{"id":1106,"date":"2013-02-27T21:23:10","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T02:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2013\/02\/27\/lockhart-boston-pops-are-big-hit\/"},"modified":"2022-11-08T13:33:42","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T18:33:42","slug":"lockhart-boston-pops-are-big-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/lockhart-boston-pops-are-big-hit\/","title":{"rendered":"Hats off to Boston Pops, Furman Symphony"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5784\" style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/boston-pops-concert.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5784\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5784 lazyload\" title=\"boston-pops-concert\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/boston-pops-concert.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"288\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 320px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 320\/288;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5784\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Boston Pops and Furman Symphony perform together in the Peace Center under the direction of Keith Lockhart.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Greenville loves conductor Keith Lockhart. Tuesday night\u2019s sold-out Peace Center concert confirmed that fact as Lockhart, one of Furman\u2019s favorite grads, returned to town with the Boston Pops for a sparking concert of Broadway music and classical works. Lockhart paid tribute to his alma mater by inviting the Furman Symphony Orchestra to join the Boston Pops in the performance for a blazing account of Tchaikovsky\u2019s \u201c1812\u201d Overture. He also led the Furman Symphony in what <em>The Greenville News<\/em> called\u00a0a \u201cwell-shaped and vigorous account\u201d of Sibelius\u2019 \u201cFinlandia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/article\/20130227\/ENT\/302270020\/Lockhart-Pops-offer-exhilarating-evening?nclick_check=1\">Read Greenville News review by Paul Hyde<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CLn9Xno-xJI&amp;list=UUyS8zZArf7znM0DW5ZFkb8w\">Watch WSPA SceneOn7 video<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greenville loves conductor Keith Lockhart. Tuesday night\u2019s sold-out Peace Center concert confirmed that fact as Lockhart, one of Furman\u2019s favorite grads, returned to town with the Boston Pops for a sparking concert of Broadway music and classical works. Lockhart paid tribute to his alma mater by inviting the Furman Symphony Orchestra to join the Boston Pops in the performance for a blazing account of Tchaikovsky\u2019s \u201c1812\u201d Overture. He also led the Furman Symphony in what <em>The Greenville News<\/em> called a \u201cwell-shaped and vigorous account\u201d of Sibelius\u2019 \u201cFinlandia.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":1107,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-in-the-news","category-music"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106","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=1106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}