music
“About being enslaved”
Marian Anderson String Quartet — Marianne Henry and Nicole Cherry, violin.Deidre Lawrence (viola) Prudence McDaniel (cello) — Performs the title program “About being enslaved” Sponsored by the Little Rock Chamber Music Society, 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Mosaic Templars Cultural Center, 501 W. Ninth St., Little Rock.
Program: “Buyer Options” by Rhiannon Giddens. “Follow the Drinking Gourd” by Jonathan McNair. “Crucifixion/Mourning: Marian Anderson” by Samuel Adler. “In Honor of Marian Anderson — The Traveling Stranger” by David Wallace. Antonín Dvořák's String Quartet No. 12 in F major “American”. and “Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing” by John Rosamond Johnson and James Weldon Johnson.
Tickets are $25 and free for students of all ages. Visit ChambermusicLR.com.
“Stacked sounds”
of the central arkansas library system. “Stacked sounds” The Library Branch Community Concert Series, now in its ninth year, will feature jazzman Sam Carroll performing Monday at 6:30 p.m. at the Sidney S. McMath Library, 2100 John Barrow Road in Little Rock. It will open.
Monthly concerts feature hour-long concerts highlighting area musicians. All concerts begin at 6:30 p.m. Admission to all concerts is free. The rest of the lineup:
◼️ March 19, Max Milam Library, 609 Aplin Avenue, Perryville: Luckensack Folklore Society.
◼️ April 18, Ollie E. Rooker Library, 11 Otter Creek Court, Little Rock: Saxophonist Michael Eubanks
◼️ May 2, Roosevelt Thompson Library, Little Rock, 38 Laring Circle: Bluesboy Jug (blues guitar and vocals using handmade cigar box guitar)
◼️ June 24, Amy Sanders Library, 10200 Johnson Drive, Sherwood: Roger King, Country & Folk guitar and vocals
◼️ July 24, John Gould Fletcher Library, 823 N. Buchanan St., Little Rock, Luckensack Folklore Society
◼️ August 27, Esther DeWitt Nixon Library, 703 W. Main St., Jacksonville: Pop/Blues Singer and Guitarist Charlotte Taylor
◼️ September 16, Dee Brown Library, 6325 Baseline Road, Little Rock: Jazz keyboardist Julia Buckingham.
◼️ October 7th, Adolphine Fletcher Terry Library, 2015 Napa Valley Drive, Little Rock: Pop/Country Guitar/Vocal Duo Casey Penn & Tiffany Turner
◼️ November 14, Maumelle Library, 10 Lake Point Drive, Maumelle: Pop/Country Band Leslie Auden & Southern Frayed.
For more information, call (501) 320-5728, email jmiller@cals.org or visit cals.org/sounds-in-the-stacks.
UALR ensemble
Jazz and Wind Ensemble at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Performs Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. at Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall, Fine Arts Building, UALR, 2801 S. University Ave., Little Rock.
The wind ensemble performs Amanda Aldridge's “On Parade,” James David's “With Soul Serene,” John Newton's “Amazing Grace,” arranged by Frank Ticelli, and “Mother of the Revolution.” To do. Written by Omar Thomas. Conducted by Nicholas Doscher.
The five jazz ensemble programs selected to commemorate Black History Month include Trombone Shorty's “Buckjump,” “There's a Boat That Leaves New York for New York” from George Gershwin's opera “Porgy and Bess,” and Nat. “King” includes “” in the call. “Straighten Up and Fly Right” featuring student singers Andrew Batty and Miles Davis” https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2024/feb/24/entertainment-notes-string-quartet-offers-on/ Chicago's “25 or 6 to 4” conducted by “All Blues” Michael Underwood.
Admission is free.
on the podium
architecture of dahomey
Lynn LarsenThe University of Arkansas at Little Rock assistant professor of art history will discuss his research on the West African nation of Dahomey and his book, “The Royal Architecture of Dahomey: A Soil Record of Construction, Conquest, and Reclamation,” on Thursday at 6 p.m. Philander Smith University's Kendall Nugent Center, 900 W. Daisy L. Gutson Bates Drive, Little Rock. She also provides insight into her contribution to her film The Woman King. This lecture bridges Black History Month (February) and Women's History Month (March). Admission is free. Register at tinyurl.com/2s3nvmjk.
pioneering women
Daniel DreylingerThe Gannett/USA Today Network national rewrite editor will be presenting her book, The Secret History of Home Economics: How Pioneering Women Taught the Power of the Home, at noon Wednesday at River 100's Ron Robinson Theater. We will talk about how we have used it to change the way we live. Under the auspices of Little Rock's Market Her Avenue, the Arkansas Women's Foundation, the Central Arkansas Library System, and the ESSE Perth Her Museum & Store.
There will also be a book signing session after the lecture. Pyramid Art, Books and Custom Framing will have copies of the book for sale.
The book's publisher, WW Norton, describes Dreilinger's work as “a surprising, often fiercely feminist, always fascinating, but little-known history of home economics.” [that] Tracing the history of the field, from black colleges to Eleanor Roosevelt to Okinawa, from the Betty Crocker Brigade to DIY technicians. ”
Admission is free, but participants must register in advance at vents.cals.org/event/10123683.