Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, January 21, 1994 TAG: 9401210327
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: 1 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Joe Kennedy
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
The World Cup Figure Skating Champions will visit the Roanoke Civic Center coliseum Tuesday night at 7:30. Performers will include Marina Klimov and Sergei Ponomarenko, former Olympic gold medalists, Elizabeth Manley, an Olympic freestyle champion, and Caryn Kadavy, the 1993 United States Pro Am champion.
Several Olympic medalists will participate, too.
Tickets are $15, with $2 off for children and senior citizens. Golden circle seats cost $25.
You can charge by phone by calling 343-8100, or you can buy them at the civic center box office and Ticketmaster locations.
MUSIC OF A LEGEND: The works of American composer Gunther Schuller will be presented Thursday night at 8 in Smoyer Gallery of Olin Hall at Roanoke College in Salem. The concert is part of Schuller's week-long residency at the college under its Copenhaver Scholar-in-Residence Program.
The Kandinsky Trio, soprano Marianne Sandborg and guest artists will perform.
Schuller is regarded as one of the most important American composers of this century.
The program will begin with Schuller's Blues for Brass Quintet, bass and drums, performed by Allen Bachelder and James Kluesner on trumpets; Wallace Easter on horn; Dayl Burnett, trombone; Kevin Stees, tuba; Paul Langosch, bass; and Al Wojtera, percussion.
Then will come the Recitative and Rondo for violin and piano, performed by Benedict Goodfriend, violin, and pianist Lisa Moore.
Sandborg and Moore will perform the ``Six Early Songs,'' and the program will conclude with Schuller's Piano Trio by the Kandinsky Trio, consisting of Goodfriend on violin, Alan Weinstein on cello and Elizabeth Bachelder on piano.
Tickets are $5 for the public and are free to Kandinsky season ticket holders. Call 375-2333.
By the way, the Kandinsky Trio will include Schuller's ``On Light Wings'' for piano quartet in its concert Jan. 29 at 8 in Olin Theater. Tickets are $7. The guest artist is violist Paul Cortese.
BETRAYAL: ``Madame Butterfly,'' the Puccini opera of love and broken trust, will be presented at Preston Auditorium of Radford University Jan. 29 at 8 p.m. It is from the National Touring Company of the New York City Opera. Tickets are $12 for adults and $6 for children. Call 831-5420.
FRET NOT: Robin and Linda Williams will play Thursday night at 7:30 at Southern Virginia College for Women in Buena Vista. Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for children age 17 and under. Proceeds will go to the Laurel Park Youth Complex.
UTTERLY NEW: Sonoklect '94, the festival of new music at Washington and Lee University, kicks off Wednesday afternoon at 4 with a greet-the-composers session at the Lenfest Center on the campus in Lexington.
Thursday night at 8, the Cassatt Quartet will perform a program of works by Tina Davidson, Eleanor Hovda and Andrew Waggoner in the Lenfest Center.
On Jan. 28 at 8, a concert of music from the guest composers will take place, and Jan. 29 at 8, the music of Leonard Bernstein and Henryk Gorecki will be featured.
The theme for the festival is ``Musical Mandalas.''
GOOD REED: Neal Ramsay, billed as a giant of the classical saxophone, will present a concert Monday night at 7:30 in Vaughn Chapel of Ferrum College.
Ramsay plays jazz, new music, Baroque, ragtime, popular and avant-garde tunes as well as classical works. He has appeared on numerous radio and television programs and in concerts all over the country.
His accompanist will be Karen Ann Krieger on piano. The concert is free. Call 365-4358 for details.
SHOW TUNES: ``Some Enchanted Evening, The Songs of Rodgers and Hammerstein'' is the title of the latest musical production from Playmakers and Company in the New River Valley.
The revue will be presented tonight through Sunday night and Thursday through Jan. 29 at 7:30 and Jan. 30 at 2:30 p.m.
It will be at the Blacksburg Presbyterian Church. Tickets are $7 for adults and $5 for students and senior citizens. Call 382-0154.
by CNB