MUSIC
The U.S. Army Field Band’s 19-piece Jazz Ambassadors, the official touring big band of the United States Army, performs:
◼️ 7 p.m. Saturday at the Grand Prairie Center, Phillips Community College of the University of Arkansas, 2807 U.S. 165 South, Stuttgart. Admission is by free ticket. Call (870) 673-4201, Extension 1896.
◼️ 2 p.m. Sunday, Center for Arts and Humanities Theater, University of Arkansas-Pulaski Technical College main campus, 3000 W. Scenic Drive, North Little Rock. Admission by free ticket; visit uaptc.edu/charts.
Steinway Salon series
The CLOSE UP! Steinway Salon Chamber Series continues with “20th Century Portrait,” 3 p.m. Sunday at the Steinway Piano Gallery Little Rock, 657 Arkansas 365, Mayflower. Pianist Scott Carrell plays two portions (No. 1 in C major and No. 10 in A major) of “The Short-Tempered Clavier, Preludes and Fugues in All the Major and Minor Keys Except for the Really Hard Ones” by “P.D.Q. Bach,” the humorous creation of composer Peter Schickele. Andrew DeBoer, clarinet; Katherine Williamson, violin; Jacob Wunsch, cello; and Haeshin Shin, piano, will play Schickele’s Quartet for Clarinet, Violin, Cello and Piano. Carrell joins violinist Lauren Pokorzynski to play “Road Movies for Violin and Piano” by John Adams. And DeBoer, Williamson and Shin will perform the Suite from “L’Histoire du Soldat” (“A Soldier’s Tale”) by Igor Stravinsky. Tickets are $25, $10 for students. Call (501) 940-1562 or visit steinwaylr.com/close-up.
UALR Jazz Ensemble
The University of Arkansas at Little Rock Jazz Ensemble performs at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall, Fine Arts building, UALR, 2801 S. University Ave., Little Rock. Michael Underwood conducts. Admission is free. Call (501) 916-3291.
Lyon wind ensemble
The Lyon College Symphonic Winds and the Subiaco Academy Jazz Ensemble perform at 6:30 p.m. Thursday in Sloan Auditorium, Brown Chapel and Fine Arts Building, at Lyon College, 2300 Highland Road, Batesville. Admission is free. Email john.christian@lyon.edu.
Horning in
The Arkansas Horn Club, celebrating its 25th year, and the University of Central Arkansas Horn Ensemble present “A Saint Hubert Celebration,” 5 p.m. Sunday in the Recital Hall of Snow Fine Arts Center at the University of Central Arkansas, 201 Donaghey Ave., Conway. Director Brent Shires will conduct and also play “Alla Caccia” by Alan Abbott with pianist Terrie Shires.
The program also includes arrangements of the Overture and the Hunting Chorus from “Der Freischutz” by Carl Maria von Weber (with guest conductor Brian Wyatt); “Chasing Diana” John Cheetham; the “Great St. Hubert Mass” by Karl Stiegler; and “Le Rendez-vous de chasse” by Gioacchino Rossini. Admission is free. For more information, call (501) 450-5768 or email bshires@uca.edu.
St. Hubert is venerated as the patron saint of the hunt; in many European cities masses and concerts are performed in early November that include groups of French horns and hunting horns.
THEATER
Young playmakers
The Arkansas Repertory Theatre, 601 Main St., Little Rock, hosts “Homemade Holidays!,” which a news release describes as “a collection of zany, fantastical, adorably original plays, all written by fourth graders from Martin Luther King Elementary … and performed by professional adult artists,” 2 p.m. Saturday. It’s the second year of the Downtown Playmakers Project, a playwriting and mentoring program with elementary school students working with adults to create original theater. Admission is by free ticket; reserve seats by calling (501) 378-0405 or visit TheRep.org.
Stormy musical
The Arkansas State University theater department stages the musical “Ride the Cyclone” (book, music and lyrics by Jacob Richmond and Brooke Maxwell) at 6:19 p.m. Friday, 7:30 p.m. Saturday and Nov. 22 and 23, and 2:30 p.m. Sunday and Nov. 24 in the Drama Theatre at A-State’s Fowler Center, 201 Olympic Drive, Jonesboro. A small Canadian town’s high school chamber choir tragically perishes in a roller coaster accident; their souls are given a chance to compete for a final prize in a bizarre contest hosted by a mysterious carnival fortune teller. Tickets are $10-$15, Call (870) 972-2037 or visit tinyurl.com/ynpkm8v8.
Untitled small works by Laura Powers, Kim Perkins and Suzette Patterson are part of the “Mid-Southern Watercolorists’ Members Open Exhibition: Small Works,” opening Friday at North Little Rock’s Argenta Library Gallery. (Special to the Democrat-Gazette)
ART
Small watercolors
The “Mid-Southern Watercolorists’ Members Open Exhibition: Small Works” opens with a 5-8 p.m. reception Friday, part of the Argenta Art District’s Third Friday Art Walk, at the Argenta Library Gallery, 420 Main St., North Little Rock. It’ll be up through Dec. 6. Gallery hours are 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Friday. Admission is free. Call (501) 687-1061 or visit NLRlibrary.org.
ETC.
Join the parade
Nov. 22 is the deadline to enter the Little Rock Convention & Visitors Bureau’s Dec. 7 “BIG Little Rock Holiday Parade.” The bureau is bringing back the seasonal spectacle, formerly known as the “Big Jingle Jubilee Holiday Parade,” for the first time since the covid-19 pandemic, with a new name, new theme and new downtown location. It starts at 4 p.m. at Broadway and West Markham Street and proceeds along the river, concluding in the River Market District near Interstate 30. The theme, “Floats Along the River,” celebrates “the city’s vibrant connection to the Arkansas River — a cornerstone of the community and a centerpiece of Little Rock’s downtown,” according to a news release. There’s no charge to participate. Visit littlerock.com/participate-in-the-parade for the application form, rules and regulations.
