The SUNY Oneonta Apollo Music Club's presentation of the contemporary opera "Little Women" concludes tonight at 8 in the Goodrich Theater in the Fine Arts Building on the Oneonta campus.
Based on the novel by Louisa May Alcott, the opera will feature a 19-member cast, including Stephen Markuson of the SUNY Oneonta Music Department and Hartwick College adjunct music lecturer Johanna Arnold in the roles of Mr. and Mrs. March.
The show is free for SUNY Oneonta students and $10 for the general public. For tickets, go to http://tickets.oneonta.edu.
Members sought for choral society
The Catskill Choral Society will hold auditions for new singers Thursday at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 12 Ford Ave. in Oneonta.
The spring concert will be May 11 and 12, featuring Handel's "Messiah." The group is directed by G. Roberts Kolb.
Rehearsals are 7 to 9:30 p.m. Thursdays at the church.
To schedule an audition, call 431-6060. For more details, go to www.catskillchoralsociety.org.
Theater group to stage 'God'
The Cardboard Alley Players of Hartwick College will present "God" by Woody Allen at 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday, Feb. 17, in the Lab Theater, which is in the basement of the Bresee Hall on the school's Oneonta campus.
Admission is free, with viewer discretion advised because of language, gestures and partial nudity.
For details, call 431-4227.
'Princess' to be screened at Hall
The Cabin Fever Film Series will present the 2009 animated Disney movie "The Princess and the Frog" at 7 p.m. today at the Baseball Hall of Fame, at 25 Main St. in Cooperstown.
The final movie in the series will be the 1995 film, "Cry, the Beloved Country," which stars James Earl Jones as a South African preacher. The screening will be at 7 p.m. Feb. 17 at the Fenimore Art Museum, at 5798 State Highway 80 in Cooperstown. For more details, call 547-1400.
Night of Mideast music set for Tues.
The Catskill Conservatory will present a night of Middle Eastern music at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Turkish musician Oguz Kaan Birhekimoglu will be joined by American players Max Buckholtz and Nikolai Ruskin.
The program will focus on Ottoman court music, following the Sufi tradition, along with Turkish Sephardic and Jewish Moldavian pieces.
The concert will be in Sanford Auditorium, also known at IRC classroom No. 3 on the SUNY Oneonta campus.
The concert is free and open to the public. For more details, call 436-3419.
Orpheus to present Mardi Gras gala
Orpheus Theatre will present a Mardi Gras Gala & Auction at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 18, at St. Mary's Parish Center on Walnut Street in Oneonta.
The event will include food, auctions, music, dancing and more.
For more information, call 432-1800.
CAA seeks pieces for student show
The Cooperstown Art Association seeks artwork from Otsego County high school students for "An Artistic Discovery," a Congressional High School Art Competition.
Six students part of the 24th Congressional District will receive ribbons for their work, which will be exhibited at Munson-Williams-Proctor Art Institute in Utica. One winner from the state will have his or her work displayed in the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C.
The categories are painting, drawing, collage, printmaking, mixed media, computer-generated artwork and photography. Each student may submit up to two two-dimensional pieces.
Artwork should be delivered from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 25, to the CAA at 22 Main St. in Cooperstown.
The show will be March 2 through 23.
For more information and specific rules, call 547-9777.
