Ouachita Stories

Ouachita Baptist University’s Division of Music will host Kelli Caldwell in her senior vocal choral music education recital and John Tneoh in his junior vocal performance recital April 27 at 2 p.m. The recital, which is free and open to the public, will be held in Mabee Fine Arts Center’s McBeth Recital Hall.

“I've been preparing for this since my freshman year,” Caldwell said. “It's been a long road of preparation to get to this point and I'm very excited that it is almost here!

“After this semester I will begin student teaching and can't wait for a whole new perspective on the aspect of teaching a music program,” Caldwell added.

Caldwell, a native of Roanoke, Texas, has been named to Ouachita’s Dean’s List and is a member of Kappa Delta Pi international honor society in education and Sigma Alpha Iota international music fraternity for women.

Tneoh, a native of Sungai Petani, Malaysia, has earned first and third place honors in the Arkansas auditions of the National Association of Teachers of Singing auditions as well as honorable mention in Ouachita’s Shambarger Competition for Singers.

Caldwell’s portion of the recital will begin with Henry Purcell’s “Let Us Dance, Let Us Sing” and “If Music Be the Food of Love,” followed by Franz Lehár’s “Lippen Schweigen” and Hugo Wolf’s “Verborgenheit.” She will continue with “Vergebliches Ständchen” by Johannes Brahms, “Mandoline” by Claude Debussy, “Si mes vers avaient des ailes” by Reynaldo Hahn. Next, Caldwell will perform Enrique Granados’ “El majo discrete,” Giacomo Puccini’s “Quando men vo” and Richard Alfred Miliken’s “The Last Rose of Summer,” concluding with “Art Is Calling for Me” by Victor Herbert. Caldwell will be accompanied on the piano by John Briggs.

Tneoh’s portion of the recital will include “Hai già vinta la causa! … Vedrò mentr’io sospiro” from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro; “II. Intermezzo,” “III. Waldesgespräch” and “IV. Die Stille” from Robert Schumann’s Liederkries Op. 39; and Henri Duparc’s “Extase” and “Le manoir de Rosamonde.” He will conclude with “Bright Is the Ring of Words” from Ralph Vaughn Williams’ Songs of Travel and “Alla bella Despinetta” from Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte. Tneoh will be accompanied on the piano by Phyllis Walker.

For more information, contact the School of Fine Arts at (870) 245-5129.