An eclectic evening planned

“From Mozart to Ellington: An Evening with Nicholas Kees, The Nicollet String Quartet and Robert Murphy” will be presented at 7:30 p.m. May 1 at the Widespot Performing Arts Center in downtown Stockholm.

Performing in addition to Kees, a clarinet player, and Murphy, a pianist, will be Katherine Christenson and Shirley Decker on violins; Pat Kelly on viola; and Tim Perry on cello.

The program will open with “Overture on Hebrew Themes Op. 34,” by Sergei Prokofiev; followed by “Divertimento” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and then “A Little Suite of Jazz,” including Duke Ellington’s “Sunday Coming,” George Gershwin’s prelude “Lullaby,” and Ellington’s “Reflections in B.”

The second half of the evening will feature “Quintet for Clarinet and Strings KV. 581” by Mozart.

Tickets are $8. For information, visit the center at N2030 Spring St. in downtown Stockholm, or call (715) 307-8941, or go online to www.widespotperformingarts.org.

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