Southern rock/jazz fusion band Widespread Panic will perform at 7:30 p.m. Friday at the Walmart Arkansas Music Pavilion, 5079 W. Northgate Road, Rogers.
Doors open at 6. Tickets are $31-$55.50. Call (479) 443-5600 or visit the website, amptickets.com.
Fairy tea
Garvan Woodland Gardens, 550 Arkridge Road, Hot Springs, will host a Fairy & Wizards Tea, 3 p.m. Tuesday in its Magnolia Room. Children are encouraged to dress up for the occasion, which will feature scones, pastries, finger sandwiches and desserts as well as tea.
Tickets, which include garden admission, are $29, $13 for children age 5-12, with discounts for member adults. Reservations are required. Call (800) 366-4664 or email gardeninfo@garvangardens.org.
Fort Smith season
The Fort Smith Symphony's 2015-16 season will feature two world premieres:
• Alaina Rea, viola, and Joshua DeVries, cello, will be the soloists with the orchestra and conductor John Jeter in Resilience, Double Concerto for Viola, Cello and Orchestra, commemorating the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, by Michael Schelle in the season opener, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 3 at the ArcBest Corp. Performing Arts Center, 55 S. Seventh St., Fort Smith. The program for the concert, titled "The Greatest Generation," will also include John Williams' 2014 arrangement of "The Star-Spangled Banner" and Aaron Copland's Symphony No. 3.
• The program for the season closer, 7:30 p.m. May 14, titled "Peak of Perfection," will include Primal Silhouettes by Brice Johnson. Yun-Chin Zhou will be the soloist in the Piano Concerto No. 1 by Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky; Jeter will also conduct the Symphony No. 1 by Johannes Brahms.
In between (except as noted, all concerts, 7:30 p.m. at the ArcBest Performing Arts Center):
• Oct. 24: "Around the World With Disney" pops concert, pieces Walt Disney collected for Fantasia -- from Ludwig von Beethoven's "Pastoral" Symphony, Modest Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain and Hamilcar Ponchielli's Dance of the Hours, plus suites from Disney films including Tarzan, The Little Mermaid, Hercules, Mary Poppins and Beauty and the Beast.
• Dec. 5: "Holiday Memories" pops concert, featuring Elizabeth Lyon, violin, the orchestra's concertmaster; Don Bailey, saxophone, singer Graham Nesbit and the Fort Smith Chorale; the program will include choruses from George Frideric Handel's Messiah, excerpts from Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker and other Christmas favorites.
• Jan. 23: "Jupiter and Beyond." Theresa Delaplain will solo in the Concerto for Oboe by Bohuslav Martinu; the program will also include the Overture to Beethoven's ballet The Creatures of Prometheus and the Symphony No. 41 in C major, K.551, "Jupiter," by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
• April 16: "The Gospel According to Swing," pops concert, featuring trumpeter Byron Stripling and R&B organist Bobby Floyd. The program will include the finale to Felix Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 5, "Resurrection," plus arrangements of "Down by the Riverside," "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child," "How Great Thou Art," "Oh What a Beautiful City," "You've Been So Good," "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" and a Mahalia Jackson tribute.
• The orchestra will give its annual "Earquake!" children's concerts, 9 a.m., 10 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. April 18.
Season tickets are $140-$185, $90 and $115 for students. Call (479) 452-7575, email fssymphony@fortsmithsymphony.org or visit the website, fortsmithsymphony.org.
Motown in Memphis
A touring production of Motown The Musical -- the story of Motown founder Berry Gordy's journey from featherweight boxer to heavyweight music mogul, featuring arrangements and orchestrations by Ethan Popp of more than 40 Motown hits including "My Girl" and "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" -- 7:30 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday, 8 p.m. Friday, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday and 1 and 7 p.m. July 19 at the Orpheum Theatre, 203 S. Main St., Memphis.
Tickets are $20-$125. Call (901) 525-3000 or (901) 743-2787 (ARTS) or visit the website, orpheum-memphis.com.
Style on 07/12/2015