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Mixing of politics, religion is topic of lecture at library

Charles Kimball
Charles Kimball

Charles Kimball, author of When Religion Becomes Lethal: The Explosive Mix of Politics and Religion in Judaism, Christianity and Islam, will present the Central Arkansas Library System's Rabbi Ira Sanders Distinguished Lecture at 6:30 p.m. Thursday in the Ron Robinson Theater, 100 River Market Ave., Little Rock.

A reception and book signing will follow. Admission is free; reservations are requested, but not required. Call (501) 918-3009 or email [email protected].

Rough Crossing

Two playwrights aboard a passenger liner on its way to New York struggle to finish their latest musical hit while maneuvering around a jealous composer, the screen star he loves and her lothario leading man in Rough Crossing by Tom Stoppard, opening Tuesday at Murry's Dinner Playhouse, 6323 Colonel Glenn Road, Little Rock.

Curtain times through Oct. 4 are 7:45 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday (except for Wednesday, Sept. 10 and 17, when there are 12:45 p.m. Wednesday matinees and no evening performances), 12:45 and 6:45 p.m. Sunday. Doors and the buffet open 90 minutes before curtain.

Tickets are $31-$35, $23 for children 15 and younger; show only, $25, $15 for children. Call (501) 562-3131 or visit murrysdp.com.

El Dorado lineup

The South Arkansas Symphony Orchestra opens its 59th season -- and its 20th with Kermit Poling as music director -- with a 7:30 p.m. Sept. 13 pops concert featuring Jeans 'n Classics performing music of Blood Sweat and Tears, Earth Wind and Fire and a little Chicago at the El Dorado Municipal Auditorium, 100 W. Eighth St., El Dorado.

The rest of the lineup (except as noted, all concerts at 7:30 p.m. at the Municipal Auditorium with Poling conducting):

• Oct. 25: Yevgeny Yontov will be the soloist in the Piano Concerto No. 3 by Sergei Prokofiev and Twyla Robindson will be the soprano soloist for the Symphony No. 4 by Gustav Mahler.

• Nov. 7: The West Edge String Quartet will play the world premiere of Poling's musical score, commissioned by the South Arkansas Symphony, for the 1920 silent film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari as the picture screens.

• Feb. 14: "Seasons of Love," with tenor Randall Rushing and Thomas Hundemer, French horn, as soloists in Benjamin Britten's Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, plus Gustav Holst's Brook Green Suite and the original version of Aaron Copland's ballet Appalachian Spring.

• March 21: Swedish band Arrival joins the orchestra to perform "The Music of ABBA."

• May 9 : "Two Romantic Giants," with Stephanie Chase as soloist in the Violin Concerto by Johannes Brahms, plus Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 5.

• May 23: First Financial Bank Symphony on the Square Community Concert, 7 p.m., downtown on the square. Free.

Season subscriptions are $90-$160; for the first time, patrons can reserve specific seats. Call (800) 792-0521, email [email protected] or visit SouthArkansasSymphony.org.

Style on 08/31/2014

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