Ouachita Concert Choir to perform spring concert May 1
April 13, 2018
- Jessica WilliamsonOuachita Baptist University’s Concert Choir will perform its annual spring concert
Tuesday, May 1, at 7:30 p.m. in Mabee Fine Arts Center’s McBeth Recital Hall on Ouachita’s
campus. The concert is free and open to the public.
The theme of the concert is “An Evening of Glorias.” It will feature the “Gloria”
text set by three composers: Antonio Vivaldi, Randall Alan Bass and John Rutter. Esther
Atkinson, a senior musical theatre major from Rogers, Ark., will be the featured soloist
in the Vivaldi selection.
“Getting to finish off my senior year with singing such a great work by a fantastic
composer with a dedicated and hardworking choir behind me is such an honor,” Atkinson
said. “It’ll be a memory that I treasure forever.”
“This is an unusual concert in which the text is the same for all three works, but
the music is vastly different,” said Dr. Gary Gerber, director of the choir and dean
of Ouachita’s School of Fine Arts. “It is interesting to see how the composers interpreted
the Gloria text and composed their music. The students have enjoyed learning these
works and are excited about presenting them at the concert.”
The choir will be accompanied by organist Bart Morrison and pianist Glenda Aldridge.
For more information, contact Dr. Gary Gerber at [email protected] or (870) 245-5128.
By Jessica Williamson
April 13, 2018
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