ENTERTAINMENT NOTES: Guitars abound: Jazzman on Main Street, duo tours state

Drummer Johnny Vidacovich headlines Jazz at the Joint, Monday at The Joint in North Little Rock. Special to the Democrat-Gazette
Drummer Johnny Vidacovich headlines Jazz at the Joint, Monday at The Joint in North Little Rock. Special to the Democrat-Gazette

New Orleans-based jazz drummer Johnny Vidacovich joins the Ted Ludwig Trio for Jazz at the Joint, 7:30 p.m. Monday at The Joint, 301 Main St., North Little Rock. Tickets are $30. Call (501) 425-1528, email [email protected] or visit jazzatthejoint.org.

Guitar duo Johannes Moller and Laura Fraticelli perform Tuesday at Lyon College in Batesville and Wednesday at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro. Special to the Democrat-Gazette/Glenn Cornelisse
Guitar duo Johannes Moller and Laura Fraticelli perform Tuesday at Lyon College in Batesville and Wednesday at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro. Special to the Democrat-Gazette/Glenn Cornelisse

Guitar duo

Guitar duo Johannes Moller and Laura Fraticelli will perform Moller's compositions twice in Arkansas this week:

• 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Bevens Music Room, Brown Fine Arts Building, Lyon College, 2300 Highland Road, Batesville. Admission is free. Call (870) 307-7259 or email [email protected].

• 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Recital Hall, Fine Arts, Arkansas State University, 2412 Quapaw Way, Jonesboro.

Admission to both concerts is free.

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Architect and professor John Folan lectures on "Human X Nature," Tuesday at the University of Arkansas Little Rock. Special to the Democrat-Gazette

Architecture lecture

John Folan, head of architecture department at the University of Arkansas Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design, lectures on "Human X Nature," 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Windgate Center of Art + Design, University of Arkansas Little Rock, 2801 S. University Ave., Little Rock. It's part of the Architecture and Design Network's 2019-20 June Freeman lecture series and is in partnership with the University of Arkansas. A pre-lecture reception starts at 5:30. Admission is free. Call (501) 952-7274 or (501) 840-6171 or email [email protected], [email protected] or [email protected].

River Rhapsodies

Soprano Maria Fasciano joins the cello section of of the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra (David Gerstein, Hanna Yeo, Jacob Wunsch, Stephen Feldman, Kristin Smith, Daniel Cline, Rafael Leon and Casey Buck) to perform Hector Villa-Lobos' Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 , 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Great Hall, Clinton Presidential Center, 1200 President Clinton Ave., Little Rock. It's part of the orchestra's 2019-20 River Rhapsodies Chamber Music series.

The orchestra's Rockefeller String Quartet — Trisha McGovern Freeney and Linnaea Brophy, violins; Katherine Reynolds, viola; and Jacob Wunsch, cello — plays Missy Mazzoli's Death Valley Junction. Gerstein and violinist Katherine Williamson play Maurice Ravel's Sonata for Violin and Cello. Gerstein joins violinist Geoffrey Robson and pianist John Krebs for Charles Ives' Trio for Violin, Cello, and Piano.

Tickets are $26, $10 for students and active-duty military. Call (501) 666-1761, Extension 1, or visit ArkansasSymphony.org.

Former state tourism director Joe David Rice will discuss his book, Arkansas Backstories: Quirks, Characters, and Curiosities of the Natural State, Tuesday in Little Rock. Special to the Democrat-Gazette
Former state tourism director Joe David Rice will discuss his book, Arkansas Backstories: Quirks, Characters, and Curiosities of the Natural State, Tuesday in Little Rock. Special to the Democrat-Gazette

Pen to Podium

Former state tourism director Joe David Rice will discuss his book, Arkansas Backstories: Quirks, Characters, and Curiosities of the Natural State, 6 p.m. Tuesday, at Arkansas Heritage's headquarters, 1100 North St., Little Rock. It's part of the quarterly "Pen to Podium: Arkansas Historical Writers' Lecture" series, sponsored by the Arkansas State Archives and Friends of the Arkansas State Archives.

Rice first published Arkansas Backstories in 2018. A companion to his original book came out in April. He will have books available for sale at the lecture. A 5:30 p.m. reception precedes the talk. Admission is by free ticket; visit tinyurl.com/y3p4nz75. For more information, call (501) 682-6900 or email [email protected].

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Rod Serling. (AP file photo)

Big-screen Zone

"The Twilight Zone: A 60th Anniversary Celebration," including digitally restored versions of six Twilight Zone episodes plus a new documentary short titled Remembering Rod Serling, appears 7 p.m. Thursday on big screens, including the Breckenridge 12 and Colonel Glenn 18 in Little Rock, the Tinseltown in Benton, the Razorback Cinema in Fayetteville and the Malco Fort Smith Cinema in Fort Smith. Tickets and full descriptions of the six episodes ("Walking Distance," "Time Enough at Last," "The Invaders." "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street," "Eye of the Beholder" and "To Serve Man") are available at FathomEvents.com.

'5 Star' guitarist

British guitarist Adrian Legg performs for AACLive! at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at 801 Media Center at 5 Star Productions, 801 N. A St., Fort Smith. Tickets are $40. Call (479) 719-8931, email [email protected] or visit AACLive.com.

Play going wrong

When a university drama society attempts to put on a 1920s murder mystery, everything that can go wrong does in The Play That Goes Wrong, by Mischief Theatre Company members Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields, 7 p.m. Tuesday-Wednesday, 1:30 and 7 p.m. Thursday, 8 p.m. Friday, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Nov. 17 at Fayetteville's Walton Arts Center, 495 W. Dickson St. Tickets are $32-$61 plus fees. Call (479) 443-5600 or visit waltonartscenter.org.

'Works on Paper'

The Arkansas Arts Council's touring 2019 "Small Works on Paper" exhibition, 39 works by Arkansas artists that are no larger than 18 by 24 inches, opens Monday at Hempstead Hall, University of Arkansas at Hope, 2500 S. Main St., Hope. The exhibition will be on display, 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Monday-Friday until Nov. 22. Admission is free. Call (501) 324-9767 or email [email protected].

Poetry contests

The Poet's Roundtable of Arkansas is once again sponsoring three annual poetry contests for middle and high school students. Complete details, rules, regulations and limitations for all three competitions are available at tinyurl.com/y5rgt43y.

For grades 6-8 and 9-12:

• Sybil Nash Abrams Memorial Student Contest. No entry fee. Poems can be on any subject, free verse, with a 24-line limit (does not include space lines). Submit entries Jan. 1-March 1. Cash awards in senior and junior divisions; three honorable mentions in each division receive books. Mail to Laura Bridges, Student Co-Chairman, 2401 Lakeview Road, No. 1008, North Little Rock, Ark. 72116. Write "Sybil Nash Abrams" on the envelope. No poem will be returned; be sure to keep a copy.

• Manningham Trust Student Poetry Contest. Each state may submit 10 poems in each division with 10 prizes in each division — first-fifth places, $75, $50, $40, $35 and $30; five honorable mentions get $10 each. All winning poems will be published in the Manningham Trust Poetry Student Award Anthology. Entries must be received by Feb. 1; mail to Laura Bridges at address above.

For grades 9-12:

• NFSPS Annual Student Contest. Poems can be on any subject and in any form; there's a 32-line limit. Prizes $50, $30 and $20; seven honorable mentions receive $5 each. There is no entry fee. Mail entries to Carla Jordan, Contest Chairman, P.O. Box 2863, Evergreen, Colo. 80437-2863. Entries must be postmarked between Jan. 1 and March 15.

Style on 11/10/2019

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