Five-time Grammy Award-winning jazzman Victor Wooten, a bass player for Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, will team up with Tennessee State University English professor and bass player Rod Taylor and drummer J.D. Blair for a performance lecture with audience participation titled "Music, Creativity, and Learning," 11:50 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. Tuesday in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall, Fine Arts Building, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 2801 S. University Ave., Little Rock.
Also Tuesday, 6-7:30 p.m., Wooten, Blair, and Taylor will join UALR faculty members Mike Carenbauer and Tom Richeson for a jazz master class.
Admission to both events is free. Call (501) 569-8063 or email [email protected].
Mozart and Smetana
String and wind players from the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra will form the performing corps for the orchestra's River Rhapsodies Chamber Music Series concert, 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Great Hall of the Clinton Presidential Center, 1200 President Clinton Ave., Little Rock.
The Quapaw Quartet -- Eric Hayward and Meredith Maddox Hicks, violins; Katrina Weeks, viola; and David Gerstein, cello -- will play the String Quartet No. 1 in e minor, "From My Life," by Bedrich Smetana.
And 13 wind players -- Leanna Booze and Beth Wheeler, oboe; Kelly Johnson and Andrew DeBoer, clarinet; Lyle Wong and Nicolas del Grazia, basset horn; Susan Leon and Beth Martinez, bassoon; Ray Hankins, contrabassoon; and David Renifro, Robin Dauer, Brent Shires and Julie Witt-Syler, horn -- will team up to play Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Serenade No. 10 in B-flat major, K. 361/370a, "Gran Partita."
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.
Not-so-empty nest
A fiftysomething couple (Don Bolinger and Laurie Pascale), looking forward to being empty-nesters after launching the youngest of their three chicks (Kristopher Pistole, Garrett Whitehead and Devin Robertson) into the world, sees them back home again in Alone Together by Lawrence Roman, Tuesday-March 7 at Murry's Dinner Playhouse, 6323 Colonel Glenn Road, Little Rock.
Curtain times are 7:45 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday (12:45 p.m. matinees only, Wednesdays through Feb. 25), 12:45 and 6:45 p.m. Sunday. Doors and the buffet open 90 minutes before curtain. Tickets are $32-$36, $26 for children 15 and younger; show only, $25, $15 for children. Call (501) 562-3131 or visit murrysdp.com.
Architecture lecture
Peter MacKeith, dean of the University of Arkansas Fay Jones School of Architecture in Fayetteville, will offer his perspective on the life and work of 20th-century Finnish architect/designer Alvar Aalto in a lecture titled "Aalto's Identities," 6 p.m. Tuesday in the lecture hall of the Arkansas Arts Center in MacArthur Park, Ninth and Commerce streets, Little Rock. A 5:30 reception will precede the lecture, part of a series from the Architecture and Design Network. Admission is free. Email [email protected] or visit ADN's Facebook page.
Chilling drama
All evidence indicates that a simply dressed young woman rescued from a small iceberg in the North Atlantic is a survivor of the Titanic -- 80 years previously -- in Scotland Road by Jeffrey Hatcher. The University of Arkansas at Little Rock theater department will stage the play at 8 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday and 2:30 p.m. Feb. 15 in the University Theatre, Center for the Performing Arts, UALR, 2801 S. University Ave., Little Rock. Tickets are $10, $5 for senior citizens and UALR students, faculty and staff. Call (501) 569-3456.
Pride and Prejudice
Fort Smith Little Theatre, 401 N. Sixth St., Fort Smith, will stage Jon Jory's stage adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday and Feb. 18-21 and 2 p.m. Feb. 15 and 22. Sponsors are First National Bank and BHC Insurance. Tickets are $25 for Thursday's gala opening, $10 for all other performances. Call (479) 783-2966 or visit fslt.org.
Legally Blonde
Rogers Little Theater will present Legally Blonde The Musical (music and lyrics by Laurence O'Keefe and Nell Benjamin, book by Heather Hach, based on the novel by Amanda Brown and the MGM movie) in a dinner theater setting, 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday and Feb. 19-21 and 26-28 and 2 p.m. Feb. 15, 22 and March 1 at the Victory Theater, 116 S. Second St., Rogers.
Seating and dinner start 90 minutes before curtain. Dinner theater tickets are $48, $60 for cabaret tables for two, $17 for nondinner balcony seats. Call (479) 631-8988 or visit the website, rogerslittletheater.org.
Hometown Jam
The Greater Eureka Springs Chamber of Commerce will host the second annual Mid-Winter Hometown Jam, featuring six area bands, at 7 p.m. Friday in City Auditorium, 36 S. Main St., Eureka Springs. Tickets are $10 in advance, available at the Chamber of Commerce Visitor Center in the Village at Pine Mountain; $12 at the door, free for children under 12. Call (479) 253-8737.
Style on 02/08/2015