Week 4, April 2018

The final full Monday-to-Sunday week of April, next week at the time of this post, is chock full of good options from our Top-25 list of venues. Again, I run the series at the museum, so I've highlighted in blue the Pifers' oboe-piano concert for A Little Lunch Music. They're both amazing musicians, and Poulenc is on the program.

It's getting hard to make a pick of the week among the others because I know so many people involved, but I'm pretty sure nobody cares what I think, which is comforting. At the risk of losing the respect of the left-brain-jazz-only crowd, I think I'll go with the Ben Tankard (bentankard.org) gospel/smooth-jazz concert in Tuskegee.

But the Indian Music/Steel Drum concert on Monday in Auburn will be cool. Also look at Red Baraat in Birmingham. They were on NPR's Tiny Desk series. The East Alabama Arts Association musical will be very good. The AU/Community Orchestra concert will feature a Rachmaninoff concerto played by AU piano head Jeremy Samolesky. And everything at Standard Deluxe is top shelf. -PMc

Local

• Apr. 23 :: Auburn Indian Music Ensemble and Steel Drum Band Concert http://www.cla.auburn.edu/events/calendar/indian-music-ensemble-and-steel-drum-band-concert/

• Apr. 23 :: Auburn University Guitar Ensemble http://www.cla.auburn.edu/events/calendar/guitar-ensemble/

• Apr. 24 :: Marie/Lepanto at Standard Deluxe https://undertowshows.com/collections/marie-lepanto/products/waverly-al-april-24

• Apr. 25 :: Auburn University Brass Quintet http://www.cla.auburn.edu/events/calendar/brass-quintet/

• Apr. 26 :: Duo Echo feat. oboist Jennifer Pifer and pianist Joshua Pifer at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art http://jcsm.auburn.edu/event/a-little-lunch-music-spring-2018/2018-04-26/

• Apr. 26 :: The Piano Man in Piccolo (Kenny on the Keys) https://www.auhcc.com/about/auburn-event-calendar

• Apr. 26 :: A gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder presented by the East Alabama Arts Association http://www.eastalabamaarts.org/gglam

• Apr. 26 :: Auburn University/Community Orchestra feat. pianist Jeremy Samolesky http://www.cla.auburn.edu/events/calendar/orchestra/

• Apr. 27 :: Beth Wood in concert presented by the Sundilla Acoustic Concert Series http://www.sundillamusic.com/beth-wood-friday-april-27-730-pm-at-the-auuf/ 

• Apr. 28 :: Auburn Cityfest feat. the Tony Brook Band, Dogwood Lung, the Medicine Tail Singers, and the Auburn King Sejong Institute https://www.auburncityfest.com <--warning: video auto-play

• Apr. 28 :: The War and Treaty and Caleb Caudle at Standard Deluxe http://standarddeluxe.com/shop/warandtreaty4/28

• Apr. 28, 29 :: Auburn University Singers Show http://www.cla.auburn.edu/music/events/

Tuskegee

• Apr. 28 :: Instruments of Praise feat. Ben Tankard in Concert and the David Banks Gospel Jazz Experience at Tuskegee First United Methodist Church https://www.eventbrite.com/e/instruments-of-praise-featuring-ben-tankard-in-concert-tickets-43619539216

Columbus

• Apr. 23-29 :: Schwob School of Music student ensembles and recitals including the piano studio, the Wind Orchestra, and the low brass studio https://events.columbusstate.edu/calendar/category/college-of-the-arts/music/

• Apr. 26 :: Urban Bush Women: Hair & Other Stories at RiverCenter http://www.rivercenter.org/event/urban-bush-women-hair-and-other-stories/

• Apr. 27 :: Jazz@TheLoft with Schwob Jazz Orchestra in The Green Room https://www.theloft.com/new-events/2017/11/3/jazztheloft-with-csu-jazz-quartets-l6b4e-mehtn-y32c4-prsng-f268x-8kmjw-gmx6w-r3har-7dh38

• Apr. 28 :: Black Market Research at The Loft https://www.theloft.com/new-events/2018/4/28/black-market-research

Montgomery

• Apr. 24 :: Hermitage Piano Trio presented by the Montgomery Chamber Music Organization http://www.montgomerychambermusic.org/concerts.html

LaGrange

• Apr. 24 :: LaGrange Symphony Orchestra presents "The World's Embrace" with guest violinist Richard Cho http://www.lagrangesymphony.org/world/

Atlanta

• Apr. 26, 28, 29 :: Atlanta Symphony Orchestra presents "Prokofiev and Beethoven: Two Big Personalities Take on the Classical Symphony" feat. oboist Elizabeth Koch Tiscione http://www.atlantasymphony.org/ConcertsAndTickets/Calendar/2017-2018/CS20-Prokofiev-Mozart-Beethoven

• Apr. 28 :: "Carmen" presented by the Atlanta Opera https://www.cobbenergycentre.com/events/detail/carmen

Birmingham

• Apr. 26 :: Red Baraat at Alys Stephens Stephens https://www.alysstephens.org/events/red-baraat/