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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

McCOY PRESENTS "SOMETIMES I FEEL"

Julie Whittington McCoy, soprano, will perform a solo recital titled “Sometimes I Feel,” at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 13, accompanied by pianist Mark Stamper and Terri Sundberg on alto flute.  The event will be presented in Martin Hall and is free and open to the public.

The program will include Samuel Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915, a James Agee portrait in which the narrator describes sitting on the lawn with his family as a child; Alabado, a passion scene in Spanish by James Santa Fe Galloway; and some selected American spirituals. McCoy, whose philosophy is that classical music is not “precious or something that only certain people can understand or relate to,” will follow last year’s masterful and well-received faculty recital.

After completing her bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the University of Texas in Austin, McCoy was awarded opera apprenticeships with the Mississippi Opera Festival of the South and the New Orleans Opera. Recently McCoy has performed with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Texas Choral Artists and The Orpheus Chamber Singers. She has been praised by various publications, including The Dallas Morning News, which commended her "strong, stirring soprano," and Tulsa World, which hailed her as "luminous" and praised her "burnished tone and delicately emotional reading." Her strong work ethic, wonderful charm and amazing talent have earned her the love and respect of her students and the admiration of her audiences.

Martin Hall was renovated with the generous gifts of Nicholas and Louella Martin and reopened in October 2002. Now, the 600-seat hall is the music department’s premier performance space, hosting concerts, recitals and university and community events. Martin Hall is located at 1309 Wesleyan St. at the northeast corner of Rosedale Street and Wesleyan Street on the Texas Wesleyan University Historic Campus in east Fort Worth. Free parking is available on campus.