Ouachita Stories

Ouachita Baptist University’s Wind Ensemble will present a concert at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 9, in Jones Performing Arts Center on Ouachita’s campus. The concert is free and open to the public.

“I am excited for the fall concert this year,” said Dr. Craig Hamilton, conductor of the ensemble and Ouachita’s Lena Goodwin Trimble Professor of Music and director of bands. He added that the students performing have worked hard preparing a “concert that has a little something for everyone.”

The concert will feature music by composers of varying styles, beginning with Patrick Dunnigan’s edition of Beethoven’s “March in F,” which is followed by Paul Hindemith’s “Geschwindmarsch,” a selection based on Beethoven’s “March in F.”

Continuing, the program will feature “Hebrides” Suite by Clare Grundman based on Marjory Kennedy-Fraser’s Collection, “Songs of the Hebrides,” followed by “French Impressions” by Guy Woolfenden. “French Impressions” is inspired by four paintings by French artist Georges Seurat. Next, the ensemble will perform Gordon Jacob’s chamber setting “More Old Wine in New Bottles” and Peter Mennin’s masterpiece “Canzona.”

The ensemble will conclude the concert with “Reflections on an English Hymn (Jerusalem)” by Carl Strommen and “Echoes of the Hollow Square (Suite of Shaped Note Tunes for Band)” by Johnnie Vinson. “Echoes of the Hollow Square” refers to the seating arrangement used at shaped note singings in which each voice part forms a side of a square with the singers facing the center.

For more information, contact Dr. Craig Hamilton at [email protected] or 870-245-5137.

By Ben Harrington