What's Up - Your guide to what's happening in Fayetteville, AR this week!
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DECEMBER 31, 2017-JANUARY 6, 2018 WHAT'S UP! 3 MAY 10. Masterworks III: La Bohème — Music director Paul Haas says it will unlike anything else ever presented by the Symphony of Northwest Arkansas. "The final Masterworks concert will be staggering in scope, starting with the first act of Puccini's best-known opera, 'La Boheme,' and blowing the roof off after the intermission with Strauss' 'Zarathustra,' best known as the opening soundtrack from '2001: A Space Odyssey'," May 5, Walton Arts Center. INFO — 443-5600. 11. Homegrown Greatest: The Music of Florence Price — "Florence Price's (1887-1953) music is romantic, lyrical, soulful and beautiful," says John Jeter, music director of the Fort Smith Symphony. "She was the first African- American female composer to have a symphony performed by a major American orchestra. She is considered the most prominent, historically significant concert composer of her race and gender in American music history. The Fort Smith Symphony will be the first orchestra to ever record her complete cycle of four symphonies." Jeter points out that the 2018 concert, which takes place on May 12, will be the first time Price's Symphony No. 4 in D Minor (1945) has "ever been performed, ever." The sheet music was copied from a handwritten manuscript in Special Collections at the University of Arkansas. And then for two days after the concert, the orchestra will be recording her first symphony and her fourth for Naxos Records, the label for which the musicians recorded the music of William Grant Still. INFO — 452-7575. JUNE 12. Artosphere — Billed as "Arkansas' arts and nature festival," the Walton Arts Center event will be June 10-23. Mark your calendars now for some of the most popular events: Dover Quartet's concert at St. Paul's, June 12; AFO concert at Crystal Bridges Museum, June 15; Garden Party, Trail Mix and Off the Grid, June 16; Artosphere Festival Orchestra 10x10 concert, June 19; AFO Finale, June 23. INFO — waltonartscenter.org/ artosphere. JULY 13. "Georgia O'Keeffe and Contemporary Art" — Building on Crystal Bridges' collection of significant works by Georgia O'Keeffe, the museum has brought together a selection of O'Keeffe's most important creations as the centerpiece of a unique exhibition set for May 26-Sept. 3. Alongside these iconic artworks by the mother of American Modernism, the exhibition features artworks by a select group of emerging contemporary artists that evoke, investigate and expand upon O'Keeffe's artistic legacy. INFO — crystalbridges.org. 14. Flicker World Tour — Niall Horan, a former member of arguably the biggest boy band of the last decade, One Direction, embarks on a world tour in support of his debut solo album "Flicker," which features the sexy global hit "Slow Hands." Rising country/blues singer Maren Morris joins Horan at the Walmart AMP at 7 p.m. July 21. INFO — arkansasmusicpavilion.com. AUGUST 15. "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" — The Biblical saga of Joseph and his coat of many colors comes to life in this musical parable by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, July 27 to Aug. 12, Arkansas Public Theatre in Rogers. This colorful production features a huge cast of adults and children. INFO — 631-8988. SEPTEMBER 16. Shiloh Museum Turns 50 — The Springdale museum opened on Sept. 7, 1968, and will celebrate with a family-centered party and an adult party in September 2018. The staff has spent two years doing all the refurbishing of its galleries, and the last one, which starts with prehistoric Northwest Arkansas and ends with white settlers, will open in time for the festivities. INFO — 750-8165. 17. Taylor Swift World Tour — Sept. 8 at Arrowhead Stadium in KC, Sept. 18 at the Dome at America's Center in St. Louis or Oct. 6 at AT&T Stadium in Dallas. INFO — taylorswift.com. NOVEMBER 18. "Noises Off " — A fictional show titled "Nothing's On" crumbles during its 10-week run, and the audience watches the demise from backstage. A play within a play, with doors slamming, on and offstage intrigue, and clever dialogue, it's often called the funniest farce ever written, Nov. 8-11 & 14-17 at Fort Smith Little Theatre. INFO — fslt.org. Jocelyn Murphy contributed to this list. COVER STORY Courtesy Photo "RENT" returns to the road for its 20th anniversary tour in 2018. File Photo/DAVID GOTTSCHALK Curtis Morris, exhibits manager at the Shiloh Museum of Ozark History, and Carolyn Reno, collections manager, prepare to hang a Depression-era scythe during renovations at the Springdale museum, which will celebrate its 50th birthday in September.