Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
4 Russians and prodigy, 10, to headline Eureka benefit
The St. Petersburg String Quartet — Alla Aranovskaya and Evgeny Zvonnikov, violins; Boris Vayner, viola; and Leonid Shukayev, cello — and 10-year-old violinist-pianist prodigy Claire Luan Wells will headline a pair of benefits this weekend for a summer chamber music festival in Eureka Springs:
“Classical Cuisine,” 5 p.m. Saturday in the Crystal Dining Room at the Crescent Hotel, 75 Prospect Ave., Eureka Springs. Tickets are $40, including dinner and concert. Seating is limited to 225. Claire will play one movement from Franz Josef Haydn’s D major Piano Concerto, then take up her violin to play a movement from The Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi, both with the quartet as backup “orchestra.” The quartet will play Three Novelettes by Alexander Glazunov and movements from quartets by Maurice Ravel, Alexander Borodin and Antonin Dvorak.
A concert at 2 p.m. April 29 at the City Auditorium, 36 Main St. The program will include Borodin’s String Quartet No. 2: the “Spring” concerto from The Four Seasons with Claire; Five Pieces for String Quartet by Erwin Schulhoff; and Dvorak’s String Quartet No. 12, “American.” Tickets are $20; visit www.cicamusicfestival.org or email cicamusicfestival@yahoo.com.
Proceeds will fund scholarships for the 2012 Chen International Culture and Arts Eureka Springs Music Festival, June 18July 7, including concerts and master classes by a number of musicians, including the St. Petersburg Quartet and the Eroica Trio. Thomas Chun-yu Chen is the festival’s artistic director. Call (901) 219-3139.
Campbell’s coming
Arkansas native Glen Campbell, in the midst of his final tour, will perform at 7 p. m. Friday at Walton Arts Center, 495 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. Tickets are $43-$79. Call (479) 443-5600 or visit the website, waltonartscenter.org.
Organ anniversary
Grace Episcopal Church, 617 N. Mount Olive St., Siloam Springs, will mark the 10th anniversary of the installation of its pipe organ with a program at 3 p.m. today and 7:30 p.m. Monday.
Organist Ernest Whitmore will perform a trio on a German chorale by Johann Ludwig Krebs, a prelude and fugue by J.S. Bach, three hymn tune preludes by Alice Jordan and a toccata on “Praise God, from whom all blessings flow” by Denis Bedard.
Jan Helmut Wubbena will play a transcription of an aria from a Bach cantata. The Grace Church Choir will sing four works: “Laudate Dominum” from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Solemn Vespers, “How lovely are thy dwellings fair” from the German Requiem by Johannes Brahms, Craig Phillips’ Transfiguration and Charles Villiers Stanford’s Te Deum laudamus. Whitmore will accompany tenor Jacob Funk in a work for voice and organ. And the audience will participate in the singing of several congregational hymns.
Admission is free. Visit the website, www.gracesiloam.org.
Murry’s Murder
Natalie Canerday, Don Bolinger and director Glen Gilbert form a twisted romantic triangle in the comedy Murder
at the Howard Johnson’s by Ron Clark and Sam Bobrick, which opens Tuesday at Murry’s Dinner Playhouse, 6323 Colonel Glenn Road, Little Rock.
The show runs through May 20. Doors open at 6 p.m. Tuesday-saturday; 11 a.m. for Sunday and Wednesday matinees (April 25, May 1 and 8; no shows those evenings), 5:30 p.m. Sunday evening. Tickets (including buffet and show) are $31 Sunday evening-thursday, $33 Friday-saturday, $29 Sunday and Wednesday matinees, $23 for children (show-only tickets: $25, $15 children). Call (501) 562-3131 or visit murrysdinnerplayhouse.com.
Murry’s will hold auditions at 6:30 p.m. Monday, May 7th for its summer productions, including the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical The Sound of Music (production dates: July 24-Sept. 1). Prepare a short song (and take sheet music for the accompanist) and a monologue; take a head shot and a resume.
Other regional theatrical productions:
The Ouachita Little Theatre, 610 Mena St., Mena, will stage The Sound of Music at 7:30 p.m. Friday-saturday and May 3-5 and 2:30 p.m. April 29 and May 6. Tickets are $10, $8 for students and senior citizens 60 and over. Call (479) 243-0186 or visit the website, www.oltmena.com. Area inns and bedand-breakfasts are offering “Play & Stay” packages.
Rogers Little Theater, 116 S. Second St. Rogers, will stage Why Torture Is Wrong and the People Who Love Them by Christopher Durang in the round at 8 p.m. Friday-saturday and 2 p.m. April 29. The production is part of the theater’s 2ndstage/diversity Unites series. Tickets are $10. Call (479) 631-8988 or visit the website, rogerslittletheater.org.
UA music
From the University of Arkansas music department this week (all concerts in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall, Fine Arts Center, University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, 320 N. Campus Drive, Fayetteville):
The Trumpet Ensemble will give a recital at 7:30 p.m. Monday. Jennifer Fox will be the piccolo trumpet soloist in the Concerto in E-flat by G.H. Stoelzel. The program will also include works by William Schmidt, Frederick Speck, Clint Needham, Greg Mclean and Wesley Nance. Richard Rulli conducts.
The Saxophone Chamber Orchestra and Saxophone Quartets will perform at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.
The Tuba and Euphonium Ensemble will perform works and/or arrangements of works by John Stevens, Ludwig van Beethoven, Kenyon Wilson, Felix Mendelssohn, Marcel Frank, Gordon Jacob and Martin Ellerby at 7:30 p.m. Thursday. Benjamin Pierce is the director.
Admission to all three concerts is free. Call (479) 575-4701.