Jazz has a week in Hot Springs and weekend in Eureka Springs

Jazz fusion band Spyro Gyra will be the headline act at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at The Auditorium, 36 S. Main St., Eureka Springs, the culmination of the two-day 2013 Jazz Eureka festival. Tickets are $20-$42.50; call (479) 253-7333 or visit theauditorium.org or eurekasprings.org.

The festival kicks off 7-9 p.m. Friday with a “Sunset Serenade,” music and a dance by the 18-piece Fayetteville Jazz Collective, in Basin Spring Park. Admission is free. A free concert will take place noon-6 p.m. Saturday in the park. Visit the website jazzeureka.org.

Hot Springs jazz

Jazz musicians from around the state will convene in the Spa City this week for the 22nd annual Hot Springs JazzFest, Tuesday-Sept. 15 at various venues.

The schedule (all venues in Hot Springs):

7 p.m. Tuesday, St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 228 Spring St.: “Piano-rama,” featuring Chuck Dodson, Zachary Wilson, Rex Bell, Lynn Payette, John Pucket and Clyde Pound, with David Higginbotham, bass, and Jay Payette, drums. Shirley Chauvin will be the emcee. $35.

2 p.m. Wednesday, Garland Country Library, 1427 Malvern Ave.: “Jazz 101,” an introduction to the history and evolution of jazz. Free.

6 p.m. Thursday, Quapaw Baths & Spa, 417 Central Ave.: “Shirley Chauvin’s S’Wonderful,” with Chauvin on vocals, Pound on keyboard, Les Pack on bass guitar and C.E. Askew, drums. Complimentary hors d’oeuvres and a cash bar. $15.

7 p.m. Friday, Five Star Theater, 710 Central Ave.: “Classical Jazz Explosion,” featuring the Quapaw Quartet (Eric Hayward and Meredith Maddox Hicks, violin; Ryan Mooney, viola; and David Gerstein, cello) and the ATM Jazz Band with mezzo-soprano Diane Kesling. $35.

11 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, under the Broadway SkyBridge downtown: “Jazz in the Streets.” 11 a.m., Spa City Stompers; noon, University of Arkansas at Monticello Jazz Band; 1 p.m., Delta Brass Express; 2 p.m., Henderson State’s NuFusion; 3 p.m., Calle Soul; 4 p.m., 106th Army National Guard Band. Dick Antoine of radio station KZNG-AM, 1340, will be the emcee. Free; lawn chairs, but no coolers, allowed.

Sept. 15: 10:45 a.m., St. Luke’s Episcopal Church: “Jazz Mass,” free, (501) 6231653; 3 p.m., First United Methodist Church, 1100 Central Ave., “Jazz to Christianity,” lecture-concert with the Rev. Eugene L. Lowry, free, (501) 623-6668; 3 p.m., Crystal Ballroom, Arlington Resort Hotel & Spa, 239 Central Ave., Stardust Big Band tea dance, $8, free for students 18 and under, (501) 767-5482.

“Combo tickets” including “Piano-Rama,” “Shirley Chauvin’s S’Wonderful” and “Classical Jazz Explosion,” are $75. Hot Springs Jazz Society members get discounts on tickets. Call (501) 627-2425 or email HSJazzSociety@gmail.com.

Classics, Cocktails …

The Chamber Music Society of Little Rock will kick off its 2013-14 season, its 60th, with a gala fundraiser, “Classics, Cocktails and Canapes,” 7 p.m. Friday at the Junior League of Little Rock Building, 401 Scott St., Little Rock. The event pairs signature cocktails and hors d’oeuvres with three types of chamber music. The program: “Celebratory.” Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Antonio Vivaldi, Franz Joseph Haydn, Ludwig van Beethoven and Christopher Theofanidis.

“American.” Music by Antonin Dvorak, Elvis Costello, Hoagy Carmichael, George Gershwin and Leonard Bernstein.

“Romantic.” Music by Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahms, Camille Saint-Saens, Vittorio Monti, Leos Janacek and Robert Schumann.

Performers include Geoffrey Robson and Maxine Kuo, violin; David Gerstein, cello; Joe Joyner and Kate Weeks, viola; Giovanni Antipolo and Julie Cheek, piano; singers Vernon Di Carlo, tenor, and Maria Fasciano-Di Carlo, soprano; and dancer Leslie Dodge.

Music for the opening cocktail hour of the event will be provided by Quartet Vivant, a student ensemble from the Faulkner Chamber Music Festival.

Tickets are $75. Call (501) 661-0520 or visit the website, ChamberMusicLR.com.

AMP acts

This week at the Arkansas Music Pavilion, Washington County Fairgrounds, 2536 N. McConnell Ave., Fayetteville: The Black Crowes perform at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. Tickets are $32-$47, with limited premium seating $77. And Lynyrd Skynyrd performs at 7:30 p.m. Thursday. Gates open at 6. Tickets are $34.50-$77, with limited premium seating $102. Call (479) 443-5600 or visit amptickets.com.

UCA stages

The University of Central Arkansas Theatre will open its 2013-14 season with Venus in Fur by David Ives, 7:30 p.m. Monday-Friday in the Studio Theatre, Snow Fine Arts Center, UCA, 201 Donaghey Ave., Conway. Tickets are free but must be reserved in advance. The play is recommended for mature audiences.

The rest of the lineup (except as noted, all performances at 7:30 p.m., Bridges/ Larson Theatre, Snow Fine Arts Center; tickets are $10):

Nov. 7-8, 13-15: The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht.

Dec. 3-5: “Festival of One Act Plays.” Free.

Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Furry Tails With a Twist by Jennifer Hickok DeFratis, Cadron Company traveling troupe, 10 a.m., Feb. 1, Reynolds Performance Hall. Free.

Feb. 13-14, 19-21: Almost, Maine by John Coriani.

April 10-11, 16-18: A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen.

Call (501) 450-3265 or (501) 450-5092 or visit uca.edu/ tickets or uca.edu/theatre.

Dramatic reading

The Hendrix-Murphy Foundation’s Programs in Literature and Language opens its 2013-14 calendar at 7 p.m. Saturday with a Playwright’s Theatre dramatic reading of Docksology by Hendrix College alumnus (class of 1970) Gordon Maxwell Bolar in the Cabe Theatre at Hendrix, 1600 Washington Ave., Conway.

The rest of the lineup (all events at Hendrix; admission is free):

Oct. 3: “An Evening With Murphy Visiting Poets C.D. Wright and Forrest Gander,” 7:30 p.m., Reves Recital Hall.

Oct. 31: Director’s Discussion: “Play-FuLLness,” Daniel Stein, Murphy Visiting Theatre Director, will discuss his play Still Going Forward Backward (onstage 7:30 p.m. Nov. 13-16, Cabe Theatre), 11:10 a.m., Murphy seminar room.

Feb. 11: “My Autobiography,” writer, artist and filmmaker Miranda July, 7:30 p.m., Staples Auditorium.

March 4: “Plautine Fides: Parody of Cults to Divine Qualities in Roman Comedy,” lecture by Seth Jeppesen, professor of clsassics at Brigham Young University, 7:30 p.m., Mills C.

April 10: “An Evening with Murphy Visiting Writer Trenton Lee Stewart,” 7:30 p.m. Reves Recital Hall.

May 1: The Aonian/Murphy Programs Literary Contest Winners’ Reception and Reading, 4:30 p.m., Murphy Seminar Room.

Visit hendrix.edu/HendrixMurphy.

Met Live season

The Met: Live in HD 2013-14 season of live cinecasts of Metropolitan Opera performances begins Oct. 5 with the Met’s new production of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, starring soprano Anna Netrebko, baritone Mariusz Kwiecien and tenor Piotr Beczala and conducted by Valery Gergiev.

Three Arkansas theaters will be carrying the Met cinecasts Saturdays with Wednesday evening repeats: The Breckenridge Village 12 in Little Rock, the Tinseltown in Benton and the Razorback Cinema 16 in Fayetteville.

The rest of the schedule (except as noted), all performances at 11:55 a.m. Saturdays:

Oct. 26: Dmitri Shostakovich’s The Nose.

Nov. 9: Giacamo Puccini’s Tosca.

Dec. 14: Giuseppe Verdi’s Falstaff.

Feb. 8: Antonin Dvorak’s Rusalka.

March 1: Alexander Borodin’s Prince Igor (11 a.m.).

March 15: Jules Massanet’s Werther.

April 5: Giacomo Puccini’s La Boheme.

April 26: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte.

May 10: Gioacchino Rossini’s La Cenerentola.

More information on the operas, other locations and tickets is available at the website metopera.org/hdlive.