This Week in the Visual and Performing Arts: April 19-26

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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences will hold several events in the coming week including concerts, art exhibitions and plays. Students, faculty staff and guests are encouraged to attend these performances in the visual and performing arts.

The department of music will host an opera workshop at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 19, in the Fine Arts Center’s Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall. Also on Friday, the UA Jazz Ensemble will perform with guest saxophonist and composer Greg Yasinitsky at 7:30 p.m. in the Arkansas Union Theatre.

The University Theatre’s production of Stephen Sondheim’s Tony-award winning musical Company will open at 8 p.m. Friday, April 19, in the Fine Arts Center’s University Theatre. Tickets are available in the Fine Arts Center box office and are $3 for University of Arkansas students, $14 for faculty and staff, $16 for adults, $14 for seniors and $7 for children. Tickets may also be purchased online at http://drama.uark.edu. The show will conclude April 28.

Saturday, April 20, Jacob Hilton will give a tuba recital at 1 p.m., Sean Sweeden will give a percussion recital at 6 p.m. and Jennifer Fox will give a trumpet recital at 8 p.m., all in Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall.

Bailey Stephens will give a violin recital at 1 p.m. Sunday, April 21, and Ashley Anne Watson will give a voice recital at 6 p.m., both in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall.

Diego Plata will give a flute recital at 7 p.m. Monday, April 22, in Giffels Auditorium and the Campus Band and Wind Symphony will give a concert at 7:30 p.m. at Fayetteville High School’s Fine Arts Center.

Also on Monday, Stephen Gates, professor of music, will give a cello recital at 7:30 p.m. in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall.

Master of fine arts student Kat Wilson’s exhibit, Portrayal, will open Monday in the Fine Arts Center Gallery and will be on display until Friday, April 26, with a closing reception at 6 p.m. Friday.

The Concert Band and Wind Ensemble will give a concert at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 23, at Fayetteville High School’s Fine Arts Center.

Jessica Warr will give a clarinet recital at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 24, in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall.

The UA Tuba and Euphonium Quartets will perform at 6 p.m. Thursday, April 25, and the UA Horn Choir will perform at 7:30 p.m., both in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall.

Amber Lomolino will give a euphonium recital at 7 p.m. Friday, April 26, in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall.

Continuing events include Jewish Studies Beyond the Holocaust and Crafted Identities.

As part of the Beyond the Holocaust series, an exhibit titled Jewish Studies Beyond the Holocaust: Arkansas, History and the World remains on display in the Helen Robson Walton Reading Room in Mullins Library until Saturday, April 20.

Hosted by sUgAR Projects: Student Pop-Up Gallery, Crafted Identities: Honors thesis work by Emily Chase, Melissa Love and Jeanne Vockroth remains on display until Thursday, April 25, in the East Square.

This is not a comprehensive list. Please refer to the University of Arkansas events calendar for more information. All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.