Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, January 29, 1993 TAG: 9301290138
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: 1 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Joe Kennedy
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THE TIPOFF
UN OISEAU REBELLE: The New York City Opera Company will bring its road-show production of Bizet's "Carmen" to Preston Auditorium of Radford University on Thursday night at 8.Set in 17th-century Seville, the opera will star Lori Brown Mirabal as Carmen, the seductive gypsy; Yuxin Li as the love-struck Don Jose; and Mark Moliterno as the dashing bullfighter, Escamillo.
The performance will be in French with English supertitles.
Tickets for the general public are $12 for adults and $6 for children. Call 831-5420 for details.\ \ BEHIND THE CURTAIN: "Lend Me a Tenor," a stage comedy about the travails of a struggling opera company, will come to Burruss Hall Auditorium at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg on Wednesday night at 7:30. For the general public, tickets are $14 for adults and $7 for children age 12 and under.
Call 231-5615 or (800) 843-0332.\ \ MEDIA LEADER: Susan Taylor, editor-in-chief of Essence magazine, will speak Thursday night at 8 at Hollins Theatre of Hollins College in Roanoke.
Essence claims a readership of 4 million and has grown considerably under Taylor's guidance. A reception will follow her talk. Call 362-6452.\ \ BOOKS, STRINGS: The Friends of the Montgomery-Floyd Regional Library will present No Strings Attached, a hammer dulcimer band, tonight from 8 to 10:30 at the Wesley Foundation in Blacksburg. Tickets are $5 for adults and $1 for children under age 13. For information, call 381-0680.\ \ FEEL FREE: "Freedom Song," an anthology of black music and history in the United States, will take place Saturday at 10:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. at the Lynchburg Fine Arts Center.
It's one of the center's programs for young people, and it's presented by Theatre IV of Virginia.
Tickets are $4. Call (804) 846-8451.\ \ NEXT UP: "Partial Objects," by Sherry Kramer, opens tonight at Theatre B of Mill Mountain Theatre in Roanoke. It's the second entry in the Norfolk Southern Festival of New Works, and it will run through Feb. 7.
The play blends fantasy, drama, comedy and romance as it looks at love, marriage, sex and yearning. It contains adult language and themes.
Tickets are from $8 to $11. Call 342-5740.\ \ THE MIGHTY KANDINSKY: The Kandinsky Trio will feature works by Beethoven and Gwyneth Walker, to name two composers, during their concert Saturday night at 8 in Olin Theater of Roanoke College. Tickets are $7.
The trio - Elizabeth Bachelder, Benedict Goodfriend and Alan Weinstein, artists in residence at the college - also will perform tonight at 8 at Carnegie Hall in Lewisburg, W.Va. Tickets are $15, $10 and $9. Call (304) 645-7917.\ MEMORIAL CELEBRATION: Catherine Breske, a noted singer in the New River area, will perform tonight at 8 in McBryde Auditorium at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg. She will be accompanied by Robert Elkins on piano, Marvin McNeill on drums and George McNeill on bass.
The program of pop standards, Broadway and jazz tunes will raise money for the Paul Breske Memorial Scholarship Fund, named in honor of Breske's late husband. Paul Breske was an associate professor of music at Tech and arranger and conductor for the New Virginians.
Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for students.