{"id":1346,"date":"2007-02-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-20T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/blog\/news\/?p=1346"},"modified":"2007-02-20T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-20T05:00:00","slug":"music-department-to-stage-cabaret-theater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2007\/music-department-to-stage-cabaret-theater\/","title":{"rendered":"Music Department to Stage Cabaret Theater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EMU&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/music\/\">music department<\/a> will host The Profession, Inc. (TPI) theater company&#8217;s song-filled, multi-media, celebration of life, &quot;Go-DIVA! &#8211; of song, silence, &amp; the abuse of chocolate,&quot; starring Jennifer Anne Cooper. <\/p>\n<p>The show will be presented 7 p.m. Friday, Mar. 16, in Lehman Auditorium at EMU.<\/p>\n<p> In this play, Cooper, currently a Harrisonburg resident and voice instructor at EMU, once lived a far more glamorous life. <\/p>\n<p>Blessed at birth with an amazing vocal instrument, a strong work ethic, and a Type A personality, she spent her youth as a rising star, pleasing audiences and impressing critics, and was shamelessly thrilled to do so. <\/p>\n<div class=\"photo right\" style=\"width: 150px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"243\" alt=\"Jennifer Anne Cooper in full diva regalia at the Florida Grand Opera.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/news\/images\/GoDiva.jpg\" \/>Jennifer Anne Cooper in full diva regalia at the Florida Grand Opera. <\/div>\n<p> By age 28, Cooper was poised on the threshold of international Diva-dom, celebrating hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of contracts and preparing to sing 12 lead roles with top opera companies in Europe and North America. <\/p>\n<p>Then &#8211; in a wink of fate&#8217;s eye &#8211; the gift that seemed divinely given was gone, and the proverbial party was over. <\/p>\n<p> Pianist Michael Santana, director of the Chesapeake (MD) Choral Arts Society, is Cooper<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EMU&#8217;s music department will host The Profession, Inc. 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