The Texas Tech Symphony Orchestra is hosting a concert Monday night in Hemmle Recital Hall. Dr. Jennifer Jolley, assistant professor of composition, and director of orchestral studies, Philip Mann, join this episode of The Front Row to share more.
Philip Mann, tell us about the show tonight.
We’ve got a fantastic program tonight. It’s one that I’m very much looking forward to. It’s kind of a musicians program if you will…Being a musicians program, we’ve got these two big favorites, but we have to have something new, and we have this Texas premiere, a Texas Tech premiere and the University Symphony Orchestra will be doing Jennifer Jolley’s “Ferry Crossing.”
It’s always a pleasure to share the stage with a composer and introduce music for the very first time in this community, but it’s a special pleasure to be doing it with a colleague and having that colleague there and able to take part in rehearsals. It’s an opportunity for our students to hear directly from the composer about the intention of the work, what she wants to see realized in sound, and it’s that wonderful collaboration—that newness of, it’s almost like she’s handing her child over to us for the day and tonight we hope we take good care of her.
Dr. Jolley, tell us about yourself.
I’m originally from L.A., so being in Texas is very new for me, but I’m really thrilled for that. I just came from living in Ohio, for about a little over a decade and once upon a time I used to live in Vermont and actually that is kind of the genesis of this piece that you’re going to hear tonight.
Listen to the full interview at the top of the article.
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