Mock prepares for senior recital
Whitney A. Stewart
Issue date: 11/29/07 Section: Arts
Years of voice training will culminate for senior Natalie Mock tonight when she performs her final concert at 7 p.m. in McNamara Rehearsal Hall.
"I kind of felt like the Phantom of the Opera," she said of the evening hours she spent sequestered in a practice room in the bowels of the music building. "I felt like there was someone lurking in the basement."
Her program will consist of 12 pieces in four languages, ranging in period from Classical to Modern and including works by Mozart, Stravinsky, Schumann, Schubert and Debussy.
She said the approaching concert will mark a significant point in her singing career.
"I sang all the way through middle school, high school and college," she said. "It's something I've worked so hard for. I'm hoping that at my recital, it will be a good reflection that I have worked hard and on everyone who's helped me."
Fellow vocalist Maria Sciarini, a senior, said she has seen Mock grow as a singer during her time at Hillsdale.
Teacher of Music Melissa Osmond said she first met Mock in a beginning voice class. Mock eventually began studying privately with Osmond.
"We had some very major breakthroughs where it was like, 'Yeah!' and we were both jumping up and down and high fiving," Osmond said. "She really had a lot of breakthroughs and turned a lot of corners vocally."
Mock said she originally thought there would be no future in music for her.
"[But] the Lord just kept tugging at my heart to do a music major," she said.
Before she graduates next May, Mock will spend the spring semester student teaching middle and high school children at Hillsdale Schools.
Hillsdale College Collegian 2007
"I kind of felt like the Phantom of the Opera," she said of the evening hours she spent sequestered in a practice room in the bowels of the music building. "I felt like there was someone lurking in the basement."
Her program will consist of 12 pieces in four languages, ranging in period from Classical to Modern and including works by Mozart, Stravinsky, Schumann, Schubert and Debussy.
She said the approaching concert will mark a significant point in her singing career.
"I sang all the way through middle school, high school and college," she said. "It's something I've worked so hard for. I'm hoping that at my recital, it will be a good reflection that I have worked hard and on everyone who's helped me."
Fellow vocalist Maria Sciarini, a senior, said she has seen Mock grow as a singer during her time at Hillsdale.
Teacher of Music Melissa Osmond said she first met Mock in a beginning voice class. Mock eventually began studying privately with Osmond.
"We had some very major breakthroughs where it was like, 'Yeah!' and we were both jumping up and down and high fiving," Osmond said. "She really had a lot of breakthroughs and turned a lot of corners vocally."
Mock said she originally thought there would be no future in music for her.
"[But] the Lord just kept tugging at my heart to do a music major," she said.
Before she graduates next May, Mock will spend the spring semester student teaching middle and high school children at Hillsdale Schools.
Hillsdale College Collegian 2007
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