OXFORD, Miss. – The Faculty Recital Series with Jos Milton as tenor and Stacy Rodgers on piano is set for Monday, March 18 in Nutt Auditorium at 8 p.m. Tickets, available at the UM Box Office, are $8 for adults and $5 for students.
The program will include works of Henry Purcell, Ludwig van Beethoven, Francis Poulenc, Benjamin Britten and Ned Rorem. The theme is nostalgia and remembrance, which will include settings of poetry by Michelangelo dealing with different aspects of love; other selections include specific references to Paris.
Milton is an assistant professor of music who joined the voice faculty in 2011, and has performed on campus several times at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts, and sang the national anthem at baseball and football games. Rodgers, who has taught at UM for more than 20 years, is a professor of music and head of keyboard studies and accompanying, as well as director of the University’s Community Music School.