BUCKHANNON — The West Virginia Wesleyan College Department of Music is bringing together alumni, students and faculty to celebrate the teaching and upcoming retirement of Dr. Melody Meadows M’85. Meadows, professor of piano and organ, has taught at WVWC for over 30 years, guiding hundreds of students.
On Saturday, April 18, alumni, students and faculty will perform a recital in Loar Auditorium at 3 p.m. featuring students Aubree Bozic and Amelia Hughes, alumni Lauren (Smith) Hull and Savannah (Gwinn) Wright, faculty/alumni Jessica Scott and Brett Miller, and music faculty Dr. Dan Hughes.
On Sunday, April 19, at 5:30 p.m. in Wesley Chapel, nearly 40 alumni singers are joining WVWC’s Concert Chorale and Concentus Vocum, along with several alumni pianists: Scott, Miller, Hull and Robin Bohn.
The program will feature selections from Joseph Byrd’s To Elinor Wylie and Johannes Brahms’ Liebeslieder Walzer, Opus 52.
“Byrd’s work sets poems by Edna Saint Vincent Millay, writing about her esteemed colleague Elinor Wylie, two women ahead of their time,” Hughes said. “Brahms set his waltzes for four-hands piano, and both works feature stunning composition for the piano and singers.”
Receptions will follow both events in Loar.
Students involved in Concert Chorale and Concentus Vocum (marked with asterisk*):
- Soprano: Dane Heath*, Amelia Hughes*, Kendall Marcum*, Ness Schauman* and Julianna Stark*
- Alto: Maddie Austra, Jordan Groves and Jessica Nuzum
- Tenor: Ashton Nardella, John Spellman*, DeAndre Jones and Adrian Legg*
- Bass: Theo Chevalier, Leo Dunmire, Aaron Mabry, Daniel Velez* and Zeke Williams
Alumni singers who will be participating in the concert on Sunday:
- Soprano: Eva Atha, Megan Gray, Mary Hochgesang, Meredith Niles Lauzier, Katie Loudin, Pippa McGinley, Grace Montgomery, Kelly Payne, Olivia Perske, Sydney Stewart, Abbie Brake Williams and Siarah Armstrong
- Alto: Laura Allison, Amanda Bise, Mary Boyd, Taylor High, Clare Riggleman, Robin Shepard, Shannon Smith, Danielle Stump, Eliza Taylor, Lindsay Viars and Connie Tucker Weaver
- Tenor: Fisher Goodwin, Kristopher High, BJ Hoffman, Adam Loudin, Brandon Moll and Tyler Perske
- Bass: Matt Barnes, Don Gardner, Owen Hess, Joey Hochgesang, James Lauzier, Kenn Long, Cody Rosencrance, Andrew Tucker, Isaac Viars and H. G. Young
