/news-archive/tag/arts/ ����Vlog��ý Little Rock Wed, 28 Sep 2016 15:00:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 /news-archive/2016/09/28/learned-ladies/ Wed, 28 Sep 2016 15:00:10 +0000 /news/?p=65305 ... Catch “The Learned Ladies” Oct. 5-9]]> The University of Arkansas at Little Rock Department of Theatre Arts and Dance will host a performance of “The Learned Ladies” Oct. 5-9. The play will be performed at 8 p.m. Oct. 5-8 and at 2:30 p.m. Oct. 9 in the Center for Performing Arts University Theatre. Written by �ѴDZ���è���� and adapted by Richard Wilbur, the satire play is about people who use learning for social climbing and those who have given up love for intellectual pursuits. A family’s world is complicated by the desires of two lovers who would like to marry, but the couple’s plans are thwarted by the young woman’s jealous older sister, the former love interest of the young man. The sisters’ mother also has plans for her youngest daughter. She demands that her daughters dedicate themselves to intellectual pursuits. The mother worships the pretentious poetry of an outlandish social climber, whom she has identified as the perfect mate for her younger daughter. Tickets for ����Vlog��ýLR students and employees and seniors are $5. General admission tickets are $10. Contact 501.569.3456 for reservations. ]]> /news-archive/2016/08/31/mariposa-sept-25/ Wed, 31 Aug 2016 14:54:58 +0000 /news/?p=64999 ... Mariposa and Friends to perform Sept. 25]]> The duo Mariposa will present a chamber music concert featuring the music of New England composer Gwyneth Walker, Sunday, Sept. 25, at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.   The concert, “Mariposa & Friends: Creative Sparks!,” starts at 3 p.m. at the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall in the ����Vlog��ýLR Fine Arts Building. Mariposa is composed of pianist Linda Holzer, a ����Vlog��ýLR professor of music, and Sandra McDonald, a violinist with the . Mariposa was founded in 1998 and is on the roster for Arts on Tour. The program will feature premiere work by Walker, who will be in attendance. The program will open with the 2016 composition, “Viva Violin!” Based on folksongs from the Appalachian Mountains, the second performance is a piano solo, “Shady Grove.” Cellist Stephen Feldman joins Mariposa for two expressive piano trios, “Mornings of Creation” and “Shadows & Light.” Also featured on the program will be Walker’s 2014 string quartet, “The Dove,” including violinist Leanne Day-Simpson and violist Katherine Reynolds.   “The Dove” is a creative meditation on themes of peace, drawing on the English song, “The Dove,” the American song, “Peace, I Ask of Thee O River,” and ”Down By the Riverside.” The string quartet performance occurs during Arkansas Peace Week in relation to the observance of the United Nations’ International Day of Peace. The original music of the last movement, “In the Spirit of Peace,” was inspired by peace songs. Admission to the concert is free. For more information, contact Holzer at 501.569.3294. In the upper right photo, Mariposa consists of violinist Sandra McDonald (left), and pianist Linda Holzer (right). Photo by Peggy Harstvedt.]]>