Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Multitalented Mummenschanz visits Fayetteville
This week at Fayetteville’s Walton Arts Center, 495 W. Dickson St.:
■ Swiss- based theatrical troupe Mummenschanz incorporates puppets, bright costumes, acrobatics and some classic sketches, into its new show, you&me, 7 p.m. Tuesday. Tickets are $20-$26 plus fees.
■ Raul Midon, singer, songwriter, flamenco- and jazz-infused guitarist, performs at 7:30 p.m. Thursday. Tickets are $30 plus fees.
■ Classically trained jazz singer Alicia Olatuja performs at 7:30 p.m. Friday in the Starr Theatre, part of the center’s Starrlight Jazz Club Series. Tickets are $30-$50 plus fees.
■ And the 20th anniversary tour of Jonathan Larson’s musical Rent will be onstage at 8 p.m. Friday, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday and 2 and 7:30 p.m. March 4. Tickets are $54-$80 plus fees; up to two $23 tickets per person will be available for each performance through a pre-show lottery system, 2 ½ hours before each curtain, in the center’s lobby.
Call (479) 443-5600 or visit waltonartscenter.org.
UALR art
Brad Cushman, gallery director and curator at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, will lecture on “Building a Collection: Recent Acquisitions,” in connection with the exhibition of the same name, on display through March 11 at UALR’s Windgate Center of Art & Design, 2 p.m. today in the Windgate Center Lecture Hall, UALR, 2801 S. University Ave. Little Rock. Admission is free.
A catalog release party for the new publication Highlights from the Permanent Collection will take place, 5-7 p.m. Friday, in the center’s main lobby. Catalogs, $40 donation, will be available. Call (501) 569-8977.
Eckford lecture
Elizabeth Eckford, one of the Little Rock Nine and author of the just-released The Worst First Day: Bullied While Desegregating Central High, will give a lecture at 1 p.m. Tuesday at the Owen Center Auditorium, Arkansas State University-Beebe, 910 Pecan St., Beebe. It’s part of the university’s Concert-Lecture Series. Admission is free. The lecture coincides with Black History Month and the university’s read-in, at the Abington Library, spotlighting David Margolick’s book Elizabeth and Hazel. Call (501) 882-8957 or visit asub.edu.
Bluegrass Monday
Donna Ulisse and the Poor Mountain Boys perform at 7 p.m. Monday at the Collins Theatre, 120 W. Emerson St., Paragould, part of Jonesboro public radio station’s KASU-FM, 91.9’s Bluegrass Monday concert series. The station will literally “pass the hat” to pay the group. Suggested donation is $5 per person. Call (870) 972-2367, email mscarbro@astate.edu or visit the Bluegrass Monday Facebook page.
SteelDrivers show
Grammy-winning, Nashville, Tenn.-based soul-meetsbluegrass band the SteelDrivers performs at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the University of Arkansas’ Jim and Joyce Faulkner Performing Arts Center, 453 N. Garland Ave,. Fayetteville. Tickets are $15-$25. Call (479) 575-5387 or visit the website, faulkner.uark.edu.
Visiting composer
Hendrix College students and faculty members will perform music by Philip Wharton, visiting composer at the college, in concerts at 7:30 p.m. Monday and Tuesday in Reves Recital Hall, Trieschmann Fine Arts Building at Hendrix, 1600 Washington Ave., Conway.
Monday’s program will feature chamber works, including Prohibition, an alto saxophone sonata; Songs of Cornwall, a flute sonata; 6 Bagatelles for two flutes and piano; and two movements from Phantasms for saxophone choir. Tuesday’s program features the world premiere of Jigsaw for solo piano; two settings of Carl Sandburg texts, “The Prairie Sings” and “Blooms Remembered”; and a sonata for alto trombone.
The concerts are part of the Harold Thompson Recital Series. Admission is free. Call (501) 450-1245 or email krebs@ hendrix.edu.
Also at Hendrix this week, the Bailey Library will offer a wide variety of used media and books, $1 for paperbacks, $2 for hardcovers, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Thursday-Friday. A portion of the proceeds go to Campus Kitty, a campus-wide program of charity fundraising events. Call (501) 450-1288 or (501) 450-4556.
Opera archives
The University of Arkansas Libraries Special Collections department, which has recently completed processing of more than 80 boxes of materials from the Opera in the Ozarks at Inspiration Point Fine Arts Colony, is hosting three events this week at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, to mark the archives’ opening. All events are free and open to the public. ■ 2-4 p.m. Wednesday: Master voice class with reception, Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall, Fine Arts Center
■ 8:30 a.m.-noon Thursday: Drop-in viewing, Special Collections Department, Mullins Library, 365 N. McIlroy Ave., Fayetteville
■ 1- 4 p. m. Thursday: Joel Burcham, associate professor of music at the University of Oklahoma and an alumnus of Opera in the Ozarks and UA, joins students of the UA Opera Theatre, representatives from University Libraries, the music department and Opera in the Ozarks for a performance at the Faulkner Performing Arts Center.
The 68-year-old nonprofit Opera in the Ozarks offers fulllength, full-orchestra, full-costume productions of operas in their original languages at Inspiration Point, west of Eureka Springs. The archives contain organizational correspondence, governance records, season programs, scrapbooks, some 6,000 photos and other images, 400 audio and visual recordings, music scores (some from the early 1900s), architectural drawings, production notes and publicity. The collection is available to the public in the Special Collections department on the first floor of Mullins Library. Call (479) 575-5577 or visit libraries.uark. edu/SpecialCollections.
Fairy tale ballet
Western Arkansas Ballet will offer Snow White and Other Dances, 2:30 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the ArcBest Corp. Performing Arts Center, 55 S. Seventh St., Fort Smith. The centerpiece is a ballet adaptation of the Grimm Brothers’ fairy tale about poisoned apples and magical mirrors with original choreography by Associate Director Jared Mesa to music by Modest Mussorgsky, Leo Delibes, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Hector Berlioz.
The program also includes new works by guest choreographer Joanne Whitehill and Western Arkansas Ballet faculty. Tickets are $25, $15 children through university students with ID. Call (479) 785-0152 or visit waballet.org