The Daily News-Journal from Murfreesboro, Tennessee • 8

8 Thursday, Jan. 24, 1991, Murfreesboro, Tenn. THE DAILY NEWS JOURNAL Mid-South calendar On stage Farewell Tour" at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 14 in Jackson Hall at TPAC in Nashville.

Tickets are $25 $35 and $50 and are available by calling 741-7777 or 1-800- 333-4849 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday. For more information, call 329-3033. Go West presents Mark Chesnutt and Marty Brown in a 7 p.m.

per-' formance at 328 Performance Hall on Tuesday. The hall is located at 328 4th Avenue S. in NashviDe. Tickets, at $10, are available at all TicketMaster outlets. Call 259-3288.

Tennessee Repertory Theater joins ranks with the Nashville music industry to premiere a new musical drama called "A House Divided" through Feb. 3 at TPAC, The drama historic parchment and multimedia exhibit will travel for 16 months as part of the two-year bicentennial celebration of the ratification of.the Bill of Rights. Call 1-800-231-7000. AREA ATTRACTIONS Creative Arts Festival featuring women in a variety of the arts is scheduled for 10 a.m. Saturday at Belmont Mansion of Nashville's Belmont College, to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Middle Tennessee Women's Studies Association.

Songs, photographs, mixed media collages and poems will be included in the program. Call Margaret Meggs at 343-7808 or Jan Rosemergy at 322-8240. SHOWS The first Grand Slam USA Baseball Card Show will be Feb. 2at Grand Slam USA in Smyrna. Admission is free.

Hours are 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Charlie Mitchell and various other Nashville Sounds will be guests. Tables are still available. For more information, call John McGill at 893-1140.

Cumberland University will host its ourth annual Baseball Card Show Saturday at the Lebanon National Guard Armory, located on-Leeville Pike, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Special guest will be Tom Browning, pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds. Admission to the exhibit is $3 per person. For more information, call 444-2562 or 449-5796.

890-7820; tonight: The Hammer Heads, Jaime Kyle; Friday: Walk The West, Dancing With Ellie; Sunday: 12 O'CIock High, Intent City; Tuesday: Jackson Edwards; Wednesday: Tall Paul; Jan. 31: Mel And The Party Hats; Feb. 1: Jerry Dale McFadden, Rattle Shake; Feb. 2: Valentine Saloon, Hard Corps. MANUEL'S CAJUN COUNTRY STORE, Milton Road (near state Route 96 East); Friday and Saturday: TheCajuns.

Nashville's Winter Wonderland of Dolls will be held Saturday and Sunday at the Marriott Hotel at -Briley Parkway and Elm Hill Pike in Nashville. Doll collectors and dealers from more than a dozen states will gather Saturday to attend seminars, swap doll collecting information and view a doll display, Sunday, the doll show and sale is -open to the public with a $2 admission for adults from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Call 373-1652. The Original Bi of Rights Exhibit will be in the National Guards Armory, Nashville, as part of a 50-state tour from Feb.

1-8. This BARNEY'S, 2209 N.W. Broad 890-0301; tonight through Saturday: Heaven And Earth; Tuesday: Writer's night hosted by Tommy Holland; Jan. 31-Feb. 2: Foyer Thyzonlee.

BORO BAR AND GRILL, 1211 Greenland Drive, 895-4800; Friday: Nigel Paul. CITY LIMITS, 2146 Thompson, Lane, 893-3999; tonight through Saturday: Michael Blake And Mixed Company; Wednesday: Bill Nichols and Wade T. Dye; Jan. 31-Feb. 2: Michael Blake And Mixed Company.

JUUtfLU SiFOKTi- UAK LOUNGE, 5353 New Nashville Highway (at Florence Road), 895-1634; Friday and Saturday: Sparky And Our Gang. 527 MAINSTREET, 527 W. Main show, round-trip trolley passes to -TPAC and a strolling fashion show, Tickets are $38 and reservations are required by 6 p.m. Sunday by calling 254-1892. For more information, call Chaffin's Barn presents Alfred Uhry's "Driving Miss Daisy! through Feb.

16. The barn is open Tuesday through Saturdays. The AII-You-Can-Eat Buffet is served from 6 to 7 :30 p.m. and the show begins at 8 p.m. Admission is $23, which includes dinner, show and tax.

Call 646-9977 for more information. MUSIC The Stones River Chamber. Players and the Tennessee Dance Theatre will present "The Soldier's Tale" Friday and Saturday at the Z. Alexander Looby Center, MetroCenter Boulevard, across from AMC Cinema in Nashville. Both performances at 8 p.m.

Call 862-8456 Riders in the Sky, Nashville's Western music trio, is slated to perform at 7 30 p.m. Friday at 328 Performance Hall on Fourth Avenue in Nashville with doors opening at 6:30 p.m. Proceeds benefit Hospital Hospitality House, a place for family members of patients in area hospitals to sleep and eat at no charge. Other groups also to perform. Tickets are $10 for adults, $3 PARTHENON STEAK HOUSE, 1935 Church 895-2665; tonight: Best Saturday: Larry Pinkerton; Sunday, Monday and Wednesday: William Richardson; Dec.

27: Best Of Friends; Dec. 28: Larry Pinkerton; Dec. 29: William Richardson. for children ages 6-12, and are available at Hospital Hospitality House (329-0477), Ticketmaster, Leader Federal offices and at the door. Blair School of Music presents several events, including foremost horn player and master teacher Philip Farkas in a Master Class Workshop Feb.

2, 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 (p.m. Registration is $20 if received before Monday. Late registration is $25. Also, Jeni Slotchiver will appear in a solo piano performance Feb, 3 p.m.

in Recital Hall. Concert admission is $5. Cornelia Heard will perform in a violin recital Feb. 4 at 8 p.m. in Recital Hall.

Admission is free. For more information, call The Nashville Recorder Consort will present a free concert of Me- dieval and Renaissance music as part of the Cheekwood Chamber Series at 1 p.m. Tuesday in the Stallworth Gallery. Musicians will be in period costumes with authentic instruments. Cheekwood is located on Fdrrest Park Drive between Belle Meade Boulevard and Highway 100.

Call The Nashville Symphony Orchestra bresents Rudolf Nureyev in a special Valentine's Day performance of "Nureyev Friends The is a musieal saga of self deter- mination, family loyalties and deep-seeded traditions during the years when America went to war with itself. Limited seating is available for each show. Call 244- 4878 for more information. ART MTSU will present recent works by Carlyle Johnson, drawings and lithographs, and Lon Nuell, water-colors, through Wednesday in The Barn Gallery. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday from 8 a.m.

Saturday from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Sunday from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Tennessee State Museum presents Civil War drawings done by soldiers and professional artists during and directly after the Civil War through March 17. For more information, call 741-2692.

Greater Nashville Arts Founda- tion for the Metro Nashville Arts Commission presents Studio Art 91 through March 17 at Metro Arts Downtown Gallery in Church Street Center. The exhibit features art by university-level studio faculty from Middle Tennessee and two-and three-dimensional works by teachers from the Appalachian Center for Crafts, Austin Peay, Belmont, David Lipscomb, MTSU, TSU, Tennessee Tech and Vanderbilt. A public reception is scheduled Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m. Hours are Monday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.

and Sunday noon to 5 p.m. For more information, call 254-9224. ree wo od wil I rf a i A orces TV Warner Park Nature Center presents, Trees in Winter, a program to teach winter characteristics of trees, such as bark, buds and leaf, scars for identification, Friday and Saturday from 9 to 11:30 a.m. and 1 to 3 p.m. The morning session will include a slide show and course on how to use an identification key.

After lunch the group will take a tree hike to practice winter tree identification in the field. Call 352-6299 for more information. Cheek wood Botanical Gardens and Fine Arts Center presents an exhibition of "Creepy Crawlers" featuring 40,000 bugs through Feb. 17. Bugs in the exhibit range in size from the head of a pin to 10 inches long.

For more information, call 4 41 i -y Co fl Country music star Lee Greenwood, and Walt Disney World have joined forces to salute America's Armed Forces with a special one-hour concert to. be broadcast live Feb. 3 to the troops of Operation Desert Storm and military personnel in over 130 countries and aboard Navy ships at sea. The originating from the Walt Disney World Resort, will be carried by the Armed Forces Radio and Television Service (AFRTS). The TV broadcast will air at 11 a.m.

(8 p.rnunSaudi Arabia on AFRTS); the radio broadcast, at 7 p.m. Greenwood will debut a new. song, "The Great Defenders." Like the it is dedicated to the thousands of troops on active duty in the Middle East. "On behalf of all my friends at Walt Disney World and through the magic of we here within the safety of our country's shores, send this gift of entertainment to, hopefully, lighten the hearts and brighten the days for all of America's sons and daughters, pa rticularly-those participating in Operation Desert Storm, says Greenwood. Bob Matheson, chief of med Forces Television in Los Angeles, upon previewing "The Great Defenders," said, "This song could equal the popularity of "God Bless the U.S.A." among military service men and women who consider Lee Greenwood to be their poet laureate." Families of military personnel will "reach out and touch" their loved ones through taped messages to be aired during the shows.

The 7 p.m. concert will be simulcast on many of the 27 com- 353-2146. Cumberland Science Museum presents Kids on the Block Puppet Show from 10:30 a.m. to noon Saturday with special puppets who portray children with handicaps. Also Saturday, Tim Hill will present a Nashville Electric Service pro- gram from 1 to 3 p.m.

using film and a scale model of power poles and lines to show how to play it safe with electricity. THEATER The Pull-Tight Players Theater will present the comedy "Any Wednesday" at Brentwood's Maryland Farms Country Club off Franklin Road in Brentwood Friday-and Saturday with dinner beginning at 6:30 and curtain at 8 p.m. Ad- mission is $25 for the show and buf- -fet. For reservations, contact Maryland Farms at 373-2900. Also, "Blithe Spirit" a comedy, opens Feb, 1 and continues Feb.

2, 7-10, 14-16, with performances at 8 p.m. at Franklin Community Theatre. Tickets $6.50 for adults, $5 for students under 17. Call 790-6782. Tennessee Performingrts Center presents "Singular Sensations on Broadway" Wednesday beginning at 5 p.m;, designed for singles to meet and enjoy food, people and the play "Love Package includes cocktail supper and one drink at The Merchants Restaurant, top-priced seating at the basis by Armed Forces Radio.

The show-finale will feature Greenwood performing the popular "God Bless The U.S.A." at Pleasure Island to a sea of smiling faces with flags, fireworks and a special message for America's "great defenders" COME HOME SOON. Boston young Swiss in Ruetli Meadow above Lake Lucerne, where Switzerland's founders signed their pact of Everlasting Alliance in 1291. A big folk festival occurs in Brunnen Aug. 2-4. The Festival of Solidarity focuses on Switzerland's interactions with the world community.

On June 14, International Relations Day, Switzerland's federal cabinet receives representatives from foreign governments in Bern. An international symposium for artists from all continents takes place Aug. 12-25 at Chur (in Grau-buenden). For full schedules, contact the Swiss National Tourist Office, 608 Fifth New York, N.Y., 10020. Swissair's Swiss Travel Invention Program offers reduced hotel and car rental rates in conjunction with flights ticketed from March 31-Oct.

31. Call 1-800424-3424. If Europe seems too far, try BOSTON where the International Cultural Festival runs through March 24. It is celebrating 11 countries, each with a week-long program highlighting cuisine, business customs, fashion, political issues, fine and applied arts. Japan, Greece, Israel, Italy, France and Brazil are among the countries being honored.

A sampling of events include lunch with. Japanese Rei Kawakubo, a dinner dance to benefit Brazil's rain forest, a global affairs reception with professors from MIT and Harvard. Children's events include a presentation of the Smithsonian Institution's Insect Zoo. For ihe 'Great Defenders' Country music star Lee Greenwood takes Main Street U.S.A. to the Middle East during a special to be broadcast to the troops in Desert Storm Feb.

3, Greenwood, at Walt Disney World, will sing a new song called "The Great Defenders." Tips for cultural travel trips mercial radio stations broadcasting shows live from the Walt Disney World Resort Feb. 3-4. will provide the program via satellite to The Armed Forces Radio and Television Service in Los Angeles for distribution worldwide. The radio concert will be carried on a delayed Europe, pose musical pieces or visit listening rooms. The Summer Festival, July 26-Aug.

31, stages six major Mozart operas, including "Cosi fan tutte," "Don Giovanni" and "The Magic Flute." The Salzburg Marionette Theater performs five Mozart operas throughout the year. In Vienna, concerts are planned for churches and in the open air (Schonbrunn Palace Theater from July 4-14), with soloists Luciano Pavarotti and Placido Domingo. The Vienna State Opera's Mozart Festival, May 10-June 8, will perform Mozart operas in German- and Italian; Vienna Volksoper stages the principal operas in German. For schedules, contact the Austrian National Tourist Office, 500 Fifth New York, N.Y. 10110.

Austrian Airlines, 1-800-843-0002, will help ticketed passengers buy hard-to-find tickets to the Mozart events. SWITZERLAND celebrates the 700th anniversary of confederation with pomp and ceremony throughout cities and towns, from valleys to mountaintops, and with a year-long series of events and exhibitions organized into three major festivals. Recognizing Switzerland's French, German, Italian and Romansch heritage, the Festival of the Four Cultures will present music in Geneva, folklore and photography exhibits in Fribourg, sculpture in Bern and painting and architecture in Neuchatel. These regional festivities will culminate in a concentrated agenda of exhibitions, concerts and ballet in Lawsanne June 15-30. The Festival of Confederation begins July 31 with a gathering of (OfU)) (mY DOUBLE ROLLS Pre-pasted, vinyl coated, lm 1 1 II top quality.

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28-March Early Music Festival, medieval, renaissance, baroque and classical styles, April 6-14; Dublin International Piano Competition, April 20-May 1. Also scheduled are the Dublin Literary Festival, June 16-28, with special Bloomsday celebrations on June 16; Dublin Puppet Festival, mid-July, and Dublin Theater Festival, Oct. 6-19. In May, two new museums, the Irish Museum of Art and Dublin Writers' Museum, open their doors. For schedules, contact the Irish Tourist Board, 757 Third New York, N.Y., 10017.

Aer Lingus offers "sale fares" on round-trip tickets purchased before Feb. 28. Phone 1-800-223-6537. From New York or Boston to Shannon, $499; to Dublin, $529. Chicago to Shannon, $599; to Dublin, $629.

AUSTRIA, with a splendid performance and exhibition roster, leads the world in commemorating the 200th anniversary of Mozart's death -Dec. 5, 1791. In Salzburg, the composer's birth city, "Mozart in Picture and Sound" from March 23-Nov. 11 chronicles his life and times, offering creative interaction as spectators try to com offe I.