Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, November 4, 1994 TAG: 9411040057
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV3 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: DONNA ALVIS-BANKS
DATELINE: LENGTH: Long
"World Premiere Weekend" is what Virginia Tech's Department of Music is calling it.
Kent Holliday, Jon Polifrone and Patrick Simpson - all members of the university's music faculty - will present their latest works in concerts Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. in Squires Recital Salon.
Polifrone's "Songs of a Sad Autumn," a song cycle for baritone and piano, highlights the program. The piece is drawn from eight poems written by the Czech poet Rainer Maria Rilke.
Also on the program is Patrick Simpson's newly revised version of "Moments at Walden Pond." Simpson, a cellist, will perform the piece with narration by Jana Ruble.
Sonata for Flute and Piano is the new composition by Kent Holliday. It will be performed by David Jacobsen, flute, and Mary Louise Hallauer, piano.
Admission to the concerts is $7 for adults and $5 for students and senior citizens. Tickets will be available at the door. The recital salon is in Squires Student Center on the Virginia Tech campus.
INTENSE: In a word, that describes the latest offering from Playmakers & Company Community Theater.
"Nuts," a drama by Tom Topor, opens tonight at Playmakers' Playhouse in Blacksburg's University Mall. The play is about a sexually abused woman who must defend her sanity while fighting her family, the legal system and the medical system. Dee Davidson plays the leading role of Claudia Draper.
Anna Dalton is the director of this courtroom drama. Because it contains explicit language and adult themes, the production isn't for children.
"Nuts" shows tonight and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. It reopens Thursday and continues for the next two weekends.
Tickets, available at the door, are $6 for adults and $4 for students and senior citizens.
ART FROM THE HEART: "Six Women Artists -Their Menopause Stories" is the title of a new exhibit opening Sunday at the Women's Center for Health Education in New River Valley Mall.
The exhibit, inspired by the breast cancer exhibit at the National Museum for Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., features a variety of art forms.
The participating artists - Helen Graeff, Rosalie Kilper, Darcy Meeker, Kathy Pinkerton, Peggy Turner and JoAnn Underwood - acknowledge the universal experience of menopause by relating their own experiences. The works show how the artists have changed and how their lives have been enriched by this biological change.
Designed as a traveling exhibit, the display will remain at the mall through Dec. 31. An opening reception will be held Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m.
HORN OF PLENTY: Sit down at the table in Newbern's Wilderness Road Regional Museum this Saturday. Fill your plate with baked turkey, dressing and creamed potatoes smothered with gravy. Take a spoonful of scalloped oysters, baby limas and shoepeg corn, turnips and cranberry salad. Nibble on the Harvard beets, the pickles, the homemade relish. Finish it off with pumpkin pie and fresh apple cake iced with caramel.
You've just stuffed yourself at the harvest dinner.
The annual event, now in its 15th year, is an autumn tradition at the Pulaski County museum. In addition to the fine dining, the event is a good way to see the museum in its fall finery. The rooms are decorated with gourds, leaves, nuts and candles.
Serving times for the dinner are at 5, 6:30 and 8 p.m. Saturday. To make your reservation for a seating time, call Daisy Williams, 674-5888; Geraldine Mathews, 980-7499; Ann Bailey, 639-0351; or the museum, 674-4835.
The dinner, a fund-raiser for the historic museum, is $12.50 for adults and $6.25 for children under 12. Take-out trays are available for those who call in advance.
To get to the museum from Interstate 81, take Exit 98 and follow the brown signs.
NO NEED FOR LAUGHING GAS: The Austin Lounge Lizards will have you crying for more at Sunday's concert in Blacksburg's South Main Cafe.
The Lizards, a five-man band out of Austin, Texas, is known for really funny tongue-in-cheek humor and really good acoustic music.
Past CDs include "Paint Me on Velvet," "Lizard Vision," "Highway Cafe of the Damned" and "Creatures from the Black Saloon."
The group is working on a new CD now with some original tunes you'll hear Sunday. They include "Old Blevins," a song about the know-it-all geezer you find in every bar, and "Let's Go to the Apiary," a ditty about a beekeeper's romance.
Sunday's concert starts at 7:30 p.m. Advance discount tickets are $8 at the cafe. Admission at the door will be $10.
WOW! HOW DO THEY DO THAT? You'll be awed, even flabbergasted, when you see what the Chinese Magic Revue of Taiwan can do.
The 20-member troupe of Chinese acrobats, magicians and dancers performs fantastically formidable feats.
There's a man who balances himself atop chairs stacked 25 feet into the air, a woman who can bend her body backward, a man who rides a unicycle while catching limes on a knife he holds between his teeth.
Chinese kung fu, tumbling, juggling, exotic dancing and comedy are part of the troupe's act, too.
Now on a national tour, the Chinese Magic Revue will visit Virginia Tech Wednesday for a 7:30 p.m. show in Burruss Hall. The appearance is part of the Virginia Tech Union's Entertainment Series this year.
Tickets, on sale at the box office in Squires Student Center, are $14 for adults, $7 for children under 12, $11 for Virginia Tech faculty and staff and $4 for Virginia Tech students. Call 231-5615 for information.
SHOPPING MADE EASY: Montgomery Museum and Lewis Miller Regional Art Center on Pepper Street in Christiansburg is getting a jump-start on the holiday season.
Artists will have all sorts of unique gift items for sale with prices ranging from $5 to $200. The sale also benefits the museum.
The sale starts Saturday and continues through Nov. 20. A reception for the participating artists is Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m.
The museum is behind the 7-Eleven next to the Roanoke Street Hardee's in Christiansburg. Regular operating hours are 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Sunday.
by CNB