Ouachita Baptist University Wind Ensemble sets next performance
ARKADELPHIA — The Ouachita Baptist University Wind Ensemble will perform at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 30.
The concert will be held in Jones Performing Arts Center on Ouachita’s campus. The concert is free and open to the public.
“I’ve most enjoyed making music with my friends, the students,” said Craig Hamilton, Ouachita’s Lena Goodwin Trimble professor of music and director of bands. “I hope (guests) enjoy the music. I hope they appreciate the talent and time that it takes to present this concert. I hope it takes them on a journey — maybe to escape reality for a moment.”
The concert will begin with “A Celebration Overture” by Bruce Broughton, “Illyrian Dances” by Guy Woolfenden, “Pacem, A Hymn for Peace” by Robert Spittal, “Bugs” by Roger Cichy, “Fantasy on American Folk Songs” by Dwayne Milburn and “Saddle Up!” by Stephen Hill.
“Saddle Up!” was written specifically for the Ouachita Wind Ensemble by Hill, a Ouachita graduate, who now lives in California as a music educator and composer.
The concert will conclude with Maurice Johnstone’s arrangement of “English Dances for Band, set 1” by Malcolm Arnold.
The concert also will be livestreamed at http://www. obu.edu/band. For a full list of students in the Wind Ensemble, visit http://www.obu.edu/ news. Email Hamilton at hamiltonc@obu.edu or call 870-2455137 for more information.