Faculty Recital Series
The UM Department of Music Faculty Recital Series will give a concert at 8 p.m. Feb. 7 in Nutt Auditorium on the UM campus. The concert will feature two chamber music favorites, performed by university faculty and students playing side-by-side. Led by University Orchestra conductor Ronald Vernon, the ensembles will present two works, Mozart’s Serenade No. 10 in B-flat major (the “Gran Partita” Serenade) and Darius Milhaud’s “The Creation of the World.” Tickets are $8 for adults, $5 for students and children, and are available at the UM Box Office or on-line at www.olemiss.edu/depts/tickets/order.htm. (January 24, 2011)
Big Band Bash
The Big Band Bash scholarship concert will be held at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Nutt Auditorium on the campus of the University of Mississippi. Money raised by the concert goes to support the Patrons Scholarship Fund to help gifted music students. Tickets are $15 and can be purchased by calling 915-7411 or go to the UM Box Office or at the door. (January 24, 2011)
Big Band Bash
The Big Band Bash scholarship concert will be held at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 25 at Nutt Auditorium on the campus of the University of Mississippi. Money raised by the concert goes to support the Patrons Scholarship Fund to help gifted music students. Tickets are $15 and can be purchased by calling 915-7411 or go to the UM Box Office or at the door. (January 19, 2011)
Mardi Gras Bash
The Lafayette County Literacy Council will host Mardi Gras Bash 2011 at The Lyric Oxford on Saturday beginning at 8 p.m. Partygoers will enjoy dancing to Rockin’ Dopsie and the Zydeco Twisters, a live auction full of surprises, heavy hors d’oeurves and a cash bar. Tickets are $50 each and $90 for a couple. A limited number of reserved tables for eight people are available for $500. Tickets may be purchased at the Literacy Council office or by calling 234-4234. (January 19, 2011)
‘Forever Plaid’ at Ford Center
Featuring nostalgic pop hits of the 1950s and ‘60s, the feel-good musical “Forever Plaid” comes to the University of Mississippi’s Gertrude G. Castellow Ford Center for the Performing Arts on Saturday.
The show is set for 8 p.m. Tickets are $32 to $42 for various seating. Tickets are available by calling 915-7411, by visiting the UM Box Office in the Student Union from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays or the Ford Center Box Office at 10 a.m. on the day of the show, or by going to www.fordcenter.org.
Set in 1964, the show tells the story of four young male singers who have just landed their first big gig at an airport bar. Tragically, a bus of Catholic schoolgirls hits them as they are going to pick up their tuxes. The boys return from the afterlife after they are given a second chance to fulfill their dreams.
Some of the hits featured in the show are “Three Coins in the Fountain,” “Sixteen Tons,” “Chain Gang,” “Heart and Soul” and “Love Is a Many Splendored Thing.” (January 19, 2011)
String Quartet
The Emerson String Quartet, one of the most highly regarded quartets in the world, is slated to perform Friday at the University of Mississippi’s Gertrude G. Castellow Ford Center for the Performing Arts. The show is set for 8 p.m. Tickets are $20 to $28 for various seating. Tickets are available by calling 915-7411, by visiting the UM Box Office in the Student Union from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays or the Ford Center Box Office at 10 a.m. on the day of the show, or by going to www.fordcenter.org. (January 19, 2011)
Art lecture, performance
The University of Mississippi Museum presents “An Evening with Robert Storr and Bruce Levingston” from 7 to 8 this evening at Nutt Auditorium on the University of Mississippi campus.
Storr, artist and critic, is dean of the Yale School of Art. He was director of the Venice Biennale in 2007, and from 1990 to 2002 was curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art.
Levingston is the artistic director of the Premiere Commission, a nonprofit foundation that has commissioned and premiered over 30 new works. He has premiered numerous works at Carnegie Hall and the Lincoln Center and has appeared in concerts and recitals throughout the world.
For this evening, Storr will lecture on developments in modern art, including the work of Eugene Delacroix, Edgar Degas, Jackson Pollock, Sol LeWitt and Chuck Close, while Levingston will respond with performances of compositions from Claude Debussy, Erik Satie, John Cage and Philip Glass. A question-and-answer session will follow.
Tickets to the event are $15 for general admission, $10 for museum members and $5 for students with ID and can be purchased at the University of Mississippi Box Office by going online at www.olemiss.edu/depts/tickets/ or by calling 915.7411. (January 19, 2011)
String Quartet
The Emerson String Quartet, one of the most highly regarded quartets in the world, is slated to perform Jan. 21 at the University of Mississippi’s Gertrude G. Castellow Ford Center for the Performing Arts. The show is set for 8 p.m. Tickets are $20 to $28 for various seating. Tickets are available by calling 915-7411, by visiting the UM Box Office in the Student Union from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays or the Ford Center Box Office at 10 a.m. on the day of the show, or by going to www.fordcenter.org. (January 5, 2011)
Oxford Civic Chorus auditions, rehearsals
The Oxford Civic Chorus will hold auditions at 6:30 p.m. this Monday and the next Monday (Jan. 17) at the Oxford-University United Methodist Church in the sanctuary. Rehearsals for the full chorus are held at OU Methodist every Monday at 7 p.m., also beginning this Monday.
The Oxford Civic Chorus is a group of musicians from a variety of backgrounds and occupations, hailing from Oxford and the entire north Mississippi area. Membership is by audition only. This audition consists of a vocalization. The group performs a varied repertory including patriotic, popular, spiritual, stage, screen and folk song genres and has performed major works with the Memphis Symphony and Jackson Symphony. The chorus will perform at the Oxford Film Festival this spring and present a spring concert in May.
For more information, contact the director, Brooke Bagley-Worthy, at brookebagley2@gmail.com, or check out the website at www.oxfordcivicchorus.org. (January 5, 2011)
Christmas Dance
The Ole Miss Ballroom Dance Club will sponsor a Christmas Dance from 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday at the Band Hall on University Avenue on the Ole Miss campus. Recommended attire is dressy. Mini-lessons will be given and open dancing to all styles of music will also be featured. Food will be provided. Everyone is welcome so those who don’t already dance are urged to come have fun while learning.
Cost for students is $5 for members and $9 for non-members, and for all others is $8 for members and $12 for non-members. Students may join for $15 and non-students for $25. For more information, call Fred or Kathy at 234-8530 or visit the website, www.ombdc.com. (December 8, 2010)
