Weekend Entertainment Roundup for September 26, 2024

MUSIC

The Arkansas Symphony kicks off its 2024-25 Stella Boyle Smith Masterworks series with pianist Aaron Diehl soloing in George Gershwin’s “Piano Concerto in F,” 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday at Little Rock’s Robinson Center Performance Hall, 426 W. Markham St. at Broadway. The program also includes Gershwin’s “Cuban Overture,” Anna Clyne’s “Masquerade” and “Graffiti” by Grammy-nominated composer Carlos Simon. Geoffrey Robson conducts. (501) 666-1761, Extension 1, or visit arkansassymphony.org.

Meanwhile, the Arkansas Symphony, which is moving its River Rhapsodies Chamber Series to its new Stella Boyle Smith Music Center, 1101 E. Third St., Little Rock, and doubling the number of most concerts in the series, opens the 2024-25 season with a concert called “Intimate Letters,” 7 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday in the center’s Susie and Charles Morgan Hall. The concert will feature both of the orchestra’s string quartets — the Rockefeller Quartet performing the String Quartet No. 2, “Intimate Letters,” by Leoš Janácek, and the Quapaw Quartet playing the String Quartet No. 10 in E-flat major, op.74, “Harp,” by Ludwig van Beethoven. In between, harpist Alisa Coffey joins a brass quintet to play “Variations on the Vysehrad Theme” by Jan Koetsier.

John Fullbright, a member of an early version of the Turnpike Troubadours before launching his solo career in 2008, performs at 8 p.m. Friday in Argenta Plaza, 510 Main St., North Little Rock, part of the Argenta Vibe Music Series. Admission is free. (501) 758-1424; northlittlerock.org

Juvenile & The 4000 Degreez Band performs at 9 p.m. Sunday at The Hall, 721 W. Ninth St., Little Rock. (501) 406-1364; littlerockhall.com.

Godsmack headlines at 7 p.m. Tuesday at North Little Rock’s Simmons Bank Arena. (501) 975-9000; simmonsbankarena.com

Exhibits

“Two Minutes to Midnight and the Architecture of Armageddon,” photographic essays on the Cold War by Jeanine Michna-Bales and Adam Reynolds, remains on display through Jan. 5 at the MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History, 503 E. Ninth St., Little Rock. (501)-376-4602; littlerock.gov/macarthur.

And “Commanding the Screen: The American Presidency in Film and Television,” continues to offer a look at material from more than 30 movies and television shows portraying fictional and real-life U.S. presidents, through March 23 at the Clinton Presidential Center, 1200 President Clinton Ave., Little Rock. clintonpresidentialcenter.org/exhibits.