Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, February 28, 1992 TAG: 9202280134
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: E-1 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Joe Kennedy
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
THE TIPOFF
LIGHTS UP: August Wilson's play "The Piano Lesson" is under way at Mill Mountain Theatre's Main Stage at Center in the Square in Roanoke.The comedy-drama, set in Pittsburgh in 1936, looks at a Southern black family's ordeal over selling an heirloom piano. The play won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1990.
Jere Lee Hodgin directs. The play closes March 15. For tickets and reservations, call 342-5740.\ \ IN PROGRESS: "The Cocktail Hour," a comedy by A.R. Gurney Jr., continues tonight through Sunday and Thursday and March 6 at Groucho's Restaurant on Williamson Road in downtown Roanoke.
A matinee performance will be Sunday at 3. Jim Galloway directs. Tickets are $7. Call 562-1504 for reservations.\ \ LET'S DANCE: It's called the Mardi-Gras Masquerade, and it's set for Saturday night from 8 to 12:30 in the Star City Ballroom on the third floor of the Roanoke Market Building.
Bananas at Large will be the band. The cover charge is $2. The Roanoke Jaycees are the sponsors. The Mill Mountain Zoo will benefit. And prizes will be given for the best, and most exotic, animal costumes.\ \ GOT 'EM PEGGED: The Washington Guitar Quintet, with Charlie Byrd, will perform Thursday night at 8 at Covington High School.
Tickets are $15 for adults, $7.50 for students 18 and under.
For reservations, call 962-6220.\ \ FRESH AND VIRILE: The Maggini Quartet has been described that way, and chamber music lovers will have a chance to see for themselves Tuesday night at 8, when the group plays at Olin Theater of Roanoke College under the sponsorship of the Roanoke Valley Chamber music Society.
Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for those 18 and under.
The program will include Mozart's "The Hunt" Quartet, Szymanowski's Quartet No. 1 and Beethoven's Quartet Op. 59, No. 2.
A concert preview will be presented in Olin 325 at 7:30 that evening.\ \ BLOWIN': Music for saxophone and orchestra will be presented Saturday night at 8 by the New River Valley Symphony. The concert will be in Burruss Auditorium on the Virginia Tech campus.
Works by Bizet, Prokofiev, Ravel ("Bolero") and Glazounov will be featured. Tickets are $5. Students and senior citizens pay $3. For information, call 231-5615.\ \ SHOW TUNES: "Opera Tonight," an evening of arias, trios and other operatic ensembles, will be presented Thursday night at 8 by the University Opera Workshop of Radford University.
The performance will be in Preston Hall. Tickets are $3 for adults, $1 for children. For information, call 831-5625 or 831-5420.\ \ FATHER OF THE BLUES: The W.C. Handy Blues Revue will play Saturday night at 8 at the Walker Fine Arts Theatre of Patrick Henry Community College in Martinsville.
Tickets are $10. They may be reserved by calling 638-8777, ext. 323.\ \ MUSICAL MAP: Composer-pianist William Bolcom and mezzo-soprano Joan Morris will present "A Musical Trek Through American History: 100 Years of Popular Songs" on Monday night at 8:15 at Hollins Theatre on the Hollins College campus.
The duo has recorded 16 albums including its 1974 best-seller "After the Ball - A Treasury of Turn of the Century Popular Song," for which Morris received a Grammy nomination.
General admission tickets to the concert are free. Call 362-6517 for reservations.
If you're interested, you may also attend a pre-concert, candlelight buffet from 6 to 7:45. It costs $12, and the number to call for reservations is 362-6452.
The event is sponsored by C&P Telephone and the Hollins College General Speakers Fund.\ \ MARQUEE NAMES: Curley Ennis plays tonight at Billy's Ritz on the Roanoke City Market. Brad Jones and Rhonda Firebaugh will be there Saturday night.
Martin and Wilbourn will play JB's Pub on Virginia 419 in Roanoke tonight from 9 to 1.