Wallace McClain Cheatham and Dorothy Rudd Moore]
MilwaukeeCourierOnline.com
6 September 2012
On
Sunday, Sept. 16, 2012 Crossroads Presbyterian Church and the
Knoxville College National Alumni Association Milwaukee Chapter
(KCNAA) will present pianist Wallace McClain Cheatham. The event,
“Piano Music with a Knoxville College Connection” will feature
opening remarks by Jenelle Elder-Green, president, (KCNAA).
The Repertoire will
feature the following: Suite for Piano David Van Vactor (1906-1994),
Neugier, Begeisterung, Frolichkeit, Schwermut, Wonne, Piano
Variations Ernesto Pellegrini (1932 -), Dream and Variations Dorothy
Rudd Moore (1940 -), Three Preludes Wallace, McClain Cheatham (1945
-)
Wallace McClain
Cheatham has received international distinction in music and
scholarship. There were also achievements as a public school teacher.
Dr.
Cheatham has been featured as soloist, collaborative artist, composer
and lecturer in China, England, Scotland and the United States.
Compositions have been published by several houses, performed and
recorded by major artists. There has been recognition for his work as
conductor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin’s three-tiered New Jubilee Choral
Ensembles.
As editor of
Dialogues on Opera and the African American Experience, a book housed
in libraries nation-wide; author of research studies in
internationally circulated learned journals and contributing scholar
to ethno musicological and musicological books and encyclopedias, Dr.
Cheatham has made a significant impact throughout academia.
Dr.
Cheatham’s high school choral groups received top ratings. He
introduced madrigals into an urban scholastic environment. A musical
for elementary school children, ‘The Stone in the Road’, was
composed and premiered at Milwaukee’s Elm Creative Arts School
during his time there as a faculty member.
Dr. Cheatham has
been for several years a subject of biographical record in ‘Who’s
Who in the World’, ‘Who’s Who in America’ and ‘Who’s Who
in American Education'. In 2004 he received
the Knoxville College Alumni Association Graduate of National
Prominence Award.
...
Crossroads
Presbyterian Church The Worship and Mission Ministries at Crossroads
Presbyterian Church are pleased to host this event and a light
reception following the program.
...
Knoxville College,
affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (USA), was founded in 1875
and is a Historical Black College.
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