music
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U.S. Navy Band Sea Chanters We have three concerts in Arkansas this week:
◼️Thursday 7pm, West Memphis High School Performing Arts Center, 501 W. Broadway, West Memphis. Admission is a free ticket. Visit tinyurl.com/3nszcsun.
◼️Friday 7:30 p.m., East Arkansas Community College Fine Arts Center, 1700 Newcastle Road, Forrest City. Admission is a free ticket. Please call (870) 633-4480, ext. 352.
◼️ Saturday 7:30 p.m., Walton Arts Center, 495 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. Admission is also possible with a free ticket. Call (479) 443-5600 or visit waltonartscenter.org.
The official choir of the U.S. Navy is one of six performing units of the U.S. Navy Band. The program includes sea shanties, patriotic cuisine, opera, Broadway, and contemporary music.
neighborhood concert
Musicians from the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra will perform three 20th century chamber ensemble works. neighborhood concert7 p.m. Thursday, Stella Boyle Smith Recital Hall, Fine Arts Building, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 2801 S. University Ave., Little Rock.
Next on the program was Paul Hindemith's Kammermusik op. 24, No. 1 for 12 musicians. Octet for wind instruments by Igor Stravinsky. and John Cheatham's “Brass Menagerie'' for brass quintet. Principal trombonist Michael Underwood, who organized the program, will conduct Hindemith's work and perform two others. ASO assistant conductor Valerie Saul will conduct Stravinsky's works.
General admission is free, but participants must register. Visit arkansassymphony.org/events/neighborhood-concert/. Call us at (501) 666-1761.
SAU choir
Southern Arkansas University Choir — SAU Heritage Singers and Chamber Singers — plus the Southwest Arkansas Chamber Singers and Chamber Orchestra will perform Franz Schubert's Mass in G Major with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Eric Whittaker on Tuesdays from 7 p.m. to 1 a.m. , will perform works by Arthur Sullivan. Magnolia United Methodist Church, 320 W. Main St., Magnolia. Admission is free. Visit facebook.com/events/1475112923352041/.
ambient ensemble
time, a Philadelphia-based ambient instrumental ensemble, will perform Wednesday at 7 p.m. at the Like Quiz Community, 70 N. College Ave., Fayetteville (Texas), as part of the Trillium Salon Series. (on the way to South by Southwest in Austin). The ensemble is planning an album, “Ease the Work,” soon. Admission is by $10 donation. Visit trilliumsalonseries.com.
art and exhibits
Rogers' “Last Call”
“Last Call: A History of Alcohol in the Ozarks.” Following the pendulum of the timeline of Arkansas law regarding liquor, it opens Friday at the Rogers Historical Museum, 313 Second St., S. Cherry St., in Rogers.
The exhibit, which runs through Nov. 9, covers the history of moonshiners and the Bootlegger-Temperance Society, as well as the boom in retail alcohol sales in northwest Arkansas. Includes an authentic Ozarks copper still, his mid-20th century commercial wine bottling machine, and historic photographs.
Museum hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is free. Call (479) 621-1154 or visit rogershistoryalmuseum.org.
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gadberry gala
The Southern Acantha Arts Festival awards the 7th annual Charlotte Gadberry Award to Melissa and Martin Thoma. “Cabaret Night” Wednesday at the Argenta Community Theater, 405 Main St., North Little Rock. The award is named after Gadberry, the festival's founder, and is presented to “an individual who has made significant contributions to the arts and the Central Arkansas community,” according to a news release. Tickets are $150. Proceeds support Akantha's arts education programs for Arkansan youth. Visit acansa.org.
The cabaret features a dinner buffet, drinks, and performances by singer Tracy Bear and local performers. Baer, a featured performer at the inaugural Charlotte Gadbery Awards Ceremony and host of the 2020 Arkansas Symphony Orchestra Opus Ball, recently completed a two-year run with the musical “This Ones for the Girls.” Before that, she played Grace Farrell in the musical The Ones for the Girls. Broadway national tour of Annie.
archivist speaks
Colleen Shogan 11th Archivist of the United States Former Secretary of State and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, the first woman nominated and confirmed for the position, talks about the importance of preserving and understanding America's history, the contributions of women in government, and the state of American democracy. We talk about this in a conversation. It will be held Thursday at 5 p.m. at the Clinton Presidential Center, 1200 President Clinton Avenue, Little Rock, and will also be livestreamed online. Admission to this program in honor of Women's History Month is free. Register at tinyurl.com/2jmeppn7.
pilot project
British Airways pilot Mark VanhoeckerHe is the author of Imagine a City: A Pilot's Journey Across the Urban World, a memoir that combines his experiences in cities around the world as a seasoned traveler and pilot with stories from his childhood in his New England hometown. A conversation with Hope Coulter. , Hendricks College Hendricks Murphy Foundation Director, Wednesday 7:30 p.m., Reeves Recital Hall at Hendricks, 1600 Washington Ave., Conway. A reception and autograph session will follow at the Trieshman Gallery. Wordsworth Books, a bookstore in Little Rock, will sell selected titles from Van Hornacker's work. Admission is free.