Elsewhere in entertainment and the arts:
Wednesday
Songs and stories
Storytelling songwriters Kelly Mulhollan and Donna Henschell Stjerna of Still on the Hill, aka the "Ambassadors of the Ozarks," will give a concert at 6 p.m. in the museum theater at the Historic Arkansas Museum, 200 E. Third St., Little Rock. Doors open at 5:30. Admission is $5, free for museum members. Call (501) 324-9351 or visit the website, HistoricArkansas.org.
Operatic cabaret
Opera in the Rock will supply the performers -- singers Stephanie Smittle, LaSheena Gordon, Claire Wilkinson, Chase Burns and Micheal Lowe and pianist Kristin Harwell -- for two opera/Broadway cabaret shows, 7:30 and 8:30 p.m., part of the "Local Live" series at South on Main, 1304 Main St., Little Rock. Admission is free; to reserve seats, call (501) 244-9660.
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Haunted contribution
Haunted America Suite, a recently released CD of modern classical chamber music for horn, tuba and piano, features four original compositions by Les Pack, associate professor of music and associate director of bands at the University of Arkansas at Monticello: Chacona Mulata, which refers to a sensual Mexican dance imported into Spain in the 16th century; Hope Is the Thing, based on the Emily Dickinson poem of the same name; Santa Fe Fantasy, A Piano Interlude; and March, a reminiscence of old circus and rodeo bands.
Pack collaborated with composers Justin Raines, James Grant and Lon Chaffin to produce the CD (available at Amazon.com and other online retailers), which includes 17 pieces of music based in part on myths and legends of ghost stories, "spook lights," and the spirits of Civil War soldiers wandering the Gettysburg battlefield. The performers are Celeste Shearer, horn; Jim Shearer, tuba; and Darrell Fitzpartin, Dena Kay Jones and Laura Spitzer, piano.
Style on 10/20/2015