{"id":348,"date":"2018-05-04T18:37:27","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T23:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2017classnews\/?p=348"},"modified":"2018-05-04T18:37:48","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T23:37:48","slug":"megan-koch-17-along-with-iwu-alumna-kate-tombaugh-07","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2017classnews\/2018\/05\/04\/megan-koch-17-along-with-iwu-alumna-kate-tombaugh-07\/","title":{"rendered":"Megan Koch &#8217;17 along with IWU alumna, Kate Tombaugh &#8217;07"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center\">Megan Koch &#8217;17 along with IWU alumna, Kate Tombaugh &#8217;07, is\u00a0currently in Fort Worth, Texas singing with the\u00a0<a id=\"m_-1910596610469127216gmail-m_-3917052448502432982m_-5514492695387762254m_-4101639280060353474gmail-js_8k\" class=\"m_-1910596610469127216gmail-m_-3917052448502432982m_-5514492695387762254m_-4101639280060353474gmail-profileLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/FortWorthOpera\/?fref=mentions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fort Worth Opera<\/a>. Small world indeed.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">Megan is currently wrapping up her 1st year as a Masters student at the University of North Texas, and both she and Kate had the dist<span class=\"m_-1910596610469127216gmail-m_-3917052448502432982m_-5514492695387762254m_-4101639280060353474gmail-text_exposed_show\">inct honor of singing in Fort Worth&#8217;s &#8216;Frontiers&#8217; showcase <span class=\"m_-1910596610469127216gmail-aBn\"><span class=\"m_-1910596610469127216gmail-aQJ\">Thursday, May 3rd<\/span><\/span>\u00a0at Bass Performa<\/span>nce Hall at\u00a0<span class=\"m_-1910596610469127216gmail-aBn\"><span class=\"m_-1910596610469127216gmail-aQJ\"><span class=\"aBn\"><span class=\"aQJ\">7:30 PM.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00a0Megan sang excerpts as &#8216;Mabel&#8217; in &#8220;Mabel&#8217;s Call,&#8221; a new opera by composer-librettist\u00a0<a class=\"m_-1910596610469127216gmail-m_-3917052448502432982m_-5514492695387762254m_-4101639280060353474gmail-profileLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/nellshawcohen?fref=mentions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nell Shaw Cohen<\/a>, and Kate sang excerpts as &#8216;The Dough&#8217; in &#8220;Companionship&#8221; by\u00a0<a class=\"m_-1910596610469127216gmail-m_-3917052448502432982m_-5514492695387762254m_-4101639280060353474gmail-profileLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/singinganagram?fref=mentions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rachel Peters<\/a>\u00a0and &#8216;Clara Ford&#8217; in &#8220;Fordlandia&#8221; by composer William Susman and librettist Stuart Rojstaczer. It was a tremendous showcase for these great new works! Opera is alive and thriving!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><span class=\"m_-1910596610469127216gmail-m_-3917052448502432982m_-5514492695387762254m_-4101639280060353474gmail-text_exposed_show\">Go to this link to learn more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/fwopera.org\/frontiers2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">https:\/\/fwopera.org\/frontiers2018\/<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-349\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2017classnews\/files\/2018\/05\/image-225x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2017classnews\/files\/2018\/05\/image-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2017classnews\/files\/2018\/05\/image.png 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Megan Koch &#8217;17 along with IWU alumna, Kate Tombaugh &#8217;07, is\u00a0currently in Fort Worth, Texas singing with the\u00a0Fort Worth Opera. Small world indeed. Megan is currently wrapping up her 1st year as a Masters student at the University of North &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2017classnews\/2018\/05\/04\/megan-koch-17-along-with-iwu-alumna-kate-tombaugh-07\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":778,"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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-348","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\/2017classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2017classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2017classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2017classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/778"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2017classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2017classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":351,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2017classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions\/351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2017classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2017classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2017classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}