ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Friday, September 6, 1996 TAG: 9609060006
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-3 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
COLUMN: out & about
SOURCE: DONNA ALVIS-BANKS
Now here's the game:
I'll name a memorable movie and you start humming the music that pops into your head.
"Gone with the Wind"
"Dr. Zhivago"
"West Side Story"
"The Godfather"
Is your head spinning yet?
Movie buffs and music lovers are in for a real treat Saturday when the Roanoke Symphony Pops Orchestra visits Virginia Tech. The musicians, directed by James Glazebrook, will perform "Classic Music from Movie Classics," a concert of well-known pieces from popular movies.
Glazebrook says you can expect to hear music by Mozart, Vivaldi, Puccini, Johann Strauss and many others.
The conductor said he hopes to add a little extra excitement to the program by getting audience members to match the music with movie titles.
"I'll give a few clues from the podium," he said, noting that people in the audience will have contest forms to keep track of their answers. At the end of the concert, a drawing will be held from the entries with the most correct titles and the winner gets a prize.
Soprano Leah Marer Wiley is the guest artist. Wiley (who happens to be married to the Roanoke Symphony's new conductor, David Wiley) will sing two arias from recent films. This is her New River Valley debut.
Bring an appetite for great music and tasty goodies. Picnic foods will be available from local vendors, along with beer, wine and soft drinks. Mill Mountain Coffee & Tea will have coffee and desserts for sale, too.
Saturday's Evening at the Pops is happening in the Commonwealth Ballroom at the Squires Student Center. Doors open at 5:30. Food service starts at 5:35 and the concert begins at 6:45.
Tickets are $12 for adults or $5 for children. They will be available at the door.
PONY RIDES!!! Now that we have your attention. ...
Pony rides are among the fun things to do at this weekend's Autumnfest '96, the annual street festival in downtown Rich Creek.
The highlight of the event is the Lions Club's 36th annual ox roast. Other attractions include crafts, bingo games, an auction, square dancing, a pet show, car show, puppet show and magic show. Add to that two full days of continuous country, gospel and bluegrass music and you've got yourself a shindig.
The festival gets under way at 10 a.m. Saturday and wraps up with a street dance from 7 to 11 p.m.
Sunday's activities run from 12:30 to 5:30 p.m. Admission both days is free.
Rich Creek is in Giles County, on U.S. 460 about 35 miles west of Blacksburg.
OUB12: A license plate collector, that is.
Even if you don't collect them yourself, you'll enjoy seeing the unique license plates on display Saturday at the Blacksburg Holiday Inn.
The Automobile License Plate Collectors Association will have its seventh annual Old Dominion swap meet from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Local license plate lover Kenneth Brim is the host.
Brim, of Christiansburg, has been collecting old and rare plates for many years.
"License plate collecting is an unusual hobby," he admits. "Someone may become a collector after seeing first-hand the varieties of plates collected."
Saturday's event runs from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. with a donation auction at noon. Admission is free.
Members of the association will be eligible for awards. Two "People's Choice" awards will be given for the best display of plates and one collector will receive the "Favorite Plate" award.
For more information, call Brim at 382-2880.
ROCKIN' TONIGHT: Students at Radford University are inviting you to see five bands for five bucks tonight in Heth Ballroom. The minimusic festival starts at 7 p.m. and it's a benefit for a new club, Campus Awareness of Animal Rights.
Performing are Algebra One, a band from Virginia Tech, along with Disband from Winston-Salem and the Pee Tanks, a Maryland group. Funzie and Peggy Suicide, both out of Richmond, round out this rock 'n' roll roster.
Tickets, $5 for the public or $4 for Radford University students, will be sold at the door.
HOLY SMOKE! A million volts of electricity surges through Dean Ortner's body, igniting a wooden beam and producing lightning from his fingertips.
That's just one of the dramatic demonstrations Ortner does in his traveling show, "Sermons from Science." He also shows how metal floats in air, music is played on a beam of light and a cry can shatter glass.
Ortner, a former entomologist at North Dakota State University, now works full time in his outreach ministry with Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. He goes all over the country giving his "Sermons from Science" demonstrations aimed at blending the gospel with science.
"Natural and spiritual laws we cannot make," Ortner explains. "Neither can we alter them."
"This is not hocus-pocus," he notes. "It is natural law, as discovered by science. I give a scientific demonstration, not a seance."
Ortner says he hopes to show the relevance of God in this modern world through his work as a teacher of science.
Harvest Baptist Church in Blacksburg is sponsoring a local visit by Ortner next week. He will present programs at 6:30 Monday through Thursday in Squires Student Center's Haymarket Theatre at Virginia Tech.
Ortner promises a different program each night, so you're welcome to see one or all four. Admission tickets are $1.
For more information, call Harvest Baptist Church at 552-1267.
FLOWERS, FLOWERS EVERYWHERE: Chrysanthemums, asters, petunias, zinnias, snapdragons and roses, roses, roses - there's a fragrant treat waiting for you in Pearisburg.
The Giles County Historical Society is putting on a flower show to benefit the Andrew Johnston House museum and restoration fund. It's Sunday from 3 to 5 p.m. at the museum on North Main Street.
The show is also presented by the Rose Garden Club of Narrows, the Newport Village Garden Club and the Pearisburg Garden Club.
Admission Sunday is only $2 for adults or $1 for students. The fee includes refreshments.
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