Ouachita’s Division of Music presents the Ouachita Singers, Women’s Chorus in concert Oct. 8
September 24, 2019
- Gracie StoverOuachita Baptist University’s Division of Music will present a joint program featuring
the Ouachita Singers and Women’s Chorus on Tuesday, Oct. 8, at 7:30 p.m. The concert,
to be held in McBeth Recital Hall in Mabee Fine Arts Center, is free and open to the
public.
“The program has been selected to be diverse, educational, entertaining and enjoyable
for the students and, of course, for the audience,” said Dr. Natilan Crutcher, visiting
assistant professor of music and director of the Women’s Chorus. “It is a mixture
of selections ranging from spiritual arrangements by Mark Hayes to an a capella piece by George and Ira Gershwin.”
The concert will begin with the Women’s Chorus performing Craig Hella Johnson’s arrangement
of “Will There Really Be a ‘Morning?’” and René Clausen’s “Barter.” They also will
perform Mark Hayes’ arrangement of “Wade in the Water,” as well as George and Ira
Gershwin’s “Embraceable You,” arranged by Kirby Shaw. The Women’s Chorus will conclude
its portion of the concert with Brian Lewis’ “Benedictus” and the traditional spiritual
piece “Dry Bones” arranged by Mark Hayes.
Next, the Ouachita Singers will perform “No Hidin’ Place” arranged by Moses Hogan
and “The Mighty Power of God” arranged by Mark Hayes. The Ouachita Singers will then
continue with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s “Veni Sancte Spiritus K. 47,” “It Is Well
with My Soul” arranged by Craig Courtney and Elaine Hagenberg’s “O Love.” They will
then perform Eleanor Daley’s “My Master from a Garden Rose” and “Heavenly Home” arranged
by Shawn Kirchner.
Dr. Crutcher and Joshua Brown, instructor of music and director of choral activities
at Ouachita, are both new conductors to the university’s singing groups.
“We have some hymn settings that people might know and enjoy, but I think the greatest
reason to come to the concert is our students,” said Brown, director of the Ouachita
Singers. “In my short time here, I have seen how talented and passionate they are,
and their performance will show all they have accomplished this far into the semester.
I know that whoever comes will be moved by what they hear.”
For Ouachita Singers member Emma Pitts, a senior choral music education major from
Clarksville, Ark., the community she has found in the Division of Music and the Ouachita
Singers “is really what makes me love my major.”
“We become like family for one another, and we get to create beautiful music together
which binds us in a really special way that can be life changing for many of us,”
Pitts said.
The Women’s Chorus will be accompanied on piano by Kristen LaMadrid, Ouachita staff
accompanist, and the Ouachita Singers will be accompanied by Dr. Mary Chung, assistant
professor of music at Ouachita.
For more information, contact Joshua Brown at [email protected] or 870-245-5143.
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