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The Southwest Baptist University Division of The Arts presents Dr. Terri Wehmeyer on euphonium in a faculty recital on Thursday, October 20, at 7:30 p.m. in the Jane A. Meyer Recital Hall. Dr. Melinda Smashey Jones will accompany her on the piano.
Terri Wehmeyer earned a Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in Euphonium Performance and a Masters of Music in Music History and Literature from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. She also holds an M.M. in Euphonium Performance from the Northwestern State University of Louisiana and a B.M.E. in Instrumental Music from Ouachita Baptist University. As a performer, Dr. Wehmeyer has won numerous regional and state awards and was a founding member of the award-winning Fountain City Brass Band in Kansas City, MO. She continues to perform solo recitals, masterclasses, and chamber music throughout the South and Midwest.
Works from different historical eras and in various musical styles will be presented during the recital. Besides a traditional Baroque cello sonata arranged for euphonium and piano, Wehmeyer and Smashey Jones will also perform an arrangement of Henry T. Smart’s hymn tune “Lancashire,” often referred to by the title of its most commonly applied text—“Lead On, O King Eternal.” The performance will also include a work by female composer Barbara York, who spent much of her later life in Kansas City and Pittsburg, Kansas. The result, a sonata written specifically for euphonium and piano, is subtitled “Child’s Play.” It was dedicated to the newborn son of world-renown euphoniumist Demondrae Thurman. It represented the emotions associated with bringing a new child into the world and the joy, fear, and chaos it can cause.
Wehmeyer and Smashey Jones will also present a set of English folk songs initially written by British composer Ralph Vaughan Williams that features the euphonium's lovely tone and lyrical abilities. The program will continue with work for unaccompanied euphonium written by Philip Wilby, representing the sights and sounds of Baroque-era Italy centered around St. Mark’s Basilica. The program will conclude with a modern work for euphonium with electronic accompaniment. The composer of the work, Howard J. Buss, said he “envisioned a trombonist performing outside in an open area during an air show by an alien craft.”
Admission is free, and the public is invited to attend.
*Published: 10-3-2022
