'Soul of a Nation' exhibit to open at Crystal Bridges

"Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power" goes on display Saturday at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, 600 Museum Way, Bentonville. The exhibition, up through April 23, includes paintings, sculptures, photographs and murals by 60 artists including Romare Bearden, Martin Puryear, Faith Ringgold, Betye Saar, Alma Thomas, Charles White and William T. Williams. The exhibition's focus is the contribution of black artists to "an important period in American history and art," according to a news release.

A Saturday symposium, 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m., has sold out, but the museum will offer three live-streaming options via the website, crystalbridges.org/soul-of-a-nation-symposium.

More information on the exhibition, including a schedule of programs connected to it, is available at crystalbridges.org/exhibitions/soul-of-a-nation. Museum hours are 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday; 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday-Monday. Admission to the exhibition is $10; museum admission is free. Call (479) 418-5700.

Chamber concert

The Arkansas Symphony Orchestra's Quapaw Quartet -- Meredith Maddox Hicks and Charlotte Crosmer, violins; Ryan Mooney, viola; and David Gerstein, cello -- will play the String Quartet No. 13 in G major, op.106, by Antonin Dvorak in the third of the orchestra's 2017-18 River Rhapsodies Chamber Music concerts, 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Great Hall, Clinton Presidential Center, 1200 President Clinton Ave., Little Rock. Andrew Irvin, violin, and Ethan Young, cello, will join Mooney and Gerstein to play the Quartet for Violin, Viola and Two Cellos by Anton Arensky.

Tickets are $23, $10 for students and active duty military. Call (501) 666-1761, Extension 100, or visit ArkansasSymphony.org.

Tchaikovsky Trio

May-Tsao Lim, piano; Kiril Laskarov, violin; and Stephen Feldman, cello, will play Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky's Piano Trio in a minor, op.50, at 7 p.m. Monday at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, 310 W. 17th St., Little Rock. Tickets are $15, free for students and active military. Visit the Facebook events page, tinyurl.com/tchaikovskytrio.

Fayetteville Rumours

Classic Albums Live will perform Fleetwood Mac's 1977 album Rumours, note for note at 8 p.m. Friday at Fayetteville's Walton Arts Center, 495 W. Dickson St. Tickets are $26-$36. Call (479) 443-5600 or visit waltonartscenter.org.

Faculty showcase

The University of Arkansas at Fort Smith music faculty will show off at the Music Faculty Showcase, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at The Blue Lion at UAFS Downtown, 101 N. Second St., Fort Smith. The performance is part of the university's Season at The Blue Lion. Admission is by free ticket; call (479) 788-7300 or visit tickets.uafs.edu.

Ailey at Orpheum

The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater will be onstage, 8 p.m. Friday and 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday at the Orpheum Theatre, 203 S. Main St., Memphis. The program includes the company's classic Revelations and "contemporary works that touch on timely topics." Tickets are $39-$89. Call (901) 525-3000 or visit orpheum-memphis.com.

Step Up screening

Fathom Events will pair a screening of the film Step Up with the in-cinema premiere of YouTube Red's new original series, Step Up: High Water, 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Breckenridge 12 and Colonel Glenn 18 in Little Rock, Tinseltown in Benton, Malco Razorback Cinema in Fayetteville, Malco Fort Smith Cinema in Fort Smith and the Texarkana Pavilion 14 in Texarkana. "The Step Up: High Water Premiere Event" will also include a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the new 10-episode series. Visit FathomEvents.com for ticket information.

'News & Fake News'

Rex Nelson, senior editor of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, will sort out "News & Fake News" in the Central Arkansas Library System's Fred K. Darragh Jr. Distinguished Lecture, 6:30 p.m. Feb. 15 in the Ron Robinson Theater, 100 River Market Ave., Little Rock.

Nelson will discuss modern trends in media consumption, how they are affecting the Arkansas media landscape and what consumers of news and information can do to ensure high quality journalism in the state. He writes three columns a week and essays for the cover of the newspaper's Sunday Perspective section. His three books are the first full-length biography of Hillary Rodham Clinton, a biography of Arkansas educator Ben Elrod and Southern Fried, a collection of essays about Arkansas. He also writes a blog, called "Southern Fried," and makes regular television and radio appearances.

Admission is free but reservations are requested -- visit the website, cals.org. Call (501) 918-3098 or email bmooy@cals.org.

Recovered concerto

Violinist Er-Gene Kahng, a faculty member at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, has recorded the recently discovered Violin Concerto No. 2 by Little Rock native Florence Price with the Janacek Philharmonic and conductor Ryan Cockerham (whose piece, Before, It Was Golden, also appears on the CD). Albany Records will release the recording Feb. 1.

Kahng will give the work's world-premiere performance at 7 p.m. Feb. 17 with the Arkansas Philharmonic Orchestra at the Arend Arts Center, 1901 S.E. J St., Bentonville. Steven Byess conducts. Tickets are $35, $10 for college students, $5 for K-12 students. Call (479) 841-4644, email info@ArkansasPhilharmonic.org or visit the website, arphil.org.

Price (1887-1953) studied at the New England Conservatory, the Chicago Musical College and the American Conservatory and produced as many as 300 compositions, including an award-winning 1933 symphony. Price's daughter, Florence Price Robinson, inherited the composer's orchestral music, most of which was unpublished, and which was supposedly lost when she died in 1975. Two property renovators discovered the material in an abandoned house in 2009. The University of Arkansas eventually bought the scores, including manuscripts to the two previously unknown violin concertos.

Style on 01/28/2018