{"id":2102,"date":"2021-09-10T16:11:13","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T16:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/music\/?p=2102"},"modified":"2021-09-15T21:06:28","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T21:06:28","slug":"getting-involved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/music\/2021\/09\/10\/getting-involved\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Involved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman is pleased to offer students one of the best music programs among liberal arts colleges in the nation. We have both a Bachelor of Arts in Music and a Bachelor of Music as degree options, with multiple areas of study available additionally.<\/p>\n<p>Do you have some interest in becoming involved with our program? Below we have two options for finding an outlet for your musical interests!<\/p>\n<h2>Upcoming Auditions<\/h2>\n<p>The department of Music will soon be conducting auditions for students (majors and non-majors) who wish to participate in the program and receive a scholarship. Auditions will be coordinated for the months of January and February both in-person and virtually. Generally, outcomes of these auditions are communicated in March. Stay tuned for more updates!<\/p>\n<h2>Ensembles<\/h2>\n<p>Students of any major are also welcome to participate in one of our ensembles! We hold over 260 public concerts and events each year in a variety of\u00a0 In order to gain membership, students take part in a low pressure audition at the beginning of the semester. Ensembles and bands only rehearse 2-3 times a week for two hours at a time, rendering the time commitment very manageable.<\/p>\n<p>Below are a handful of ensembles students can participate in:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jazz Ensembles<\/li>\n<li>Marching Band<\/li>\n<li>Pep Band<\/li>\n<li>Symphonic Band<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Are you interested yet? Request information through our <a href=\"https:\/\/forms.furman.edu\/view.php?id=40213\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">form<\/a> to find out more! You can also contact a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/music\/faculty\/\">faculty member or our director of operations<\/a> for more guidance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman is pleased to offer students one of the best music programs among liberal arts colleges in the nation. We have both a Bachelor of Arts in Music and a Bachelor of Music as degree options, with multiple areas of study available additionally. Do you have some interest in becoming involved with our program? Below [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2036],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-student-experiences"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}