Award-winning violinist slated at JCCC

Overland Park Violinist Elmar Oliveira will perform at 8 p.m. Saturday in the Carlsen Center at Johnson County Community College, 12345 College Blvd.

His program will include “Sonata in A Major K305” by Mozart; “Sonata” by Elgar; “Sonata No. 2” by Bloch; “Liebesfreund” by Kreisler; “Melodie” by Gluck/Kreisler; and “Hopak” by Mussorgsky/Dushkin.

Paul Laird, a musicologist at Kansas University, will give a preconcert talk at 7 p.m.

Oliveira remains the first and only American violinist to win the Gold Medal at Moscow’s Tchaikovsky International Competition. He is also the first violinist to receive the Avery Fisher Prize. He is a two-time Grammy Award nominee.

Tickets are $25 and $20 and are available at the Carlsen Center Box Office, (913) 469-4445.

Ottawa show takes on ‘old time’ flavor

Ottawa “An Old Time Radio Show” will be performed at 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday and 2:30 p.m. Feb. 10 at the Carnegie Cultural Center, Fifth and Main.

Performers include Ann Havenor, Daryl Gloshen, Tim and Kim Conard, John Duran, John White, Forrest Lowry, Debbie Reeves, Lisa Fowler, Judy Lydick, Emily Wasser and Dar Welborn.

Admission is $5 for adults and $3 for children 12 and younger. For tickets, call (785) 242-8478 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesdays-Saturdays.

‘Gothic at Midnight’ mixes horror, humor

Overland Park Actor Joshua Kane is offering “an evening in the parlor of a mad uncle” in his one-man show, “Gothic at Midnight,” which mixes scary and humorous storytelling.

The show is at 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday in the Carlsen Center at Johnson County Community College, 12345 College Blvd.

Kane draws from Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce and George Bernard Shaw and a repertoire of original stories, myths and international folklore.

Tickets are $18 for adults and $9 for youths and are available at the Carlsen Center Box Office, (913) 469-4445.

KC jazz musicians gather for concert

Kansas City, Mo. Jazz performer Tim Whitmer will have a CD release party at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Unity Temple of the Plaza, 707 W. 47th St.

He and the Tim Whitmer Jazz Consort will perform all the songs on the CD, “Kansas City Standard Time.” Special guests are Myra Taylor and Rusty Tucker.

Admission is $6 for adults and free for those under 16.

Subject of movie to speak in Topeka

Topeka Joe Clark, the subject of the movie “Lean on Me,” will speak at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Andrew J. and Georgia Neese Gray Theatre at Washburn University, 17th and Jewell streets.

A former Army drill instructor, Clark is credited for having transformed a crime-ridden inner-city high school in Patterson, N.J., into a model institution of higher learning during the 1980s. He has appeared on “60 Minutes” and in Time magazine.

There is no admission charge, but tickets are required. For tickets, call (785) 231-1010, extension 2002.