‘Looking Back,’ All Souls concerts planned this week
The Symphony of Northwest Arkansas kicks off its 2015-16 season with a “Masterworks” concert titled “Looking Back, Looking Forward”, 7:30 p.m. Saturday in Baum Walker Hall at Fayetteville’s Walton Arts Center, 495 W. Dickson St.
SoNA principal cellist Kari Caldwell solos in Gabriel Faure’s Elegie; the program will also include the Variations on a Theme by Haydn by Johannes Brahms and Symphony No. 9, “From the New World,” by Antonin Dvorak. Music director Paul Haas conducts. The concert sponsor is Slim Chickens. Haas will give a pre-concert Creative Conversation at 6:45 p.m. Tickets are $28-$50. Call (479) 443-5600 or visit sonamusic.org.
All Souls concert
Faure’s Elegie, with Hendrix College faculty member Aaron Ludwig as soloist, is on the program for the Hendrix College Chamber Orchestra’s All Souls Day concert, 7:30 p.m. Monday in Greene Chapel at Hendrix, 1600 Washington Ave., Conway.
The lineup also includes selections from Orfeo et Eurydice by Christoph Willibald von Gluck with tenor Daniel Foltz-Morrison; “Chaconne” from Les Indes Galantes by Jean-Philippe Rameau; Symphony No. 41, “Jupiter,” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; and Shakespeare Suite (music from William Walton’s scores for film versions of Henry V and Richard III). Karen Griebling conducts. The Rev. J.J. Whitney will present a musical meditation.
Admission is free. Call (501) 450-1249 or email griebling@hendrix.edu.
Fayetteville Requiem
The combined choirs of Fayetteville’s St. Joseph Catholic Church and St. Paul’s Episcopal Church will perform Maurice Durufle’s Requiem, with orchestra, at three Northwest and western Arkansas venues:
5 p.m. today, All Saints’ Day Evensong, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 224 N. East Ave., Fayetteville
7 p.m. Monday, All Souls’ Day Mass, St. Joseph Catholic Church, 1722 N. Starr Drive, Fayetteville
4 p.m. Nov. 8, Subiaco Abbey, 405 N. Subiaco Ave., Subiaco.
Soloists are Rebecca I. Harrison, soprano; Abby Carr, contralto; and Christopher Senty, bass-baritone. Charles A. Rigsby conducts. All performances are free.
Organ recital
Gail Archer, college organist at Vassar College and director of the music program at Barnard College, Columbia University, will give a recital at 3 p.m. today at First United Methodist Church, 20 Boyce Drive, Bella Vista.
Her program: Praeludium in g minor, BuxWV 149, by Dieterich Buxtehude; “An Was-serflussen Babylon,” BWV 653, and the Toccata and Fugue in C major, BWV 547, by Johann Sebastian Bach; Sonata in e-flat minor by Horatio Parker; Ascent by Joan Tower; Elegy by Mary Howe; and “Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott,” op.27, by Max Reger. Admission is free. Call (479) 855-1158 or visit lovelearnlead.com.
Architecture lecture
Marc Manack and Frank Jacobus, faculty members at the Fay Jones School of Architecture & Design at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville and principals in the firm of SILO AR+D, Fayetteville and Cleveland, will give a lecture titled “Socialight,” 6 p.m. Tuesday in the lecture hall at the Arkansas Arts Center in MacArthur Park, East Ninth and Commerce streets, Little Rock.
A 5:30 reception will precede the talk. The lecture is under the auspices of the Architecture and Design Network. Admission is free. Email ardenetwork@icloud.com.
5x5 auction
The Arts Center of the Ozarks, 214 S. Main St., Springdale, hosts its 13th annual 5x5 Auction & Jazz Soiree fundraiser, 5:55 -7:55 p.m. Thursday. The exhibition of one-of-a-kind miniature works in various mediums, all 5 inches square, by regional artists will be on display through Thursday before they go on the silent-auction block.
The event also features cool jazz by Swing Set, a beer tasting by Apple Blossom Brewing Co. and a gourmet tasting menu including items from Pure Joy Ice Cream and Royal Treats. Tickets are $15. Call (479) 751-5441 or visit acozarks.org.
Distinguished lecture
Author, combat veteran and youth advocate Wes Moore, chief executive officer of BridgeEdU, a national initiative focusing on college completion and career placement crisis by reinventing the freshman year of college, will give a lecture at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in Benson Auditorium, Harding University, Searcy. The talk is part of the university’s American Studies’ Distinguished Lecture Series. Admission is free. Call (501) 279-4497.
Wind concert
Ouachita Baptist University’s Wind Ensemble will give its fall concert at 7:30 p.m. Monday in Jones Performing Arts Center at OBU in Arkadelphia. Craig Hamilton will conduct the 36-student ensemble in Gustav Holst’s Suite No. 2 in F major, Three Chorale Preludes by William P. Latham, Suite Francaise by Darius Milhuad, Meditation by Dwayne S. Milburn and Sacred Harp by Jay Bocook.
Admission is free. The concert also will be available live online at obu.edu/band. Call (870) 245-5137 or email hamiltonc@obu.edu.
Musical auditions
The Studio Theatre, 320 W. Seventh St., Little Rock, will hold open auditions for Songs for a New World (music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown), 6 p.m. Nov. 8, with callbacks (if necessary) at 7 p.m. Nov. 10.
Director Monica Clark-Robinson and music director John Willis will cast a multigenerational, ethnically diverse cast of at least four performers; auditioners should prepare a verse and chorus from a song from, or in the style of, the show and provide sheet music for the accompanist. Production dates are Jan. 21-24. Call (501) 908-1099 or email gregmonica@yahoo.com.
History symposium
Nov. 9 is the deadline to register for the Sequoyah National Research Center and the Arkansas History Commission’s free half-day (9 a.m.1:30 p.m.) symposium Nov. 14 in Room 107, Stabler Hall, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 2801 S. University Ave., Little Rock.
Speakers Mary Jane Warde, Erin Fehr, Bob Sanderson, Daniel F. Littlefield, Jane Wilkerson and Karen Russ will cover topics related to “American Indians and Alaska Natives in America’s Wars.” Admission is free and a light lunch will be provided. Teachers can earn up to four professional development hours. Call (501) 682-6900 or email history.commission@arkansas.gov.