Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, January 20, 1995 TAG: 9501230026
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As of Thursday morning, a few tickets ($20) remained for the 8 p.m. concert. For more information, call 375-2333 between 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. today.
MORE GUITAR: Liona Boyd is guest artist for the Roanoke Symphony's Monday Night Classics Concert. Guitarist Boyd joins the orchestra in a performance of Concerto of the Andes by Richard Fortin. Boyd, also a composer, has made 18 recordings in not only the classical style, but in pop, jazz, Latin and soft rock. Her recordings include baroque pieces performed with the English Chamber Orchestra; two Christmas albums; a joint effort with Chet Atkins; and a New Age-pop project that includes Eric Clapton, David Gilmour and Yo-Yo Ma.
Also on the Monday playlist, under the baton of Victoria Bond: ``The Three Cornered Hat Suite'' by Spanish composer Manuel de Falla, ``They Come Dancing,'' a new work by Tina Davidson, and ``Iberia'' by Claude Debussy. All of this takes place at the Roanoke Civic Center on Monday evening at 8 p.m. Tickets are $12, $16, $18, and $20.
Come early for a boxed dinner, on sale for $5 each in the lobby beginning at 6 p.m. At 6:30 p.m., the symphony's composer-in-residence, Margaret Brouwer, will conduct a question-and-answer ``Illuminations'' session in the lobby. And at 7:20, folk singer/guitarist David Austin performs in the ``Youth Sounds'' portion of the evening. Call 343-9127.
CHANGE OF PACE: Gigantic - up to 6-tons - monster trucks with names like Grave Digger, Kodiak and Executioner will rampage through the Roanoke Civic Center tonight in the Red Man U.S. Hot Rod Grand Slam Monster Jam.
Amid the gears and gas fumes is planned the Quad Wars, which pits drivers from Team Virginia against Team West Virginia. In the Ruff Trux competition, street-legal trucks battle each other in a timed race through a modified monster truck course. And especially for kids, there will be an appearance by Dinosaurs Rox, at three-stories tall a cross between a Jurassic Age dinosaur and a futuristic robot. The evening winds up with Cycle Wars, in which the ``wingless warriors'' battle it out on a scaled-down supercross track.
Tickets tonight are $11. They're available at the Roanoke Civic Center box office (981-1201) and through TicketMaster outlets , or charge-by-phone (343-8100).
B THERE: Theatre B of Mill Mountain Theatre opens ``Keely and Du,'' a drama by Jane Martin, tonight on the Church Avenue stage. The play, called ``provocative and timely'' by Variety, centers on two women and their reactions to a decision about abortion. The work contains adult language.
Tickets are $10-$12, and the play runs through Jan. 29. Call 342-5740, Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. A review of the play will appear in the Saturday Extra.
LONG LIVE THE REX: The Galax Mountain Music Jamboree, to benefit the historic Rex Theatre in Galax, features the award-winning bluegrass band Special Deliver and The Wolfe Brothers on Saturday evening.
Special Delivery, whose members hail from Richlands and Bristol, won the Pizza Hut Bluegrass Showdown in 1993.
The show begins at 7 p.m. in the Rex. Admission is $4. 236-0668.
IT'S A PARTY: The 171st anniversary of the birth of Thomas J. ``Stonewall'' Jackson will be celebrated with a meet-the-artist signing party for artist Lewis Tyree on Saturday afternoon from 2 to 4 at the Stonewall Jackson House in Lexington. Free tours of the house - as well as birthday cake - will be offered from 9 to 5 p.m.
A Lexington native, Tyree recently published a full-color note card of his primitive painting of Hunter's 1864 raid on Lexington. Tyree's original painting of the Civil War battle will be on view during the signing party. For more information, call 463-2552.
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