Faculty Recital 2004

For my faculty recital in 2004 I decided to revive a program I had done at Millikin back in 1990 that I had called The Golden Age of Musical Theatre.

Salli and I had a lot of fun with it, and we got a nice little blurb in the Tribune.

Faculty Recital 2003

Salli Parker and I did another recital for the Classical Concert Series at LTCC in February of 2003. Salli gave me a little break by performing a few solo pieces herself.

The Tahoe Daily Tribune had a nice article about it.

Faculty Recital 2002

In January of 2002 I did another recital for LTCC's Classical Concert Series with Salli Parker. This time I also asked Saundra Chaon to do the Act I duet from La Bohème with me. I'm pretty sure we transposed part of it so I only had to do a high Bb in "Che gelida manina."

The college was always good about getting publicity out to the local media.

Faculty Recital 2001

I did several solo recitals with LTCC's Music Department piano instructor, Salli Parker, as part of my tenure evaluation process. This one in January of 2001 was part of John Perry's Classical Concert Series.

We got a little blurb in the Action and the Tahoe Daily Tribune.

Faculty Recital 1991

Wow, I guess I felt like I needed to keep busy back then. This faculty recital was the first time I had sung in Norwegian. I had gotten a hold of a book that had International Phonetic Association (IPA) transcriptions of many of Edvard Grieg's songs. I especially liked "Jeg elsker dig" as the melody and chromaticism are quite beautiful. I'm not sure why the article says the recital was February 3 and the program says March 5. It's unlikely I did it twice, so maybe just a typo.

Faculty Recital 1990

Since Millikin had a Bachelor's degree in Musical Theatre and I was one of the faculty who had more experience in that area, I decided for my faculty recital I would do a program of musical theatre songs from the "Golden Age of Musical Theatre" from the 1920s to the 1940s. I asked Maria to accompany me and we had a great time putting this recital together. Also I had started working on tenor repertoire, and even though others had suggested I could be a tenor, I believe this was the first time I billed myself as one.

DMA and Faculty Recitals 1988

I started teaching Voice part-time at Millikin University in Decatur, IL in the Fall of 1987. I also had started to work on my doctoral project which included two solo recitals and a dissertation, though since the Doctor of Musical Arts degree is a performance degree, the dissertation was not expected to be at the level of a Ph.D. dissertation. I also had a Teaching Assistantship with Illinois as well, so doing all of that along with other shows, I was keeping pretty busy. Below are the programs from my doctoral recitals in 1988, at least one of which I also did at Millikin. Tom Schleis accompanied me on the piano and harpsichord.