Ouachita Stories

Ouachita Baptist University’s Division of Music will host Kinsey Ann Carpenter and Shannon Hunt in their senior choral music education recitals Friday, Oct. 28, at 11 a.m. in McBeth Recital Hall on Ouachita’s campus. The recital, which is free and open to the public, will be followed by a reception in Hammons Gallery.

Carpenter, a native of Memphis, Tenn., is the daughter of Jesse and Sharon Carpenter of Memphis. She has been involved in Ouachita Singers, Pi Kappa Lambda national music honor society, Ouachita Student Foundation and Kappa Delta Pi international honor society in education. She has also been a recipient of OBU’s Rachel Fuller Endowed Scholarship and has been named to Ouachita’s President’s List. Carpenter is a student of Robin Williams, OBU lecturer in music, and a former student of Amanda Harper and Cindy Fuller.

Hunt, a Longview, Texas, native, is the daughter of Steve and Sharleen Hunt of Longview. She has also been a recipient of OBU’s Rachel Fuller Endowed Scholarship and has been named to Ouachita’s President’s List. She has been involved in Ouachita Singers, Pi Kappa Lambda national music honor society and Kappa Delta Pi international honor society in education. Hunt is a student of Robin Williams, OBU lecturer in music, and will be accompanied on the piano by Susan Monroe, staff accompanist.

“As music majors, our senior recital is the culmination of our years at OBU,” Hunt said. “It shows our competency for each genre and language in the arts.”

“Shannon and I have grown so much as musicians and people at OBU,” Carpenter added. “We hope our senior recital is a celebration of how far we’ve come during our time at Ouachita.”

The recital will begin with a duet, Antonio Vivaldi’s “Laudamus te,” which Carpenter said is a particular favorite of hers. “It is a song of praise to God with the text, ‘We praise thee. We bless thee. We worship thee. We glorify thee,’” she explained. “I hope our entire recital will be an enjoyable experience for the audience and an offering of praise, blessing, worship and glory to God.”

Carpenter will continue with J.S. Bach’s “Ich folge dir gleichfalls” from St. John Passion. She will be assisted on the flute by Aubrey Elliot, a senior instrumental music education major from Bentonville, Ark. Hunt will then perform W.A. Mozart’s “Alleluja” from Motet: Exsultate, jubilate. She will be assisted on the trumpet by Chris Sumner, a senior instrumental music education major from Needville, Texas.

Carpenter will return to perform “1. Romance” and “2. Les Cloches” from Claude Debussy’s Deux Romances, followed by Hunt’s performance of Franz Schubert’s “Gretchen am Spinnrade.” Carpenter will then perform “Un Moto di Gioja” and “Deh vieni, non tardar” from W.A. Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro.

Hunt will then perform another selection from Le Nozze di Figaro, “Non so più cosa son,” followed by Gabriel Fauré’s “Mandoline” and Nicolas Dalayrac’s “Jeune fillette.”

For Carpenter’s final solo selections she will perform Lucy Simon’s “How Could I Ever Know?” from The Secret Garden and John Prindle Scott’s “The False Prophet.” Hunt’s final solo selections will then include H. Lane Wilson’s “Carmeña” and Aaron Copland’s “Laurie’s Song” from The Tender Land.

The pair will conclude the recital with another duet, Stephen Sondheim’s “Our Time” from Merrily We Roll Along.

For more information, contact OBU’s School of Fine Arts at (870) 245-5129.

By Brooke Zimny