Martin and Thomas Meehan, adapted from the screenplay for the 2003 film), by appointment only Sept. 22.
Prepare 32 bars of a song either from, or in the style of, the show; callbacks may require dance and/or readings of portions of the script that will be provided ahead of time.
The role of Buddy has been cast; a list of available roles and their requirements is available at therep.org/work-with-us/auditions.aspx. All actors will be paid. Nicole Capri will direct.
Email company manager/casting associate Peter Mensky at pmensky@therep.org to schedule an appointment, (put "Elf Local Appointment Request" as the subject line). Rehearsals begin Nov. 11. Production dates are Dec. 3-28 with a possible one-week extension to Jan. 4. Call (501) 378-0445.
Style on 09/07/2014