A Joint Interest premiere for Shepherd School’s 50th Anniversary

The chamber opera A Joint Interest was commissioned by the Shepherd School of Music (with funding assistance from Rice University Office of Research) on the celebratory occasion of the school’s 50th anniversary. Its premiere performance on Sunday, February 1st, 2pm will take place in the Morrison Theater of Brockman Hall at Rice University. This short comic scene, scored for 3 singers and ensemble, will be performed by Shepherd School students, singers and instrumentalists, under the musical direction of Miguel Harth-Bedoya, with stage direction by Paul Curran. The libretto is after a short story by O. Henry, “Makes the Whole World Kin.”