{"id":2684,"date":"2023-08-03T11:41:53","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T16:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/?p=2684"},"modified":"2023-08-07T11:30:38","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T16:30:38","slug":"william-powers-64-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/2023\/08\/03\/william-powers-64-7\/","title":{"rendered":"William Powers &#8217;64"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>During the 1959-60 school year at IWU, bass-baritone, <strong>William Powers &#8217;64<\/strong> was given the opportunity to sing the title role in the Music School\u2019s spring production of Gaetano Donizetti\u2019s comic opera, DON PASQUALE. It was his first <em>ever<\/em> appearance in a full opera and he was just 18-years-old. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, (130 operas later around the world) on Saturday evening, August 12th at 7:00 pm at the First Methodist Church of LaGrange, Powers will join the Salt Creek Chamber Orchestra and cast for a concert version of DON PASQUALE (in Italian with subtitles), once again in the title role \u2014 63 years since singing it for the very first time! Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1713845055730460\/\">here<\/a> to learn more about the performance! Congratulations William!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/files\/2023\/08\/William-Powers-Photo-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/files\/2023\/08\/William-Powers-Photo-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2688\" width=\"439\" height=\"585\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/files\/2023\/08\/William-Powers-Photo-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/files\/2023\/08\/William-Powers-Photo-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/files\/2023\/08\/William-Powers-Photo-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/files\/2023\/08\/William-Powers-Photo-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/files\/2023\/08\/William-Powers-Photo-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 439px) 100vw, 439px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the 1959-60 school year at IWU, bass-baritone, William Powers &#8217;64 was given the opportunity to sing the title role in the Music School\u2019s spring production of Gaetano Donizetti\u2019s comic opera, DON PASQUALE. It was his first ever appearance in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/2023\/08\/03\/william-powers-64-7\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":296,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/296"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2684"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2690,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2684\/revisions\/2690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}