ENTERTAINMENT NOTES

LITTLE ROCK — Elsewhere in entertainment and the arts this weekend:

Arkansas Symphony Orchestra Principal Cellist David Gerstein will join University of Arkansas at Little Rock faculty members Naoki Hakutani, piano, and Meredith Maddox Hicks, violin, for a chamber music recital at 7:30 p.m. Sunday in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall, Fine Arts Building, UALR, 2801 S. University Ave., Little Rock. The program will include the Sonatina No. 1 in D major, op.137 No. 1, for violin and piano by Franz Schubert; Sonata for violin and piano in d minor, op.9, by Karol Szymanowski; and the Piano Trio No. 2 in e minor, op.67, by Dmitri Shostakovich. Admission is free. Call (501) 683-7230.

The Arkansas Symphony Youth Symphony and two subsidiary ensembles will give a concert at 3 p.m. Sunday at First United Methodist Church, 723 Center St., Little Rock. The program will include the Overture to Russlan and Ludmilla by Mikhail Glinka, Capriccio Italien by Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky and music from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The King and I. James Hatch and Geoffrey Robson will conduct. Forte, the youth symphony string quartet - Rachel Herman and Kristen Bomberger, violins; Kristen O’Connell, viola; and Michael Warrick, cello - will play a string quartet by Mark O’Connor. The ASYOBrass Quintet - Spencer Bradshaw and Will Yandell, trumpets; Ethan Shepard, trombone; Garrett Law, horn; and John Pearson, tuba - will play a piece or pieces to be announced. Admission is free; donations will be accepted. Call (501) 372-2256 or visit fumclr.org.

Due to the threat of severe weather, the Historic Arkansas Museum, 200 E. Third St., Little Rock, has moved to 7 p.m. today Tuesday’s “Giving Voice” memorial dedication to the enslaved men, women and children who lived on the city blocks where the museum sits. Admission is by free tickets, all of which have been handed out. Call (501) 324-9351 or visit Historic Arkansas.org.

Feline Rescue and Rehome will hold its annual spring yard sale, titled “The Cat’s Meow,” 7 a.m.-dark Friday-Saturday at Cedar Street and Kavanaugh Boulevard, Little Rock. The sale will feature collectibles, linens, dishes, electronics, small appliances, clothing, shoes, equipment and furniture. Donations are tax deductible. Call (501) 661-0956 or e-mail saveacat@teamfurr.org.

The concert and chamber choirs at the University of Arkansas at Monticello will perform works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and “P.D.Q. Bach” at 7:30 p.m. todayin the UAM Fine Arts Center in Monticello. Kent Skinner conducts. Admission is free. Call (870) 460-1060.

The Hendrix College Choir will give a concert called “Music for Vespers” at 7:30 p.m. today in Greene Chapel at Hendrix, 1600 Washington Ave., Conway. The program will include Alleluia by Randall Thompson; Magnificat by Arvo Part; and Vesperae Solennes de Confessore, K.339, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Organist Ansley Fleming will play Olivier Messiaen’s Apparition de l’Eglise Eternelle. Nancy Fleming will conduct the choir and an orchestra of members of the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra and the Little Rock Wind Symphony. Admission is free. Call (501) 450-1248.

Four University of Central Arkansas student bands will perform for “Toadzilla,” a rock show sponsored by the new literary journal, the Toad Suck Review, at 8 p.m. Friday at Bears Den Pizza, 235 Farris Road, Conway, adjacent toUCA. Cover charge is $5. Call (501) 450-3339. A list of the participating bands is available at toadsuckreview.org. (The show is not directly connected to Toad Suck Days, going on this weekend in downtown Conway.)

Sandra Alcosser, the National Endowment for the Arts’ first “conservation poet,” will present a program on poetry and conservation at 6:30 p.m. today in the Darragh Center of the Central Arkansas Library System’s Main Library, 100 Rock St., Little Rock. Admission is free but registration is required; call (501) 918-3032 or e-mail mmurray@cals.org. The program is part of “The Language of Conservation,” an initiative of Poets House in partnership with a national consortium ofzoos and libraries. Visit cals. org.

The William F. Laman Public Library’s Argenta branch, 506 Main St., North Little Rock, will host an “Open Mic Night” for “every kind of poet, every genre of poetry and musical accompaniments,” according to a news release, at 6 p.m. Friday. Each participant will be allowed two minutes to sing or read from their own work (more time may be allowed depending on the number of participants). Venus “AphroLov” Smith will be the master of ceremonies. Admission is free. Call (501) 687-1061.

Grammy-nominated jazz trombonist Bill Watrous and composer and bass player Don Colquitt will perform with the University of Arkansas at Monticello jazz bands at their spring concert at 7 p.m. Friday in the Fine Arts Center at UAM in Monticello. Admission is free. Call (870) 460-1060.

Singer-songwriter B.J. Thomas will give a concert at 7 p.m. Saturday in the Fine Arts Center at East Arkansas Community College, 1700 Newcastle Road, Forrest City. Tickets are $30, $20 for children 16 and under. Call (870) 633-4480, Extension 352 or 362 or visit eacc.edu.