'Sunday Afternoon Live'

MADISON -- "Sunday Afternoon Live from the Elvehjem" welcomes Alexandre Dossin, piano; Richard Fletcher, clarinet; and Paul Kosower, cello, on Sunday, Jan. 26, at 12:30 p.m. in Brittingham Gallery II.

These three UW-Eau Claire music faculty members will play together Brahms' Trio for Clarinet, Cello, and Piano op. 114. Dossin will then play solo piano works, including the Chopin G minor Ballade, Schubert Impromptus, Apres une Lecture du Dante of Liszt, and the Toccata, op. 11 of Prokofiev. Born in Brazil, Dossin is an international performer who has placed high in several European competitions.

There will be a reception after the performance; a free docent-led tour of the Elvehjem Museum begins at 2 p.m.

"Sunday Afternoon Live from the Elvehjem" is a free weekly chamber music series presented by the Elvehjem Museum of Art and Wisconsin Public Radio, with the cooperation of the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Music.

The series, hosted by music commentator Lori Skelton, is broadcast live on Wisconsin Public Radio stations, including WERN, 88.7, Madison.

WATERTOWN -- The Council for the Performing Arts welcomes the western trio New West to Watertown on Saturday, Feb. 8, at 7:30 p.m.

The trio features the harmonies of lead vocalist Mike Fleming, lead guitarist and mandolin player Raul Reynoso, and bassist Dave Jackson.

New West was founded in California in 1995, with the band striving to create an original country sound. The group has won three songwriter awards from the Academy of Western Artists and the 1999 Will Rogers Award for Best Group in Western Music.

The threesome incorporates jokes and shares stories with the audience, giving a personal touch to their shows. All original songs and music are blended to include blues, gypsy bluegrass, jazz, and country music.

This performance will take place at the Watertown High School Auditorium, 825 Endeavour Dr.

Tickets are $15 for adults, $14 for seniors, and $10 for students. They are available by phone with Visa or MasterCard by calling the CPA at 920-674-2179.

FOND DU LAC -- Marian College's Sabre Show will present "All That Jazz" during five dates in February at Marian's Hornung Student Center and another date at Milwaukee's 1451 Renaissance Place on Saturday, March 8.

The Sabre Show is in its 18th season at Marian College. The annual performance by the Marian College Music Department, is a benefit for Marian music scholarships.

The schedule includes the following dates with special dinner offerings:

Friday, Feb. 14 and 21: fish fry performance with buffet style fish fry at 7 p.m. The Sabre Show performance follows dinner.

Saturday, Feb. 15 and 22: Evening dinner performances at 7:15 p.m. The Sabre Show performance follows dinner.

Sunday, Feb. 23: A Sunday brunch performance at 11:30 a.m. followed by a buffet style brunch at noon. The Sabre Show performance follows the brunch.

Saturday, March 8: The Milwaukee Matinee performance will be held at 1451 Renaissance Place in Milwaukee. Hors d'oeuvres served at 3 p.m., followed by a 4 p.m. Sabre Show performance.

For more information or to make reservations call Karla Schrieber at 920-923-7602 or contact her by e-mail at kschrieber@mariancollege.edu.

SINSINAWA -- "Animals - Wild and Otherwise," an exhibit by Rockford artists Jean Apgar and Peg Sowle, will be held Feb. 2 to March 29 at the Sinsinawa Mound Gallery. A reception will be held Sunday, Feb. 2, from 1 to 3 p.m.

The artists concentrate on animal imagery, each in her own media and style. Sowle's oils on canvas are highly personalized portraits of individual animals. Apgar's animals, in watercolor and hand-painted silk, are more universal in depiction, with the intention of presenting the individual animal more as a representative of the species.

The Mound Gallery is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. The adjoining bookshop is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday.

For more information on Mound events, call 608-748-4411 or visit the Web site at www.sinsinawa.org. Sinsinawa Mound, the motherhouse for the Sinsinawa Dominican Sisters, is located in southwest Wisconsin on Cty. Rd. Z, off Hwy. 11.

MADISON -- Edgewood College presents faculty members Joseph Testa, tenor, and Trevor Stephenson, fortepiano, in a music scholarship benefit recital on Saturday, Jan. 25, at 7 p.m.

Tickets $7 for general admission, $5 for students and seniors, and $3 with Edgewood ID - are available at the door. For more information, call 608-663-2845.

MADISON -- Habitat for Humanity's seventh annual "Souper Bowl" is set for Saturday, Jan. 25, at West High School's cafeteria from 4 to 8 p.m.

A soup supper and a handcrafted ceramic bowl to take home are available for $10. Funds go to University of Wisconsin and high school students for the construction of a Habitat house next fall in the new Twin Oaks subdivision.