Memorial Concert Honoring Music Professor to be Held Wednesday, Dec. 3

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Eddie Jones

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Students, colleagues, family and friends will celebrate the life of Eddie Jones with a chorale concert, “Praise the Lord! Celebrating the Life of Dr. Eddie Jones,” at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 3, in the Walton Arts Center. Jones, an associate professor of music at the University of Arkansas and beloved educator, mentor and friend, died in October at age 62.

The concert is free and open to the community, and all are invited to join members of the Department of Music as they celebrate a life that touched so many.

“I truly believe that our lessons went beyond teaching me how to sing,” said Abby Carr, music student and member of the International Chorale. “They were life lessons that I will carry with me forever. Of all the years I spent with Dr. Jones, he made me feel so incredibly special, but only after his passing did I realize that I was not the special one, he was.”

The concert will feature the Collegiate Chorale, Women’s Chorus, Concert Choir, Schola Cantorum and Inspirational Chorale with solos by Carr, along with fellow music students Morgan Aldridge, Katie Anderson, Judd Burns, Tory Farnell, Imane McDonald and Nathan Olson. Aldridge and Carr will deliver remembrances of Jones during the concert. They will be joined by fellow student Jacob Campbell and music department faculty members Ronda Mains, Stan Morris and W. Dale Warren.

 “Knowing Eddie Jones has been one of life’s greatest joys,” said Morris, associate chair of the Department of Music. “If you had never known Eddie and were to ask me today, ‘Who is Eddie Jones?,’ I would say to you with absolute certainty, ‘Eddie Jones is a man of faith and action.’” 

The program, which will run approximately two hours, including a 20-minute intermission, is as follows:

Collegiate Chorale

• Hallelujah! from Christ on the Mount of Olives by Ludwig van Beethoven

Women’s Chorus

• Heaven, rain your tears down from above and Let the earth be opened, and send a savior from Rorate coeli,  arr. Caldwell/Ivory
• Do not stand at my grave and weep by Laura Farnell
• Go, where I send thee, arr. Caldwell/Ivory

Concert Choir

• Hark, I hear the harps eternal, arr. Parker
• If I got my ticket by Roy Belfield
• Roll, Jordan, roll by Stacey Gibbs

Schola Cantorum

• I’m gonna sing ‘til the spirit moves in my heart, arr. Hogan
• Joshua fit the battle of Jericho, arr. Hogan
• Elijah Rock, arr. Hairston
• Steal Away, arr. Carter     
• There is no rose of such virtue by Kevin Memley
• Ain’-a that good news!, arr. Dawson
• Ezekiel saw de wheel, arr. Dawson

Inspirational Chorale

• Every Praise by Hezekiah Walker
• Didn’t my Lord deliver Daniel by Ollie Watts Davis
• Healing by Richard Smallwood   
• I’ll never turn back no mo’ by Hall Johnson
• Changed by Walter Hawkins
• Precious Lord, arr. Eddie Jones
• Blessing of Abraham by Donald Lawrence