Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Army’s Jazz Ambassadors to make 8 stops across state
The U.S. Army Field Band “Jazz Ambassadors” will kick off a series of statewide performances at 3 p. m. today at the West Memphis Civic Auditorium at RiverPAC, 228 Polk Ave., West Memphis. Admission is free. Call (870) 732-7595. The rest of the schedule: 6:30 p.m. Monday, Mississippi County Fair Grounds, 401 N. Ruddle Road, Blytheville, under the auspices of the Arts Council of Mississippi County. Free; take a chair or blanket. (870) 7621744; artsmissco.org.
7 p.m. Tuesday, Center for the Arts, Arkansas State University-Newport, 7648 Victory Blvd., Newport. Admission by free ticket. (870) 512-7802; armyfieldband.ticketleap.com/newport.
7 p. m. Thursday, Grand Prairie Center, Stuttgart Campus, Phillips Community College of the University of Arkansas, 2709 U.S. 165 South, Stuttgart. Admission by free ticket. (870) 673-4201, Extension 1895,; pccua.edu/GPC.
7: 30 p. m. Friday, Ida Waldran Auditorium, University of Central Arkansas, 201 Donaghey Ave., Conway. Admission by free ticket. (501) 450-3265.
7 p.m. Saturday, Center for the Arts, 2209 S. Knoxville Ave, Russellville. Admission by free ticket. (479) 498-6600; russellvillecenter.net.
3 p.m. Oct. 26, Van Buren High School Fine Arts Center, 2001 Pointer Trail, Van Buren. Free. (479) 471-4017; vbsd.us/ FAC.
7 p. m. Oct. 28, Eureka Springs City Auditorium, 36 S. Main St., Eureka Springs. Free. ( 479) 253-7333; eurekasprings.org.
Gershwins revisited
A national touring company will bring its production of Nice Work If You Can Get It (music by George Gershwin, lyrics by Ira Gershwin, book by Joe DiPietro), 7 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday, 8 p.m. Friday, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Oct. 26 to Baum Walker Hall, Fayetteville’s Walton Arts Center, 495 W. Dickson St.
An opening-night red-carpet event will kick off the center’s 2014-15 Procter & Gamble Broadway Series.
Tickets are $36-$74. Call (479) 443-5600 or visit the website, waltonartscenter.org.
‘Pops on Broadway’
Actor- singers Teri Dale Hansen and Sean MacLaughlin will perform numbers from Broadway musicals Mamma Mia!, Cats, Jersey Boys, My Fair Lady, Gigi and The Phantom of the Opera with the Fort Smith Symphony and conductor John Jeter to open the orchestra’s 91st season with a “Pops on Broadway” program, 7: 30 p.m. Saturday in the ArcBest Performing Arts Center, 55 S. Seventh St., Fort Smith. Tickets are $40 and $35, $20 and $15 for students. Call (479) 452-7575.
Fleetwood Mac tickets
Tickets — $52.50, $73.50, $106.50, $140 and $174 — go on sale at 10 a.m. Monday for an 8 p.m. March 11 concert by Fleetwood Mac (including Christine McVie, rejoining the band after a 16-year absence) at North Little Rock’s Verizon Arena, part of the second leg of the band’s “On With the Show” Tour. There is an eight-ticket limit and the arena will be using its Credit Card Entry (formerly Paperless Ticketing) system. Visit any Ticketmaster outlet, call (800) 745-3000 or visit the website, ticketmaster.com.
‘Timeless’ quartet
Arkansas Symphony musicians Lyle Wong, clarinet; Geoffrey Robson, violin; David Gerstein, cello; and Carl Anthony, piano, will play Olivier Messiaen’s Quator pour la fin du temps ( Quartet for the End of Time) for the orchestra’s River Rhapsodies Chamber Music Series, 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Grand Hall, Clinton Presidential Center, 1200 President Clinton Ave., Little Rock.
The orchestra’s Rockefeller Quartet — Katherine Williamson and Trisha McGov- ern, violins; Katherine Reynolds, viola; and Daniel Cline, cello — will play the String Quartet No. 39 in F- sharp major, op.50 No. 4, by Franz Joseph Haydn.
Series sponsor is Landers Fiat. Tickets are $23, $10 for students and active-duty military. Call (501) 666-1761, Extension 100, or visit the website, ArkansasSymphony.org.
Basie band
The 19-piece Count Basie Orchestra will perform at 7:30 p.m. Monday in Riceland Hall, Arkansas State University’s Fowler Center, 201 Olympic Drive, Jonesboro, part of the university’s Lecture-Concert Series. Admission is free. Call (870) 972-2094, email tcrist@astate.edu or visit the website, AState.edu/lectureconcert.
Violin and piano
Violinist Tien-Hsin “Cindy” Wu and pianist Tatiana Roitman Mann will give a recital at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Ed Coulter Performing Arts Center, Vada Sheid Community Development Center, Arkansas State University-Mountain Home, 1600 S. College St., Mountain Home.
The program will include the Violin Sonata No. 1 in D major, op.12 No. 1, by Ludwig van Beethoven; Four Romantic Pieces, op.75, by Antonin Dvorak; Violin Sonata in g minor by Claude Debussy; Suite Italienne by Igor Stravinsky; and Hungarian Dances No. 2 and 17 by Johannes Brahms.
Tickets are $10, $5 for students, Call (870) 508-6280, or visit the website, thesheid.com.
Architecture lecture
Carl Matthews, head of the Interior Design Department at the University of Arkansas’ Fay Jones School of Architecture, will examine the ways in which media, including television, film and advertising, use architecture and design to develop and project a particular image or mood in a lecture titled “Really Cool Digs,” 6 p.m. Tuesday in the Lecture Hall at the Arkansas Arts Center in MacArthur Park, East Ninth and Commerce streets, Little Rock. A pre-lecture reception starts at 5:30. The lecture is the second in the Architecture and Design Network’s 2014-15 season. Admission is free. Email ardenetwork@mac.com.
Fall Ramble
Oct. 27 is the deadline to register for the Historic Pres- ervation Alliance of Arkansas’ Nov. 1 “Fall Ramble,” an all-day bus tour through the Delta cities of Wilson, Dyess, Blytheville and Piggott.
A motor coach will depart from the Little Rock Visitor Information Center at Curran Hall, 615 E. Capitol Ave., Little Rock, at 8:30 a.m. and return around 10 p.m. The tour will include visits to the Dyess Colony Administration Building and the Johnny Cash Boyhood Home in Dyess, the Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum in Piggott and the the restored Art Moderne Greyhound Bus Station in Blytheville.
The cost, including transportation, refreshments, lunch at the Wilson Cafe, admission to historic sites and dinner, is $125 (Preservation Alliance members get a $25 discount; $25 lunch and Wilson tour only, $35 dinner and Piggott tour only, transportation on your own). Call (501) 372- 4757, email ayancey@preservearkansas.org or visit PreserveArkansas.org.
Summer Shakespeare
The Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre will perform William Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor and The Merchant of Venice and the musical Fiddler on the Roof (music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, book by Joseph Stein) in repertory, June 4-28 at venues in Conway and North Little Rock.
An adaptation for young audiences of Shakespeare’s comedy As You Like It will have performances in Conway and tour to several venues across the state.
The theater will hold its annual Fall Membership Party at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the home of Brad Lacy, 507 Locust Ave., Conway. Call (501) 852-0702 or visit the website, arkshakes.com.