Ouachita Stories

Ouachita Baptist University’s Division of Music will host Allison Austin in her sophomore recital on Friday, April 29, at 11 a.m. The performance will be held in Mabee Fine Arts Center’s McBeth Recital Hall and is free and open to the public.

Austin, a sophomore musical theatre major from Mena, Ark., is a member of the Carl Goodson Honors Program, Alpha Psi Omega national theatre honor society, Sigma Alpha Iota international music fraternity for women and the Student National Association of Teachers of Singing. She is also involved in Women’s Chorus and performed in Ouachita’s 2015 Muse Project theatre production, “Second Star to the Right.”

Austin will begin her recital by performing Jule Styne’s “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend” from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, followed by a scene from Talley’s Folley by Landford Wilson. She will then perform Claude Michel-Schönberg’s “Woman” from The Pirate Queen and Jimmy Roberts’ “A Stud & A Babe” from I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change. Phyllis Walker, Ouachita staff accompanist, will accompany Austin.

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

 

By Rachel Gaddis