Sandi Patty brings her "Christmas Blessing -- Farewell Tour" to north-central Arkansas, 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Ed Coulter Performing Arts Center, Vada Sheid Community Development Center at Arkansas State University-Mountain Home, 1600 S. College St., Mountain Home. Tickets are $40, $20 for students, plus fees. Call (870) 508-6280 or (800) 965-9324 or visit thesheid.com.
More Steamroller
Mannheim Steamroller has added a 3 p.m. matinee Tuesday for its "Mannheim Steamroller Christmas" at the ArcBest Performing Arts Center, Fort Smith Convention Center, 55 S. Seventh St., Fort Smith. The concert is part of the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith's Season of Entertainment 36. A 7:30 p.m. performance is sold out. Tickets are $50-$53. Call (479) 788-7300 or visit tickets.uafs.edu.
The group will also perform at 8 p.m. Dec. 23 at the Orpheum Theatre, 203 S. Main St. in Memphis. Tickets are $39-$89. Call (901) 525-3000 or visit orpheum-memphis.com.
Christmas 'festival'
ARmusica -- Julie Cheek, piano; Andrew Irvin and Caleb Yu, violins; and Kelly Singer, soprano -- will perform at 7 p.m. Tuesday at St. Luke's Episcopal Church, 4106 John F. Kennedy Blvd., North Little Rock, as part of the church's St. Luke's Festival of the Senses. The instrumental part of the program: Violin Sonata No. 4 in D major by George Frideric Handel; a suite of carols a la Mannheim Steamroller; and the Partita in E major for solo violin, BWV 1006, by J.S. Bach. Singer will perform "Rejoice Greatly" from Handel's Messiah; "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" by Meredith Willson; Maria Wiegenlied by Max Reger; "Il est ne, le divin enfant" by Gabriel Faure; "Let It Snow!" by Jule Styne; "O Holy Night" by Adolph Adam; and three traditional carols: "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear," "Silent Night" and "O Come All Ye Faithful." Admission is free. A reception will follow. Call (501) 753-4281.
'Denver' Christmas
Jim Curry and his band will offer up "A Rocky Mountain Christmas," featuring John Denver hits and Christmas songs, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Lily Peter Auditorium, Phillips County Community College of the University of Arkansas, 1000 Campus Drive, Helena-West Helena. Sponsor is Helena Marine Service, in memory of founder Jim Walden. Admission is by free ticket. Call (870) 338-8327 or visit warfieldconcerts.com.
'Nancarrow Homecoming'
The Regional Music Heritage Center makes its debut with "A Nancarrow Homecoming," 7 p.m. Saturday at Silvermoon on Broad, 217 W. Broad St., Texarkana. The event will include the first performances of works by Texarkana-born composer Conlon Nancarrow (1912--1997) in his hometown -- "and the U.S. as well, as far is we know," says David A. Mallette, the center's executive director, "precisely as he preferred it."
The program will also include the premieres of two Nancarrow-inspired works by composer, musicologist, center board member and Nancarrow champion John Tennison -- Canon XXX and one of the 36 movements from his symphony, Texarkanon (Symphony for a Single Unprepared Piano).
Conlon Nancarrow's son, David, will be the guest of honor. Tickets are $35. Visit texarkanarmhc.org or the Facebook page, facebook.com/groups/197453620586240.
The center will focus on boogie-woogie, jazz, rock 'n' roll, blues and the "folk music of the western woods and southwest Arkansas," as well as the music of Texarkana-area native musical luminaries -- composers Nancarrow and Scott Joplin and audio pioneer Paul W. Klipsch.
Santaland Diaries
Thomas Brewster will reprise his role as Crumpet the Elf, a down-on-his-luck seasonal worker who may have imbibed too many martinis, in The Santaland Diaries, adapted by Joe Mantello from David Sedaris' story, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Callaway Theater, South Arkansas Arts Center, 110 E. Fifth St., El Dorado.
Sedaris based his story on his two consecutive Christmases in the early 1990s as a Christmas elf at Santaland in New York's Macy's department store. Tickets are $10. Call (870) 862-5474 or visit saac-arts.org. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. for "A Toast With the Elf Himself," a pre-show backstage party. Tickets are $20.
Annie in Memphis
The U.S. national tour of Annie (music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Martin Charnin, book by Thomas Meehan) will be onstage 7:30 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday, 8 p.m. Friday, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday and 1 and 6:30 p.m. Dec. 18 at the Orpheum Theatre, 203 S. Main St. in Memphis. Tickets are $25-$125. Call (901) 525-3000 or (901) 743-2787 (ARTS) or visit orpheum-memphis.com.
Style on 12/11/2016