Osher Lifelong Learning Institute hosts an afternoon of theater & music, Nov. 2

From a press release:

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute hosts an afternoon of theater & music, Nov. 2

The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UNC Asheville will host an afternoon of theater and musical performances on Sunday, Nov. 2 in UNC Asheville’s Reuter Center. Asheville Community Theatre’s Autumn Players will give a performance of Other Desert Cities at 2:30 p.m., followed by a “Sundays with Brevard Music Center” solo recital by pianist Craig Nies at 5 p.m.

Other Desert Cities, written by Jon Robin Baitz and directed by Anita Chapman, involves a family with long-held secrets and diverging political views. The play balances comedy and intense family drama, and will be performed as reader’s theater. Admission is $6 at the door.

Nies is associate professor of piano at Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music, and also servies on the faculty at Brevard Music Center. His performances have included work with 10 Pulitzer Prize-winning contemporary composers as well as Bach’s complete Well Tempered Clavier and Goldberg Variations. He will perform works by Bach, Schubert, Chopin and Ravel. This performance is free and open to the public.

To learn more about “Sundays with Brevard Music Center,” visit brevardmusic.com; for more information about the Autumn Players, visit ashevilletheatre.org. For more information about OLLI, visit olliasheville.com or call 828.251.6140.