Roanoke Times
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DATE: FRIDAY, April 27, 1990 TAG: 9004270015
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The play opens Tuesday night at 7:30. The final performance will be May 20. Jere Lee Hodgin directs. Tickets are $8. For more information, call the box office at 342-5740.\
GOING TO THE DOGWOODS: The Vinton Dogwood Festival and Folklife Festival will be Saturday, with plenty of activities for the family.
Crafts, music, athletic events and, at 2:30, the big parade, provide much of the entertainment. For more information, call 983-0613.\ ROADWORK: The Audubon Quartet, Virginia Tech's resident chamber group, will take its act to Martinsville tonight and to Roanoke on Sunday.
In Martinsville, jazz violinist Joe Kennedy Jr. will join the quartet in an 8 o'clock performance at Martinsville Junior High School Auditorium. Kennedy and the group will play David Baker's Quintet for Jazz Violin and String Quartet.
The quartet will perform works by Schumann and Mozart.
On Sunday, the quartet will play more Mozart and Schumann, plus a composition by Bela Bartok, at Greene Memorial United Methodist Church in Roanoke. The concert will begin at 4 p.m.\ WILD WALK: The Science Museum of Western Virginia presents its annual Wildflower Pilgrimage this weekend. Activities begin tonight with "Small Secrets - A Creature Garden of Verses," a slide-and-poetry program from Arthur Gladstone and Helen Worth of Charlottesville.
The program begins at 7 in Hopkins Planetarium. Gladstone is a macrophotographer who specializes in close-up shots of flowers and insects - beautiful, startling stuff, by all accounts.
The pilgrimage continues Saturday and Sunday with botanical exhibits, talks, garden tours and wildflower walks. Advance registration is required for the walks and encouraged for all other activities. For information call 342-5710.\ AROUND AND AROUND: Roanoke Catholic School's Carousel fund-raiser takes place Saturday and Sunday on St. Andrew's Hill in Roanoke. As usual it will feature lots of food, games and children's activities, plus music from an array of Roanoke entertainers.
Saturday evening from 6:30 to 8, the Chevies and the Premieres will play '60s rhythm and blues and Motown songs. Starting at noon that day, Greg Trafidlo and Laura Pole, Curley Ennis, Brad Jones, Doug and Rhonda Firebaugh and Stairwill will take turns on stage.
Starting at 1 on Sunday, the Ultra-Natives, the Kings, January Rose, Luteman and Brown, Front Page Newz, guitarist Robbie Dummitt and Christian rock's Ransom will play.\ STRING BAND: The Roanoke Symphony String Quintet will perform Tuesday night at 8 in Lee Chapel of Washington and Lee University in Lexington.
The program will include Bartok's Six Duos for two violins, Mozart's Quartet in C Major, K. 157 and Adam Moss Crane's Suite for Unaccompanied viola, Op. 6, No. 2.
Adam Crane is the group's violist. Its other members are Susan Midkiff and Jane Wang on violins, Mary Hege Crane on violoncello and William Johnston on doublebass.
Admission is free.\ CELLO AND PIANO: Cellist Suzanne Wijsman and pianist Carolyn True perform works by Bach, Kodaly, Debussy and Beethoven Sunday afternoon at 2 in Olin Gallery of Roanoke College.
Admission is free.\ PUZZLING IT OUT: Dolores Curran, author of "Traits of a Healthy Family" and "The Jigsaw Puzzle," will speak at a conference Saturday, May 5, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Roanoke Airport Marriott.
She will discuss ways of balancing demands on our time and rediscovering some of the joys of childhood.
The conference is sponsored by the Adult Enrichment Committee of St. Andrew's Catholic Church in Roanoke.
Registration is $25. The number to call is 982-8565.
by CNB