Hank, Elvis tribute players will take stage at Murry’s
Murry’s Dinner Playhouse, 6323 Colonel Glenn Road, Little Rock, takes a week-long break from comedies and musicals to present two concert acts: m Jason Petty, who won an Obie Award for his off-Broadway portrayal of country legend Hank Williams in Hank Williams: Lost Highway, plays Williams in the touring show Hank and My Honky Tonk Heroes, 7:30 p.m. TuesdayThursday. m Travis Ledoyt, billed as “the World’s Best Young Elvis,” returns to the dinner theater, 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday and 12:30 and 6:30 p.m. Nov. 11.
Tickets (including buffet meal and show): $31 Tuesday-Thursday and Sunday evening, $33 Friday-Saturday, $29 Sunday matinee, $20 for children. (Show-only tickets are $25, $15 children.) The theater is recommending you make reservations or prepay for tickets for these shows. Call (501) 562-3131 or visit the website, murrysdinnerplayhouse.com.
Haydn seek
The Hendrix College Chamber Orchestra will present “Exploring Haydn,” a series of four concerts — two chamber music concerts, today and Nov. 18, and two Hendrix College Chamber Orchestra concerts, Monday and Nov. 19 — featuring early compositions by Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) with commentary based on recent research by conductor and Hendrix faculty member Karen Griebling.
All concerts are at 7:30 in Reves Recital Hall at Hendrix, 1600 Washington Ave., Conway. Admission is free. Call (501) 450-1249 or e-mail griebling@hendrix.edu. m 7:30 p.m. today: Hendrix faculty musicians Norman Boehm, piano; Daniel Cline, cello, and Griebling, viola, with guests Julian Pranata, violin and viola da gamba, and Elizabeth Reed Smith, violin. Haydn’s String Quartet in d minor, op.76 No. 2, “Quinten”; Baryton Trio No. 87; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s String Quartet No. 15 in d minor, K.421, and Sinfonia Concertante in E-flat major, K.364 m 7:30 p.m. Monday: “Introducing a Musical Mystery.” Haydn’s Violin Concerto in C major with Smith as soloist and symphonies No. 26, 34 and 39 m 7:30 p.m. Nov. 18: Hendrix students perform two of Haydn’s op.20 “Sun” quartets: No. 3 in g minor (Joo Oh and Shin-Ae Lee, violins; Hayley Lopez, viola; and Rosie Mandel, cello) and No. 5 in f minor (Kenna Tuggle and Charley Ford, violins, Kristen O’Connell, viola; and Gary DeClerk, cello) m 7:30 p.m. Nov. 19: “A Musical Mystery Solution.” Haydn symphonies Nos. 44, 45. 49 and 52; Soprano Arlene Biebesheimer will perform examples of source materials from Griebling’s research.
UCA choir
The University of Central Arkansas Concert Choir will perform at 3 p.m. today at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, 1000 N. Mississippi St., Little Rock, and at 7:30 p.m. Monday in the Recital Hall, Snow Fine Arts Building, UCA, 201 Donaghey Ave., Conway. The program, titled “Water, Water Everywhere,” includes works by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Felix Mendelssohn, Franz Schubert and Eric William Barnum, plus folk songs and spirituals. John Erwin conducts.
Admission is free. Call (501) 450-5750 or e-mail johne@uca.edu.
Having a vine time
Eureka Springs area restaurants will showcase special menus and wine pairings for the annual Eureka Springs Food & Wine Festival, Wednesday-Nov. 11.
Special wine dinners, tastings and events are scheduled for: m DeVito’s of Eureka Springs, 5 Center St. (479) 253-6807 m The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow, 515 Spring St. (479) 253-7444 m The Stone House, 89 S. Main St. (479) 363-6411 m Ermilio’s Restaurant, 26 White St. (479) 253-8806 m The Grand Taverne, inside the Grand Central Hotel, 37 N. Main St. (479) 253-6756 m The Cottage Inn Restaurant, 450 W. Van Buren St. (U.S. 62 West). (479) 2535282 m The Crescent Hotel, 75 Prospect St. (479) 253-9766 m Caribe Restaurant, 309 W. Van Buren St. (479) 253-8102
The schedule also includes a special tour of a U.S. Department of Agriculture-certified organic farm; a barrel/tank tasting and amateur wine competition at Keels Creek Winery, 3185 E. Van Buren (U.S. 62 East); cooking classes and a gallery stroll. Various area retail establishments will offer special events and demonstrations.
A complete schedule and contact information are available at the website, eurekaspringsfoodandwine.com.
Nominate a treasure
Dec. 7 is the deadline to send in a nomination for the Arkansas Arts Council’s 2013 “Arkansas Living Treasure” designation, which goes to an Arkansan “outstanding in the creation of a traditional craft” — including pottery, weaving, toymaking, broom-making, leatherworking, metalsmithing and wood carving — “and [who] has significantly contributed to the preservation of the art form through teaching others about the craft.”
The recipient will be honored in May during Arkansas Heritage Month. Nomination forms are available at arkansasarts.org or by calling (501) 324-9766.
For more information, call Robin Muse McClea, artist services program manager, at (501) 324-9348 or e-mail robinm@arkansasheritage.org.
Nominate a teacher
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is seeking nominations for the 2013 Kennedy Center/Stephen Sondheim Inspirational Teacher Awards, a series of annual grants that recognize inspiring teachers across the United States.
The awards are handed out each year on composerlyricist Stephen Sondheim’s birthday, March 22.
Last year’s 10 winners each received $10,000; their stories, as told by the nominating student, were featured on a website dedicated to inspirational teachers.
To nominate a teacher, visit the website, kennedy-center.org/programs/ awards/sondheim/rules. cfm.