Oluwatoni John, Senior Minor Recital, voice

Program

"A Miscellany of Music"

Art Songs

An die Musik by Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

Dolente immagine di Fille mia by Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835)

Canción de cuna para dormir un negrito by Xavier Montsalvage (1912-2002)

Where Corals Lie by Edward Elgar (1857-1934)

Jazz

Misty by Erroll Garner (1921-1977)

Dream a Little Dream of Me by Fabian Andre (1910-1960) and Wilburt Schwandt (1904-1998)

Just the Two of Us by Bill Withers (1938-2020), William Salter (1937-2025) & Ralph MacDonald (1944-2011)

Musical Theater

Some Enchanted Evening by Richard Rodgers (1902-1979)

Bill by Jerome Kern (1885-1945)

You’ve Got Possibilities by Charles Strouse (1928-2025)

Gospel/Spiritual/Christian

My Lord What a Morning by Jay Althouse (1951-)

His Eye is On the Sparrow by Charles H. Gabriel (1856-1932)

Zion’s Walls by Aaron Copeland (1900-1990

Biography

Oluwatoni “Toni” John is a graduating senior at WashU studying history with minors in music and applied linguistics. Although she grew up singing, she more concretely began her vocal journey in her sixth-grade choir class. Every year since then, she has sung in school and district choirs. At WashU, she has been a member of Concert Choir and has taken voice lesson with Tamara Campbell since her freshman year. Toni also founded, leads, and arranges for Unending Praise Gospel Choir, WashU’s premier a cappella gospel choir. The group has performed at events including Black Convocation, WashU’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebrations, and various others. After graduation, Toni plans to take a gap year before enrolling in a Ph.D. program in African studies.