Ouachita Stories

Ouachita Baptist University’s Division of Music will host Jeremy Prine in his senior vocal recital and Emily Tucker in her junior piano recital March 2. The recital will be held at 11 a.m. in Mabee Fine Arts Center’s McBeth Recital Hall on Ouachita’s campus and is free and open to the public.

Prine is a senior church music major from Hazen, Ark. He has been named to Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges and has been involved in Kappa Kappa Psi national honorary band fraternity and Eta Alpha Omega men’s social club.

His portion of the recital will begin with “Vaghissima Sembianza” by Stefano Donaudy,  followed by “Das Fischermädchen” by Franz Schubert and “Gott Lob, Gott Lob” from J.S. Bach’s “Cantata No. 160.” Prine will continue with “Ici-bas” by Gabriel Fauré, “Go, Lovely Rose” by Roger Quilter and “It Was a Lover and His Lass” by Eric Coates. He will conclude with “Total Eclipse” from George Frideric Handel’s Samson, “He That Keepeth Israel” by Adolf Schlösser and “Eternal Life” by Olive Dungan. Prine will be accompanied on the piano by Terri Lucas.

Tucker is a junior piano performance major from Hot Springs, Ark. She has earned first place in numerous piano competitions including the Arkansas National Federation of Music Clubs auditions, the Hot Springs Music Clubs Scholarship Competition and OBU’s Virginia Queen Piano Competition. She has also earned the Little Rock Musical Coterie Queen Piano Award and earned honorable mention in the Trinity Presents Collegiate Showcase.

Her portion of the recital will begin with “Toccata in G Major” by J.S. Bach, followed by the first movement of “Sonata K.310” by W.A. Mozart and “Reflections in the Water” by Claude Debussy. Tucker will conclude with Frédéric Chopin’s “Barcarolle, Op. 60.”

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