Category Archives: Music

Extended Through MONDAY – Pick 3 concerts for $19 a concert at the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra

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1415_pickbannerSave up to 67% off best available seats when you pick three or more concerts from our exciting 2014-2015 season. Just use discount code “PICK3” at online checkout to get the best available seats today! Hurry – this offer is good through Monday, September 15. 

Ordering Instructions

Select your first choice of concert below, select your seats, return the selection page, select your second choice of concert, select your seats, and repeat until you have selected at least three different concerts – you may get $19 tickets for as many concerts as you wish/ Then use coupon code “PICK3” at checkout.

You may also order by phone. Our Box Office is standing by Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. to assist you – just call 501-666-1761, ext. 100 for assistance. The ASO musicians look forward to seeing you at the concert hall!

Boston Brass in concert tonight

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Boston BrassFor 27 years, Boston Brass has set out to establish a one-of-a-kind musical experience. From exciting classical arrangements, to burning jazz standards, and the best of the original brass quintet repertoire, Boston Brass treats audiences to a unique brand of entertainment, which captivates all ages.

Their 2014-15 program “And the Nominees are…” will poll the audience at intermission to determine the music selection on the second half of the program. The first half of the concert will be comprised of Boston Brass’s favorite repertoire, and the second half will be structured in categories by genre-Best Movie Soundtrack, Best Broadway Musical, Best Jazz Selection, etc.

Boston Brass is performing tonight at Christ Church in downtown Little Rock. It is a part of the ongoing Arts @ Christ Church series.  The concert starts at 7:30 pm.

Tickets are $20, $10 for students.

Jazz in the Park tonight – Julia Buckingham Group

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jazzinparkJazz in the Park is back in Little Rock for the second half of the second season! Jazz in the Park is a free, family-friendly event featuring jazz in downtown Little Rock.

Things continue tonight from 6pm to 8pm with the Julia Buckingham Group.

The event is completely free, but no coolers are allowed. Beer, wine, soft drinks and water will be available for sale, with a portion of the proceeds going to benefit Sculpture at the River Market. Lawn chairs and blankets are welcome, and there is some seating in the natural stone amphitheater at the History Pavilion.

This event is sponsored by Little Rock Convention and Visitors Bureau and the River Market, with special thanks to Arkansas Sounds Music Festival and the Central Arkansas Library System.

Jazz in the Park takes place Wednesday nights in September from 6pm to 8pm. They will take place in the History Pavilion near the Junction Bridge and the River Market.

Opera in the Rock tonight

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operainrockOpera in the Rock is presenting two one act operas this weekend.  The first performance was last night, with another performance tonight.

The Face on the Barroom Floor, music by Henry Mollicone and libretto by John S. Bowman and La Pizza con Funghi (The Mushroom Pie), music and libretto by Seymour Barab.

The performance is at 7:30 pm at the Argenta Community Theatre.

For tickets: click here.

Opera In The Rock (OITR) was founded in the spring of 2013. Its purpose is the production of mainstage professional opera, in addition to a continuing opera review series. Their mission is to enrich the cultural life of Arkansas through opera by utilizing local, state, and regional artistic talents. The goal is to give talented performers an opportunity to further their artistic careers.

MEMPHIS at Arkansas Rep is focus of Clinton School Program today at noon

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THEREP_MEMPHIS (no credits)-page-001The Arkansas Repertory Theatre works in partnership with the Clinton School of Public Service to participate in the UACS’s Distinguished Speaker Series, hosting educational panel discussions on various Rep productions.

The latest in these takes place today, Thursday, September 4 at 12 noon at Sturgis Hall in Clinton Presidential Park.

Join Producing Artistic Director Bob Hupp, Memphis Director Lynne Kurdziel-Formato, cast members Brent DiRoma and Jasmin Richardson, and author Marvin Schwartz for a panel discussion on this Tony Award-winning musical.

 

Memphis opens officially on Friday evening and runs through Sunday, September 28.

Jazz in the Park returns with Rodney Block and the Real Music Lovers tonight from 6pm to 8pm in Riverfront Park

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jazzinparkJazz in the Park is back in Little Rock for the second half of the second season! Jazz in the Park is a free, family-friendly event featuring jazz in downtown Little Rock.

Things get going tonight from 6pm to 8pm with Rodney Block & the Real Music Lovers.  Block is a Dumas native who has been thriving in the local music scene for the past couple of years. A trumpeter who has been featured and performed in various venues across the region ranging from corporate to social, he has built a niche in the genres of jazz and hip hop. Notable artists he has shared the stage with include Dwele, Jonathan Butler, Dave Hollister, Wynton Marsalis, and Eric Roberson. In 2007, Block’s televised jazz feature, AETN Presents: Front Row with Rodney Block, was nominated for a Regional Emmy.

The event is completely free, but no coolers are allowed. Beer, wine, soft drinks and water will be available for sale, with a portion of the proceeds going to benefit Sculpture at the River Market. Lawn chairs and blankets are welcome, and there is some seating in the natural stone amphitheater at the History Pavilion.

This event is sponsored by Little Rock Convention and Visitors Bureau and the River Market, with special thanks to Arkansas Sounds Music Festival and the Central Arkansas Library System.

Jazz in the Park takes place Wednesday nights in September from 6pm to 8pm. They will take place in the History Pavilion near the Junction Bridge and the River Market.

For Arkansas Rep’s MEMPHIS tonight, it is Pay What You Can night, presented by Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

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MemphisAs the Arkansas Rep kicks off 2014-2015 with Memphis, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette presents The Rep’s “Pay What You Can Night.”

Patrons can pay any amount they wish for their ticket.  Tickets must be purchased in person at the Box Office located at 601 Main Street the day of the performance. The Box Office will be open from 9 a.m. until curtain.  Tickets are limited to (2) two per person.  Offer is based on seating availability.

Kicking off Arkansas Repertory Theatre’s 2014-2015 MainStage Season is Memphis, an electrifying musical that bursts off the stage with explosive dancing, roof-raising rock ‘n’ roll and a thrilling tale of fame and forbidden love.  With high-energy music by David Bryan of Bon Jovi fame, this hard-hitting story of love is loosely based on Memphis disc jockey Dewey Phillips, one of the first white DJs to play black music on the radio in the 1950s.

Winner of four Tony Awards, including Best Musical, the New York Times says Memphis “evokes the powerhouse funk of James Brown, the hot guitar riffs of Chuck Berry, the smooth harmonies of The Temptations, [and] the silken, bouncy pop of the great girl groups of the period.”

In the Beale Street nightclubs of 1950s Memphis simmers a new sound, born of the blues, gospel and rock ‘n’ roll and birthed in the Delta.  It takes a young white DJ, a white man in a black world, to catapult this new sound to the airwaves of Memphis radio and into the living rooms of white Memphis.  What follows is a love story that pushes the racial boundaries of the times and ignites a musical revolution that grips the entire country.