Yesterday’s Architeaser featured some gilded flowers in the lobby of the Capital Hotel. This afternoon visitors can view these flowers while listening to the Quapaw Quartet of the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra. The concert will start at 5pm.
Today’s Architeaser is another band of flowers. These surround a doorway downtown.
The Quapaw Quartet of the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra will perform a free concert at the Capital Hotel this afternoon from 5 pm to 6:30 pm.
Come listen to a selection of short, accessible pieces along with commentary from the musicians.
Guests are invited to mingle with the musicians and Music Director Philip Mann before and after the performance.
Programming is subject to change.
Prokofiev Quartet No. 2, Op. 92
I. Allegro sostenuto
Borodin Quartet No. 2 in D Major
III. Nocturne
Beethoven String Quartet, Op. 130
IV. Allegro assai
Ives String Quartet No. 1
IV. Allegro marziale
Schubert String Quintet in C Major
I. Allegro ma non troppo
Yesterday’s Architeaser was a flower atop one of the columns on the exterior of theArkansas Gazettebuilding.
Just as flowers can grow inside as well as outside, architectural flowers can be found inside buildings as well as on the exterior. Today’s Architeaser shows one of these.
For 35 years, Riverfest has been showcasing outstanding musicians and visual artists along the Arkansas River.
Among the artists highlighted this year from Friday through Sunday are Boyz II Men, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Little Big Town, Joe Walsh, Gov’t Mule, Staind, Mutemath, Chevelle, Third Eye Blind, EKG, B.o.B., Snoop Dogg, Sleeper Agent, Rodney Block & The Real Music Lovers, Archnemesis, and Trout Fishing in America. As the event has for years, Sunday night will be punctuated by a fireworks display. This year’s display is in memory of longtime sponsor Jennings Osborne.
Riverfest is proud to announce “Ruff on the River”, our new Pooch Parade! The first annual Ruff on the River Parade will be held Saturday, May 26th at 3:00 p.m. in the River Market District in downtown Little Rock. The theme for the 2012 event is “Let the Good Times Flow!” Register your four-legged friend today, then dress your pooch in costume and let the judges decide who has the most creative costume. Each pooch registration includes one human escort.
Angie Staley Johnson is the Chairman of the Riverfest committee, Jordan P. Johnson, Sr., is the Chairman of the Riverfest Board of Directors (and husband to Angie), and DeAnna Korte is the Executive Director of Riverfest.
Yesterday’s Architeaser was a flower on the side of the KATV building. With yesterday being primary election day in Arkansas, that building had even more than its usual amount of activity as races were being covered. The building was designed by George Mann and opened in 1929 as the Worthen Bank Building. In 1970, KATV moved in after the bank had moved into its new Noland Blass-designed skyscraper.
Today’s Architeaser is a flower which sits atop a column.
Last Saturday the Museum of Discovery hosted Dino Dash and Discovery Fest in the River Market district. Here are a few scenes from the event which drew families from all over Central Arkansas.
Yesterday’s Architeaser was one of the blue roses which are found on the Junior League of Little Rock building. Little Rock Architect Theo Sanders designed the building in 1908 as the home for the Elks in Little Rock, with construction occurring in two phases over the next several years as fundraising permitted. In 1927 it was purchased by the Women’s City Club and served as their headquarters until the building was purchased in 2001 by the Junior League of Little Rock. Though the building was renovated and restored, it still bears markings of both original previous tenants as well as the Junior League.
Here is today’s Architeaser. It is one of the rare non-rose flowers on a building in Little Rock.
