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 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.
The quartet will play Three Novellettes 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; and Dvorak’s String Quartet No. 12, “American.”
Tickets are $20; visit cicamusicfestival.org or e-mail cicamusicfestival@yahoo.com.
Proceeds will fund scholarships for the 2012 Chen International Culture and Arts Eureka Springs Music Festival, June 18-July 7. Call (901) 219-3139.
Campbell’s coming
Murry’s Murder
Arkansas native Glen Campbell, who is in the midst of his final concert 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.
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 (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. May 7 for its summer productions, including the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical The Sound of Music (production dates July 24Sept. 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 national touring production of the musical The Addams Family (music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa, book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, based on characters created by cartoonist Charles Addams), will be onstage at 7:30 p.m. TuesdayThursday, 8 p.m. Friday, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday and 1:30 and 7 p.m. April 29 at the Orpheum Theatre, 203 Main St., Memphis. Tickets are $15-$95 plus possible handling fees. Call (901) 525-3000 or (901) 7432787 or visit orpheummemphis.com.
Bits ’N Pieces Puppet Theatre will enact The Musical Tale of Peter Rabbit using normal-size human actor Holli Rubin and a collection of 9foot puppets at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Ritz Civic Center, 306 W. Main St., Blytheville, under the auspices of the Arts Council of Mississippi County. Tickets are $10, free for children 12 and under. Call (870) 762-1744 or visit artsmissco.org.
Chamber Elgar
Norman Boehm, director of the piano program at Hendrix College, will conduct his own chamber-orchestra version of the Symphony No. 1 by Edward Elgar with the Hendrix College Chamber Orchestra and musicians from the Arkansas Symphony in concerts at:
7:30 p.m. Monday in Staples Auditorium at Hendrix, 1600 Washington Ave., Conway. Oboist Sara Hales, winner of the 2011-2012 Hendrix Chamber Orchestra’s annual Concerto and Aria Competition, will solo for the first movement, “Allegro aperto,” of the Oboe Concerto by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall, Fine Arts Building, at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 2801 S. University Ave., Little Rock.
Admission to both concerts is free, Call (501) 5693294.
Other regional musical performances:
Pianist Naoki Hakutani, a faculty member at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, will play works by Bedrich Smetana, Franz Liszt and Paul Dickinson in a recital at 7:30 p.m. Monday in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall, UALR. Admission is free. Call (501) 940-1562.
Bluegrass musicians David Davis and the Warrior River Boys will perform at 7 p.m. Monday at the Collins Theatre, 120 W. Emerson St., Paragould, as part of KASUFM, 91.9’s “Bluegrass Monday” series. The station will pass the hat to pay the band (suggested donation is $5). Call (870) 972-2367 or e-mail mscarbro@astate.edu.
Jazz from the Logan J. Smith Quartet, hand-passed dinner courses and live and silent auctions will constitute the Conway Symphony Orchestra’s “All That Jazz” fundraiser, 6-9 p.m. Thursday at the Southwestern Energy Co. headquarters in The Village at Hendrix, 1600 Washington Ave., Conway. Tickets are $50. Call (501) 4992537, (501) 329-9138 or (501) 269-1066 or visit conwaysymphonyorchestra.org
Seeking singers
The River City Men’s Chorus will hold auditions at 5:30 p.m. Thursday at Trinity United Methodist Church, 1101 N. Mississippi St., Little Rock. No preparation is necessary but appointments are required. Call (501) 940-9826 or e-mail jimmywilson2@comcast.net.