| MOZART FESTIVAL IN SALADO MUSIC IN SALADO, TX. INC. is pleased to announce a Mozart Festival in Salado, joining in the worldwide celebration of the 250th birthday of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, February 3 and 4, 2006. Events scheduled for the festival are: A Mozart Song Recital by Marjorie Owens, soprano, at 7 PM Friday, Feb. 3, at the Silver Spur Theater, 108 Royal Street in Salado. A reception will follow the concert at the Central Texas Area Museum on Main Street. The cost of this concert is $10 per person. On Saturday, Feb 4, 2006 at 12 noon a lunch and lecture entitled: "The Genius of Mozart: Fact and Fiction" by Dr. Laurel Zeiss, Professor of Musicology at Baylor University will be presented at the Stage Coach Inn. Cost for the lunch and lecture is $15 per person. Also on
Saturday, Feb 4 at 7 PM The Vienna International Piano Duo will be
presented in concert at the Silver Spur Theater, 108 Royal Street,
with a reception following at the Central Texas Area Museum. The
cost of this concert is $10 per person.  Marjorie
Owens, twenty-five years old, has been an artist in the Houston
Grand Opera Studio for the past three years, and will join the
Chicago Lyric program in March of this year. She was the 2005
winner of the McCammon Vocal Competition in Fort Worth, and has been
the winner of the Dallas Opera Grant, the Palm Beach Opera
Competition, and the Eleanor McCollum Competition for Young
Singers. She has performed roles with the Houston Grand Opera, Ft.
Worth Opera, Wolftrap Opera in Washington DC, and the Aspen opera
Theater. She was recently cited in the New York Times as "one of
the upcoming Great Big American Voices," and she displays a winning
combination of vocal power and dramatic presence. Ms. Owens is a
student of Dr. John Van Cura of Salado and graduated from Baylor
University.
Photo from Baylor Newsletter article, "A Voice as Big as Texas" during her senior year.
Musicologist Laurel E. Zeiss is a Professor of Music History at Baylor University, where she teaches a variety of classes. A Mozart expert, Dr. Zeiss has gained international recognition for her research on the composer's operas. She recently was selected to give a presentation at the British Library in London as part of that city's celebrations of the composer's 250th birthday. She has been published by the Cambridge Opera Journal, Ars Lyrica, the Journal of Singing, and the College Music Society Symposium. Advance reservations may be made by sending checks to: Music in Salado, PO Box 1235, Salado, TX 76571, by February 1. There is limited seating. Please designate concerts you wish to attend. |
Artist-in-Residnece; and Wolfgang Watzinger who is Professor of
Piano at the University of Music and performing Arts in Vienna. The
Duo returns to the Music in Salado Concert Series for the second
time after a thrilling concert in 2005. Ms. Jordan has won
prestigious international prizes including the "Alfredo Casella" and
"Allesandro Casagrande" as well as the Mozart "Clara Haskil" prize.
She won the Gold Medal at the 1981 Rio de Janeiro International
Piano competition, and made her Carnegie Hall debut in 1989.
Professor Watzinger won First Prize at the National Piano
Competition of the German Music Academies in Frankfurt in 1971, and
has performed as a recitalist and orchestral soloist in major
European cities, the US, South Africa, Asia and South America. Both
of these outstanding artists are highly regarded as teachers.