Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, April 12, 1991 TAG: 9104120041
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV4 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: Donna Alvis
DATELINE: LENGTH: Long
"How many times have you seen it?"
That's the question.
Music Theatre Group of New York will bring "The Sound of Music" to Virginia Tech Tuesday. Curtain time is 7:30 p.m. in Burruss Auditorium.
The fourth-longest running musical in Broadway history, this Rodgers and Hammerstein classic features the twosome's typically tender tunes. The story, written by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, is based on Baroness Maria Von Trapp's autobiography.
Tickets, available at the box office in University Bookstore, are $16 for the public, $13 for Tech faculty and staff and $5 for Tech students. For information, call 231-5615 during business hours.
The Virginia Tech Union is sponsoring the show, the last in this year's Lively Arts Season.
\ GOING TO THE DOGS: The New River Valley Kennel Club is putting on its third annual AKC-licensed dog show this weekend, and organizers are expecting this one to be the largest ever with more than 700 dogs (and owners) participating. It's happening in Virginia Tech's Lane Stadium.
The dog show, co-sponsored by the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, starts at 9 a.m. Sunday and will continue until the dogs have been judged in individual classes. Group judging begins at 2:30 p.m., followed by the best-in-show competition.
Vet students from the university will have a dog identification tattoo clinic during the show. To make an appointment, call 953-2675.
Admission is $2 for the public and $1 for Virginia Tech students and children under 12. Kids under 6 get in free. Lunch foods and snacks will be available at concession stands.
There's also an AKC-sanctioned dog show match for puppies and inexperienced dogs Saturday afternoon. Entry registration starts at noon and continues until 1:30 when the "Junior Showmanship" competition begins. Breed and obedience judging is at 2. Saturday's events are free to spectators.
\ IT'S FRIDAY! IT'S SPRING! It's time to celebrate with the Blacksburg Community Band.
The local band, directed by Ed Schwartz, will perform tonight at 8 in the Blacksburg High School Auditorium. On the program is a selection of Broadway songs, plus music by Leroy Anderson, John Phillip Sousa, Jule Styne and others.
Featured performers are Fred Dart on baritone horn and John Gregg on trumpet. These two, you might say, are at the head of the brass class!
The Blacksburg Parks and Recreation Department is sponsoring this spring concert. Donations of $1 will be accepted at the door.
\ PLAY IT AGAIN, JOEY: Joseph Akins, a graduate student in Radford University's music department, will present a piano recital featuring be-bop and contemporary jazz styles Monday at 8 p.m. in Preston Auditorium.
Akins will perform "Infant Eyes" by Wayne Shorter, "What Was" by Chick Corea and "Royal Roost" by Kenny Clark, in addition to two original compositions. The first piece, "Be-boppin'," represents jazz styles from the 1940s. "The Time Is Now," another original piece, uses synthesizers.
Accompanists are Al Wojtera on drums, Ed McKenais on bass and Allan Wyatt on saxophone.
The recital is free and open to the public. For more information, call 831-5177.
\ BMOC: Tom Deluca is the Big Man on the Virginia Tech campus Sunday.
Deluca - magician, hypnotist and funny guy to boot - will perform at 8 p.m. Sunday in Burruss Auditorium. Voted Campus Entertainer of the Year in 1989, Deluca has delighted audiences at colleges and universities across the country.
Say you don't believe in the power of suggestion?
Deluca will make a believer out of you. Part of his act involves "hypnotizing" volunteers from the audience. In the past, he has made people forget their names, transported them back to their childhood and had them speaking in alien tongues.
Tickets for Deluca's performance will be available at the door. General admission is $5.
\ ART OF THE WEST: Pat West, that is.
This Giles County artist will exhibit paintings and sculptures at Blacksburg's Miller & Main Street Galleriesthis month. The Blacksburg Regional Art Association is sponsoring a gallery talk by the artist Sunday at 3 p.m. and you're invited.
"My paintings are inspired by my surroundings and personal experiences," West says. "I built my own home and gardens. I have four children. I have done many paintings of my children, home and gardens as they grew."
West also painted pictures of sick people and auto wrecks while she worked for the rescue squad. Her sculpture, she notes, is made of anything she finds challenging:
"I spend a lot of time looking in the woods, river, junk yards and back yards for sculpture parts."
Following West's talk at the gallery, those who wish may join members of the art association for a car-pool trip to visit the artist's studio in Pembroke.
\ SPEAKING OF ART . . . Have you made your reservations for Artstravaganza?
"This is an elegant evening with good food and fun for a very, very worthwhile cause - scholarships for the visual arts," said Ruth Horton, chairwoman of the Artstravaganza committee.
The event features an art auction, a reception and a fancy dinner. It's set for April 19.
The cost is $50 per person with proceeds going toward scholarships for students in Virginia Tech's art and art history department. Sculptures, paintings and other original pieces will be auctioned to high bidders.
Virginia Tech administrator Gary Smallwood said the first Artstravaganza, held last spring, raised about $21,000. After the artists' commissions were paid, nearly $12,000 in scholarship money was left.
For more information or to make your reservation, call Smallwood at 231-6394.
by CNB