HOT SPRINGS VILLAGE -- Hot Springs Concert Band will present its annual autumn concert at Woodlands Auditorium at 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 20.
The concert is sponsored by Community First Trust. Tickets are $12 and can be purchased online at http://www.hsvticketsales.com, from the Woodlands ticket office, or from any band member.
"We have a new twist on this concert," said Millie Gore Lancaster, director of Public Relations for the band. "This is the first time that the band's five associate conductors will conduct the band at a concert. The associate conductors rehearse the band when our principal conductor, Dr. Craig Hamilton, must miss a rehearsal due to his duties at Ouachita Baptist University, but they have never conducted us at a concert."
Each associate conductor has selected one number that he will direct the band on, and Hamilton will conduct the rest of the concert.
The associate conductors include Ken Williams, who currently directs the band programs at Malvern schools, and Claude Smith, who recently retired as principal of Searcy High School, having directed bands there for nearly 30 years.
Bill Crook, owner of Crook's Music Service in Hot Springs, is the conductor of Hot Springs New Horizon Band, a member organization of the Hot Springs Community Band Inc.
Village residents Bill Morgan and Hal Thompson are both retired band directors and school administrators who will be conducting at the concert. Morgan's public-school music and administration career was in Dallas, and Thompson's was in the Chicago public schools.
Entertainment on 10/13/2019