Arkansas Symphony Orchestra musicians will assemble for a River Rhapsodies Chamber Music concert titled "Mozart & Mendelssohn," 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Great Hall of the Clinton Presidential Center, 1200 President Clinton Ave., Little Rock.
Kelly Johnson, clarinet; Brent Shires, horn; Linda Hsu, Trisha McGovern Freeney, violin; Katherine Reynolds, viola; Stephen Feldman, cello; and Carl Anthony, piano, will play the Sextet in C major, op.37, by Ernst von Dohnanyi. The Quapaw Quartet (Eric Hayward and Meredith Maddox Hicks, violins; Ryan Mooney, viola; and Ethan Young, cello) will perform the String Quartet No. 9 in A major, K.169, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
And Trisha McGovern Freeney, violin; Aaron Ludwig, cello; and Tatiana Roitman, piano, will play the Piano Trio No. 2 in c minor, op.66, by Felix Mendelssohn, concluding the orchestra's January-February "FelixFest," focusing on works of Mendelssohn across its classical series.
A cash bar will be open at 6 p.m. and at intermission; patrons may carry drinks into the hall. Tickets are $23, $10 for students and active duty military. Call (501) 666-1761, Extension 100, or visit the website ArkansasSymphony.org.
Architecture lecture
Neil Denari, principal at Neil M. Denari Architects in Los Angeles, will discuss ways in which his firm deploys "potentially disagreeable ideas into a welcoming context of agreement" in a lecture titled "Disagree to Agree," 6 p.m. W̶e̶d̶n̶e̶s̶d̶a̶y̶ Tuesday* in the lecture hall on the lower level of the Arkansas Arts Center. The center is in Little Rock's MacArthur Park at East Ninth and Commerce streets. Admission is free; a 5:30 p.m. reception will precede the lecture, which is under the auspices of the Architecture and Design Network. Underwriting for the lecture comes from the University of Arkansas Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design, which belongs to the network. Email ardenetwork@icloud.com.
Valentine songbook
Jazz singer and Arkansas native Genine LaTrice Perez will join the Symphony of Northwest Arkansas and conductor Paul Haas for an evening of classic Valentine-inspired love songs in "Valentines Pops: The American Songbook," 7:30 p.m. Saturday in Baum Walker Hall of Fayetteville's Walton Arts Center, 495 W. Dickson St. Tickets are $28-$50, $10 for college students with a valid student ID. Call (479) 443-5600 or visit the website sonamusic.org.
Jam, ham & Spamalot
The Arkansas Public Theatre will stage Monty Python's Spamalot (music by John Du Prez and Eric Idle, book and lyrics by Idle, "lovingly ripped off from the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail"), 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, Feb. 11-13 and 18-20 and 2 p.m. Feb. 7, 14 and 21 at the Victory Theater, 116 S. Second St., Rogers. Doors and concessions open at 7. Cabaret seats are $30, $50 for a table for two; balcony seats are $17. Call (479) 631-8988 or visit the website arkansaspublictheatre.org.
The theater is also holding auditions for Other Desert Cities by Jon Robin Baitz, 7 p.m. Feb. 8 at the historic Victory Theater. Doors open at 6:30; auditions will be closed to all except those trying out. Auditions will be based upon readings from the script; an audition packet, including scenes, character descriptions and rehearsal schedule, is available for download at arkansaspublictheatre.org. Callbacks, if needed, will be held at 7 p.m. Feb. 9. Production dates are April 1-3 and 7-10.
Springdale Whales
Two sisters living out the summers of their twilight years in the mid-1950s on a small island off the coast of Maine share their dreams and wry recriminations in The Whales of August by David Berry, 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday and Feb. 12-13, 3 p.m. Feb. 7 at the Arts Center of the Ozarks, 214 S. Main St., Springdale. Tickets are $20, $10 for students; center members receive a discount. Spring Street Grill will cater a pre-show, pre-Valentine's Day dinner Feb. 13; cost is $25. Call (479) 751-5441 or visit the website acozarks.org.
Photo contest
Feb. 12 is the deadline to submit entries for Arkansas State University-Mountain Home's 11th annual Digital Photography Contest. Criteria, categories, rules and entry forms are available online at asumh.edu, baxlib.org or bit.ly/1Rw6Wl1. There is a $5 per photo entry fee in all amateur categories (except Youth, $2 per photo); entry fee for the professional category is $20 per photo. Deliver completed applications, payment and entries to any Integrity First Bank location in Mountain Home, Flippin, Gassville or Lakeview. Judges on Feb. 18 will award a $100 grand prize for Best in Show and cash prizes to first- and second-place winners in each category, and a cash prize and a free advertising package will go to the Best in Show in the professional category. Sponsors are Integrity First Bank, the Baxter Bulletin and the Donald W. Reynolds Library serving Baxter County. Artwork will be on display at the university Feb. 19-March 16, at the library March 17-April 1, at the Integrity First Bank main branch April 4-22. Call (870) 508-6149 or email mfulcher@asumh.edu.
Artists' best 'shot'
March 25 is the deadline for artists, amateur and professional, born in, currently residing in or having lived for a period of five years or more in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, West Virginia, Virginia and Washington to submit original works for "The Gun Show." The regional juried art exhibition, hosted by DRAWL Southern Contemporary Art gallery and Oxford American magazine, focuses on the historical and cultural role of the firearm in the American South; participants are to consider the question "What does the visual presence of guns suggest to you?" Submission guidelines and further information are available online at tinyurl.com/gunshowart. Chad Alligood, curator at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, will be the juror. There are cash prizes for the top three pieces; artwork will be on display in Little Rock at DRAWL, 5208 Kavanaugh Blvd., and the Oxford American's annex space, 13th and South Main streets, this summer.
Style on 01/31/2016
*CORRECTION: Neil Denari, principal at Neil M. Denari Architects in Los Angeles, will give a lecture titled “Disagree to Agree” at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 2, in the lecture hall on the lower level of the Arkansas Arts Center in MacArthur Park, East Ninth and Commerce streets, Little Rock. This item gave the incorrect day.