Pasadena native P.J. Hornberger will be represented by her wood carvings and paintings of country scenes, while Wisconsin's Joel Huntley will show off his glazed stoneware and traditional redware bean pots and soup tureens. Admission is free. The concerts, being staged tonight and Saturday evening, will feature Johnson's Big Blue Sound Band in new arrangements of traditional big-band jazz numbers and salutes to such great women of jazz as Liz Gray, Carolyn Blanchard, Gloria Edward and Vickie Davis. Admission is free. Presented by the Houston chapter of the United States Amateur Ballroom Dancers Association, the free program will feature more than 40 ballroom-dance demonstrations by talented amateurs and top professionals, according to organizers.
Admission is free.
The free Texaco Fiesta Sinfonica Familiar program, under the direction of conductor in residence Stephen Stein, will be presented Sunday evening at Jones Hall. Tickets are free and will be available at the Jones Hall box office on the evening of the performance. Leaping into the season Houston Ballet leaps into its 1997-98 season with a world premiere at the Wortham Theater Center. The Four Temperaments, featuring music by Hindemith, and Jiri Kylian's Sinfonietta, with music by Leos Janacek. While the Beazley collection includes items dating from 1878 to the present, museum officials say its primary focus is the first half of the 20th century, considered the heyday of the great liners.