{"id":320300,"date":"2014-12-04T16:48:49","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T22:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=320300"},"modified":"2014-12-05T16:30:51","modified_gmt":"2014-12-05T22:30:51","slug":"ut-tyler-to-compete-in-national-opera-association-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=320300","title":{"rendered":"UT Tyler to Compete in National Opera Association Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/12\/U-T-Tyler-opera-fainalists-2014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/12\/U-T-Tyler-opera-fainalists-2014-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"U-T Tyler opera fainalists 2014\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-320339\" \/><\/a>TYLER &#8212; The University of Texas at Tyler is among the top collegiate teams to compete in the National Opera Association\u2019s Scenes Competition, Dr. Michael Thrasher, UT Tyler School of Performing Arts director, announced.  This is UT Tyler\u2019s first appearance in the final round of the competition, which will be held Jan. 8, 2015, during the NOA Annual Convention in Greensboro, N.C.  UT Tyler student finalists are soprano Kelsey Pate and tenor Jay Williams, both of Tyler, mezzo-soprano Janis Newman of Athens, and soprano Lauren Cook of San Antonio. Dr. Sooah Park, UT Tyler assistant professor of music, serves as program coordinator. <!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are very proud of our vocal music students and this prestigious honor they have received,\u201d Thrasher said. \u201cDr. Park is doing outstanding work with our student opera program, and this is confirmation of the program\u2019s quality. We wish them the best in the final round of competition.\u201d Competing in the graduate-level division, the students will perform Scenes 10 and 11 from \u201cThe Old Maid and the Thief\u201d by Gian Carlo Menotti. Other competitors this year are teams from University of Nevada \u2013 Las Vegas, Wichita State University, and Georgia State University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; The University of Texas at Tyler is among the top collegiate teams to compete in the National Opera Association\u2019s Scenes Competition, Dr. Michael Thrasher, UT Tyler School of Performing Arts director, announced. This is UT Tyler\u2019s first appearance in the final round of the competition, which will be held Jan. 8, 2015, during &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=320300\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UT Tyler to Compete in National Opera Association Competition<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-13 12:56:48","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=320300"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320340,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320300\/revisions\/320340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=320300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=320300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=320300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}