On March 4th, in the Texas Tech University School of Music, we are marching off with School of Music Auditions and ending the day with the TTU Symphony Orchestra’s first concert of the semester, A Scarlet Serenade!
Beginning at 7 AM on Saturday, faculty and staff of the School of Music, will prepare for a wonderous day of performances by prospective students! Those at the School of Music may have noticed these prospective students after our recent Audition Day as they stayed to join us for our first ever Visit Day. Visit Day was held on Monday, February 20, and prospective students (high school sophomores – seniors) came to experience the life of a music major. During Visit Day, students attended classes to see what it would look like for them in the coming years as a student here. Not only did they get to experience some classes, but some students also got to have private lessons, watch performances, and have the true music major experience!
We are so excited to continue meeting the future of the Texas Tech University School of Music this Saturday! Following the auditions, later in the evening, the TTU Symphony Orchestra will perform their first concert of the semester, A Scarlet Serenade.
This concert is named “A Scarlet Serenade” to celebrate the past, present, and FUTURE Red Raiders! In Buddy Holly Hall – Crickets Theater at 7:30 PM, the TTU Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Maestro Marcelletti will perform works by Beethoven, Maler, Bizet, and Stravinsky.
To celebrate our past, alumna, mezzo-soprano Kathleen Felty will perform in Mahler's Rückert Lieder and Bizet's Chanson du Toreador and Chanson Boheme (Gypsy Song) from the opera, “Carmen.” Ms. Flety is a native of Lubbock, Texas and an alumna of Texas Tech University School of Music and Rawls College of Business Administration.
“She is a recent alumna of the Lyric Opera of Chicago's Ryan Opera Center, where she received attention from the Chicago Tribune for her “clarion tone” and “compelling acting” in her mainstage debut as Laura in Verdi's Luisa Miller in 2019. During her time at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, she performed alongside Sondra Radvanovsky in Lyric's production of The Three Queens, performed the role of Third Lady in Barrie Kosky's production of Mozart's Magic Flute, Flosshilde in Twlight: Gods, Carmen and Third Lady in The Magic Victrola, covered the role of Paula in Florencia en el Amazonas, Pauline in The Queen of Spades, and appeared in concert for Sunday in the Park with Lyric's Rising Stars, Rising Stars in Concert, and as the alto soloist for Beethoven's 9th Symphony alongside Matthew Polenzani and Eric Owens. In 2022 she performed Third Lady in The Magic Flute at Des Moines Metro Opera, Mercédès in Carmen at the Santa Fe Opera, Storgé in Jephtha at UNCSA, and was a featured soloist in the Santa Fe Symphony's A Night at the Opera. She has previously appeared as Clotilde in Norma at the North Carolina Opera and Maddalena in Rigoletto at Dayton Opera. In 2023 Felty returns to the Lyric Opera of Chicago to perform in the world premiere of Proximity and joins Wolf Trap Opera as a Filene Young Artist in the roles of Athamas in Handel's Semele and Marthe in Gounod's Faust.” (TTUSO)
To celebrate our present, current students in the Symphony Orchestra will start off the program with Beethoven's “Egmont” Overture as graduate conducting student, Simonida Dragovic, will be leading the orchestra. Continuing in the program, current voice students, Chandler Head and Abigail Orr (sopranos) will be featured in the Gypsy Song with Ms. Felty.
To celebrate all who have crossed paths with the TTU School of Music, come to this concert, wearing a splash of red to represent your Red Raider passion! This concert is FREE to attend and open to the public.