The Happy Dog Duo -- pianists Eric Tran and Nathan Cheung, winners of the 2017 Ellis Competition for Duo Pianists -- will tour the state this week as part of the National Federation of Music Clubs' 2017 Young Artists Series.
Their program: Andante and Allegro Brilliant, op.92, by Felix Mendelssohn; Mother Goose Suite by Maurice Ravel; Fantasy in f minor, D.940, by Franz Schubert; and the Candide Overture by Leonard Bernstein, arranged for piano four hands by Jeremie Michael and Alvie Snyder.
Admission to all concerts is free. Call (501) 747-2162.
The schedule:
• 7:30 p.m. Monday, Mabee Fine Arts Center, Ouachita Baptist University, Arkadelphia. (870) 245-5129
• 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Great Room, Truman Arnold Center, Texarkana College, 2500 N. Robinson Road, Texarkana. (870) 773-1118
• 7 p.m. Thursday, Fine Arts Center, University of Arkansas at Monticello. (870) 460-1060
• 2 p.m. Friday, Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall, Fine Arts Building, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 2801 S. University Ave., Little Rock. (501) 569-3294
• 2:30 p.m. Sept. 17, White Lecture Hall, Robert Burns Building, Northwest Arkansas Community College, 1 College Drive, Bentonville. (479) 619-4261
Zac Brown at AMP
The Zac Brown Band brings its Welcome Home 2017 Tour to Northwest Arkansas, 7 p.m. Thursday at the Walmart AMP, 5079 W. Northgate Road, Rogers. Gates open at 5:30. Tickets are $39.50-$95. Call (479) 443-5600 or visit amptickets.com.
Sanctuary Choir
The 75-voice Saint Mark Baptist Church Sanctuary Choir will perform at 7 p.m. Tuesday at St. Luke's Episcopal Church, 4106 John F. Kennedy Blvd., North Little Rock, to kick off the church's 2017-2018 Festival of the Senses concert series. The program will focus on traditional and contemporary gospel music, spirituals and hymns. Darius Nelson conducts. Admission is free. Call (501) 753-4281.
Architecture lecture
Phoebe Lickwar with Forge Landscape Architects will discuss "Designing 21st Century Commemorative Space: Lessons From the National Sept. 11 Memorial and National WWI Memorial at Pershing Park," 5:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Arkansas Arts Center, 503 E. Ninth St., Little Rock.
Peter MacKeith, dean and professor at the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, will open with an introduction and "State of the School" address. The lecture opens the Architecture and Design Network's 2017-2018 June Freeman lecture series. Admission is free. Email popitz@polkstanleywilcox.com.
Rogers Rocky Horror
Arkansas Public Theatre will stage The Rocky Horror Show (book, music, lyrics by Richard O'Brien), 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, Sept. 21-23 and 28-30 and 2 p.m. Sept. 24 and Oct. 1 at the Victory Theater, 116 S. Second St., Rogers. Doors open an hour before curtain. Cabaret seats are $35, or $60 per two-seat table; balcony seats are $23. Call (479) 631-8988 or visit arkansaspublictheatre.org.
Jazz Eureka
Jazz singer Veronica Swift headlines the finale of the 2017 Jazz Eureka Festival, 8:30 p.m. Saturday at Upstairs at Grotto, 39 Spring St., Eureka Springs. Doors open at 7; seating is limited. Tickets are $55.
The festival kicks off 7-10 p.m. Thursday with a Gatsby-style party on the lawn of the Crescent Hotel, 75 Prospect St., with music by the Crescent City Combo, light food and drinks. Tickets are $10. On Friday, Block Street Hot Club, Fourscore and Charged Particles featuring Paul McCandless will perform, 3-8 p.m., in Basin Spring Park. Admission is free. The park will also be the site of a free concert at 2 p.m. Saturday, with the Richard Bruton Quartet, Block Street Hot Club and Charged Particles with Paul McCandless.
Visit jazzeureka.org.
Fayetteville Film Fest
The ninth annual Fayetteville Film Fest will screen 56 films (including features, documentaries, shorts, foreign and animated films), Tuesday-Saturday at locations around the downtown Fayetteville Square, including the Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History, 1 E. Center St., and the Chancellor Hotel, 70 N. East St., Fayetteville. The festival also features panel discussions, question-and-answer sessions with filmmakers and workshops.
A Silver Screen/Red Carpet party, 7-10 p.m. Thursday will include screenings of films accompanied by the Shadow Ensemble. Admission is free through a grant by the Arkansas Arts Council.
Other festival highlights:
• The world premiere of Door in the Woods, directed by Chase Goforth, a horror film shot in Northwest Arkansas, 8:30 p.m. Friday
• Dayveon, 1 p.m. Saturday, a dramatic feature-length film that Little Rock filmmaker Amman Abbasi shot in central Arkansas, previously screened at the 2017 Sundance and the Berlin International film festivals.
• All the Birds Have Flown South, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, directed by the Miller Brothers of Little Rock, and featuring Joey Lauren Adams and Paul Sparks.
A schedule is available at fayettevillefilmfest.org. Weekend passes, $40, provide priority seating at all films, workshops and VIP parties. Single-screening tickets range from free to $7. Email info@fayettevillefilmfest.org.
Faculty Showcase
Music faculty members at the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith will perform in a Faculty Showcase, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Blue Lion at UAFS Downtown, 101 N. Second St., Fort Smith. Admission is free. Call (479) 788-7547 or email christopher.barrick@uafs.edu.
How to tour
The Arkansas Arts Council is offering, through its GetSmART! learning series, a workshop titled "Road Trip! A 'How-To' for Visual Arts Touring Exhibitions," outlining ways to organize and host touring art exhibitions, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sept. 23 in the Diamond Room, Department of Arkansas Heritage, 1100 North St., Little Rock. Registration deadline is Sept. 17. The $15 fee includes lunch, drinks and desserts. Call (501) 324-9775, email janet.perkins@arkansas.gov or visit arkansasarts.org/get-smart-workshop-lunch.
Caring for Collections
The Arkansas State Archives and the St. Francis County Historical Society will host a workshop titled "Caring for Your Historical Collections," 9 a.m.-noon Sept. 23 at Woodruff Electric Co-op Corp., 3201 Arkansas 1 N., Forrest City. The workshop includes sessions on "Basic Tips for Managing Historical Collections," "Responsible Preservation on a Budget" and "Working With Special Formats." Admission is free but seating is limited. Deadline to register is Sept. 18. Visit caring-for-collections.eventbrite.com, call (501) 682-6900 or email events.archives@arkansas.gov.
Magi auditions
The Arkansas Repertory Theatre will hold auditions for union and nonunion performers for its world premiere production of the musical The Gift of the Magi (music by Andrew Cooke, lyrics by Maggie-Kate Coleman, book by Jeffrey Hatcher), 6-8 p.m. Sept. 19 at the theater, Sixth and Main streets, Little Rock. Three roles are available (character descriptions come from the Rep): Della -- female, mid-20s, soprano; young leading lady, sensitive; Jim -- male, mid-20s, tenor; young leading man, charming; and Wise Woman -- female, soprano, 40s-50s, must be facile with accents and able to play multiple "sketch" character roles.
Provide a head shot and resume and prepare a brief, musical-theater song "that is legit (or contemporary legit) and displays range." An accompanist will be available. The audition will also include a reading from a short audition side for the desired role, available at therep.org/work-with-us. Callbacks will be at a later date.
Rehearsals begin Nov. 7; production dates are Dec. 1-24. Actors should treat it as a full-time job commitment. Schedule an audition appointment by emailing Peter Mensky, company manager/resident casting director, at pmensky@therep.org; put "Local Magi Appointment Request" in the subject line.
Style on 09/10/2017