Garner to perform Ouachita faculty recital Jan. 31
January 25, 2012 - Lacey Brooks
Ouachita Baptist University will host Dr. Stephen W. Garner, OBU assistant professor
of music, in a faculty voice recital Tuesday, Jan. 31, at 7:30 p.m. in Mabee Fine
Arts Center’s McBeth Recital Hall on Ouachita’s campus. The recital is free and open
to the public.
The recital will open with “Comfort Ye My People” and “Every Valley Shall Be Exalted”
from George Frederic Handel’s Messiah, followed by “Adelaide” by Ludwig van Beethoven. Next, Garner will perform “Wohin?,”
“Halt” and “Der Neugierige” from Die Schöne Müllerin by Franz Schubert; “Una furtiva lagrima” from L’Elisir D’Amore and “Fra poco a me ricovero” from Lucia Di Lammermoor by Gaetano Donizetti; and “Nell” by Gabriel Faure.
The recital will continue with “L’Invitation au Voyage” by Henri Duparc, “Evening
Hymn” from Four Hymns by Ralph Vaughan Williams, “How I Do Love Thee” by Norman Dello Joio and “Down by
the Sally Gardens” by Herbert Hughes. Garner will conclude the recital with Benjamin
Britten’s arrangement of “The Ploughboy” and “Ride On, King Jesus” by Hall Johnson.
He will be assisted by Dr. Ouida Keck on the piano and Dr. Jir Shin Boey on the viola.
Garner earned his Bachelor of Music degree in church music from William Carey College
in Hattiesburg, Miss., and his Master of Church Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees
from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas.
Garner teaches voice and fine art music courses at Ouachita and previously served
as chairman of OBU’s Department of Church Music from 1990 to 1996. He has served churches
in Georgia and Texas as minister of music. Before coming to Ouachita in 1990, he taught
at William Carey College and Dallas Baptist University.
He is an active member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing and is a
frequent soloist at local and regional events and universities. He has been featured
in Outstanding Young Men in America and Creator magazine.
Keck serves as OBU’s Addie Mae Maddox Professor of Music and coordinator of keyboard
studies. She earned her Bachelor of Music degree from Ouachita, her Master of Music
degree from the University of Arkansas and her Doctor of Musical Arts degree from
the University of Iowa. Keck has served on the faculty at Ouachita since 1996.
Boey joined the Ouachita faculty in 2011 as assistant professor of music and teaches
music history and violin. She holds degrees in violin, church music and musicology
from the University of Michigan and Indiana University. She previously taught at Indiana
University and the University of Michigan.
For more information, contact Dr. Stephen Garner at [email protected] or (870) 245-5146.
By Lacey Brooks
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