Grammy-nominated crooner Will Downing, jazz violinist Jerald Daemyon and saxophonist Jazmin Ghent headline shows during Art Porter Music Education Inc.'s ninth annual A Work of ART, Monday-Saturday at various Little Rock venues.
The lineup:
• Noon Monday: Kickoff, Little Rock City Hall, 500 W. Markham St., featuring the nonprofit's youth group, Minors in Music. Free.
• Noon Tuesday: Minors in Music, River Market Pavilion, 400 President Clinton Ave. Free
• 7 p.m. Wednesday: Jerald Daemyon, Ron Robinson Theater, 100 River Market Ave. $50.
• 7 p.m. Thursday: Jazmin Ghent, Mosaic Templars Cultural Center, 501 W. Ninth St. $40.
• 7 p.m. Friday: Porter Players Jam Session, Banquet Room & Courtyard, Hotel Frederica, 625 W. Capitol Ave. Free.
• 8 p.m. Saturday: Will Downing, Wildwood Park for the Arts, 20919 Denny Road. $50-$65.
Call (501) 492-9120 or visit artporter.org.
The nonprofit honors the memory of late jazzmen Art Porter Sr. and Art Porter Jr. It has awarded two 2019 scholarships, to trumpeter/pianist Gabriel Wade, a student at Parkview Arts/Sciences Magnet High School, and tuba player Julian Lilley, a student at Dardanelle High School. Both will be introduced during this year's finale on Saturday. That show will also include Porter heir violinist Lexington Porter, who is now part of a new performing group called G-Music, composed, in part, of former Minors in Music.
Sublime AMP act
Alternative rock band Sublime with Rome, with Michael Frant and Common Kings, performs at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Walmart AMP, 5079 W. Northgate Road, Rogers. Gates open at 6. Tickets are $25-$59.50 plus fees; each ticket in a four-ticket Lawn 4-Pack is $18.75. Call (479) 443-5600 or visit amptickets.com.
Six Kaminskys
"Kaminsky Family Show," artwork — painting, sculpture, film and sound — by JoAnn Kaminsky, Hank Kaminsky, Jesse Kaminsky, Isabella Koen, Daniel Kaminsky and Damir Porobic, goes on display with a First Thursday reception, 5-8 p.m. Thursday at Fenix Fayetteville, 16 W. Center St., Fayetteville. The show remains up through Aug. 31, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesday-Friday, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday. Admission is free. Visit the Facebook page, facebook.com/fenixfayettevilleart.
Railroad heritage
Rogers Historical Museum, 313 S. Second St. at Cherry Street, Rogers, celebrates the town's railroad heritage and history with an exhibit titled "Trains, Trains, & More Trains," opening Saturday and featuring historical objects from the museum's collection and model trains of all sizes. The exhibit will remain up through Aug. 31. Admission is free. Hours are 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Saturday. Call (479) 621-1154 or visit rogershistoricalmuseum.org.
Fort Smith auditions
The Fort Smith Little Theatre, 401 N. Sixth St., Fort Smith, will hold auditions, consisting of cold readings from the script, for Born Yesterday by Garson Kanin, 7 p.m. Aug. 12-13. The cast calls for 12 men and four women, age 20-75. Production dates are Sept. 19-28. Call (479) 783-2966 or visit fslt.org.
Opera lineup I
Opera in the Rock opens its 2019-20 season with The Old Maid and The Thief: A 1939 Radio Hour, Gian Carlo Menotti's one-act comic opera performed as a radio show, 7:30 p.m. Aug. 23-24 and 2:30 p.m. Aug. 25 at the Studio Theatre, 320 W. Seventh St., Little Rock.
The rest of the lineup (except as noted, all shows, 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, 2:30 p.m. Sunday):
• Nov. 2: Souvenir: A Fantasia on the Life of Florence Foster Jenkins, a single-night reprise of Stephen Temperly's humorously poignant love letter to Jenkins, the New York socialite who achieved her lifelong dream to sing for thousands at at 1944 Carnegie Hall concert that lives in infamy, mostly because Jenkins couldn't hit her pitches. Soprano Christine Donahue plays Jenkins with Timothy Smith as her longtime accompanist, Cosmé McMoon, Arkansas Repertory Theatre, 601 Main St., Little Rock.
• Feb. 29: "Opera on the Rocks XI" gala, "Divas in the Rock III," 6:30 p.m., Junior League of Little Rock Ballroom, 401 Scott St., Little Rock.
• May 28-29, 31: Giuseppe Verdi's La Traviata, with the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra and Dover native soprano Keely Futterer as Violetta, at the Rep.
Visit oitr.org.
Opera lineup II
The Met: Live in HD 2019-20 season kicks off with a "cinecast" of the Metropolitan Opera production of Giacomo Puccini's Turandot at 11:55 a.m. Oct. 12 with an encore screening at noon Oct. 16 at the Breckenridge 12 in Little Rock, the Tinseltown in Benton and the Razorback Cinema in Fayetteville.
The rest of the lineup (all live productions and Saturday encores start at 11:55 a.m.; all Wednesday encores begin at noon and 5:30 p.m. at the two central Arkansas theaters and the one in Fayetteville):
• Oct. 26: Manon by Jules Massenet, encore Oct. 30
• Nov. 9: Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini, encores Nov. 13, 16
• Nov. 23: Akhnaten by Philip Glass (Met premiere), encore Dec. 4
• Dec. 7: The Magic Flute by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (2006 production)
• Jan. 11: Wozzeck by Alban Berg, encore Jan. 15
• Feb. 1: Porgy and Bess by George and Ira Gershwin, encores: Feb. 5, 8
• Feb. 29: Agrippina by George Frideric Handel (Met premiere), encore March 4
• March 14: Der Fliegende Hollander (The Flying Dutchman) by Richard Wagner, encore March 18
• April 11: Tosca by Giacomo Puccini, encores April 15, 18
• May 9: Maria Stuarda by Gaetano Donizetti, encore May 13.
Moviegoers will also see behind-the-scenes content, including interviews with the cast and crew. Tickets are available at FathomEvents.com.
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Fort Smith season
The University of Arkansas at Fort Smith opens its Season of Entertainment 39 with the Theatre @ UAFS' production of Sideman by Warren Leight, 7:30 p.m. Sept. 26-28, 30 and Oct. 1 in Breedlove Auditorium, UAFS, 5120 Grand Ave., Fort Smith.
The rest of the lineup (except as noted, all shows 7:30 p.m., ArcBest Corp. Performing Arts Center, Fort Smith Convention Center, 55 S. Seventh St., Fort Smith):
• Oct. 3: Neil Berg's 50 Years of Rock & Roll
• Oct. 21: Choral and Symphonic Band
• Oct. 29 and April 7: Wind Ensemble
• Nov. 11: The Color Purple, music and lyrics by Brenda Russell, Allee Willis and Stephen Bray, book by Marsha Norman, based on the novel by Alice Walker and the film of the same name
• Nov. 25: Campus Lighting Ceremony, 5:30 p.m., Campus Green, adjacent to the Baldor Building, 5100 Kinkead Ave., Fort Smith. Free.
• Nov. 19 and April 21: Jazz Band and Jazz Catz
• Dec. 3: Season's Greetings Concert, 7 p.m.
• Feb. 5: Finding Neverland, music and lyrics by Gary Barlow and Eliot Kennedy, book by James Graham, based on the film of the same name
• Feb. 20-22, 24-25: August: Osage County by Tracy Letts, Theatre @ UAFS, Breedlove Auditorium.
• April 1: Buddy, The Buddy Holly Story, written and produced by Alan Janes
• April 29: A Grand Night for Singing
Season tickets are $180. Individual show tickets go on sale Thursday. Call (479) 788-7300.
Opening the seventh annual season at The Blue Lion at UAFS Downtown, 101 N. Second St., Fort Smith, 7:30 p.m. Sept. 26 will be Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band, a three-piece American country-blues ensemble from Brown County, Ind.
The rest of the lineup (all shows, 7:30 p.m. at The Blue Lion):
• Oct. 23: Blues guitarist-singer-songwriter Matt Andersen
• Jan. 30: UAFS Music Faculty Showcase
• Feb. 18: Jazz-pop singer, pianist, composer, lyricist and arranger Ann Hampton Callaway.
Season tickets are $50. Individual show tickets go on sale Thursday. Call (479) 788-7300.
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