Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, March 1, 1991 TAG: 9103010446
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: E-1 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Joe Kennedy
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
Admission is $3 for adults. Children age 12 and under get in free.
Even if you don't buy anything, you can at least get ideas for what you may want when you do decide to buy.\
HOOPS: The Metro Basketball Tournament comes to the Roanoke Civic Center Coliseum Thursday and continues through Saturday night, March 9.
It will consist of seven games among the eight Metro Conference teams, which include Virginia Tech.
It also will explain the presence of Metro fans in our town. Thousands of people are expected for the event.
By the way, the conference cheer and dance chamionship will be next Friday, March 8, at 1 p.m at the civic center auditorium. Admission is free.\
ROMANTIC COMEDY: Mill Mountain Theatre in Roanoke is presenting Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" through March 17. Jere Lee Hodgin directs.
For days and times as well as tickets, call 342-5740.\
MAGICAL JOURNEY: Virginia Tech's Burruss Auditorium will be the site of "Into the Woods," a musical in which characters from favorite fairy tales come to life in the same forest at the same time. The curtain goes up Tuesday night at 7:30 in Blacksburg.
The production features witty words and a Stephen Sondheim score. Tickets are $16. The number to call for reservations is 231-6865.\
MUSIC-MAKING: The Audubon Quartet and artists from the Virginia Tech music faculty will join for a "Schubertiad" celebration Saturday night at 8 in Donaldson Brown Auditorium on the Tech campus in Blacksburg.
The Schubertiad tradition dates to 1821, when the term was coined by one of composer Franz Schubert's friends to denote "a delightful evening of music-making."
Admission is $5 for adults and $3 for students and senior citizens. For ticket information, call 231-5615 or 231-5200.\
WORTHY CAUSE: Folk and country singer Glyn Hall and El Dorado will play a benefit concert Sunday afternoon at 2:30 at the E.C. Glass auditorium in Lynchburg. The beneficiary is the Second Harvest Food Bank Network.
Greg and Laura Trafidlo also will perform, and guitarist Robbie Dummitt will join them. Clogging champion Doug Jacobs will be there, too.
Admission is $7 in advance plus a non-perishable food item. Student tickets are $5 in advance plus a food item. All tickets will be $10 on the day of the concert.\
STAR QUALITY: Sting, the well known modern music superstar, will perform in concert tonight at 8 at the Dean E. Smith Center at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.
Tickets are available. They cost $20.50. For information, call (919) 962-0176\
IMAGES AND MUSIC: The Virginia New Music Ensemble will perform works by contemporary composers Tuesday night at 8 at ArtSounds in the Olin Gallery at Roanoke College in Salem.
A reception will be at 6:30.
Judith Shatin is the featured composer. She is an associate professor of music at the University of Virginia, where she also directs the Computer Music Laboratory.
The art exhibit is "Pluralism: Prints and Drawings of the Eighties."
Tickets are available from the Roanoke Symphony box office, whose number is 343-9127. They are $6 for the general public, half price for students and senior citizens.\ FAREWELL PERFORMANCE: The Charlottesville and University Orchestra will say good-bye to conductor Douglas Hargrave following two concerts this weekend at Cabell Hall on the University of Virginia Grounds.
Hargrave has led the orchestra for 17 years.
The program will include John Powell's "Natchez on the Hill" and Dvorak's Symphony No. 9 ("From the New World").
Performances will be Saturday night at 8:15 and Sunday afternoon at 3:30. For tickets, call (804) 924-3984.
by CNB