Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, April 22, 1994 TAG: 9404220160
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: 1 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Joe Kennedy
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They won't be alone. They'll be joined by the Roanoke College Choir, the James Madison University Chorale, the University Concert Choir from Virginia Tech, the University of Virginia Glee Club and the Washington and Lee University Chorus.
That will make 380 singers, 100 musicians and, of course, the soloists, Marianne Sandborg, soprano, and Margaret Yauger, mezzo-soprano.
Tickets remain available at $18, $16 and $12. Call 343-9127.
You may get a glimpse of all this activity by attending the open rehearsal Sunday evening from 6:30 to 8. It's also at the civic center, and it costs just $1 per person.
SPARKS OF COLOR: The Wildflower Pilgrimage of the Science Museum of Western Virginia turns 25 this year, and it has grown to two weekends, this one and April 29-May 1.
That means the wildflower and birding walks will multiply, too. The event begins tonight from 7:30 to 10 in Hopkins Planetarium at Center in the Square, where Ritchie Bell of Laurel Hill Press will present a free slide presentation and lecture about spring wildflowers in Eastern forests.
The walks begin Saturday morning from 7:30 to noon with a bird walk. Other jaunts will be at the Peaks of Otter, Mill Mountain, Falls Ridge and the Blue Ridge Parkway.
More of them will be held on Sunday and next weekend. For information, call Miriam Langner at the Science Museum at 342-5718. The event is sponsored by the museum in collaboration with the Roanoke Valley Native Plant Society and the Roanoke Valley Bird Club.
DOWN TO EARTH: Explore Park in Roanoke will be the site of an Earth Day celebration Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Conservation exhibits and workshops, nature crafts for kids, interpretive hikes and plenty of music are planned. You can take a picnic lunch. Car pool if you can, as parking is limited. Lynn Davis of Friends of the Blue Ridge Parkway will speak at 11 a.m.
WATER, COLORS: The third Art by the James Show and Sale will be Saturday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. It will be in Buchanan, with local and regional artists and craftsmen showing their stuff in different places around town. P. Buckley Moss will have a special showing, and there will be live entertainment. Info? Call Linda Wickline at 992-3003.
HOT FUN: Valleypointe After Hours is back in action at the Valleypointe Corporate Center in Roanoke County. Thursday evening from 6 to 8:30 you can shake, rattle and roll to music from The Gentlemen & Their Lady. Admission is $3 for adults. Children under 12 get in free. The series continues through August 25. It benefits the Easter Seal Society of Virginia Inc.
GO, JOHNNY, GO: The Cantate Singers, a classical chamber vocal ensemble, will present the Abendmusik of Johannes Brahms tonight at 8 in Presser Hall at Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg. Thomas Clark-Jones conducts. Admission is free with a ticket. Ticket information is available from (804) 237-4963.
The concert will feature Brahms choral settings ``Marienlieder'' (Songs of Mary) and ``Liebeslieder Walzer'' (Love Song Waltzes). Vladimir Havsky, a noted concert pianist, will be the guest artist.
GRAND PERFORMANCE: Nielson and Young, a duo-piano ensemble from Dallas, will perform Sunday night at 6:30 at First Baptist Church in downtown Roanoke. Stephen Nielson made his orchestral debut at age 11 and has presented recitals all over the world. Ovid Young has conducted or played piano on more than 75 recordings and is a former music director and conductor of the Kankakee (Ill.) Symphony Orchestra.
WINDUP: The Charlottesville and University Symphony Orchestra will perform its final concert of the season Saturday night at 8:15 and Sunday afternoon at 3:30 at the Charlottesville Performing Arts Center. Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances and Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5 will be featured. Tickets are $15 and $12.
A NEW THING: Opera Roanoke will present its first staged reading Wednesday night at 7:30 in the second floor atrium of the Jefferson Center. The work is Beaumarchais' satire, ``The Marriage of Figaro,'' the source for the Mozart opera of the same name. Admission to the reading is free.
Opera Roanoke will present the opera itself May 19, 21, 23, and 25 at 7 p.m. at Olin Hall of Roanoke College in Salem. Tickets are $12 to $25, depending on your age. Call 982-2742.
by CNB