Ouachita Baptist University’s Department of Theatre Arts will host its annual student-directed One-Act Play Festival on Thursday, Dec. 6, and Friday, Dec. 7. The performances will begin at 7:30 p.m. and are free and open to the public. As the name suggests, the One-Act Play Festival will feature the performances of several plays, but each with their own director, cast…read more →
Ouachita Baptist University’s Division of Music will host the annual W. Francis and Mary McBeth Ouachita Wind and Percussion Concerto Competition on Friday, Dec. 7. The event is free, open to the public and will be held in McBeth Recital Hall of Ouachita’s Mabee Fine Arts Center from 3-5 p.m. The event is sponsored by Mrs. Mary McBeth in honor…read more →
Ouachita Baptist University will present its annual Service of Lessons and Carols on Tuesday, Dec. 4, at 7:30 p.m. in Ouachita’s McBeth Recital Hall in Mabee Fine Arts Center. The service is free and open to the public. A Service of Lessons and Carols is unique among Ouachita’s Christmas festivities; its focus is coordinating scripture with music, and the service…read more →
Ouachita students, faculty and Arkadelphia community members gathered on Thursday, Nov. 1, at Ouachita Baptist University, where Dr. Steven Garber presented a guest lecture titled “Meaningful Work for the Common Good.” Ouachita hosted Garber as a continuation of the campus-wide focus on “Lives of Meaningful Work,” a phrase from the university mission statement. Garber is the author of “Visions of…read more →
Ouachita Baptist University’s steel drum bands will come together to present their fall concert on Monday, Dec. 3, at 7:30 p.m. in Ouachita’s McBeth Recital Hall in Mabee Fine Arts Center. The concert is free and open to the public. “This will be the first Ouachita Steel Drum Band concert to feature not just two, but four different steel bands!”…read more →
Ouachita Baptist University’s School of Fine Arts will present its annual A Festival of Christmas performances on Friday, Nov. 30, and Saturday, Dec. 1, both at 7:30 p.m. in Jones Performing Arts Center. The theme for this year’s production is “Let Us Adore Him.” “There is a song that begins the second half of the program titled ‘Let Us Adore…read more →
Ouachita Baptist University will host the Honor Choir in concert on Saturday, Nov. 17, at 3 p.m. in McBeth Recital Hall, located in Mabee Fine Arts Center. The Honor Choir features elementary students from the Arkadelphia public schools who have been preparing for the concert with the help of Ouachita music education majors. This semester, Ouachita’s music education majors have…read more →
Ouachita Baptist University’s Division of Music will host Caylee Blocker in her senior voice recital on Friday, Nov. 16, at 11 a.m. in McBeth Recital Hall in Ouachita’s Mabee Fine Arts Center. The recital is free and open to the public. Blocker, a senior choral music education major from North Richland Hills, Texas, explained that her recital is a story…read more →
Ouachita Baptist University’s Division of Music will present its Jazz Band in concert on Monday, Nov. 5, at 7:30 p.m. in Jones Performing Arts Center on Ouachita’s campus. The concert will be open to the public, and admission is free. “The audience will enjoy an evening of great music,” said Dr. Craig Hamilton, Lena Goodwin Trimble Professor of Music and…read more →
Ouachita Baptist University Opera Theatre will present Gian Carlo Menotti’s radio opera The Old Maid and the Thief Nov. 1-4. Shows will run Thursday, Nov. 1, through Saturday, Nov. 3, at 7:30 p.m. with a matinee performance on Sunday, Nov.4, at 2:30 p.m. in Jones Performing Arts Center. This one act, comic radio opera—which was adapted for the stage following…read more →
