{"id":1033,"date":"2013-02-04T16:25:35","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T21:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2013\/02\/04\/symphony-orchestra-to-perform-feb-15\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T20:13:44","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T01:13:44","slug":"symphony-orchestra-to-perform-feb-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/symphony-orchestra-to-perform-feb-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Symphony Orchestra to perform Feb. 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Furman Symphony Orchestra will present its Concerto Concert Friday, Feb. 15 at 8 p.m. in McAlister Auditorium on campus.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the music department\u2019s Sound Quality Concert Series, the performance is conducted by Thomas Joiner and features five student soloists. Tickets are $12 for adults, $10 for seniors and $5 for students. The concert is also among Furman\u2019s Cultural Life Program events.<\/p>\n<p>The soloists are winners of the biennial FSO concerto competition. They are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Peter Dimery \u201815, saxophone (Florence)<\/li>\n<li>Alex Jenks \u201815, trombone (Greenlawn, N.Y.)<\/li>\n<li>Alexander Rice \u201813, cello (Herndon, Va.)<\/li>\n<li>Scott Strickland \u201814, marimba (Nichols)<\/li>\n<li>Deborah York \u201815, piano (Greenville)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The competition selects outstanding Furman student soloists and offers them the opportunity of teaming with a symphony orchestra to perform movements from the standard concerto repertoire.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the event, contact the Furman University Music Department at 864-294-2086, or <a href=\"mailto:FurmanMusic@furman.edu\">FurmanMusic@furman.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Furman Symphony Orchestra will present its Concerto Concert Friday, Feb. 15 at 8 p.m. in McAlister Auditorium on campus. Part of the music department\u2019s Sound Quality Concert Series, the performance is conducted by Thomas Joiner and features five student soloists. Tickets are $12 for adults, $10 for seniors and $5 for students. The concert is also among Furman\u2019s Cultural Life Program events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-music"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}