Ouachita Horn Choir and Trumpet Ensemble to perform Oct. 25
October 18, 2012 - Cara Curtis
Ouachita Baptist University will present a brass concert on Thursday, Oct. 25, in
McBeth Recital Hall. The 7:30 p.m. concert will feature the university’s Horn Choir
and Trumpet Ensemble. Dr. Heather Thayer, OBU assistant professor of music, will conduct
the concert.
Thayer has conducted concerts at Bowling Green State University and Hebron High School
but this will be her debut concert at OBU. She said the concert will seek to trace
the French Horn’s history from its beginnings to modern times.
“I wanted to make it a little more interesting,” she noted. “People could see a little
and learn a little.”
The program will begin with the trumpets playing the first two movements of Erich
Wolfgang Korngold’s “Three Fanfares,” “Con Festivita” and “Boldly.” Thayer will then
present a brief narration, “Origins of the Horn” before the French horns perform the
anonymously written “Heimkehr von der Jagd” and “Horn Quartet” from “Divertimento
No. 6” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
The trumpets will then present “Sonata for Two Trumpets” by Antonio Vivaldi before
the French horns play Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Prayer Op. 48, No.1.” Next, the trumpets
will return to perform Mark Nightingale’s “Hillbilly” before the French horns performance
of Kenneth D. Friederich’s transcription of “Ave Maria” by Anton Bruckner.
The trumpets will perform on last selection, “Tres Amigos Menos Uno” by Bruce Chidester,
before the French horns conclude the concert with Anna English’s arrangement of “Narnia:
The Battle” by Harry Gregson-Williams.
French horn musicians will include: Kelsey Bates, a senior instrumental music education
major from Marion, Ark.; Teddy Cross, a senior music major from Benton, Ark.; Anna
English, a junior English major from Coppell, Texas; Megan Graves, a junior music
major from Hot Springs, Ark.; Grace Hevron, a sophomore choral music education major
from Duncanville, Texas; and Elizabeth Lawson, a sophomore music major from Texarkana,
Texas.
Trumpet musicians will include: Deborah Caldwell, a senior instrumental music education
major from Siloam Springs, Ark.; Megan Massey, a junior instrumental music education
major from Weatherford, Texas; and Lindsay Palmer, a freshman instrumental music education
major from Idabel, Okla.
The concert is free and open to the public. For more information, contact OBU’s School
of Fine Arts at (870) 245-5129.
By Cara Curtis
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