University of Rhode Island News
URI’s Morin Performing With Boston Pops
Star on the Rise: URI music major Devon Morin is performing with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and preparing for life on the stage.
Release courtesy the University of Rhode Island Department of Communications and Marketing. Reporting by Ericka Tavares. While many college students are spending this winter break visiting with family and friends, University of Rhode Island senior and opera baritone Devon Morin is performing with the Boston Pops at Boston Symphony Hall. It’s a big stage, but he has gotten used to it, having performed on the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s hallowed ground in the summer of 2011 in Bramwell Tovey’s revival of Porgy and Bess. “It was the first solo I had ever had and you have to sing over full orchestration and you are unamplified so you have to be heard,” Morin said. He remembered looking up at Symphony Hall’s decorative Greek and Roman statues …
