Monthly Archives: April 2012

Play Ball!

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Major League Baseball started the 2012 season last week.  The St. Louis Cardinals began their defense of their World Championship!

“Play Ball! The St. Louis Cardinals” opened at the Clinton Presidential Center last month.  The exhibit features more than 100 items from the Cardinals’ Hall of Fame Museum, a collection the team owns and has improved in recent years despite not having a place to publicly display it.

“This is going to be something that kids, adults, women, men, baseball fans, non-baseball fans alike will all enjoy,” says Jordan Johnson, spokesperson for the Clinton Foundation.

The Clinton Library and the Cardinals have been working on this exhibit for several years, and it’s only by coincidence that the library will have the Cardinals-based display immediately following a World Series championship. Among the items that the Cardinals lent to the library are several Dizzy Dean-related artifacts, including one of four known game-worn jerseys from the Hall of Fame pitcher and Arkansas native.

The trophies from the 2006 and 2011 World Series are also featured.

The exhibit runs through Sept. 16.

Architeaser-April 8

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Tilework at the Central Arkansas Transit Authority transfer center was the feature on yesterday’s Architeaser.

Today’s Architeaser is part of a cornice which is over an entrance to a building.

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Sculpture Vulture: Love and Forgiveness at St. Mark’s Episcopal

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This week’s Sculpture Vulture focuses on Denny Haskew’s Love and Forgiveness which can be found in the columbarium at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church. Donated by Mary and Dr. Dean Kumpuris it is the focal point of this peaceful, respectful site of contemplation, grief and hope.

Haskew’s sculpture features a rising figure with arms stretched out and palms facing upward towards the heavens. The figure is emerging from a cross which is planted in a pile of rocks at the base. The figure’s face is marked with a serene determination.

This sculpture was cast in 1999. It stands approximately 8 feet tall in bronze on top of a two foot stone base. It was the first of Haskew’s sculptures to be placed in Little Rock.  He now has several in private collections as well as Riverfront Park.

A member of the National Sculptors’ Guild, Haskew has participated each year in the Sculpture at the River Market invitational.

Architeaser – April 7

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Yesterday’s Architeaser was the top of the fire escape on the south side of the Pyramid Place building.

Today’s is a bit more colorful.

Wildwood Azalea Walk

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Wildwood Park for the Arts invites people to celebrate Spring, take a stroll and sip on some bubbly today.

Wildwood is blooming! The colors and aromas of spring are upon us, and to celebrate, Wildwood’s Board of Trustees is hosting the Park’s premiere Champagne Azalea Walk on Saturday, April 7, from 1-4 pm.

With champagne in hand stroll the park, enjoy hors d’oeuvres, listen to live jazz and smell the sweet aroma of Wildwood’s famed azalea blossoms.

The cost of the Azalea Walk is $30 per person.

Enhance the experience and include a garden luncheon specially prepared for you and your friends, as well as an up close seat to the live jazz trio. Garden Luncheon: $60 per person

Architeaser – April 6

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The Thursday Architeaser was from  upper floor of the old Sterling’s building.  The green brick triangles appear on the Capital and Center Street facades.

Today’s features the beauty of shadows and metal that an exterior fire escape can create.

Piano Duo at UALR tomorrow evening

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On Saturday, April 7, piano duo Tatiana Roitman and Kristina Marinova, will present “Arete”. The program will include Lutoslawski’s “Paganini Variatrions,” Tchaikovsky’s “Nutcracker Suite,” and more.

Both pianists are members of the UALR Music Department faculty.

Tatiana Roitman has appeared as a soloist and recitalist across North America and Europe. The BBC hailed her performance of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue as “formidable…both accurate and with rarely seen joy.”

As a performer of contemporary works, she’s premiered works at the American Composer’s Forum and performed For Don by Milton Babbitt, with the composer in attendance in celebration of his 90th birthday at Tanglewood’s Contemporary Music Festival. She’s performed regularly with the San Diego Symphony, and has been featured as a soloist in Stravinsky’s Petrushka, and on SDSO’s innovative Symphony Exposed Series.

As the recipient of the Peggy Rockefeller Memorial Fellowship at Tanglewood, she worked with James Levine, Dawn Upshaw, Yo-Yo Ma, Charles Rosen and Claude Frank. Roitman holds a PGDip. in Performance and a Licentiate in Pedagogy from the Royal Academy of Music in London, an M.Mus. in Performance from Manhattan School of Music, and a DMA from the University of Minnesota, USA. Her principal teachers include Prof. Tatiana Sarkissova, Dr. Marc Silverman, and Prof. Alexander Braginsky.

Kristina Marinova, a native of Bulgaria, holds a BM in piano performance from UCA and a Masters in
piano performance from the University of Michigan.

She is winner of international piano competitions as well as a participant in several major festivals. Currently she is the accompanist for the UALR Concert Choir, Community Chorus and Opera Theater.