Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, February 4, 1994 TAG: 9402050003
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SOURCE: Joe Kennedy
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General admission tickets are $6 for adults and $3 for children. Reserved seats cost $2 more. This circus bill itself as the world's oldest, with a start-up date of 1690. That's what they say.
FLY SO HIGH: Maynard Ferguson and his Big Bop Nouveau Band will present a concert Wednesday night at 8 at Dickinson Hall Auditorium of William Fleming High School in Roanoke. Tickets are $12.50 in advance and $15 at the door, with festival seating only.
Ferguson is a celebrated big-band leader with a worldwide following. Proceeds will go toward the purchase of uniforms for the Fleming Band. Info is at 981-2342.
NOW YOU SEE IT: The Norfolk Southern Festival of New Works at Roanoke's Mill Mountain Theatre are presenting three new script-in-hand productions through Sunday at Theatre B on Church Avenue.
``A God in the House,'' about a woman with Alzheimer's disease who wants to kill herself, will be performed tonight at 8 and Sunday night at 7:30; ``Gun Play,'' about peer pressure on adolescents, will be performed Saturday and Sunday at 2 in the afternoon; and ``Where the Sun Never Sets,'' about what happens when a family member joins a cult, Saturday night at 8.
After each play a panel will discuss the real-life issues touched upon. Tickets are $5. Call 342-5740.
THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT: Helen Thomas, the White House Correspondent for United Press International, will talk about her work Wednesday night at 7:30 in Babcock Auditorium of Sweet Briar College.
Thomas has been with the news service since 1943 and has covered the White House since 1961. Her book is titled, ``Dateline: White House.''
VITAL ORGANS: First Presbyterian Church in Roanoke is the site of noontime organ concerts each Wednesday through Feb. 23. Clifton Stroud, organist, and his wife, Keith Nelson Stroud, soprano, will perform Wednesday in a program titled ``From Buxtehude to Bernstein.'' On Feb. 16, David Charles Campbell will present a program called ``Ya Gotta Toccata,'' and George Clark will present ``French Delights'' Feb. 23.
Admission is free. Call 344-3204 for information.
O THEM GOLDEN SLIPPERS: Taylor 2, Paul Taylor's second dance company, will perform at Thoreson Theatre of Randolph-Macon Woman's College on Wednesday night at 8. Admission is free.
Formed in July from young dancers in Taylor's dance school, the group will perform three of Taylor's pieces - ``Aureole,'' ``3 Epitaphs'' and ``Profiles.'' Newsweek has called Taylor the greatest choreographer alive.
SPIRITUALS TO BACH, AND BEYOND: The Howard University Choir will sing Sunday afternoon at 4 at Martinsville Junior High School. The group from Washington has toured Latin America, Europe and the Far East and has performed at the White House for every president since Gerald Ford. Concert tickets are $5, or $3 for senior citizens and students. To order tickets call Delta Sigma Theta Sorority at 638-7571 or the Piedmont Arts Association at 632-3221.
FRETFUL PLACE: Larry Sparks and the Lonesome Ramblers will play bluegrass music Saturday night at 7:30 at the Fairview Ruritan Building in Galax. James King and his band also will play. Admission is $8 for adults. Kids under 12 get in free. Call 236-6316 or 236-2171.
And Carlie Marion and the Cane Raisers, New Autumn, Blue Country and the Countryland Express Cloggers will put on a show Saturday night at 7 at the New River Wildlife Building in Galax.
Admission is free, donations are accepted, and the phone number is 236-4486.
HEAR THE WINDS: Michael Sitton, pianist on the faculty at Hollins College, will join five wind players for a chamber music concert Monday night at 8:15 in Talmadge Recital Hall on the Hollins College campus. Admission is free. The other musicians are John Anderson, clarinet; Valerie Mullison Anderson, oboe; Wallace Easter, horn; Alycia Hugo, flute; and Robert Pfeuffer, bassoon.
GET THIS: Garrison Keillor and ``A Prairie Home Companion'' will come to the Roanoke Civic Center auditorium Tuesday and Wednesday nights at 7:30. Robin and Linda Williams, Kate McKenzie and other favorites will appear. Tickets sold out in a hurry, so you'll have to depend on friends to relate that Lake Wobegon feeling.
by CNB