by Justin R. Hunter | Mar 29, 2018 | Events, Musical Performances
The Department of Music in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences and the UARK Collegiate Chapter of the National Association for Music Education are excited to host the second Northwest Arkansas...
by Justin R. Hunter | Mar 16, 2018 | Events, Musical Performances
The Department of Music in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences is proud to announce the 2018 Music Honors Recital. After months of preparation and a day of auditions, 12 student-musicians have been selected as the...
by Stephen E. Caldwell | Mar 13, 2018 | Events, Musical Performances
The music starts with the faint repeating strike of a single note on a marimba, a sound very much like that of a persistently beeping heart monitor. From there, a musical world unfolds that takes the listener inside a CVICU along side families...
by Elecia Smith | Feb 14, 2018 | Events, Musical Performances
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – A three-day celebration of the little-known life and work of Florence B. Price, an Arkansas native and the first major female African-American classical composer, will be held Feb. 15-17 at the University of Arkansas and the Arends Art Center in...
by Justin R. Hunter | Jan 29, 2018 | Events, Musical Performances
The 2018 Black Music Symposium starts this week. This year’s symposium, titled “Shaping American Music,” features workshops, lectures and concerts in the Jim and Joyce Faulkner Performing Arts Center. All events are free and open to...
by Er-Gene Kahng | Jan 18, 2018 | Events, Musical Performances
Photo courtesy of Special CollectionsFlorence Price. Courtesy of Special Collections FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – A recently discovered violin concerto by Florence Price, an African-American composer and Arkansas native, is available on CD for...