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MILLIGAN COLLEGE, TN (Mar. 22, 2007) —John Wakefield, associate professor of music at Milligan College, will present a faculty voice recital on Friday, Mar. 23, at 7:30 p.m. in the Walker Auditorium of Seeger Memorial Chapel, located on the Milligan College campus.
Wakefield’s recital will include selections of Handel, Schubert, Fauré, Verdi and Debussy. The presentation will close with a group of English and American songs, including the ballad “Shenandoah” and the great American spiritual “Deep River.”
Milligan alumnus Joel Buckner will serve as accompanist. The Milligan String Quartet and David Runner, harpsichordist and professor of music at Milligan, will be featured in the performance of the Buxtehude Cantata “Mein Herz ist bereit” (My Heart is Steadfast), a setting of Psalm 57 by Dietrich Buxtehude.
Wakefield, a bass, is a graduate of MacMurray College in Jacksonville, Ill., and Northwestern University School of Music in Evanston, Ill., where he studied voice under Hermanus Baer. He also studied voice with the late Robert McCollum of the School of Music at the University of Michigan.
Wakefield serves as conductor of the Milligan College Concert Choir and teaches voice. He is a member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing and the American Choral Directors Association. He currently is pursuing a doctorate of ministries degree in liturgical studies at University of the South in Sewanee, Tenn.
The recital is free and open to the public. For additional information, contact the Milligan College music office at 423.461.8723.