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2011 Pulitzer winner Egan to be in residence at UCA

The Swingle Singers perform Tuesday at Harding University in Searcy.
The Swingle Singers perform Tuesday at Harding University in Searcy.

— Jennifer Egan, author of A Visit From the Goon Squad (winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, the National Book Critics’ Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Award), The Invisible Circus, Look at Me and The Keep, will be in residence Tuesday-Wednesday at the University of Central Arkansas, 201 Donaghey Ave., Conway.

Egan will give a public reading and book signing at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the College of Business Auditorium, Room 107, and will give a creative writing craft talk and question-and-answer session at 10 a.m. Wednesday in Room 331 of Thompson Hall. Admission is free. Call (501) 450-3293 or e-mail [email protected] .

Swingle Singers

The seven-member a cappella Swingle Singers will give a concert at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Administration Auditorium at Harding University in Searcy.

The “set list” offers a combination of popular songs and vocalizations of classical pieces, including “Weather to Fly,” “Reservoir Kids,” “Spain,” “After the Storm,” “Hiding Your Smile,” “Shake It Out/Danse Macabre,” “Lady Madonna,” “Clair de Lune,” “Badinerie” and “Swingle Ladies.”

Tickets are $3. Call (501) 279-4343.

Chamber concert

Jennifer Higdon, the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra’s 2012-13 composer of the year, continues her residency with the orchestra’s River Rhapsodies Chamber Series concert, 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Great Hall of the Clinton Presidential Center, 1200 President Clinton Ave., Little Rock.

The Etesian Winds, a woodwind quintet of orchestra members - Diane McVinney, flute; Beth Wheeler, oboe; Kelly Johnson, clarinet; Susan Bell Leon, bassoon; and David Renfro, horn - will perform Higdon’s Autumn Music; David Gerstein, cello, Tatiana Roitman, piano, and Kiril Laskarov, violin, will play Higdon’s two-movement Piano Trio.

On the first half of the program, the woodwind quintet will play Summer Music by Samuel Barber and the Wild Beats Piano Trio - Meredith Maddox Hicks, violin, with Gerstein and Roitman - will play the Piano Trio No.2, op.67, by Dmitri Shostakovich.

Tickets are $22, $10 for students. Call (501) 666-1761 or visit the website, arkansassymphony.org.

Song and dance

Singer-songwriters Mary Chapin Carpenter and Shawn Colvin will give an acoustic concert at 8 p.m. Saturday at Walton Arts Center, 495 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. Tickets are $26-$54. Call (479) 443-5600 or visit waltonartscenter.org.

Also at the center this week, DanceBrazil, a New York-based company that combines Afro-Brazilian movement, contemporary dance and Capoeira, a traditional martial art joining elements of dance and music, will perform at 8 p.m. Friday in Baum Walker Hall - tickets are $10-$25; the show is part of the 2012-13 10x10 Arts Series - and put on two master classes Thursday in StarrTheater (recommended for ages 14 and up with some dance experience): “Afro-Brazilian Dance,” 5:30-7 p.m., and “Capoeira,” 7:30-9 p.m. Cost is $20 per workshop. Call (479) 443-5600 or visit waltonartscenter.org/classescampsandworkshops.aspx.

Bluegrass Monday

Jimmy Bowen and Santa Fe - Rick Briggs, Bobby Nicholas, Ollie O’Shea and Blake Bowen - will give a bluegrass concert at 7 p.m. Monday at the Collins Theatre, 120 W. Emerson St., Paragould, part of Jonesboro public radio station KASU-FM, 91.9’s, Bluegrass Monday concert series. The station will “pass the hat” to pay the group; suggested donation is $5. Call (870) 972-2367 or e-mail [email protected].

Musical workshops

The University of Central Arkansas Theatre, in conjunction with and leading up to its April 11-12 and 17-19 production of the musical Spring Awakening (music by Duncan Sheik, book and lyrics by Steven Sater, based on an 1891 play by Frank Wedekind), will offer advance workshops, 6:30 p.m. on consecutive Thursdays in the Bridges/Larson Theatre, Snow Fine Arts Center, UCA, 201 Donaghey Ave., Conway.

Michael Heavner, the show’s musical director and a faculty member at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, will lead “How to Sing in a Rock Musical” March 7; Lisa Harper, choreography instructor at the Arkadelphia School of Dance and Henderson State University and the show’s choreographer, will lead “How to Dance in a Rock Musical” March 14. Admission is free and the workshops are open to the public. Call (501) 450-3293 or e-mail [email protected].

Sax recital

Alto saxophonist Andy Wen, an associate professor at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, and pianist John Krebs, a faculty member at Hendrix College in Conway, will give a recital at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall, Fine Arts Building, UALR, 2801 S. University Ave.

The program will include Tableaux de Provence by Paule Maurice, Mai by Ryo Noda, Apparitions by Ed Martin, Pulled by L.A. Logrande (with Susan Antonetti, flute) and the premiere of the saxophone-piano version of Concertino by Sy Brandon.

Admission is free. Call (501) 569-3102 or e-mail [email protected].

Art Conversation

Three central Arkansas artists who have taken part in the University of Arkansas at Little Rock applied arts program - sculptor Kerrick Hartman, woodcrafter Sandi Sell and metalsmith Carrie Crocker - will join in The Conversation with the Friends of Contemporary Craft, 5 p.m. Sunday in the Lecture Hall of the Arkansas Arts Center, MacArthur Park, 10th and Commerce streets, Little Rock.

A reception in the Arts Center’s lower lobby will follow. Admission is $10, $5 for FOCC members, free for students. Call (501) 372-4000.

Goes to Memphis

Roundabout Theatre Company’s national tour of Anything Goes (music and lyrics by Cole Porter, original book by P.G. Wodehouse and Guy Bolton and Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse; new book for the recent Broadway revival by Timothy Crouse and John Weidman) will be onstage at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday, 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 1 and 6 p.m. March 3 at the Orpheum Theatre, 203 Main St. (at Beale Street), Memphis.

Tickets are $15-$90 plus possible handling fees. Call (901) 525-3000 or (901) 743-2787 (ARTS) or visit the website, orpheum-memphis.com.

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