Roanoke Times
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DATE: SUNDAY, October 17, 1993 TAG: 9311170244
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The American Chestnut Foundation will hold its annual meeting and festival Oct. 23-24 at the ACF Wagner Research Farm in Meadowview.
Registration will begin Oct. 23 at 8:30 a.m., followed by the annual business meeting, a presentation on the history of chestnut research, a farm tour and a gala dinner.
On Oct. 24 at 8 a.m., guests will tour Jefferson National Forest to view wild populations of chestnut trees.
For registration information, call 944-3435.
Membership meeting
The Virginia Museum of Transportation in Roanoke will hold its annual membership meeting on Tuesday at 6 p.m. at the museum.
A fried-chicken dinner will be served at 6 and costs $8. The program, ``The Appalachian Railroad Heritage Partnership,'' will be presented at 6:45 by Thomas W. Dixon Jr., president of the Chesapeake and Ohio Historical Society. The membership meeting follows at 7:15.
For reservations, call 342-5670.
\ Piano concert
Pianist Robert Vienneau will give a concert Tuesday at 8 p.m. in the Washington and Lee University Lenfest Center.
Vienneau graduated from W&L in 1987 and received his law degree from the school in 1990. He lives in Seattle, where he has been playing on the radi and in live concerts. He is also a member of the Bellvue Symphony.
Vienneau's program will include Mozart's Sonata in C, K. 330; Beethoven's Sonata in F minor, "Appasionata"; Chopin's Ballade No. 1 in G minor; Schumann's Arabesque, Op. 18; Ravel's "Ondine"; and Liszt's "Mephisto" Waltz No. 1.
by CNB