Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, March 12, 1993 TAG: 9303120051
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SOURCE: Joe Kennedy
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THE TIPOFF
LITERACY REIGNS: The 33rd annual Hollins College Literary Festival will be Saturday, starting at 9:30 in the morning with registration and coffee in Main Building on the campus.Featured authors are Carolyn Chute, who wrote "The Beans of Egypt, Maine"; Brett Laidlaw, who wrote "Blue Belair"; and Larry Levis, a poet whose works include "The Widening Spell of the Leaves."
The first reading will be at 10:30 a.m. in Babcock Auditorium of the Dana Science Building. An afternoon panel discussion will be led by Levis, Cathryn Hankla and Jeanne Larsen.
Admission is free. Lunch will be on sale, and a reception will wrap everything up.\ \ SAPPY: The Highland Maple Festival will will be Saturday and Sunday, and March 20-21, in Highland County. Sugar tours, maple sugar camps, the Maple Museum and other places will be featured, as will juggling, clogging, storytelling, bluegrass and country music, crafts and the like.
Call 468-2550 for the schedule.\ \ HOW BLUE CAN YOU GET? Son Seals and the Son Seals Band will play Saturday night at 9 at the Ellington in Lynchburg. Seals has been hailed by Rolling Stone and the New York Times as an exciting young exponent of the blues genre.
Joan Fenton will open the show. Doors open at 8. Call (804) 845-2162.\ \ BIG BOPPER: Maynard Ferguson, a well-known jazz trumpeter, and his Big Bop Nouveau Band will play Wednesday night at 8 at Radford University's Preston Auditorium.
Admission is $10 for adults and $5 for children. Call 831-5420.\ \ MORE NOUVEAU: A New Horizon New Music Concert will be presented at Radford's Preston Auditorium on Thursday night. It will feature works by such American composers as Norman Della Joio, George Crumb and Terry Riley. Admission is $3 for adults, $1 for children. Again, 831-5420.\ \ ENLIGHTENMENT: Victoria Bond will discuss the jazz of David Baker on Tuesday evening at 6 at the Jefferson Club in Roanoke during Illuminations V. Baker's commissioned jazz work, "Shades of Blue," will be featured in a March 21 concert by the Roanoke Symphony Orchestra at James Madison University, as well as the March 22 symphony concert in Roanoke and a third concert March 23 at Virginia Tech. The symphony is conducted by Bond.
Admission to Tuesday's session is $4. Reservations are required. Call 343-9127.\ \ FUNNY AND STRANGE: "Little Shop of Horrors" is the musical production scheduled for Monday night at 7:30 at Burruss Auditorium on the Virginia Tech campus. It's part of Virginia Tech's Lively Arts Series. Tickets are $16 for adults, $8 for children under age 12.
Call 231-5615 or (800) 843-0332 for tickets.\ \ MARK TWAIN: He's the author of "The War Prayer," a drama to be presented with dessert Thursday night at 7:30 at the Henry Street Music Center and Jazz Institute on First Street in Northwest Roanoke.
The production from the Partisan Theatre Company will benefit the Plowshare Peace and Justice Center of Roanoke. "The War Prayer" remained unpublished until after Twain's death in 1910.
Children will be admitted free. Suggested donation for others is $10 in advance, $12 at the door. The price includes coffee and dessert. A silent auction also will be held.
Call 985-0808 for reservations.\ \ THE ADVENTURE CONTINUES: That's the theme of Stan Kingma's Virginians, a family musical group that will make its debut Tuesday night at 8 in the Hollins College Theatre and again March 19 at 8 p.m. in Mill Mountain Theatre in Roanoke.
Tickets are $5 for the Hollins show and $10 for the Mill Mountain gig. The group promises an upbeat, inspirational evening of music.
Call 344-8870 for your tickets.\