Grammy-winning singer-songwriter-pianist Norah Jones will headline a concert at 8 p.m. Monday at the Orpheum Theatre, 203 S. Main St., Memphis. Jones, a multiple Grammy Award winner, is known for songs such as "Don't Know Why" and "Come Away With Me."
Tickets, if any remain, are $32-$72. Call (901) 525-3000 or (800) 745-3000 or visit orpheum-memphis.com.
Bluegrass Monday
The Clark Family Trio (Cindy Clark and daughters Sallie Ann, 12, and Sophie, 17) and Bill Nesbitt 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 monthly Bluegrass Monday concert series.
The station will literally "pass the hat" to pay the performers; suggested donation is $5 per person. Call (870) 972-2367, email mscarbro@astate.edu or visit the Bluegrass Monday Facebook page.
Tuba two
The University of Central Arkansas music department will celebrate the tuba and euphonium with two concerts in the Recital Hall, Snow Fine Arts Center, UCA, 201 Donaghey Ave., Conway:
• Octubafest, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, performances by UCA tuba and euphonium players.
• UCA's annual Tubaween Concert, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, with the theme of "Tubas and Polkas," featuring the UCA Tuba-Euphonium Ensemble and two faculty members from Lawrence University: Marty Erickson, instructor of tuba and euphonium and Nick Keelan, associate professor of trombone.
Gail Robertson, visiting assistant professor of tuba and euphonium at UCA, will also play some low brass jazz, and saxophonist and UCA faculty member Jackie Lamar, who does not actually play the sousaphone, will be the sousaphone soloist in the Concierto en Una Nota, Robertson's arrangement for winds of various piano pieces.
Admission to both concerts is free. Call (501) 450-5763.
Fall Ramble
Thursday is the deadline to register for Preserve Arkansas' annual Fall Ramble, a bus tour through the southeast Arkansas towns of Monticello, McGehee, Rohwer, Dermott and Lake Village, Nov. 7, departing at 7:30 a.m. from the Little Rock Visitor Information Center at Curran Hall, 615 E. Capitol Ave., Little Rock. The bus returns around 10 that evening. (Ramblers may also board the bus in Monticello.) This year's ramble, "Behind Barbed Wire: Arkansas World War II Homefront Heritage," will include:
• A walking tour of Camp Monticello, where remaining roads and concrete foundations provide a glimpse into what life might have been like for the Italian prisoners of war
• The new World War II Japanese American Internment Camp Museum in the former McGehee railroad station; "Dining Behind Barbed Wire," a lunch and lecture program featuring food based on menus from the Rohwer and Jerome internment camps; a talk on foodways by Johanna Miller Lewis of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock faculty; and a performance of Remembrances by the University of Central Arkansas CORE dance company
• A tour of the recently restored Rohwer Relocation Center Memorial Cemetery
• A visit to the Japanese internment camp, later a German prisoner-of-war camp, in Jerome
Tickets are $125; Preserve Arkansas members get a discount. Register at PreserveArkansas.org, call (501) 372-4757 or email ayancey@preservearkansas.org.
Intimate Concerts
The Arkansas Symphony Orchestra will open its four-concert 2015-16 Intimate Neighborhood Concerts Series with a concert titled "Something Borrowed," 7 p.m. Nov. 12 at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, 310 W. 17th St., Little Rock. The program will include the Nocturno/Overture in C major for winds by Felix Mendelssohn, the Chamber Symphony for strings, op.110a, by Dmitri Shostakovich (an expansion of his String Quartet No. 8), Storm Windows by Dan Visconti and Soirees musicales, op.9, by Benjamin Britten. Philip Mann will conduct.
The rest of the lineup (all concerts at 7 p.m.):
• Jan. 21: "Something New," St. James United Methodist Church, 321 Pleasant Valley Drive, Little Rock. Michael Fine: Suite for Strings; Terry Riley: In C; Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 1
• March 10: "Something Old," St Luke's Episcopal Church, 4106 John F. Kennedy Blvd., North Little Rock. Vivaldi: Concerto for Guitar, with soloist Lily Afshar; Josef Suk: Meditation on the Old Bohemian Chorale "St. Wenceslas"; J.S. Bach: Keyboard Concerto No. 1, with the orchestra's principal keyboard player, Carl Anthony, as soloist; Ottorino Respighi: Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite No. 3
• May 19: "Something Blue," Christ Episcopal Church, 509 Scott St., Little Rock. Maurice Ravel: Le Tombeau du Couperin; Samuel Barber: Adagio for Strings; John Rutter: "I Have a Bonnet Trimmed With Blue," the second movement of Suite for Strings; Johann Strauss Jr.: On the Beautiful Blue Danube.
Subscriptions are $49-$90; individual tickets are $25, $10 for active duty military and student tickets. Call (501) 666-1761, Extension 100, or visit the website, ArkansasSymphony.org.
Style on 10/25/2015