Natilan Crutcher, visiting assistant professor of music at Ouachita Baptist University, directs the school's Women's Chorus.

PRESS RELEASE

by Angela Webb

ARKADELPHIA, Ark.—Ouachita Baptist University’s Division of Music presents the Women’s Chorus in concert Tuesday, April 26, at 7:30 p.m. in McBeth Recital Hall, 455 Campus Drive. The concert is free and open to the public.

The choir will perform John Leavitt’s arrangements of Kenneth B. Edmonds’ and Stephen L. Schwartz’ “When You Believe” from The Prince of Egypt and “Steal Away” by Wallace Willis; Mark Hayes’ arrangement of “Look to the Rainbow” by Burton Lane and Yip Harburg from Finian’s Rainbow; Linda Spevacek’s arrangement of “Out of My Dreams” by Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein II from Oklahoma; Mac Huff’s arrangement of Stephen Sondheim’s “Send in the Clowns” from A Little Night Music; “The Prayer” by David Foster and Carole Bayer Sager, arranged by Tom Fettke; and “Music Down in my Soul,” based on a traditional African American spiritual and arranged by Moses Hogan. The choir will be joined on piano by Ouachita collaborative pianist Kristen LaMadrid.

“This program offers a variety of pieces featuring classical, musical theatre, sacred and spiritual genres,” said Dr. Natilan Crutcher, visiting assistant professor of music at Ouachita. “It is always my desire to provide a well-rounded and diverse educational experience for the Women’s Chorus, as well as for the audience that will experience it in our concerts. I believe this program does just that and more. You’ll find some well-known arrangements mixed in with some that you may not have heard before or often. The members of Women’s Chorus have worked hard on this program, and we can’t wait to share it.” 

To learn more about the Ouachita Women’s Chorus, contact Dr. Natilan Crutcher at [email protected] or at (870) 245-5144.