Rock at Natasha’s
Friday, November 20, 2009
Rock at Natasha’s
The Brad Allen Band will play “guitar-driven, melodic rock” from 8:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. Saturday at Natasha’s Billiards and Lounge, 627 Commercial St.
Orchestra
The ESU Chamber Orchestra performs their second concert of the year at 3 p.m. Sunday in Heath Recital Hall at Beach Hall. They will perform Bach’s monumental “Orchestral Suite No. 3.” The concert follows music inspired and written during the Baroque period (1600-1750). Tickets are $5 general admission and $4 for students and senior citizens. For more information, contact Jeremy Starr at 341-5226 or j.starr2@emporia.edu.
ESU music
The ESU Department of Music presents the Honor Band Festival at 7 p.m. Saturday in Albert Taylor Hall. There is no admission charge.
At 3 p.m. Sunday, the Chamber Orchestra will perform in concert at Heath Recital Hall in the Beach Music Hall. On Monday, at 7:30 p.m., the Percussion Concert will be held in Albert Taylor Hall.
General admission is $5; students and senior citizens, $4; children 12 and younger, no charge. For more information, call 341-5431 or see www.emporia.edu/music/.
Eppink exhibit
The annual faculty and emeritus faculty art exhibition continues through December at the Norman R. Eppink gallery on the ESU campus. Hours are 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday. All exhibition, performances and openings are open and free to the public. For more information, call 341-5246 or see www.emporia.edu/art/.
Art gifts
The Emporia Arts Council is featuring its 12th annual Art Gifts, which will be open from Saturday, which will be an Open House, through Dec. 31. Hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday. There will be 10 percent off purchases on Saturday. Fifty local and regional artists are offering art items, including glass, ceramics, paintings, textiles, jewelry and wood. The Art Gifts will be closed Nov. 26 and 27 and Dec. 25 and 26. For more information, call 343-6473.
Concert at KU
Emporian Andrea Garritano will perform in the KU Symphony Orchestra Opera Gala at 7:30 p.m. at the Lied Center in Lawrence. According to the news release, “This special evening will feature the KU Symphony Orchestra joined by 18 of KUs most talented singers in beautiful gowns and tuxedos and the combined KU Concert Chorale and Chamber choirs in semi-staged performances of some the greatest highlights from the operatic literature.”
The chorus and orchestra will join together to perform Borodin’s Polovetsian Dances from his opera, “Prince Igor” (some of the melodies were featured in the musical, “Kismet”).
Tickets are $7 for general admission and $5 for students and seniors. For tickets, call (785) 864-2787. For more information about the concert, call (785) 864-3436 or see www.music.ku.edu.
Library events
Children’s Services at the Emporia Public Library will participate in “Kansas Reads to Preschoolers,” a project of the Kansas Center for the Book at the State Library of Kansas. The annual statewide project is designed to highlight the importance of reading to children and also to promote the library as a renewable resource of reading materials, stated the news release. The goal for the week is to read to every Kansas child between the ages of 0-5 years.
The theme for this year is fitness, featuring the picture book, “Wiggle,” by Doreen Cronin. In cooperation with the ESU Athletic Department, “Wiggle” will be read aloud at public libraries and at preschools and daycare centers in Emporia and Lyon County during the coming week (Nov. 15-21).
Fall storytimes at the Emporia Public Library begin with Mother Goose Time at 9:45 a.m. every Monday and Thursday for toddlers to 36 months; Pat-A-Cake Club, infants to 18 months, at 9:15 a.m. every Thursday; and Preschool Storytime, children two to five years, 10:30 a.m. every Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. For more information, call 340-6466 or see www.emporialibrary.org.
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