THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Sunday, May 5, 1996 TAG: 9605030182
SECTION: PORTSMOUTH CURRENTS PAGE: 12 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: BY IDA KAY JORDAN, STAFF WRITER
LENGTH: Medium: 53 lines
Olde Towne Portsmouth will be bustling today with art exhibit openings, musical performances and horseback riders.
The traditional Music for an Olde Town Afternoon with three garden concerts will begin at 2 p.m. at locations on North Street and Glasgow Street.
Downtown art galleries will be open with new exhibits and receptions.
Portside will be alive with a Portside Boat Show and music by Andy Hengle.
The Olde Towne Portsmouth Ride with mounted police and horseback riders from the region will roam the waterfront from the Naval Shipyard to Hospital Point and the streets of Olde Towne.
The ride is sponsored by the Friends of the Mounted Patrol in Portsmouth and members will sell apples and carrots on the street for those who want to feed the horses.
Receptions are scheduled at Olde Towne Gallery, corner of High and Court streets, and at Potrafka Gallery on Washington Street.
``The View of the World,'' paintings by Thomas Cole, will open at Olde Towne with a reception from 2 to 5 p.m.
``Through a Lens Clearly,'' an exhibit by 14 Photoworks Artists who work out of the Torpedo Factory in Alexandria, and a vault exhibit by the local Elizabeth River Artists will open Potrafka with a reception from 1 to 5 p.m. An acoustic concert by Melvin's Flea Circus will begin at 7 p.m. at the gallery.
Photographers in the Photoworks group are from Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia. They come from a variety of backgrounds including not only art but medicine, engineering, education, business and mathematics. The diversity of their backgrounds increases the diversity of their style, content and vision.
Music for an Olde Towne Afternoon, sponsored by the Portsmouth Music Study Club, has scheduled a diverse group of mini-concerts, including soprano Sherry Hatfield of Norfolk, teno-guitarist Mario Bensen of Portsmouth and the Jubilee Brass Band of Chesapeake.
They will be presented in three gardens with the audience walking from one concert to another. The locations include the Hill House, 221 North St.; Mr. and Mrs. William Leitner's home, 215 Glasgow St.; and the Glasgow Street Park between Middle and Court streets.
In case of rain, all three programs will be presented at Monumental United Methodist Church, Dinwiddie and Queen streets.
In addition to the Music Study Club's programs, the Virginia Children's Choir, directed by Carol Thomas Downing, will sing at Trinity Episcopal Church, corner of High and Court streets, at 4 p.m. by CNB