Australian vocal ensemble The Ten Tenors, on a 20th anniversary tour of the United States, performs a repertoire from their latest album, Wish You Were Here, a tribute to performers "who have left us too soon," including Prince, David Bowie, Michael Hutchence, John Lennon, Amy Winehouse and Roy Orbison:
• 7:30 p.m. Monday, ArcBest Corp. Performing Arts Center, Fort Smith Convention Center, 55 S. Seventh St., Fort Smith. Tickets are $33-$35. (479) 788-7300; uafs.universitytickets.com.
• 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Reynolds Performance Hall, University of Central Arkansas, 201 Donaghey Ave., Conway. Tickets are $30-$40 plus fees, $10 for children and students. (501) 450-3265 or (866) 810-0012; uca.edu/Reynolds.
Fayetteville 'Revival'
The Mission Temple Fireworks Revival features Southern raconteur Paul Thorn, the Blind Boys of Alabama and the McCrary Sisters, 8 p.m. Saturday at Fayetteville's Walton Arts Center, 495 W. Dickson St. Tickets are $29-$49 plus fees; a VIP pre-show meet and greet with the performers, hosted by Cosmic Cowboy Studio, in Starr Theatre, is an additional $50; proceeds support the center's Arts Education Programs. Call (479) 443-5600 or visit waltonartscenter.org.
Kiril plays Brahms
Violinist Kiril Laskarov headlines "Laskarov Plays Brahms," 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Great Hall of the Clinton Presidential Center, 1200 President Clinton Ave., Little Rock, part of the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra's 2018-19 River Rhapsodies Chamber Music series. The all-Brahms program honors Laskarov's 20th year in the orchestra's concertmaster's chair.
He and pianist Tatiana Roitman will play the Violin Sonata No. 1; they will join Tze-Ying Wu, viola, and Ethan Young, cello, for the Piano Quartet No. 1. Luthier and ASO violist Joe Joyner will discuss violin-making in a casual, 6 p.m. pre-concert presentation in the Great Hall lobby. Tickets are $23, $10 for students and active duty military. Call (501) 666-1761, Extension 1, or visit ArkansasSymphony.org.
And Laskarov and co-concertmaster Drew Irvin solo in J.S. Bach's Double Violin Concerto with the orchestra's Rockefeller Quartet -- Trisha McGovern Freeney and Katherine Williamson, violins; Katherine Reynolds, viola; and Ethan Young, cello -- for the orchestra's 2018 University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Ruth Allen Concert, 4:30 p.m. Wednesday in the UAMS Hospital Lobby Gallery, 4301 W. Markham St., Little Rock. The "Bach to Bach" program will include Laskarov, oboist Beth Wheeler and the quartet playing Bach's Concerto for oboe and violin and Irvin will play the "Chaconne" from Bach's Partita No 2 for unaccompanied violin. Admission is free. Call (501) 666-1761, Extension 1.
Monday on Monday
Batesville native Rick Monday, former Los Angeles Dodger and Dodgers broadcast announcer since 1993 and lauded for stopping two would-be protesters from setting an American flag on fire during a Dodger Stadium game in April 1976, will present a program titled "Baseball and the American Flag" 7 p.m. Monday in the Children's Theater, Arkansas Arts Center in MacArthur Park, East Ninth and Commerce streets, Little Rock. The program, under the auspices of the neighboring MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History, honors veterans and the American flag. Admission is free.
Monday and Little Rock artist Pat Matthews will be special guests at a pre-program fundraising reception, 5-6:30 p.m. at the MacArthur Museum, 503 E. Ninth St. Tickets, $125, include the auction of one of Matthews' signature flag paintings. Call (501) 376-4602 or visit Arkmilitaryheritage.com.
Architecture lecture
Emily Baker, Jessica Colangelo and Brian Holland, faculty members at the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design at the University of Arkansas, will give a lecture titled "New Perspectives in Architecture Education," 6 p.m. Tuesday in the Lecture Hall, Arkansas Arts Center in MacArthur Park, 501 E. Ninth St., Little Rock. A 5:30 p.m. reception precedes the lecture. Admission is free. Call (501) 952-7274 or (501) 840-6171 or email [email protected] or [email protected].
Latin and ragtime
Latin pop singer-songwriter Gina Chavez will perform at 7:30 p.m. at the Jim and Joyce Faulkner Performing Arts Center, University of Arkansas, 453 N. Garland Ave., Fayetteville. Student organization UARK MP3 (Music Performers, Producers and Professionals) is the presenter. Tickets are $10-20, free to all area students. The Faulkner Center will also host "Let It Out With Gina Chavez," at 6 p.m. Monday at La Huerta restaurant, 1860 N. Crossover Road, Fayetteville; admission is free and appetizers will be provided.
Also at the Faulkner Center this week, the Peacherine Ragtime Society Orchestra performs Scott Joplin classics, 7:30 p.m. Thursday. The performance is part of a yearlong celebration of Joplin's 150th birthday. Tickets are $10-20.
Call (479) 575-5387 or visit faulkner.uark.edu.
Sounds in the Stacks
Blues/soul singer and keyboard player Stuart Baer performs at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at Central Arkansas Library System's Sanders Library, 10200 Johnson Drive, Sherwood, part of the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies' Sounds in the Stacks series. Admission is free. Call (501) 320-5700 or visit butlercenter.org.
Murry's season
The 2019 season at Murry's Dinner Playhouse, 6323 Colonel Glenn Road, Little Rock, kicks off Jan. 8-Feb. 2 with Last Round-Up of the Guacamole Queens by the comedy troika of Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jamie Wooton.
The rest of the lineup:
• Feb. 5-March 2: The Second Time Around by Henry Denker
• March 13-April 20: Sister Act, music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Glenn Slater, book by Cheri and Bill Steinkellner with additional material by Douglas Carter Beane, based on the movie screenplay by Joseph Howard
• April 24-June 1: Shear Madness by Marilyn Abrams and Bruce Jordan, based on the play Scherenschnitt by Paul Portner (the audience "solves" the murder of a famed concert pianist who lives above a hair salon, resulting in a different ending each night)
• June 5-July 6: Ring of Fire -- The Music of Johnny Cash (conceived by William Meade, created by Richard Maltby Jr.)
• July 10-Aug. 24: Mary Poppins, original music and lyrics by Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman, new music and additional lyrics by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe, book by Julian Fellowes, based on the 1964 Disney film
• Aug. 27-Sept. 21: A Bad Year for Tomatoes by John Patrick
• Sept. 24-Oct. 19: Sex Please, We're Sixty by Michael and Susan Parker
• Oct. 22-Nov. 16: Murder at the Howard Johnson's by Ron Park and Sam Bobrick
• Nov. 20-Dec. 31: Annie, music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Martin Charnin, book by Thomas Meehan.
Travis Ledoyt brings his Elvis tribute show back to the stage March 7-9.
A 10-show-and-dinner season package is $170. Call (501) 562-3131 or visit murrysdp.com.
Style on 11/11/2018