OBU ensembles to present “PRISM”

ARKADELPHIA — The Ouachita Baptist University Instrumental Music Department will present “PRISM,” a concert featuring Ouachita’s instrumental ensembles, at 7:30 p.m Tuesday, April 20, in the Jones Performing Arts Center.

Craig Hamilton, OBU’s Lena Goodwin Trimble Professor of Music and director of bands, said the name “PRISM” was chosen to represent “different aspects of the instrumental program on one program.”

It also describes the “mixture of different types of instrumental music and ensembles” presented in the performance, Hamilton said.

The concert will feature Ouachita’s Wind Ensemble, Saxophone Quartet, Percussion Ensemble, Saxophone Orchestra, Trombone Choir, Flute Choir and Woodwind Quintet.

There will also be featured soloists from various sections, as well as a finale of Keith Brion and Loras Schissel’s arrangement of John Philip Sousa’s “Stars and Stripes Forever” by the OBU combined band.

The concert is free and open to the public.

For more informat ion, contact the OBU School of Fine Arts at (870) 245-5129.