ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Friday, October 25, 1996 TAG: 9610250037
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-3 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
COLUMN: out & about
SOURCE: DONNA ALVIS-BANKS
Hear that?
It's the swoosh of dry leaves in the moonlight, the cackling of witches in black, the whisper of wings in the shadows.
It's the whistle of your breath in the wind.
It's the thump-thump-thump as your heart quickens its beat.
It's the sound of Halloween.
Keep your ears open this week for the clanging-clinking-jangling-thudding-creaking-groaning-moaning music of the season. You'll hear it all around the valley.
Halloween carnivals, dances, parties and haunted houses (even haunted hotels!) are among the offerings for all ages.
Little ones will enjoy making their own scarecrows or dressing up for the trick-or-treating in downtown Radford. Teens may want to check out the special concert at Christiansburg's 180 Club or join in storytelling around the campfire at Radford University's Buchanan House on Halloween night.
Even big folks can get all dressed up and do some flatfooting or shagging at the masquerades.
To find all the Halloween fun, it will boo-hoove you read today's Current calendar.
Well it wouldn't be Halloween without at least one scary pun!
HURRY!: If you haven't reserved your spot for Saturday's tour of sites in Christiansburg sketched by folk artist Lewis Miller, pick up the telephone.
The Montgomery Museum & Lewis Miller Regional Art Center will observe the artist's 200th birthday with a car tour of local places he visited during his stay here in 1856 and 1857. Miller is considered one of the foremost early American folk artists.
Before his death and burial (1882) in Christiansburg's Craig Cemetery, Miller lived his last years with relatives at the Craig House, originally called "Hans Meadow." He was born in 1796 in York, Pa., the son of German immigrants.
Saturday's tour starts at 10 a.m. at the museum on Pepper Street and includes visits to the Craig House, the Charles Miller House, Christiansburg Presbyterian Church, the Old Methodist Church (now McNeil Realty) and the Old Virginia Inn Hotel (now an antiques store) in Christiansburg. A stop at the Old Brick Presbyterian Church on Radford's Rock Road is planned, too.
After a visit to Miller's gravesite, folks on the tour will head to Stone's Cafeteria for lunch. The meal is on your own and the fee for the tour is $10. Drinks and snacks are provided.
To register for the tour, call the museum, 382-5644; Carole Anderson, 382-2799; or Ann Bailey, 639-0351.
SILVERY SOUNDS: The Emrys Ensemble, a chamber group founded three years ago by cellist Lisa Liske-Doorandish and pianist Katharine Boyes (then graduate students at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music), will give a performance at 3 p.m. Sunday in Virginia Tech's Squires Recital Salon.
Liske-Doorandish is now a teacher at the Renaissance Music Academy of Virginia based in Blacksburg. She has performed with Opera Roanoke, the Chamber Orchestra of Southwest Virginia and the Roanoke Symphony.
Boyes is a doctoral candidate at the Cincinnati Conservatory and is active in classical music there.
Lisa Bazuzi, a violist from Blacksburg, and Chester Burke, a flutist from Annapolis, Md., will join the two for Sunday's concert. They'll play three trios, as well as a duo for flute and cello. The full quartet will perform C.P.E. Bach's Piano Quartet in G Major.
Tickets are $5 and you can buy them at the door.
RRRRRRHYTHM! You may have trouble sitting still Wednesday when the University Percussion Ensemble and the University Marimba Ensemble join forces for an 8 p.m. concert. It's in Squires Recital Salon on the Virginia Tech campus.
John Floyd directs these rhythm makers. They'll play Alan Hovaness' "October Mountain" and Terry Riley's "In C," both standard American pieces for percussion, as well as works by William Byrd, Alice Gomez, Emery Alford and Franz Joseph Haydn.
Tickets are $2 and will be sold at the door.
HEADLINERS: Mike Tyson. Snoop Doggy Dogg. Tupac Shakur.
You've read about them. Now meet a man who writes about them.
Kevin Powell, a writer for Vibe magazine, will give a free talk Wednesday in Radford University's Preston Auditorium. It starts at 8 p.m.
Powell, who also hosts and produces "Vibe Five," a Home Box Office entertainment and news show, has done cover stories on many black celebrities in the news. His essays, articles and reviews also have appeared in Rolling Stone, Essence, Emerge and The New York Times.
Powell's talk at Radford University will focus on the music, politics and culture of black urban youth. It's sponsored by the university's Black Awareness Programming Board.
VOICES, VOICES: Four different choirs from Radford University will unite for a concert at 8 tonight in Preston Auditorium. The event features music by American composers and the introduction of two new conductors: Orin Johnson and James Daugherty.
Johnson, a graduate assistant, will lead the University Chorus in several works. Daugherty, who just finished his doctorate in choral music at Florida State University, will direct the University Chorale.
David Castonguay, Radford's director of choral activities, leads the University Chorus in "All That Hath Life and Breath Praise Ye the Lord" and "The Lamb." The Radford Singers will perform "At the Round Earth's Imagined Corners," "The Coolin'," "Heart Not So Heavy as Mine" and "Great Day."
Admission tonight is $3 for adults or $1 for children. Those with RU identification get in free.
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